When comics were bad
Book Forum runs an excerpt from David Hajdu's upcoming The Ten Cent Plague, a history of the persecution of comics books in the '50s...
Wonder Woman again
A rather haltingly written wire service story once again proclaims that sisters are pow! bam! sock!ing it for themselves:
A program at an Upstate New...
Annnnnnnnd one last word
Fantagraphics' Eric Reynolds weighs in on the pre-sell controversy, and manages to see both sides. Ultimately, however, the benefits far outweigh the costs.
The Direct...
Breaking: Boys read comics
Valerie finds a demographic survey from a publicly-traded company:
The portrait that it painted of the average mainstream comic book reader is as follows:
Male, 20-25,...
People talk of this and that
§ The secret origin of Top Shelf's Brett Warnock:
Very broad, very general. Design courses, fundamental courses, plus just me getting stoned and drawing...
Dumbest thing we’ve read all week
NYC blogging circles have been abuzz for months with all the upheavals and woes at Gawker, but honestly, this lame ass post called Jonatham...
Brendan McCarthy’s ideas for Batman
At his BLOG. Apparently Dan Didio liked this idea, but Paul Levitz wouldn't go for it.
More on the DaHeidi Code
Okay I can't resist posting another one of my old comics cycle sheets; this one two sided and from 1984.
This is interesting for several...
That is all
NP: Ultra from the album "Nihil" by K.M.F.D.M.
By the way, Brute, aka Aidan Hughes, has a blog believe it or not.
On his blog,...
Heath Ledger found dead
Oscar nominated actor Heath Ledger, who plays the Joker in this summer's THE DARK KNIGHT was found dead in his Soho apartment this afternoon,...
Noah Berlatsky’s GAY UTOPIA
Frequent comics critic Noah Berlatsky has launched a site called The Gay Utopia a symposium of writing and comics about a theoretical bias and...
