The evolving Onion
Have you ever wondered what the relationship of the "Area Man" Onion is to the "A.V. Club" Onion? Us too, and here's the answer:
Pocket...
Kick-ass comics women of the 70s
http://www.youtube.com/v/HIFiuIV67u0
This YouTube video has a weighty theme:
The American civil rights movement opened possibilities of empowerment to a new generation. Feminism simply extended that to...
The Best of ’07 courtesy of Dick Hyacinth
Dick Hyacinth has finally compiled the 100 best reviewed comics of last year using a weighted chart. There was a preliminary list, but this...
Jeff Smith on whether he tastes great or is less filling
New York Mag's Vulture bloginterviews Jeff Smith today and they bring up where he sees himself on the spectrum of comics:
This fall, a...
Stage6 is kaputski
Well, between the company we do most of our work for going up on the auction block and our beloved Cafe La Fortuna...
Comics trivialize Holocaust?
CNN international presents a video report the the holocaust comic book we've mentioned here previously. Produced by the Anne Frank Center and drawn by...
John Jackson Miller picks up his calculator again
Newsarama has started a new columns by noted sales figure collector John Jackson Miller. there is much to absorb in his maiden outing, but...
Steve Gerber Links
#1. Grady Hendrix talks about Gerber changed comics :
But Gerber himself was trapped in a vulturelike publishing industry. A dispute with Marvel...
Landis on Gaines
Variety reports a frequently reported on comics-related biopic has acquired a director. John Landis will make Ghoulishly Yours, a biography of EC/Mad publisher William...
Trapped in a world he never made
The "tweener" generation of comics readers and creators -- of which I'm one -- were lucky enough to come of age in an era...
Grant Morrison makes girls happy
In all candor, we're not sure how all this fits into continuity or storylines or whatever, but is seems that while in the midst...
When comics were bad
Book Forum runs an excerpt from David Hajdu's upcoming The Ten Cent Plague, a history of the persecution of comics books in the '50s...
