San Diego Comic Fest Kicks Off with a Heavy Storm and Jack Kirby
As the winds howled outside and rain beat against the roof of the Four Points hotel by Sheraton, one thing was blatantly obvious: bad...
Five Finalists for Dwayne McDuffie Award For Diversity In Comics Announced
After a vigorous round of judging, the five finalists for the Dwayne McDuffie Award For Diversity In Comics have been revealed (I was one of...
Does San Diego need both San Diego Comic-Con and San Diego Comic Fest?
Once upon a time, there wasn’t a San Diego Comic-Con.
Some would mark this period as “The Dark Ages of Conventions” (those being myself). It...
Breaking news: only 30% of the news on comics news sites is actually about...
Months ago, a comic book publicist and I were chatting about this and that and he suggested, rather ominously, "Have you ever tried counting...
A little bit more about Jiro Taniguchi, mountains and solitary Japanese business men eating...
Zack Davisson has a fine obituary at TCJ which has much more info about the life of the great Jiro Taniguchi, who passed away...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 2/14/17: Love Rides the Owlshoot
§ Happy Valentines day, all! To honor this day of love, flowers, candy and anxiety, here's the cover of the very first Rangeland Romances...
Nicolas Winding Refn and Ed Brubaker are making an Amazon series together…but that’s not...
The news broke last week, but we had to laud The Brub for landing this sweet TV deal for a show called Too Old...
Cartoonist arrested after assault on girlfriend
Cartoonist Kurt Wolfgang, whose real name is Kurt W. Holley, was arrested on Feb. 4 in Gainesville FL, and charged after attacking his girlfriend...
A year of free comics: Princess by Tom Scioli
Tom Scioli is one of my favorite cartoonists currently working. His 2014-2016 effort, Transformers vs. GI Joe, which he co-wrote with John Barber and...
Ike Perlmutter is not even trying to hide any more
First it was a terrifying, shadowy figure.
Then it was a video sceen cap.
And now Isaac "Ike" Perlmutter, Marvel president and adviser to POTUS, is...
Cats, coffee, crockpots: what do cartoonists do all day?
Last week it was Hourly Comic Day (technically February 1, but it kind of stretches out for a few days) in which cartoonists attempt...
A year of free comics: get back to nature with Mark Trail
Another source of free comics! The interface is perhaps not the smoothest but you can read just about every daily newspaper comic strip online...
