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In case you were watching The Big Bang Theory Llast night (Spoiler: we weren't) you may have seen the gnag arguing over a sexist poster in the comics shop they frequent. And you may have guessed that it was the work of Amanda Conner (and colorist Paul Mounts.) The poster was created to show all the sexist cliches you can have in one unfriendly comics shop and Amanda hit them all...but let's face it, it's still a lovely piece.


The great exclusive wars of the Aughts were ferocious and ultimately, flawed. So it's relatively rare these days to see a new exclusive. In this case it's not new, but rather Jason Aaron resigning...



I'm not sure this has anything to actually do with Halloween, but a new issue of Jordan Crane's Uptight is coming out and he describes it as:
 4 stories in which awful and terrible...

Reid Fleming and David Boswell are two of the great legendary figures of the 80s black and white comics boom – Canadian born cartoonist Boswell created an enduring character in the irascible delivery man Reid Fleming whose bellicose shouts — "I thought I told you to shut up!" — and hostile approach to dairy deposits made him an angry everyman hero. The character became incredibly popular during its '80s run, and a big studio movie was contemplated, with Boswell writing the script, until the project reached a film exec who didn't get the unique, absurd humor of the comic. The rest, as they say, is a cartoonist's life.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGbxmsDFVnE&w=560&h=315] John Williams FTW! Surrounded by a football game so horrid that Eli Manning must have wished he could just be put into carbon freeze, the new trailer for The Force Awakens was released...

Captain UN-America? Some think so. Also: go see Harvey Kurtzman and don't touch your cel phone because it's dirty. Plus Brian K Vaughan reveals something awesome. And is manga really a cat?

We're entering a period of disruption, if we're not already well into it. Is it something in the air, an upcoming election, the increasing consolidation of big media/big tech, millennials taking over? Probably all of that. And how does that affect comics? Of late the "slow patch" hit by direct market periodicals due to faltering by the Big Two seems to have cast all of this into discussion. Kate Leth, a creator and also a former comics shop employee, has a much linked to post about the direct market process which talks about how pre-ordering is key in what she calls a "system [that] is so deeply twisted":

It seems that Chris Ware, the genius behind Building Stories and other structural comics masterpieces, and Hajime Isayama, the Attack on Titan creator we wrote about a few posts ago, share some of the...

Just in time for the spookiest season, here's We Choose Our Friends Alone" : a short horror comics about a little girl who goes somewhere she shouldn't written by Chris Jones and drawn by...

§ The BBC has a short video interview with Attack on Titan creator Hajime Isayama, which I can't embed because BBC. Isayama talks about his struggles to get AoT published, and the rejection he faced, and confesses "My self esteem was so low when my editor showed interest I thought what's wrong with this guy." He says he thought he would end up working in a manga cafe because his art was considered so bad. This is the typical low self esteem expressed by cartoonists, so there is really no difference between manga and US comics. But who is laughing now, with AoT having sold some 52 million copies.

So many Halloween comics are coming out this season. Here's one that's available as part of Halloween Comic Fest: BIRTH OF KITARO by Shigeru Mizuki, the origin story for Mizuki's most popular character. Kitaro...

A lot of newish comics companies have launched of late—Double Take, Aftershock, Z2—and I'm guessing they would all like to have films made from their comics. Well, Double Take, the branch of gaming company...