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...
More on the DaHeidi Code
Okay I can't resist posting another one of my old comics cycle sheets; this one two sided and from 1984.
This is interesting for several...
Blogger baffles self
The clean up effort continues here at Stately Beat Manor, and we're uncovering all kinds of forgotten wonders -- a complete run of Fiz(z)...
The Great Beat Giveaway
During the continuing renovations here at Stately Beat Manor, we have unearthed a cache of surplus Little Lulu reprint volumes from Dark Horse. Since...
