Columns

§ Hall of fame artist Bernie Wrightson has had a bunch of recent health setbacks, and now what appears to be a cancerous brain...

§ Deb Aoki is the Charles Dickens of Storify, You may know her from that other one we mentioned recently, but she also put...

§ Prolific animator and writer Gordon Kent, who worked on everything from Fangface to Bob's Burgers, has passed after a battle with cancer. Kent...

It would be easy to mock this Jen Teasdale-style column in the Norfolk Daily News where a woman goes to find some comics in her local bookstore but finds only superheroes and not Little Lulu, but I think there is a lesson in it. The tone is not the anger you sometimes find —"That's not MY Aquaman!"—but rather curiosity.

§ I know this is hilarious but it is also an example of our nation's moral decline when a child of 8 calls his...

§ First off, in the Massive Achievements Dept., Kelly Thompson has put together a massive, massive list of women who makes comics. Everyone...

§ High Moon, the werewolf/cowboy comic by David Gallaher and Steve Ellis is back. After running on DC's Zuda webcomic site (remember that?)...

§ SPACE, the long running small press show located in Columbus, is moving to a new venue and time frame this year: July 18 &19, 2015 at the Northland Performing Arts Center. The date is the weekend after San Diego, which is not ideal, but SPACE had no choice, as organizer Bob Corby explains in an email:

§ Just to finish up the Oscars, which everyone has probably already forgotten, cartoonist Liza Donnelly live drew them on her twitter feed, and got a big write up in her local paper about it, and also did some nice drawings.

Sorry there haven't been any kibbles 'n' bits this week. It's just been too cold at Stately Beat Manor, and that's the truth. All we want to do is pile on the blankets and chug hot cocoa. But we've been storing things up and now there are so many we must break this into sections.

Yesterday feathers, panties and twitter feeds were ruffles by this piece in the Guardian entitled When did the comic-book universe become so banal? It was written by an art critic named Jonathan Jones , and while moaning about Scott McCloud and Chris Ware (the poor man's Paul Klee) it finally came round to true greatness:

  By Brian Hibbs (Originally published February 2015) “There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” For the twelfth (!) year in a row, I’m...