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...
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...
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 –...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
