Peter Kuper in Oaxaca — UPDATED
UPDATE, Monday 10/30: Peter Kuper sent out the following update today:
Sad to say it seems to be getting worse as of this morning but...
Comics defenders assemble
There is he. Tony Long. The enemy. The Wired staffer's modest proposal that AMERICAN BORN CHINESE wasn't good enough for a National Book Award...
Old timer returns to comics
As an 18-year-old in 1942, Allen Bellman joined Timely studio as an artist. Now, 64 years later, he'll be a guest at the...
Halloween update
It's the time of year to dress up and show your inner self, and we saw plenty of inner selves this weekend, including a...
Margaret Atwood, cartoonist
Margaret Atwood is one of Canada's greatest living writers. The multiple-award winning novelist, essayist and poet is the author of such books as THE...
Dick Briefer’s FRANKENSTEIN
Recently, Tom Spurgeon pointed to the existence of a recent collection of Dick Briefer's Frankenstein comics. We confess to owning no Briefer comics ourselves,...
To arms! Wired disses comics!
Tony Long, copy chief at WIRED, comes right out and says it: comics aren't good enough to get nominated for the National Book Award:
Gene...
Maid in cafe molested
"Maid cafes" have become a popular fad in the otaku district known as the Akihabara in Tokyo. Here, pretty young women dressed in frilly...
Underpants banned at school
Best headline ever, right? Well, it turns out that it refers to a high school where girls dressed as CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS were banned...
