Holidays

Did you think I was going to miss this one? The noisy birds from the world's most popular mobile game are back with a new Christmas comic which is rolling out a page a day. See how the blue bird functions as the triplicate chorus, a la Huey Dewey and Louie?

Bully's running theme this month is Christmas in Duckburg -- nobody got into the holiday spirit better than Carl Barks!

Let's get our Christmas art parade kicked off with Japanese artist Tsuneo Sanda, one of the best known contemporary Star Wars artists -- because nothing says Christmas like Yoda. Every Star Wars Christmas image brings back distant memories of the "Star Wars Holiday Special" and Bea Arthur's bravura performance as the cantina owner. And the burning question "What do you get a wookie for Christmas (when he already owns a comb)?"

Hope you all had a great holiday weekend and plenty of turkey and stuffins. We spent the whole holiday mucking out our shelf porn -- organizing shelves, tossing pamphlets, setting aside some books for storage some for donation, a few for eBay. And some for Beat giveaways! Check back every day this week at 5 pm EST for some really swell classic GNs which we're giving away to lucky readers! A few other notes of business:

Former Marvel e-i-c Jim Shooter's blog has become the repository of some amazing stories -- some of them even true -- but here's one that could well become a holiday tradition: Thanksgiving in Newark. It's got everything a TV movie could need: a freelancer in need -- IRON MAN scripter David Michelinie -- an editor with a mission, two holiday orphans, and a quest to bring it all together:

Hope everyone has a fantastic Thanksgiving...and a lot to be thankful for. Including old comic book covers, courtesy of Cover Browser.

Just as we dreamed about it. very envious of his autumn leaves. Here all we get is snow for Halloween.

Snowtober didn't drive them away, and now that the weather has warmed up again, Occupy Wall Street is going strrong -- and now with added superheroes. but not just any superheroes, but the characters from THE ADVENTURES OF UNEMPLOYED MAN, a GN anthology that came out last year. Written by Gan Golan and Erich Origen, the book was way ahead of all this 1% vs 99% rhetoric with the story of an unemployed man who gathers a team of misfit superheroes to fight the self-interested villains from the Hall of Just Us. (And why not be way ahead of it since income inequality has been a looming issue for years?)

Must survive until daybreak!

Let's face it, nothing says Halloween like Hellboy by Mike Mignola.

At a time of similar hopelessness and when people are actually asking if Brutalist architecture contributed to the UK Riots, it's good to revisit this classic from the Specials. When I first watched this video I thought it was a modern remake as it looks so current and timeless, but apparently it's from 1981, and directed by the late Barney Bubbles, a designer who killed himself a few years later.

If Heidi Klum is the queen of Halloween costumes, Emily Carroll is now the queen of Halloween webcomics. Following last year's "His Face All Red" Carroll has created MARGOT'S ROOM, an interactive comic that is guaranteed to give you the creeps. Read the poem on the first page and then click in the proper order on the main image...if you read this after dark we DARE you not to feel a chill.