“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...
Bill Leak on the mend
Great news from down under, as cartoonist Bill Leak, who was in a medically induced coma for three days after experiencing a severe head...
Crime watch: Avatar murder; proud papa goes too far
§ In Japan, a woman has been arrested for killing her husband. But it was only a MMORPG character that died, and the charge...
Stan wants to make Posh/Becks into crime fighters?
Piffle story of the day which allows the mind to wander. Stan Lee thinks David and Victoria (Posh) Beckham would be good for a...
Two links for the day
§ Steven Grant looks at the 20 most important comics ever published, chronologically:
1) FAMOUS FUNNIES #1 (Eastern Color, 1934)Max Gaines' brainchild, the one that...
STRANGEWAYS: THE THIRSTY to debut at Blog@Newsarama
Blogs getting webcomics? That's crazy talk! But it seems that THE THIRSTY, the sequel to the horror Western STRANGEWAYS will be serialized at the...
Every Dark Horse comic avaliable at Portland State University
CORRECTION: The PSU collection is NOT, as the headline for this post originally claimed, "The Country's First University Comic Book Archive," but one of...
Quick hits
§ Eddie Campbell is back with one of the secrets of comics, known only to true initiates:
Due to the overwhelming thumbs up in response...
