Reading roundup: 1/4/10
WOW, lots of reading to do to get yourself ready for the new year!
§ You will be dumbfounded with amazement at Douglas Wolk's...
Happy 87th birthday, Stan Lee
The Man Abides. He also twitters, and if you are following Smilinstanlee, you can only marvel (yes) at how a man approaching his 10th...
Holiday Reading: TCJ 300 conversations
For those who enjoy filling the quieter times of the holidays with reading, pretty much the most essential online comics reading right now is...
The Best Comics Anthologies ever?
Since we never got around to doing a gift giving guide because we're so lame/lazy, we'll steal this post from Jeet Heer on the...
18 Days of Christmas: Lew Stringer’s Comics History
Cartoonist Lew Stringer explores the contents of the 1971 Christmas issue of VALIANT.
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...
