Baker family hosts autism benefit with Baseball
Join Kyle and Co. at a day at Shea for a very good cause:
Join Kyle Baker and family for A DAY TO BELIEVE: AUTISM AWARENESS DAY at Shea Stadium, New York Mets vs Atlanta...
Resting up
The time change has us knackered, so we're restricting ourselves to some PR posting today. But for a little bonus, here is a list of the top 20 search terms that bring people to...
DC’s Arnold Drake obit
Writer Arnold Drake, a mainstay at DC Comics during the 60s and 70s and best known as the creator of THE DOOM PATROL and DEADMAN, died Monday at the age of 83 of complications...
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More on Arnold Drake
As reported yesterday, writer Arnold Drake passed away yesterday of complications from pneumonia and septic shock. He was 83.
Drake was a busy writer at DC in the 50s and 60s, creating THE DOOM...
Sponge Bob Plagiarism Pants?
A Calfornia cartoonist is suing Sponge Bob creator Stephen Hillemberger and Nickelodeon claiming the underwater toon icon was a rip-off of his own "Bob Spongee":
Cartoonist Troy Walker created a comic strip in...
Corrections
More people whose intelligence I trust wrote to tell me yesterday's post on 300 was whackadoo than perhaps any I have written, so I have taken the move to emend it for the record....
Arnold Drake 1924-2007
Ken Gale is reporting that writer Arnold Drake passed away today from pneumonia and septic shock. Drake is best known for his work on DEADMAN, DOOM PATROL and X-MEN and his early graphic novel...
2007 Shuster Award nominees
Honoring the best in Canadian comics, this year's Shuster Awards have just been announced:
Canada's first national award recognizing outstanding achievements by Canadian creators in the creation and publication of comic books and graphic novels...
Isotope Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics noms closes this week
James Sime reminds us that the deadline looms for this prestigious mini comics award: Friday is the last day.
Hand stapled, folded, and xeroxed shoestring art pieces of pure sequential art love have been pouring...
News flash! “Comic Books Aren’t Just For Kids Anymore!!!”
Oh we can't resist! The Chicago CBS outlet offers a video package on the comics!
It's even left to Devil's Due's Josh Blaylock to utter the classic line:
“Comics is not just a genre of guys...
Interesting rumor
We've received a few whispers of late that since Kurt Hassler left his position as graphic novel buyer at Borders, his replacement is not quite as manga crazy as Hassler was, and a few...
