SDCC: A.C.T.O.R. activities (A8)
George Perez, John Romita, Bill Willingham, Gene Ha and...SOFTBALL! It's all at A.C.T.O.R> the charity devoted to helping creators in need.
Get set for an unbelievably good time at the A.C.T.O.R. Comic Fund booth...
SDCC: Stuart Moore
Just a quick FYI re Comicon San Diego. Stuart Moore will be signing and showing advance copies of FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MAN and JSA CLASSIFIED (DC Comics), STARGATE ATLANTIS (Avatar), PARA (Penny-Farthing Press), and...
SDCC: Attaboy (#4735)
We're not exactly sure what this is but it looks awfully cool and it comes with a Viewmaster:
Come pick up a copy of the new release complete with Viewmaster reel, buy a viewer, and...
Tatsumi on Spillane
Oddly enough, an LA Times profile of manga pioneer Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Adrian Tomine touches on the late Mickey Spillane's wide-ranging influence:
Tatsumi's work, appropriately, was shaped less by other Japanese comics than by local...
Kevin Smith on girl nerds
And speaking of Smithhere's what he had to say about Rosario Dawson:
Q: Rosario is kind of a sci-fi nerd, right?
KS: It’s cool because a lot of people don’t know that. People said she’s so...
Must reading: Kevin Smith
If nerd-as-underdog culture has an icon, it's probably director Kevin Smith, a common man made good at the pinnacle of Hollywood, aka sleeing over at Skywalker Ranch, even while remaining approachable and utterly knowable....
History of Filipino comics video
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HbFeJl1OUE&w=425&h=350]
A surprisingly touching tribute to 120 years of cartoonists in the Philippines. Did they all go to the same eyeglass shop or what?
SDCC: The BLVD ( #1701 )
The BLVD art collective (John Paul Leon, Sean Chen, Trevor Goring, Tommy Lee Edwards, and Bernard Chang) will be releasing the SECOND BLVD sketchbook at this year's show, along with, we hope, their beautiful...
SDCC: Vanguard (#1706)
Appearances by the legendary Steranko, Basil Gogos John Romita Sr. and more highlight the Vanguard schedule, along with the premiere of 3 new calendars. More in the cut.
Vanguard Productions, the World's leading producer...
Moore, Lee, Braque, Picasso
Marcela Valdes has a good piece in WaPo's Book Notes section nicely tying together LOST GIRLS and the Gordon Lee case:
Alan Moore better be careful. The long-haired comix genius from England -- whose V...
2006 Doug Wright award nominees
The nominations for the 2006 Doug Wright Awrads have been announced, celebrating the best in Canadian cartooning, and it's a diverse, high quality list:
BEST BOOK
* Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea by Guy Delisle...
Man of Action BLOGS!
While the Man of Action collective has been storming the castle with BEN 10, their hit CN toon, Messrs. Seagle, Casey, Kelly and Rouleau realize that to truly be real men of action, they...
