Women of comics profiled
The Herald-Dispatch of Huntingwon, WV, looks at SVA grad Teylor Smirl whose spunk and can-do attitude have led her all the way to an...
Douglas Wolk two-fer
Our esteemed comics journo compatriot Douglas Wolk has two new pieces up:
Over at Salon he interviews cartoonist Berke Beathed, whose "Opus" just started running...
Studio briefing: Thundercats, Shannara, Gaines to screen
The trades are announcing severl movie deals that our audience may find of interest:
§ First, Warner's is making a THUNDERCATS movie:
Studio has optioned a...
Animal fight!
We're spending a little time chilling by the pool*, and sifting through all the pr that's come through over the last week or so....
Fox, Gladir to Receive Third Annual Bill Finger Award
Press release:
Gardner Fox and George Gladir have been selected to receive the 2007 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. The choice...
Anime bigger than sex?
Compete looks at what people are searching for in Wikipedia, and the results may surprise you:
Anime (26%)
There is a tremendous amount of interest...
Will this Heroes for Hire thing never end?
Speaking of Newsarama, in last week's Joe Fridays, there's yet more about the Heroes for Hentai cover:
NRAMA: Ahem…So to quickly follow-up on last week’s...
Tony Millionaire vs Christopher Hitchens
From the Village Voice, see it larger in the link.
UPDATE, but...see also TODD SCHORR. (Thanks to Beat Spy "Kalamazoo" for the link.)
UPDATE UPDATE: MIllionaire...
The Dave Cockrum Memorial
Yesterday DC Comics was the host for a memorial tribute to artist Dave Cockrum. We dearly wanted to attend, since Cockrum's art had a...
Here is your new fetish
Throttle, the blog devoted to comics images of people being, well, throttled.
IFL update
A quick catchup on the IFL, the MMA league co-owned by Wizard's Gareb Shamus. Although it has been showing regularly on TV, it has...
