New Black Lightning Archive: DC, Tony Isabella Reconcile
"Dogs and cats, living together!" - that's what immediately popped into my mind yesterday when I read Tony Isabella praising DC on Facebook for how it was treating him in regard to Black Lightning.I've...
The weirdest thing about that Jill Lepore piece on A-Force
I kind of missed the tidal ebb and flow over Jill Lepore's analysis of A-Force in the New Yorker while I was at TCAF. I saw it in my feed and figured it would ignite some debate but I was misled by the title on the piece
Challenged Books update: Persepolis, Saga, Drama and Palomar
It's National Library week, and it's time for the annual list of most challenged books. Graphic novels are making the list pretty frequently, and this year, three made the top ten: Persepolis, Saga and...
Rio Rancho school library review committee rules to keep Palomar on the shelves
Gilbert Hernandez's Palomar—a masterpiece of small town life, longing and the search for love—survived a challenge and will remain on the shelves at the school library in Rio Rancho, NM Betsy Gomez reports for the CBLDF.
Rio Rancho mom “incredibly disturbed” by finding “Palomar” in school library
Sadly I can't embed the local news scare quotes story here but the transcript is almost as good. A mother in Rio Rancho, NM found her son had checked out Gilbert Hernandez' PALOMAR from the school library, and then things got dangerous!
Thanks, Obamacomics!
A graphic novel has become Exhibit A in the latest Obamacare controversy.
Clear, simple, understandable, useful - those are just a few of the words that recurred in reviews of Health Care Reform: What It...
Today’s Inside Edition to report on Comic-Con harassment
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1
Oh my! I've been waiting for the story of cosplay harassment at cons to get more TMZed. According to the above teaser, tonights' Inside Edition, which is syndicated nationally, is going to do a...
To do tonight, San Diego: Scott McCloud and Larry Marder on Banned Books Week
It's Banned Books Week, a n annual event mostly held in libraries which spotlights attempts to remove books. This year's theme is graphic novels, as discussed in this article from PW by Rich Shivener....
SDCC ’14: Defending the “Superfan” to the NY Times
As just reported, the NY Times delivered a pretty strong diss to the economics of Comic-Con, and I'm sure con vets and observers will be responding very soon, as Marvel's CB Cebulski already did:
@Comixace...
Banned Books Week spotlights Comics this year
Every year the Banned Books Week National Committee announces a theme, and for 2014 its comics and graphic novels. The announcement comes in the wake of Bone being named as one of the top...
“But where are the conservative mangas and graphic novels?”
A graphic novel is dropping this week called The Forgotten Man Graphic Edition: A New History of the Great Depression . It's a 320 page history of The Great Depression, adapted from Amity Shlaes...
When a con is…crap
A few days back I ran a rundown of one particularly crowded weekend for comic cons, among them one called SuperFan ComicCon in Toronto, which I had never heard of, and which had...well, a...
