Keith Knight cartoon causes kerfuffle in Jersey
A comic strip by African-American cartoonist Keith Knight that used the N-word has caused an apology at Montclair State University. The episode of...
Lonely otaku seeks four-color wife
Once you start digging a bit into Japanese culture, you often come across reports that there are a lot of single people in Japan....
David Heatley responds
Last week's lively debate at Comics Comics over the merits of David Heatley's MY BRAIN IS HANGING UPSIDE DOWN has drawn a point-by-point...
Behind the scenes with EXECUTIVE POWER
We're used to reading all the interviews about the series that are coming but, but Kiel Phegley at CBR presents a rare look at...
Hard to believe Marvel once published comics that looked like this
Kristy Valenti remembers GREENBERG THE VAMPIRE:
Written by J.M. DeMatteis and drawn by Mark Badger, GtV was Marvel's 20th "graphic novel." For Marvel, at that...
Aaaaaand one more: Hope for Alfred E. Neuman
Via Boing Boing, Mad Magazine's take on Shepard Fairey's now iconic Obama poster. Fairey has a gallery of parodies of the poster, but apparently...
Flashback: in 1988 D.C. discovered ad sales
We were doing our usual Google news search last night and noticed you can now look back in time. A quick search on DC...
The day in political cartooning
§ Gawker predicts hard times for political cartoonists if Obama is elected. Part of the problem is that caricaturing the African-American candidate could draw...
“I am Spartacus, and I am a graphic novel!”
Starz has announced a new TV series version of Spartacus, the stirring historical epic of a doomed but feisty slave rebellion in ancient Rome....
Important people who read comics
§ Manga-loving Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso -- who is actually not all that popular, and whose championing of manga and other youth culture...
