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Big BIG report over at The Comics Reporter as Bart Beaty lays smack down on David Hajdu's THE TEN CENT PLAGUE:
I read...
HIstory of fandom wiki launches
A reader by the name of Laura Hale writes to tell us of Fan History, a new website given to a wiki of the...
Joe Simon, the last living legend
The New York Times talks with Joe Simon, at 94 one of the last of the Golden Age creators. Simon, who once sued for...
NYCC: Eisner bio screening
Jon Cooke writes to tell us there will be a screening of his Will Eisner documentary, preceeding the Eisner tribute panel. (Click for larger...
NYCC: Vanguard — #1857
Steranko, Carmine Infantino, Frank Brunner, Rich Buckler, KErry Gammill and Basil Gogos will be appearing at the Vanguard booth, along with J. David Spurlock....
Another what might have been: Tezuka/Kubrick
i09 reports on an aborted Tezuka project:
When Osamu Tezuka, the father of manga, died in 1989, nobody had a full archive of his works—at...
Bob Clampett’s JOHN CARTER OF MARS
http://www.youtube.com/v/1H2ZdSbyHhQ&hl=en
Edgar Rice Burrough's John Carter books have had a long bumpy road to the screen. While Pixar is now on track to make an...
Even More on Wertham
Jeet Heer examines both side of the Wertham legacy in a piece in Slate.
So, who is right, Hajdu or Beaty? Did Wertham have...
Wertham: Friend or foe?
While Fredric Wertham is the archetypal real-life bogeyman of comics, his legacy is not all black and white. Bart Beatty, author of Frederic Wertham...
Color Quandaries #2: The Barks Affair
Excitement ran high on various message boards when an Amazon listing was found for The Carl Barks Collection Set 1, to be published...
Color Quandaries #1: Killing Joke
There's a handsome new hardcover edition of THE KILLING JOKE by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland out, featuring remastered color by Bolland. PopCultureShock has...
