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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
History of Filipino comics video
http://www.youtube.com/v/9HbFeJl1OUE
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...
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...
SDCC: Vanguard (#1706)
Appearances by the legendary Steranko, Basil Gogos John Romita Sr. and more highlight the Vanguard schedule, along with the premiere of 3 new calendars....
Moore, Lee, Braque, Picasso
Marcela Valdes has a good piece in WaPo's Book Notes section nicely tying together LOST GIRLS and the Gordon Lee case:
Alan Moore better be...
