2010 shopping list: Backing Into Forward by Jules Feiffer
Come March, Random House will publish Backing Into Forward a memoir by Jules Feiffer, master cartoonist, playwright, screenwriter and all around renaissance man. According to an early review, it includes much material on...
End of Days: Comics on The View
2012 came a little early today: Vinnie Tartamella writes to tell us that Bluewater's comics biographies were discussed on The View today, specifically the Barbara Walters edition, for which Tartamella provided the cover. For...
Play along with Scott Edelman: Guess the Mystery Artist!
At his LJ, which often explores comics fandom and history of the early '70s, Scott Edelman unearths an issue of Comics Reader from June 1973 with a cover by a "future comic-book writer...
Batdog beyond
Worth 1000 is having one of their Photoshop contests. This one involves animals as superheroes, and if you thought we would link to a picture of a monkey, you thought wrong.
I came in here for the special offer
It's Black Friday, people. Remember to be kind to the harried and overstressed retail employees.[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOjTNuuEVw&feature=youtube_gdata&w=425&h=355]
Happy Thanksgiving to all
We have much to be thankful for this year, and hope that everyone reading this is enjoying a safe, happy holiday.
One of the things we have to be grateful for is that Norman...
Headin’ for a holiday: Muppet Rhapsody
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Let's ease into the turkey glut with this delightful cultural mashup.
Comics on The View?
Artist Vinnie Tartamella wrote us a line yesterday to say that the Bluewater comics biography of Barbara Walters, for which he painted the covers, was slated to be discussed on The View, this week....
Spotlight on: George Gene Gustines
MUST READ ALERT! Marc-Oliver Frisch talks to probably the most powerful person in comics whom we have never seen interviewed before: the New York Times' George Gene Gustines. As the main comics...
Thought for the Day: Scott McCloud
Have we been quoting him too much? Anyway, whatever, a video of a sand painting prompts McCloud to ponder the decade about to pass:
We’re getting close to the end of a decade and a...
TWILIGHT ruined THE DARK KNIGHT’s record opening!
Fangirls now have bragging rights over fanboys, as TWILIGHT: NEW MOON shattered the opening day box office record -- previously held by THE DARK KNIGHT -- with $72.7 million. It also set a midnight...
RIP Ken Krueger
Ken Krueger, a co-founder of the San Diego Comic-Con and an influential figure in comics publishing and retailing on the West Coast in the formative era of the Direct Market, passed away over the...
