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...
Al Jaffee amazement
We take back everything bad we were just saying about The Internet. This Flash-based New York Times tribute to Mad's Al Jaffee and his...
Siegels awarded Superman rights
In a stunning decision, the heirs of Jerry Siegel, co-creator of Superman, have been granted the copyright to Action Comics Vol. 1. Jeff Trexler...
Remembrance of Werthams Past
David Hajdu's The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America has been getting a great deal of press. The story...
The truth about comics
Doc Lehman wrote to share a gallery of photos from the 1930’s and 1940’s of people reading comics and newsstands. You should go check...
