The New World Order
Speaking of Hill & Wang, the Book Standard had a probably the most important story about comics you'll read this week, as the impact of the book world entering comics begins to be examined.
Although...
Linkie winkins
A new 300 video journal is up at Movefone! In this one, Lena Headey explains what it was like to be constantly surrounded on the set by muscular men in leather boxer-briefs. Poor poppet....
Linkie winkies
§ Gossip column All The Rage has a new writer, John Vouleris, as Blair Marnell has decided to take a much-deserved break after writing 100 columns.
§ Chris Tamarri colors an entire issue of NEXT...
Browser Issues
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It’s quiet out there…too quiet
The news has slowed to a dull crawl out there. Everyone is in full on pre-convention mode, saving all the big announcements for San Diego. As a reminder, we'll be starting all our...
The History of Pop Culture, Bayeux-stylee
We are not quite sure what this site is about, but it seems to have something to do with Russian Folk Art and popular filmed entertainments.:
Oeming’s Heroes Con movie
Emerging filmmaker Mike Oeming has made a Heroes Con movie using stills and loud music. Watch it if you dare.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKTfPJAOcJE
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits
Steven Grant has a very lucid view of Anime Expo:
I noted this when I last attended, a couple of years ago. It has only amplified. If one element overwhelms you at Anime Expo, it's...
The Beat: now with morning coffee
Thanks for all the well wishes and kind words! It's great to have interaction back -- although when the spammers get started, let's see how we feel. We also figured out a way to...
Xavier found in Gaslamp
Tom Galloway writes to tell us:
Was surfing around to see what the Gaslamp Quarter restaurant scene looks like this year when I happened on an entry for the new-since-last-year Xavier's Bar and Grill. Poor...
