Link of the day: Brian Heater’s Harvey Pekar weekend
§ If all profiles/travelogues were as good as Brian Heater's account of a trip to Cleveland for Harvey Pekar's 70th birthday, people wouldn't wonder about the state of comics journalism.
In five days,...
Comics writers found wanting?
Over at TCR, Ng Suat Tong labors mightily and makes the startling and groundbreaking twin discoveries that cartoonists who write use the formal conventions of the comics medium more fluently than writer artist teams...
SD09: Man of Action Studios — #2007
Steven Seagle writes to tell us:
Man of Action Studios, the creative collective of Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau, and Steven T. Seagle – creators of the hit BEN 10 franchise and the upcoming...
TSA finds comic script threatening
Via his Twitter feed, writer Mark Sable reveals that he was detained for 30 minutes prior to a flight by the TSA after a random search turned up a copy of his script to...
The Mark Waid interview
Everyone is talking about this career-spanning interview with writer/BOOM! EIC Mark Waid at AICN. In a comics media drowning in promotional interviews, the long, in-depth interview is a thing of the past (or a...
What ever happened to …Bill Jemas
Along with Joe Quesada, former Marvel publisher Bill Jemas was one of the principle architects of the revitalization of the House of Ideas back at the turn of the century. His tenure...
RIP John Updike
Famed novelist John Updike has died at age 76. Besides winning awards and being one of the best prose stylists of recent American letters, Updike was a friend of comics, having planned to be...
Can superheroes grow up?
Screenwriter Todd Alcott examines the genre:
First, let me make something clear: there is nothing wrong, shameful or second-rate about adolescent fantasies. Adolescent fantasies drive the entire movie business and have for more than a...
Willingham calls for an end to “Superhero Decadence”
Thank God, a NEW controversy! Last week, Bill Willingham penned a piece for Big Hollywood, a newish website dedicated to presenting a more conservative view of the entertainment industry. The piece was entitled: Superheroes:...
The life of Steve Gerber
The Gerber Curse is an anonymously written online biography of the famed writer. Three chapters are up and more are planned. It's fascinating reading, with historical background and analysis of Gerber's best known works....
