Jack Chick sighting!
A super-rare photo of the elusive crypto-cartoonists Jack Chick -- above left holding one of his tracts -- has been sighted! Christian author...
Studio briefing: Thundercats, Shannara, Gaines to screen
The trades are announcing severl movie deals that our audience may find of interest:
§ First, Warner's is making a THUNDERCATS movie:
Studio has optioned a...
Fox, Gladir to Receive Third Annual Bill Finger Award
Press release:
Gardner Fox and George Gladir have been selected to receive the 2007 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. The choice...
The Dave Cockrum Memorial
Yesterday DC Comics was the host for a memorial tribute to artist Dave Cockrum. We dearly wanted to attend, since Cockrum's art had a...
Curiosities from the vault
We were cleaning up this weekend, and came across a few historical curiosities which we may post over the next few days or so....
Things to click on
§ Early manga champion Frederik Schodt profile
§ LA Times looks at Minx line
§ Video of Frank Miller talking about the Spirit at Cannes.
§ Milo...
Upton on “Comics and the Lowbrow”
Colin Upton has been on the comics battleground from the mini-comics movement on, a 20 year run that has seen a lot of stuff...
1988: Pekar on Letterman
http://www.youtube.com/v/iBr4NxujLvw
Here's an oldie but a goodie floating around on YouTube.
BTW, people tell us hey are addicted to YouTube and spend hours searching for...
Sequart Research & Literacy Organization announced
It looks like scholarship is here to stay, as Sequart has announced a new scholarly organization:
An organization has been founded to study and promote...
Warren Ellis makes the case for Tom Frame
Via his Bad Signal mailing list:
The thing that bothered me about that Roll Of Honour award was that it should have been a reason...
“Learn How Dagwood Splits the Atom”
Boing Boing points us towards a cool old science comic that investigates the nature of the universe via Dagwood.
Where is…BOILERPLATE?
Regular readers may recall the odd and colorful saga of BOILERPLATE, a make-pretend mechanical man created by Paul Guinan who ended up being used...
