Kibbles ‘n’ bits: Simmonds, Simmons, Batman Lego!
§ The Times (UK) reviews Posy Simmonds' Tamara Drewe and we learn much literary history along the way, including Thomas Hardy's tragic encounter...
News of the world
§ 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...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: Byrne, Mailer, dancing, singing, manga
¶ Defining moments in Post-Modernism: David Byrne goes to Ikea. (Via BoingBoing.)
¶ At ComicMix, Martha Thomases recalls a memorable dinner party involving the late...
Linkage: PBS, NPR, CBG, etc etc
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§ Mangaka Rivkah on PBS:
The producer, Domenique Bellavia has her own blog and commentary on the show where you can reply and say...
Juicy links
§ Boy loses a grandfather... but gains a superhero
§ Whoops. Zuda honeymoon over.
§ Mark Evanier remembers Paul Norris and the Jungle Twins:
§ Tom vs...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/4/2007
§ Jog reviews Frederik L. Schodt's book on Tezuka
§ Maggie Thompson looks at SECRETS OF THE COMICS -- from 1947.
§ Learn IDW head Ted...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits around the world
§ 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...
Kibbles 'n' Bits
§ My cunning plan is working.
§ Murakami Gala-- now that sounds fun! And Kanye was there!
§ Halloween stirs imagination in costume-loving Japan -- the...
Kibbles 'n' Bits
§ Over on his blog, Howard Cruse looks back at an 80s TV appearance:Crumb and S. Clay Wilson being unavailable, it fell to me,...
Kibbles 'n' Bit 10/24/2007
§ 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...
News round-up
§ Some changes at the New York Comic-Con as Greg Topalian is promoted and BookExpo America director Lance Fensterman also takes over as...
Kibbles 'n' Bits
§ Writer Peter David recently portrayed Sancho Panza in a community theater presentations of MAN OF LA MANCHA. That's him, above.
§ Lewis Shiner on...