Cartooner mom echoes blogger
Vanessa Davis talks to her mom at the D&Q website. Say, maybe these autobio comics ARE the best form of storytelling!
Late artists crackdown at DC?
Rich Johnston, the only journalist in comics, dished up a very tasty rumor which has all the tang of fact:
Sources close to freelancers inform me that DC Comics has a new in house policy...
When they came for Keith Champagne I said nothing
Frank Santoro in the comments section of the Comics Comics Cage Match on Paul Pope's Heavy Liquid:
Oh, and I do want to mention that I'm getting a few emails from friends (and professionals in...
D’Orazio dishes
The Comics Reporter interviews Valerie D"Orazio and she clears the air on a number of topics. The interview also makes you realize how seldom anyone who has worked in the mainstream comics industry...
Storytelling
Some storytellers on storytelling:
Todd Alcott:
The protagonist of 2001: A Space Odyssey is:a) Moon-Watcherb) The Monolithc) Dr. Heywood R. Floydd) Dr. Dave Bowmane) Dr. Frank Poolee) HAL 9000f) The frozen astronautsg) None of the above
Neil...
The Self-Publishing Movement remembered
Over at his Boneville blog, Jeff Smith has started a series of posts looking back at the self-publishing movement of the 90s:
It’s been 15 years since I met Larry Marder, who introduced me to...
More on comics and literary quality
Jennifer de Guzman looks at the ongoing literary debate and calls for higher criticism.
We don't see more literary quality in comics being published today because too few critics treat comics as serious literature...
One creator’s POD woes
We have no horse in this race, never having done any print-on-demand, and we're completely ignorant as to who is the best and who isn't. However we received a letter from a creator we...
Quote for the day
From the Eric Reynolds interview at The Comics Reporter on the productivity of Mome cartoonists
I feel like we're in a good groove now, just by widening the pool a bit so people can take...
How to Survive Writing a Graphic Novel
Grady Klein (The Lost Colony) says it with pictures at the First second Blog.
Anecdotes #2
Ron Hogan at GalleyCat has a report on the Comic Book Club One Year Anniversary which we wrote about earlier, with a fuller report
It was definitely Fraction who said of his work on Punisher...
