Random thoughts
• All the party invite info for New York Comic-Con has been flooding into our inbox over the last few days -- thank goodness, we've already scheduled a nourishing meal each evening, or else...
“Are Comic Books Dying?”
Yadda yadda. Over at the Tor.Com Blog, Heather Massey asks Are Comic Books Dying?, and she isn't even talking about the Diamond thing. It's a summation of most of the usual arguments:
Think about the...
CEREBUS: A Diablog
As briefly noted, yesterday marked the debut of Cerebus: A Diablog which features journalist Laura Hudson and Top Shelf's Leigh Walton blogging each issue of CEREBUS, one issue a week. (That's nearly 6 years...
LiveJournal future cloudy, ask again later
Much anxiety yesterday when it was announced that the company which owns popular blog/social network LiveJournal had laid off much of its staff. The fact that the company is owned by a mysterious Russian...
NYC Graphic site launches
Photographer Seth Kushner, whose portraits of various comical types have been appearing online in advance of a book, to be written by Christopher Irving, announced a new website today: NYC Graphic . Kushner has...
Former Blog@ers debut Robot 6
Kevin Melrose, Chris Mautner, John Parkin and the rest of the former Blog@Newsarama gang have reassembled over at Comic Book Resources as Robot 6:
So what the heck is a Robot 6? You’ll have to...
Graphic Novel Reporter debuts
With reviews, interviews, etc. A lot to digest. We'll have our restaurant review later.
The dreary intercourse of comics life
Last week, perhaps laboring under a case of the winter doldrums, writer Steven Grant expressed his lack of enthusiasm for the year in comics just passed and thus, Dreary-gate was born:The story of this...
Pulse memories
As we noted recently, the Pulse and Comicon.com, granddaddy of all mega-comics sites, has had a makeover recently, and the message baords have been given a state-of-the-art update. One of the interesting things about...
Speaking of Blog@…
Chris Mautner, why have you forsaken us?
I digress, though those two possible introductions are in fact great indicators that you’re reading a pretentious list, I wanted to talk more about the lists themselves. I...
Comic Book Legends book due in April
We saw an oblique reference to this in an interview with Joe Quesada, and uncovered the fact that Brian Cronin's Comic Book Urban Legends stories are being collected in April in a tome called...
2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar
Brian Cronin has begun the 2008 Comics Should Be Good Advent Calendar, with a new Christmas-themed political cartoon every day. Up first: Thomas Nast.
