News and notes: Bolling, Frazetta, Marvel 1993
• The weekly comic strip “Tom the Dancing Bug” by Ruben Bolling won the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ 2009 award for Best Cartoon in...
Al Jaffee, Arnold Roth & Paul Karasik at MoCCA
http://www.youtube.com/v/KCmqUoWEatU&hl=en&fs=1&
It's kinda shaky-cam, DIY level quality video, but damned if it isn't Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth, and hearing these two speak is one...
Two from Kirby
4th Letter one-ups Garfield and gives us DARKSEID MINUS NEW GODS, a bleak, existential drama set in a landscape of nihilism and doubt by...
Jason does Doc Ock
Flog previews a...Marvel book? When it's STRANGE TALES MAX, it's the right thing to do! When it's Jason doing Spidey, it's super right....
MoCCA Debuts: Cartoonists
Yow! We had so many debuts we had to split them up into two posts. In this one, we look at individuals and their...
Coming Soon: Bryan Talbot's GRANDVILLE
As reported in Dark Horse's solicitations for August, Bryan Talbot has a new book, GRANDVILLE, coming out, and it looks to be as unique...
David Mazzucchelli retrospective
Michael Fiffe does another one of his historical recaps, this time the career of David Mazzucchelli. We know the above ROM cover is...
Comics stuff from all over
It seems that comics stuff -- illustrations and reviews and previews -- are EVERYwhere now. The usual places and the UNusual places. For instance,...
New Dan Clowes sneak peek
Aside from his NY Times serial, Mister Wonderful, Daniel Clowes hasn't had a book come out since 2005's ICE HAVEN, so word in The...
The National Post's TCAF interview series
As part of the festivities leading up to this weekend's Toronto Comics Arts Festival, the Toronto National Post is running a HUGE series of...
Linkage, comings and goings
§ Superboy??? Jeff Trexler looks at the possible legal reasons for the character's return and reminds us that the Superman trial is underway right...












