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...
Pull quotes: Where the money comes from
"These days, comics need to carry more weight, to make a stronger emotional connection with the reader. You can’t put a fluffy show like...
More comics history
More photos from the recently uploaded LIFE magazine photo archives: Yale Joel's series from "The Comic Book Hearings."
Oh yeah, search "comic book," and you...
Dave Stevens book about ready to ship
Arnold Fenner writes to tell us that Spectrum Fantastic Art has posted several audio excerpts from interviews with the late Dave Stevens as well...
Keith Knight in Tucson
Controversial cartoonist Keith Knight visited the University of Arizona and talked about his recent, controversial cartoon which contained "the 'n' word", in a story...
Awesome photos
Google announced that they have made LIFE magazine's photos archives available online. Not only does this mean that regular folks can look at the...
Book of New York ‘toonists update
Photographer Seth Kushner updates news of his book on local artists:
On the photography front, I've photographed 41 subjects, and have 9 more to go,...
Pull quotes: That farmland spark
"Before the turbines I had a very happy, hardworking life that actually makes me cry when I remember it."
- Lynda Barry talks to Vice...
Canadian literary awards still don’t like pictures
New scandal: The SKIM snub.
The ruckus started last week when Chester Brown and Seth wrote an open letter to the Canadian Governor General Literary...
Carla and Lance Hoffman badly injured in fire
Blog@Newsarama has a sad story about Carla Hoffman, part-time blogger and employee at Metro Entertainment in Santa Barbara, and her husband, Lance. The two...
Art from MAD Magazine goes for $750K
If there's one item that can be said to be recession proof, it's apparently original artwork from the glory years of MAD Magazine. Heritage...
