Happy Birthday, TETRIS
The game was created 25 years ago today. Learn more about the creation of "the world's greatest video game" here.
I don't know about you,...
And the bar is HOW high this time?
It started when James Sturm from CCS, presented a slideshow on children's book illustrator Virginia Lee Burton on the feminist blog DoubleXX. Sturm proposed...
Schulz Library blog
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...
Alley Oop!
Last year the University of Missouri had a special exhibit celebrating 75 years of the comic strip Alley Oop, which concerns a comical, time...
You can never get enough John Stanley
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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...
