Columns

§ Matt Tauber started a blog, and so far he visited Milton Caniff's hometown, Hillsboro, OH, and has an on-site report, complete with pictures of buildings associated with Caniff, and this plaque. § NY...

§ The Times (UK) reviews Posy Simmonds' Tamara Drewe and we learn much literary history along the way, including Thomas Hardy's tragic encounter with an illustrator. Simmonds' graphic novel is based on Hardy's...

§ In Brazil, a five-year-old boy dressed as Spider-man went into a burning building to rescue an even younger tot. § The Sun, the UK's most tabloidy tabloid, titles a story about convicted killer Ronald...

¶ Defining moments in Post-Modernism: David Byrne goes to Ikea. (Via BoingBoing.) ¶ At ComicMix, Martha Thomases recalls a memorable dinner party involving the late Norman Mailer: One night, we had a dinner party for the...

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt9d1q6_srI&rel=1&w=425&h=355] § Mangaka Rivkah on PBS: The producer, Domenique Bellavia has her own blog and commentary on the show where you can reply and say how you liked it (or disliked it!) at http://www.docubloggers.org/?p=110And I...

§ Boy loses a grandfather... but gains a superhero § Whoops. Zuda honeymoon over. § Mark Evanier remembers Paul Norris and the Jungle Twins: § Tom vs Tom. § Marv Wolfman recalls his Disney Adventures days.

§ Jog reviews Frederik L. Schodt's book on Tezuka § Maggie Thompson looks at SECRETS OF THE COMICS -- from 1947. § Learn IDW head Ted Adams's best and worst business decisions, the name of his...

§ The NY Daily News profiles...Jeffrey Brown? But there's more than meets the eye when it comes to Brown's comics. His sketchbook-style graphic novels are not all about parodies of eighties cartoons like "The Transformers."...

§ My cunning plan is working. § Murakami Gala-- now that sounds fun! And Kanye was there! § Halloween stirs imagination in costume-loving Japan -- the mind boggles. A Halloween street party? "Ah, no, this is cos-play,"...

§ Over on his blog, Howard Cruse looks back at an 80s TV appearance:Crumb and S. Clay Wilson being unavailable, it fell to me, a one-time flower-powered longhair who by 1984 had discovered the...

§ Tokyo officials say no to "Abnormal carnival.". §Shawn Williams reports on his 24 Hour Comics Day. § Three cultural phenomenon grafted together for the mega-event that must change our perceptions of reality itselfNaruto, Wii and...

§ Some changes at the New York Comic-Con as Greg Topalian is promoted and BookExpo America director Lance Fensterman also takes over as NYCC show manager. § Amanda Fisher , owner of Muse Comics...