2009 Winter Xeric Winners
The Xeric Foundation has announced its most recent grant recipients. A total of $25,031 was awarded for six comic book projects.
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Jim Woodring and FRANK news
If anyone is not familiar with the surreal, haunting work of Jim Woodring, they are really missing out on one of the finest cartoonists...
Kyle Baker gets Obamania!
Over at his blog, Kyle Baker announces his own Obama comic is in the works from HarperCollins:My publisher told me to stop work on...
New Covered blog
Robert Goodin has launched a new blog called Covered, in which indie artists recreate classic comics covers. For instance, Johnny Ryan does UNCLE SCROOGE....
Inaccurate headline of the day
Stan Lee 'to create worlds first gay superhero'.
Apparently the story first appeared in the UK Sun, which explains much.
Pull Quotes: Youth is war
From USA Today's interview with Jeff Kinney, author of the DIARY OF A WIMPY KID series:
For the cover of the first book,...
This is bigger than the both of us
Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog reviews perhaps the worst comic of all time, and a new catch phrase -- at least for this morning's Twitter, is...
Obama IS too popular, at least in comics
The other day, we approvingly noted how much international press this week's Spider-Man/Barack Obama team-up comic had gotten. Tons of press, appearances on everything...
Art Attack: Fauna
Anders Nilsen posts art by Paxton Chadwick from British Reptiles and Amphibia (1949).
Willingham calls for an end to “Superhero Decadence”
Thank God, a NEW controversy! Last week, Bill Willingham penned a piece for Big Hollywood, a newish website dedicated to presenting a more conservative...
Jaffee, Feiffer, and Pekar interview series
Danny Fingeroth tells us of a new interview series he's conducting, and the people involved are about as interesting as it gets. Thee series...
New Female Force comic!
Where there's a female pol -- or in this case a potential female pol -- there's Bluewater Comics' Female Force series, as they have...
