Barbie’s got a brand new bod – actually three of them
In a massive COVER story on Time Magazine, Mattel has unveiled a bunch of new shapes and sizes for Barbie, the long reigning ectomorphic...
The American Bystander returns to days of yore with comics on PAPER
Old timers like me well remember the time when a trip to a newsstand was how you got your news and ingested a quick...
One MIllion Moms objects to Lucifer hitting the all you can eat breadsticks at...
Hm, a TV show called Lucifer. I was wondering when someone would object to a network TV show named after Satan, and sure enough...
GLAAD Nominees honor Wicked & Divine, Harley Quinn and more
Awards season is underway! And GLAAD has announced its annual media award nominees to "recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive...
To do Feb 9: Marc Tyler Nobleman talks about Bill Finger
We recently noted that writer Marc Tyler Nobleman was on the hunt for a video of a particular panel from WonderCon about Bill Finger....
ReedPOP and CBS launch 50th Anniversary Star Trek con: ST: Mission New York
More cons! More NICHE cons. And this one is bringing it back to where it all began! ReedPOP, purveyor of New York Comic-Con, PAX,...
Steranko’s Ages of Comics: naming our eras
In addition to popularizing "Sterankoing," artist Jim Steranko is quite a tweeter. Every Sunday night he holds a regular talk, and last night he...
Things To Do During the [blank]-pocalypse: A Comics Reading Marathon
Back in 2012, after Hurricane Sandy, I had a week-long furlough caused by a lack of electricity at my office near Union Square.
That's when...
My book on Alfredo Alcala “won’t stop selling”
Here's a comprehensive interview with Dover's Drew Ford about the future of their comics line, with many more reprints coming (including a personal favorite,...
Rising stars: Tillie Walden is a name you’re going to hear a lot more...
You know how you hear a name or a word for the first time and then suddenly that name or word is everywhere? Well that name is Tillie Walden, a student from Austin, TX, currently a student at the Center for Cartoon Studies in VT, who is poised to be one of the hottest cartoonists of 2016, after an already spectacular 2015. (Word on the street is that she may have even been part of the inspiration for this infamous comic.) Walden is barely 20 years old (she was born in 1996)and already has amazing drawing chops and solid storytelling—she has several short comics posted on her site that you can read in their entirety. Broken Frontier just named her their Breakout Talent of 2015 and if this is the first time you're hearing about her, it's probably not the last.
Report: toy companies explicitly told to exclude Rey from Force Awakens products
A site called "Sweatpants and Coffee" has just posted an anonymous insider whistleblower report on the Where's Rey? controversy that has seen the main...
Page rates: what’s fair is fair except when it isn’t
I'm late in commenting on the industry rates survey posted by Fair Page Rates an anonymous industry watchdog. But along with the sales softening...
