Inside the Comics Loving New York Times
Marvel sent out a press release yesterday trumpeting the fact that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa had been mentioned in the Arts, Briefly section of the New...
WINTERVIEW #1 is up
Winter McCloud's interview with Raina Telegemeier and Dave Roman is up at CBR. Winter is 11 and this is, yes, adorable...but also a good...
Bertozzi’s The Voyage of the James Caird
Over at Activate Nick Bertozzi is recounting a tale of Ernest Shackleton, the English explorer who was trapped in the Antarctic for over a...
Don’t eat the brown Tic Tacs
Steve Bunche alerts us to one of the most alarming Barbies ever: Poopin' Pup Barbie. This Barbie comes with a lovable Lab named Tanner...
Dash Shaw’s new website
It's up here.
He also has a new book coming out: The Mother's Mouth
Coffee opera boffo in Portland
An excited Shannon Wheeler writes to tell us that the world premiere of the Too Much Coffee Man opera was a big success --...
Sook-Yin Lee rides the ShortBus
The New York times has a looong story about John Cameron Mitchell's new movie Shortbus. Mitchell is best known as the guy behind...
Diamond to distribute HOUSE OF SUGAR
Some good news to start off the weekend. Hope Larson writes to say that Diamond will carry HOUSE OF SUGAR by Rebecca Kraatz after...
FIGHT! Toth vs Rude — now with Rude response
By now most everyone who spends a lot of time readings blogs an message boards has seen this: reproductions of a letter from 1986...
If cartoonists were celebrities
Bob Fingerman's new book Recess Pieces is gory horror fest about kid zombies, but Bob admits he's squeamish about violence, and was even grossed...












