Comics Media

As long as we're harkening back to the internet of 10 years ago, as we are in this AMAZING THRILLING BEAT 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL, one of the great hallowed traditions of the internet came under fire yesterday, with TCJ.com co-editor Tim Hodler wonderedif TCJ.com should turn off comments and encourage a "letter's page" instead. Oddly, this inspired a flurry of comments. The "letters page" idea goes back to Blood & Thunder the letters page on the old print Comics Journal where industry titans would throw rocks at each other. Seriously these are a goldmine of Bronze Age defensiveness and invective. Would the same spirit be upheld in a world with instantaneous communication in every medium known to humankind? Not sure.

Tumblr users who have been reveling in its ability to share content—and block trolls via the plug-in Disqus—got a rude shock today when due to code problems, users found their custom themes disabled and their comment boards wiped out. Among the missing—DC Women Kicking Ass's lively comments section. DCWKA's Sue took to Twitter to mourn the loss, and just as I write this it looks like she may have found the missing posts, but others were still searching.

While I don't know what was the book of MoCCA at ECCC it was DEFINITELY Lumberjanes, which launched in a convention exclusive edition. With...

David Brothers is one of the most accomplished writers-about-comics around, a blogger who recently moved into the industry himself as a member of the...

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Talya Modlin is a Chicago based cartoonist/art type.

A few months ago there was a Kerfuffle over a comics which some indie comics enthusiasts thought was artistically exciting, while others couldn't see that for all the racism in these comics. I wrote about it at the time, and wondered if indie comics—so lively and vibrant—were actually being given a larger social context.

Over 1578 pages of material, the last three issues of The Comics Journal included 11 pages by or about women cartoonists. Is this exclusion hurting diversity in comics or just the dying breath of pap pap comics?

Like a Phoenix from the ashes...in our recent obituary for MTV Geek we noted that the NY Post's Parallel Worlds site also seemed to be gone. And indeed, a NY Post website design claimed its young life. However, undeterred, editor Den Greenfield has teemed up with Asbury Park Comicon's Cliff Galbraith for a NEW SITE, 13th Dimension.

I noticed this morning that they hadn't updated and that, coupled with the recent editor search, sent my Heidi sense tingling and yes indeed,...

As you probably heard over the holiday, iFanboy is packing in its "day to day" operations, which seemed like a euphemistic way of saying...

You have to actually go to the site to experience it, but Matt Maxwell's new tumblr INTRAPANEL includes giant close up macro lens photos...