Must link of the day: FIELD GUIDE TO SAN DIEGO
Skribbl at Story Boredom presents a lovely field guide to the types you'll see at Comic-con, with their habits noted.
Look out for this one near any bathroom entrance or waste recepticle. Instead of...
They’re Taking The Hobbits to Isengard
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFGL2GlfKxg&w=425&h=350]
This could very well be the only thing keeping us sane, although that's a relative term.
SDCC: A.C.T.O.R. activities (A8)
George Perez, John Romita, Bill Willingham, Gene Ha and...SOFTBALL! It's all at A.C.T.O.R> the charity devoted to helping creators in need.
Get set for an unbelievably good time at the A.C.T.O.R. Comic Fund booth...
SDCC: Stuart Moore
Just a quick FYI re Comicon San Diego. Stuart Moore will be signing and showing advance copies of FIRESTORM: THE NUCLEAR MAN and JSA CLASSIFIED (DC Comics), STARGATE ATLANTIS (Avatar), PARA (Penny-Farthing Press), and...
SDCC: Attaboy (#4735)
We're not exactly sure what this is but it looks awfully cool and it comes with a Viewmaster:
Come pick up a copy of the new release complete with Viewmaster reel, buy a viewer, and...
Tatsumi on Spillane
Oddly enough, an LA Times profile of manga pioneer Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Adrian Tomine touches on the late Mickey Spillane's wide-ranging influence:
Tatsumi's work, appropriately, was shaped less by other Japanese comics than by local...
RIP: Mickey Spillane
CNN is reporting that writer Mickey Spillane has died at age 88 after a long illness. Spillane's hardboiled pulp novels, including I, The Jury sold millions of copies and influenced a generation of writers,...
Kevin Smith on girl nerds
And speaking of Smithhere's what he had to say about Rosario Dawson:
Q: Rosario is kind of a sci-fi nerd, right?
KS: It’s cool because a lot of people don’t know that. People said she’s so...
Must reading: Kevin Smith
If nerd-as-underdog culture has an icon, it's probably director Kevin Smith, a common man made good at the pinnacle of Hollywood, aka sleeing over at Skywalker Ranch, even while remaining approachable and utterly knowable....
History of Filipino comics video
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HbFeJl1OUE&w=425&h=350]
A surprisingly touching tribute to 120 years of cartoonists in the Philippines. Did they all go to the same eyeglass shop or what?
Comics lexicon for a new generation
Continuing its team coverage of SDCC, the San Diego Union-Tribune offers and the most useful and yet arbitrary guide to comics term ever. Sample entries:
Costumed athlete: An adventurer in sartorial splendor who has no...
SDCC: The BLVD ( #1701 )
The BLVD art collective (John Paul Leon, Sean Chen, Trevor Goring, Tommy Lee Edwards, and Bernard Chang) will be releasing the SECOND BLVD sketchbook at this year's show, along with, we hope, their beautiful...
