Kubla Comics—a Rotten Tomatoes for Comics?
A new site called Kubla Comics aims to be a review aggregator for comics, with a Rotten Tomatoes-like 0-5 rating system and pages for...
Behold: Bartkira! An intriguing comics jam proposal
Ryan Humphrey posted this fantastic Simpson/Akira mash up comic on his tumblr last night and it's been picking up a healthy number of notes since....
INTERVIEW: 2000AD’s Mike Molcher on Spreading The Word of Tharg
Mike Molcher is the PR Co-ordinator for Rebellion, meaning he is the man directly responsible for promoting their comics, 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine....
I’m going all Tumblr on ya
This is an announcement of vital import and historic significance!
When the internet shuts down: UGO and Posterous
Although everything seems to be forever on the internet, it really isn't. It's oh so fragile, and the prime time of your life can be crossed out by one CEO's pen swipe.
Wertham and Are Comics Art? — is it 1981 again?
A must read and a must-read for masochists top our linkage today, both returning to topics that were much on the minds of anyone in comics about 30 years ago — oldies but goodies.
First and most importantly, library professor Carol Tilley has been going through Dr. Fredric Wertham's notes and found out that he was, to use a technical term, full of hooey.
‘Seconds’ from Bryan Lee O’Malley Delayed until 2014
Over on his Tumblr blog, writer/artist/Backstreet Boys maven Bryan Lee O'Malley has explained that - due to a shoulder injury he suffered last year...
Jane Mai’s Poop Nightmare
At the risk of lowering the tone, I relay to you the news of Jane Mai's Poop Nightmare: so bad it needed capitalization As someone...
A few images from the TBG/CBG days of yore
And oh how yore they are. Alan Light, founder of The Buyer's Guide/Comics Buyer's Guide is one of the most organized flickr users we've ever encountered and he has a couple of sets from the history of TBG/CBG that those reminiscing about the now cancelled publication might enjoy.
RIP: Comics Buyer’s Guide (1971-2013)
In a brief, statement, publisher F+W announced the closing of CBG, the Comics Buyer's Guide today. The magazine's 42 year run will end with issue #1699, one shy of the farewell #1700 that the collectors it appealed to would have liked.
The cause of death was the usual suspects:
Arthur Magazine is back with Rick Veitch cover
AUGHTS NOSTALGIA. Arthur Magazine was a FREE culture magazine that defined a lot of the early internet/alternative culture of the early century, before the...
The Path to Becoming a Bestselling Graphic Novel
When I first began writing this column, my intent was to help creators and comics publishers understand the methods to the madness of landing...
