Canadian literary awards still don’t like pictures
New scandal: The SKIM snub.
The ruckus started last week when Chester Brown and Seth wrote an open letter to the Canadian Governor General Literary Awards committee. The letter, also signed by such luminaries as...
Hitting too close to home
Did this happen to anyone else? We had three different people we know send us a link to yesterday's CUL DE SAC by Richard Thompson.
Also, you should get the first CUL DE SAC...
What’s threatening us now
While some think that the Potty Mouth Batman variant may be the trigger to a new comics witch hunt, it's more likely that THIS kind of thing will be more alarming if someone...
To boycott or not to boycott?
The Hyatt Boycott Controversy has raged for a bit now, with Chris Butcher saying yes here and Chris Williams saying no here.
Tom Spurgeon said the argument was spinach and to hell with it:
As...
DC: BATMAN YEAR 100 isn’t one of the best comics of the year
Every once in a while we feel a little bad for picking on DC around here, then we read something like this and we have to put on one of those ruffled collar things...
Comics fans still viewed with suspicion?
If you do go to the link we just listed for the Metropolitan Museum of Art's day of superhero fashion, you will see a rather telling indication of what the Met REALLY thinks of...
Even More on Wertham
Jeet Heer examines both side of the Wertham legacy in a piece in Slate.
So, who is right, Hajdu or Beaty? Did Wertham have a point? Beaty's revisionism is valuable in forcing us to...
Wertham: Friend or foe?
While Fredric Wertham is the archetypal real-life bogeyman of comics, his legacy is not all black and white. Bart Beatty, author of Frederic Wertham and the Critique of Mass Culture and Jeet Heer debate...
But some must be persuaded
This post by Molly Flatt in the Guardian has been linked to by several bloggers, starting with Tom. Flatt is definitely of the "Think! Feel! Comics are a great medium!" school, but the...
When comics were bad
Book Forum runs an excerpt from David Hajdu's upcoming The Ten Cent Plague, a history of the persecution of comics books in the '50s as the source of all juvenile delinquency.
The progressing crusade...
Profiling with DMZ
This link from the blog of Scott King, Executive Editor of Th3rd World Studios, has been getting some play. It seems King had a run in with the TSA after doing some things you...
Echoes of Guilford
The Eightball #22 case may have faded into the sunset, but commentators just can't stop mining it. Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow takes a look back, with his own pointed commentary.
Also, Joanne Jacobs at Brittanica.com...
