More on the death of Yoshito Usui
While Japan mourns the creator of Shin-chan, Yoshito Usui, some rather heartbreaking details are emerging about his death on September 11th. Usui-sensei fell to...
Kirby family files for copyright reassignment
ALL HELL IS BREAKING LOOSE. Last week, Jack Kirby's four children filed notices of copyright termination for 45 characters . The LA Times has...
Dorkin/Thompson BEASTS OF BURDEN tour
Crumb's GENESIS. ASTERIOS POLYP. Joe Sacco's NOTES FROM GAZA. The ALEC collection. 2009 has seen more than its share of graphic novels that change...
PERSONAL #3: Haspiel/Galifiniakis — the cosmic connection
This week's New Yorker contains many things comics ... a cover by Ivan Brunetti, a print ad for the Vertigo Crime Line (props to...
PERSONAL #2: Chris Weston, crimefighter
Artist Chris Weston is no stranger to mayhem, having drawn THE FILTH, THE TWELVE, and many more beloved comics classics. Doubtless the ninja training...
Happy Birthday, Jack!
Jack Kirby would have been 92 years old today.
Bully has a 24 hour tribute, with hourly posting. Spurge has a visual tribute....
Art distraction: Character Designer Blog
Interviews with folks who design characters for film, animation, video games and comics. For instance, Paul Linsley (his take on the Turtles, above.)
What goes...
Marie Severin on her 80th birthday
Scott Edelman reports on how the great lady spent her 80th.
Robot 6 does Comics 101
Can you believe that none of the marquee comics blogs have a feature called Comics 101? That was low-hanging fruit. Over at Robot 6,...
Morrison/Barker on video
http://www.youtube.com/v/Ay38UcL0S2w&hl=en&fs=1&
Meltdown has video of the Grant Morrison/Clive Barker summit. Marz Richards provides a transcript at the same link.
More on the cartoonist/swimsuit mystery
Our post spotlighting a LIFE magazine archive of photos of 1950 cartoonists drawing on swimsuit models, got lots and lots of attention, but no...
Gene Colan hospitalized
Jim McLauchlin at the Hero Initiative writes to say that Gene Colan is back in the hospital:
Gene Colan’s wife Adrienne informs us that...
