Making Comics thoughts
Over at Make Comics Forever!!, actor/cartooner Cameron Chesney talks about one of the most unusualy aspects of Scott McCloud's MAKING COMICS: the section on...
Clive Owen is a know-nothing!
Clive Owen is in the dark about SIN CITY 2!:
"I honestly don’t know what’s happening there because everybody’s talked about it. It’s been announced...
Cartoonists around the world
§ Aline Kominsky Crumb talks about her husband vi his self-portraits in the LA Times:
As a child, my husband, Robert, already felt like an...
The Three Act Structure
Chris Butcher has a long important post spinning off from Queenie Chan's comments on making her Tokyopop OEL/OGM THE DREAMING. First quote is...
Catching up with Vertigo and Rushkoff
Vertigo has joined the "first one is free club" by posting the first issues of most of their signature titles for free on these...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/17
The footnote interviews color whiz Matt Hollingsworth, who just moved to Croatia:
Q: Coloring techniques have changed quite a bit over the years, with them...
Journalists jailed for Mohammad cartoons
We don't cover too much stuff on the Danish cartoon controversy -- to be honest, it's too depressing and hopeless, and Tom has been...
Comic novels
It was a red letter day for The Beat when we finally got linked in Gawker in an item parsing Wil Moss's report on...
300 selling in five figure increments
ICv2 has an analysis of the surging sales of the 300 graphic novel. Apparently that super-hot trailer has got everyone running down to the...
Quesada Wizard Man of the Year
Wizard's 2006 Awards are out, and you'll have to pick up the magazine to see all the winners, but they have released the Man...
Comics news briefs: Tellos, Legion, Batman
Over at CBR Todd Dezago talks about a collected edition of TELLOS by himself and Mike Wieringo, due from Image.
The new edition features every...
What’s happenin’!
§ "Funky Winkerbean" cartoonist Tom Batiuk has won the American Cancer Society's Cancer Care Hall of Fame Award for his comics about the Lisa...
