2009 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize winners
The 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize winners have been announced, and for the first time...there was a tie! Fumi Yoshinaga's Ōoku: The Inner Chamber, and Yoshihiro Tatsumi's A Drifting Life. Yoshinaga's science fiction examination...
Tezuka/Urasawa comparison
Xavier Guilbert makes the chart you all wanted , showing the original Tezuka characters from ASTRO BOY side-by-side with the Urasawa remakes from PLUTO. It's mind-boggling the degree to which Urasawa has imbued Tezuka's...
C for Coloring
Over at his blog, David Lloyd talks about the coloring on V FOR VENDETTA:
In my view, what had prompted Dick to offer me that choice between colour and b/w from the high position he...
The webcomics approach to printing
The New York Times strikes yet again, this time with a profile of XKCD creator Randall Munroe and his plans to go to print:
The print xkcd book is not being published through a traditional...
DC news and notes
¶ This Wednesday Comics thing is shaping up pretty good. Kamandi by Dave Gibbons and Ryan Sook and Metamorpho by Neil Gaiman and Mike Allred.
¶ David Lapham announces that YOUNG LIARS will end...
Today’s comedy image
Via J. Caleb Mozzocco:
So here’s a preview of Cry For Justice, which appears to be a comic book about four random DC supermen teaming up with Supergirl’s breasts. Not Supergirl herself, thanks, just her...
The Man who invented Comic Sans
The Wall Street Journal tracks down the designer of the world's most hated typeface, Vincent Connare, and finds the villain cackling with glee from his Swiss headquarters:
The font, a casual script designed to look...
More awesome old comics: Bringing Up Father
Over at the NBM blog, Terry Nantier reminds us that a collection of BRINGING UP FATHER is on its way:
Well, we’re putting to bed the next great entry in our Forever Nuts collection of...
SLG: sale and lesson
SLG is having a tax time sale, according to Twitter (THAT AGAIN!):
Tax time sale at www.slgcomic.com. 30% off everything in the store. Use coupon code taxtime09. Sale ends Friday April 17th.
Hurry up and...
News and notes and whatnot
§ In an interview with Percy Carey, musician/actor/model Tyrese Gibson (above) reveals how he got caught up in the glamorous, exciting world of comics books.
Tyrese Gibson: I have always been open minded to...
Snake’N’Bacon on Adult Swim
Around Stately Beat Manor, few names are held in such reverence as that of Michael Kupperman, because he makes us laugh tears of unfettered joy and abandon. Well, not only is a new Tales...
Aroo, Nell Brinkley, Milt Gross — is there no end to these riches?
How on earth are we supposed to find money and shelf space for all the incredible books of fantastic historical material that keeps flooding out? Who knew that so much of the good stuff...
