A podcast with Alison Bechdel
The Bat Segundo show talks to the toast of the GN world on her astonishing success with FUN HOME:
The meaning of âtragicomic,â? Nabokov, Charles Addams, on how the funeral home component of Fun Home...
The Too Much Coffee Man Opera
When one mentally totes up a list of comics characters who could be turned into an opera, Shannon Wheeler's Too Much Coffee Man probably isn't one of the first one begging for an aria....
Licensable Bear™ PSAs
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Licensable Bear™, Net Gertler's eminently appealing marketing opportunity, is now appearing in an animated PSA standing up for one of our most forgotten minorities.
Comic Book Movies gains Japanese partner
We can't exactly figure out who's funding what here, but it seems that producer (BATMAN BEGINS) Michael Uslan's Comics Book Movies entertainment co has a new strong Japanese partner in Itochu Corp. which is...
VENTURE BROS. news
Jackson Publick has a long update on all things Venture along with the news that Season 3 looks like a go -- no duh.
We've recently turned in "Guess Who's Coming to State Dinner?" and...
TO DO: TODAY 9/8 McCloud at Midtown
Scott McCloud kicks off the MAKING COMICS express for real today at Midtown Comics at Times Sq. Stop by so you can say you were part of the happening!
In 1993 when Scott McCloud...
Events: TELLING TALES, McCloud at SVA
When we say we've been busy we are almost too busy to even post a few pictures. Wednesday, we went to the opening of TELLING TALES at the Adam Baumgold Gallery, and it's an...
Warners not happy with Reeves biopic
A potentially interesting comic-book themed film is opening this weekend, HOLLYWOODLAND, starring Ben Affleck, Adrian Brody and the ever radiant Diane Lane in a film covering the still-mysterious death of actor George Reeves, who...
FF toon ratings strong
The FANTASTIC FOUR cartoon debuted over the weekend on the Cartoon Network, and either due to the holiday weekend launch or our own holiday, it seemed to get a somewhat modest amount of fanfare....
Charles Vess blogs
It's true! He kicks off with a set report from the STARDUST movie:
None of the designs look quite like my original drawings but are never the less very satisfying in their own right. Much...
Oddbooksonline
Plug time: Cartoonist, animation writer, Beat pal and all around cool lady Anne Bernstein has a site called oddbooksonline where she sells many mysterious tomes, including rare children's books, cookbooks and biographies of folks...
The 9/11 Report is a bestseller
The Great Blossoming of the Graphic Novel hit another benchmark this week as The 9/11 Report: A Greaphic Adaptation hit both the NY Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists PW Comics week reported:
The 9/11...
