To Do Today: Canny Comic Con and Leeds Alternative Comics Fair
Christmas is being held on December 25th this year, so you've only got a few weeks left to find something decent to give your...
The Path to Becoming a Bestselling Graphic Novel
When I first began writing this column, my intent was to help creators and comics publishers understand the methods to the madness of landing...
When great cartoonists ate Korean food together
Natalie Atkinson captures a cartooning summit in Toronto with, l-r, Chris Ware, Charles Burns, Seth, Chester Brown, Anouk Ricard, Beguiling owner Peter Birkamoe and Adrian Tomine.
The mystery and joy of BCGF
This was the third indie show of the year—TCAF and SPX were the other two—where I experienced the complete rapture of falling in love with comics all over again for the first time. Love, death, mystery—when the first time happens all over again, you know you're in the right place. I wasn't the only one feeling the love.
Scratching the Surface of Thought Bubble 2012
This weekend saw Thought Bubble 2012's convention, and.... phew, it was busy. I did my best to talk to everybody, but don't think I...
Thought Bubble is happening right now!
Are you here? Have you arrived? Leeds' Thought Bubble Comic Arts Festival has reached the convention stage today, with guests including Kate Beaton, Mark...
On the Scene: Eisner in the Snow at MoCCA/Society of Illustrators
With a nor’easter blowing in at increasing velocity on November 7th, a full house still turned out for the first of the newly partnered...
Check out sweet new Paul Pope website
Paul Pope hasn't been heard from too much of late, but we know he has actually finished BATTLING BOY Volume 1—we saw the triumphant...
Cartoonist makes $4.3 million
...from selling his house.
Famed cartoonist/playwright/screenwriter/all-around genius Jules Feiffer is leaving Manhattan, and selling his Upper West Side apartment, a biggish four-bedroom, 3 1/2 bath affair that he probably paid far less than $4.395 million for 34 years ago.
Ditko: “You seem to have chosen the least attractive, the pessimistic, believing there really...
One of the events we missed last week was Steve DIitko's 85th birthday, so a belated birthday greeting, and a link to Michel Fiffe's...
Art 4 Sandy Relief Initiative Launches
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which hit America over the past week and caused blackouts, severe damage, and claimed several lives in the...
Monkeybrain Pledge all November Profits to The Hero Initiative
Chris Roberson, co-founder of the digital publisher Monkeybrain Comics, has put out an open letter today explaining that for the whole of November, all...
