Comics in the news!
§ CBR wraps up the McCloud 50 State Tour in an excellent piece:
The family then singled out a few places on their trip where they had particularly good experiences. “I really loved Alaska,” Scott...
Howl festival this week in NYC
Those New Yorker 'tooner types not setting off to the Baltimore Comicon, this weekend shoulod check out the Howl festival taking place September 5-9. The Carl Solomon Book Expo featuring comics, GNs, lit...
3 Image Books that look rather cool
Newsarama previews three September books we like the looks of: REPO #4, MADAMAN ATOMIC #4, GUTSVILLE #2:
Speaking of GUTSVILLE, writer Simon Spurrier writer to tell us that he's joined the "Brit comics guy who...
LUCHADORES lead Humanoids film slate
Well, only yesterday we were editing a story on LUCHA LIBRE, a drop-dead gorgeous book in the Euro style, first published in France by Humanoids, but now coming out from Image. And now it...
Having our say
We've been listening to Venetian Snares lately to see if we like them.
We don't.
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Mark Evanier went through 24 hours without electrical power recently and experienced our worst...
Adventure on!
Over on his blog, Jeff Smith recently announced some impressive sales figures for Scholastic's BONE reprints:
I received some astonishing sales figures from Scholastic - - the paperback edition of BONE 6: Old Man’s Cave,...
Mignola and Golden on BALTIMORE
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BALTIMORE: or The Steadfast Tin Soldier and the Vampire is a new illustrated novel by Mike Mignola and Christopher Golden. Above is a video interview with the duo, below a bit of PR:
With...
As we head into the long weekend
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...what better to kick it off than the Butt-biting Bug song that has transfixed the internets?
Edward Gorey’s THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES
Upon discovering that Edward Gorey was a Star Trek fanatic, Shaenon Garrity imagines what might have been.
Aside: You realize this is just a blog post, right and not in some satirical magazine where it...
WEHT Alex DeCampi?
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Controversial comics writer Alex DeCampi has been having quite a bit of success in the video field of late. Her video for "Those Rules" by The Schema a became the #1 music video...
VOTE FOR DAME DARCY
Is there ANYONE alive who does not want to see these two get together? Vote Dame Darcy for Flavor of Love! It is the law.
