Obits: Shirley Walker, Chris Hayward
Various sources report that composer Shirley Walker has died at age 61. Walker was best known as Danny Elfman's orchestrator for many scores,...
More on Dave Cockrum
We gave not nearly enough coverage to the passing of Dave Cockrum while we were away, including posting a cover drawn by Gil Kane...
R.I.P. Dave Cockrum
Dave Cockrum, legendary artist and co-creator of such characters as Storm, Nightcrawler, the Starjammers and many more, died on Saturday of complications from diabetes....
Eddie Campbell blogs
Bookmark Eddie Campbell's new blog post haste. First off, he explains why FROM HELL was out of print for a year:
This is just one...
Doc Hammer’s paintings
While we're still pining away for THE VENTURE BROS. here at SBM, or wherever in the world we are now, we are finding som...
When monsters get tummy trouble
http://www.youtube.com/v/gyijWbML82s
Is it just me or is the vision of a giant woman in a toga grabbing her ass for fear she has diarrhea---while standing...
It’s over: New Yorker succumbs to variant covers
And Chris Ware is the culprit!:
The next cartoon issue of The New Yorker, dated Nov. 27 and on newsstands next week, will feature four...
A couple more pictures from the National
The National, a comics show here in NYC, was like it always was: a very very old school show that includes low ceilings and...
Yoe is looking for dirty cartoons!
We also ran into Craig Yoe at the National, and he showed us a mockup of his upcoming book, Clean Cartoonists's Dirty Drawings, ...
Women at the Jewish Museum
Elayne has an excellent write up of last week's panel on women in comics at the Jewish Museum:
Other topics touched on in the too-brief...
Levitz on Transmedia
We told you about that MIT Convergence Culture Consortium thing that took place over the weekend, and if you really want to delve in...
