BATTLING BOY preview
Paul Pope previews a page of his long-gestating GN for First Second, BATTLING BOY:
>In Batman Year 100, I had room for a couple of...
Australian cartoonist in a coma
Famed Australian cartoonist Bill Leak, an editorial cartoonist for The Australian as well as a highly regarded portraitist, is in a coma ...
Meanwhile, in Indie land…
§ Jesse Reklaw has been cartoon-blogging his tour.
§ The Daily Cross Hatch presents cartoonists cartooning about how they are getting to SPX, including...
Kirkman and Bendis battle for the very soul of comics
So anyway, the Kirkman/Bendis debate thingie. Perhaps it was just because everyone was still amped about the previous night's Obama/McCain matchup, but everyone came...
Pope, HAPPY CORP. B-day and DKNY Jeans launch pics
Last Thursday Paul Pope celebrated both his birthday and the launch of his "2089" clothing line for DKNY Jeans at THE HAPPY CORP headquarters...
The Cartoonist’s Ten Commandments
Via The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log:
1 You will not surrender your talent for the rest of your life.2 You will not...
Political comics roundup
§ Matt Shepherd remixes McCain: The Mavericking Maverick Mavericks More. (In case (like The Beat) you don't have Frank Miller's oeuvre memorized, the captions...
Terry and Robyn Moore update
Via Charles Brownstein, the following message about Abstract Studios has gone out:
As you may be aware, the Abstract Studios team, Terry & Robyn...
Steve Dillon on tour
As they did with Kevin O'Neill last year, ComicsPRO, the retailer organization is hosting another tour this year, this time for the legendary PREACHER...
People doing things
Kaz won an Emmy, Flog tells and shows us (after raiding the artist's Facebook page), in "Outstanding Animation Special Category for his 'story by'...
Kevin Huizenga explains the origin of Glenn Ganges and more
Huizenga's work is so weightless in effect and weighty in substance, it's interesting to hear him talk about his work process:
I don’t want to...
Stormy Monday thoughts: McCloud etc.
With today's grisly economic news, Tom's already-worthwhile interview with Scott McCloud becomes even more timely:
McCLOUD: All of them, that's the point. I like that...
