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Schulz Library blog

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Robyn Chapman wrote to alert us to the existence of the CCS SChulz Library blog, a compendium of cool comical things: The Schulz Library resides...

You can never get enough John Stanley

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Surely the entire planet must by now have been converted to the Church ofJohn Stanley, one of the most inventive, wisest storytellers in comics...

The Mark Waid interview

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Everyone is talking about this career-spanning interview with writer/BOOM! EIC Mark Waid at AICN. In a comics media drowning in promotional interviews, the long,...

Web ephemera: When Legends Gather

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Very much Not Comics, but we were tooling around and found this blog called If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole...

The wisdom of Todd Klein

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Since we're not posting much today, you should spend all your time reading Todd Klein's blog. It's like sitting around rapping with the Socrates...

What happened to Anne Cleveland

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In 2006, on the old Beat, I wrote a post called "Women in Comics: Who is Anne Cleveland?" and I wondered if there hadn't...

More awesome old comics: Bringing Up Father

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Over at the NBM blog, Terry Nantier reminds us that a collection of BRINGING UP FATHER is on its way: Well, we’re putting to bed...

Aroo, Nell Brinkley, Milt Gross — is there no end to these riches?

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How on earth are we supposed to find money and shelf space for all the incredible books of fantastic historical material that keeps flooding...

Tonight: HUMBUG at the Strand

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Tonight, a comic event which will be very difficult to top no matter how many more you see this year: An Evening with HUMBUGFeaturing Arnold...

Time Machine: 2002: The Year of the Graphic Novel

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When you've been doing this as long as I have you are often Googling for information on some topic and end up finding something...

BIG NUMBERS: a big deal

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Yesterday, the comics internets burst with the news that Pádraig O Méalóid, aka LiveJournal user glycon, had acquired and posted a set of xeroxes...

R.I.P Anne Cleveland

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Anne Cleveland, a cartoonist from the '30s to the '50s, whose main subject was college humor and her alma mater, Vassar, has died at...

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