YALSA’s Great Graphic Novels for Teens list announced
The Young Adult Library Services Association has released a list of 73 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
The list of 73 titles, drawn from 127...
Comics Twart art blog debuts
A new place on the web to look at things! Namely Comic Twart a group art blog featuring Dan McDaid, Declan Shalvey, Tom Fowler,...
2010: Living In the Future
Is there anything more charming than the past's bright-eyed view of the future? Daniel Sinker has been blogging the book 2010: Living In...
Tote with Sikoryak
Speaking of the Strand, New York's immense used book store, they've just launched a new tote bag with artwork fromR. Sikoryak's Masterpiece Comics. We...
Jack Kirby’s Julius Caesar the Celestial
Via the Jack Kirby Museum, the tale of Jack Kirby's foray at costume design for the stage:
In 1969, Sheldon Feldner contacted Marvel Comics, asking...
ALA awards include graphic novel nods
The American Library Association Youth Media Awards were handed out this morning, including the Newbery (won by Rebecca Stead for When You Reach Me)...
A very brief MLK day post
Martha Cornog rounds up From Aya to Zapt!: 24 Graphic Novels for African American History Month:
The past year has left tweens and teens with...
Let’s go, Jets!
With a pain-wracked history emblazoned with love-hate names like Richard Todd, Vinny Testaverde, Boomer Esiason, Rick Mirer, Chad Pennington, Brooks Bollinger, Brett Favre, Browning...
Siege-for-Lanterns: So just why is Marvel all up in DC’s grill, anyway?
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From the moment Marvel sent out its DC-tweaking press release late on Wednesday afternoon, Siege-for-Lanterns is Topic A at BarCon and in private chatter....
The march of time in photos
1981, Creation Con, New York:
Mort Todd, Dan Clowes and Rick Altergott. Via Comics Comics
c 1991-2, San Diego Comic-Con
Jack Kirby meets his namesake, Kirby Veitch....
2009 rearview mirror: Best Online Criticism
Critic Ng Suat Tong has assembled a steely-eyed line-up of critics—himself, Noah Berlatsky, Frank Santoro, Tucker Stone, and Matthias Wivel -- to assemble a...
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