Art Attack: The Toon Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics
Edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly, The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics is perhaps the most seminal historical comics anthology since...
More on the death of Yoshito Usui
While Japan mourns the creator of Shin-chan, Yoshito Usui, some rather heartbreaking details are emerging about his death on September 11th. Usui-sensei fell to...
Suddenly, the days are shorter
(Coincidentally, the first comic book I ever had an editing credit on.)
Crumb. Sodom. What are you waiting for?
Boing Boing has an exclusive excerpt of Crumb's GENESIS, out this week, and you know they chose Chapter 19, the one where Lot has...
Kirby family files for copyright reassignment
ALL HELL IS BREAKING LOOSE. Last week, Jack Kirby's four children filed notices of copyright termination for 45 characters . The LA Times has...
Windy CIty report
We got this open letter from Patrick Brower of Challengers Comics + Conversation in Chicago, and it's a little hypeish, but it sounds like...
Talk like a Pirate Day
I may have lost the memo, but I believe this is a national holiday on THE BEAT CALENDAR.
Video of the DAY; 60 Minutes visits MAD Magazine
http://www.youtube.com/v/t3OtmcEZ_dU&hl=en&fs=1&
Back in the late '80s, Morley Safer sat down with the MAD crew.
OSU collection renamed the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library
The Ohio State University's archives of comics-related material is one of the greatest collections of comics history and art on the planet. And now...
Kids discover mysterious new creature, beat it to death
Hairless corpse believed to be a strange new mutant creature. The mysterious beast crawled feebly from a cave in Panama, so alarming local youths...
Random thoughts
Over on the Wildstorm blog the other day, they dropped a BOMBSHELL. Gen13 is getting a new artist, a very talented fellow. And his...
