A comics shop in 1965
Cherokee Book Shop on Hollywood Blvd., 1965.
Via the UCLA photo archives.
Ch-changes at Blog@
We heard some rumblings in the vicinity of Blog@ Newsarama of late, and now it's all busted loose, as the original lineup of bloggers,...
Stan “the Man” in 1967
Over on his blog, Scott Edelman posted this picture of Stan Lee (left) from 1967. Pre-showbiz, it was a very different Stan.
Dressing to impress comics fans
While getting more women to read superhero comics still seems like an uphill battle at times, this winter, comics are IN. We were wandering...
Secrets of the great cartoonists
Two separate stories shed some light on the psychology of two of the all-time greatest cartoonists, George Herriman and Georges "Hergé" Remi.
First, the...
Cartoonists doing things
Too much talent #1: Joel Meadows catches Posy Simmonds and Art Spiegelman in the same place in this photo post. Guest appearance by Matt...
Pull Quotes: Beyond the audience for the obscure
"You don’t ask somebody if they watch movies because of course they do, and that’d be great if comics were the same."
- Artist Amy...
Cable woes again
Sorry, kids, the cable went out again. Last time we complained we got a free month of HBO. The moral is to keep complaining....
Once, children WANTED to be astronauts
Alarming headline: Astronauts tinker with urine-to-water machine
Even more alarming lede:
Astronauts tinkered Sunday with a troublesome piece of equipment designed to help convert urine and...
WEHT: Bill Messner-Loebs?
A few years ago, cartoonist/writer William Messner Loebs (Journey) and his wife Nadine were destitute, and the comics industry rallied around them. Michigan Live...
