Can anyone here tell a story?
As part of my duties as co-editor at PW Comics Week I edit our occasional "Loudmouth" feature, which is, more or less, our editorial page. Opinions, the more opinionated the better. Funny thing....
Marder: Back to Beanworld
Tom Spurgeon catches up with Larry Marder, who just left McFarlane Toys. Marder announces he'll be back to his BEANWORLD comics after a very very long layoff, and takes a look back at where...
Kibbles 'n' Bits 10/9/07
§ Author on author action as Susanna Clark (Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell ) profiles Alan Moore for the Telegraph:
It's not easy to convey to someone who doesn't read comics just how Alan Moore...
Schulz biography draws controversy
David Michaelis's frank biography of Charles Schulz, portraying his consistent melancholy and lifelong sorrows, has upset some family members, the NY Times reports:
...Monte Schulz said that when he read Mr. Michaelis’s manuscript in December,...
SPACE SUCKS at Act-i-vate
Space Sucks once of De-act-i-vate moves over to Act-i-vate. It's by Pedro Camargo, I believe, although he signs his name as Sillicon Needle and the only way you can find out who this comic...
Basil Wolverton show in LA
Apparently there is a show of Basil Wolverton art going on in SoCal right now, as the LA Times reports:
CARTOONIST Basil Wolverton's biomorphic caricatures are anything but pretty. But that didn't stop him from...
Kubert and Romita Sr. Video
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From the Balitmore Comic-con
Tomine mini-site launches
Adrian Tomine's SHORTCOMINGS is sure to be one of the hottest graphic novelsof the fall, and to help speed it along D&W has just launched a website including tour dates, which we have to...
Clean Cartoonists’ Dirty Drawings
Craig Yoe announces a new website to promote his upcoming book Clean Cartoonists' Dirty Drawings:
By day their cartoon creations included Mickey Mouse, Superman, Beetle Bailey, Betty and Veronica, Wonder Woman, Batman, Nancy, Betty Boop,...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits
§ James Thurber's home profiled
It was in that attic in the 1970s that a former owner discovered several of Thurber's drawings on the wall -- hidden under a layer of wallpaper hung by Thurber's...
