News and notes: Bolling, Frazetta, Marvel 1993
• The weekly comic strip “Tom the Dancing Bug” by Ruben Bolling won the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ 2009 award for Best Cartoon in a ceremony that took place in Tucson on June 26....
To Do 7/3: Jeremy Eaton's Scholarly Jumble
Jeremy Eaton is an acclaimed English artist who will have a show at Secret Headquarters in LA this Friday. The subject is his Cartoon Jumbles that mash up popular cartoonesque icons, like...
Kibbles 'n' Bits, 7/2/09
§ Grant Morrison MEDIA week! At io9, he talks all about Batman and Robin.
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And at Splash Page, rapper MF Grimm interviews the Scottish raconteur.
§ Many people are...
Upcoming Comics and Art events
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JULY 2
Anime Expo 2009 kicks off. The biggest Anime show in the US runs until the 5th, in...
Celebrate Canada Day!
In honor of the occasion, IDW is releasing a CAPTAIN CANUCK collection.
Also...
To Do 7/1, LA: Clive Barker and Grant Morrison
Do you really need to know any more?
CLIVE BARKER will hold a brief conversation with GRANT MORRISON before the signing.
WHO: GRANT MORRISON
WHY: Signing Batman and Robin and his latest Hard Cover Book
WHEN: WEDNESDAY, JULY...
Spring 2009 Xeric winners announced
The spring Xeric winners have been announced and they are:
Joe Boruchow – Stuffed Animals: A Story in Paper Cutouts
Adam Bourret – I’m Crazy
Timothy Godek -- !
Adam Hines – Duncan the Wonder Dog (Note: there...
Swell Webcomic alert: The Futurists
Artist Mitch Breitweiser and writer Patrick Stiles have a new webcomic called The Futurists -- it's a science fiction comic set during the Raj (English rule) in India in the 19th century --...
Your guide to Toronto comics conventions
Following last week's ownership change of the Toronto Comicon, a lot of people were confused about what shows were what in Toronto. Although we're not locals, as far as we can make out there...
JMS leaves THOR
Well-reviewed, chart-topping, but irregularly shipping, the J. Michael Straczynski/Olivier Coipel run on THOR was one of the better selling recent character relaunches. However, it had been rumored widely that JMS was leaving the book,...
New Eddie Campbell collection info
Eddie Campbell previews The Years Have Pants, the upcoming omnibus of Alec, his early autobiographical strip, and shows off some of the 45 pages of new material, including the above strip.
For...
