Google honors Segar
Google is doing one of its birthday tributes to E. C. Segar, creator of Popeye. It's the 115th anniversary of Segar's birth. The Guardian...
Let’s rap with Carmine Infantino: Great Comics Surveys of the Past
Beat pal Robert Simpson saw our post on comics surveys and was inspired to recall comics reader surveys of the past. DC Comics...
2010 shopping list: Backing Into Forward by Jules Feiffer
Come March, Random House will publish Backing Into Forward a memoir by Jules Feiffer, master cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and all around renaissance man....
Play along with Scott Edelman: Guess the Mystery Artist!
At his LJ, which often explores comics fandom and history of the early '70s, Scott Edelman unearths an issue of Comics Reader from...
RIP Ken Krueger
Ken Krueger, a co-founder of the San Diego Comic-Con and an influential figure in comics publishing and retailing on the West Coast in the...
Were ’90s movies as unoriginal as Aught movies?
Just to follow up on the earlier post about how only one movie in the top 20 highest grossing films of the Aughts was...
BATMAN logo designer discovered
If you are interested in comics history and design issues, master letterer Todd Klein has got the blog for you. And now he's done...
Two men who ruined comics: Giordano, Morrison
So who REALLY ruined comics? Was it former DC executive editor Dick Giordano? As the DCU show runner from 1983-93, Giordano oversaw the comics...
RIP Shel Dorf
Shel Dorf, comics fan, letterer, and the driving force behind the early years of the San Diego Comic-Con, passed away yesterday from complications related...
