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TweetSome good news to start off the weekend. Hope Larson writes to say that Diamond will carry HOUSE OF SUGAR by Rebecca Kraatz after all. I just heard from Jim Kuhoric that Diamond has reversed its decision and will be distributing House of Sugar after all! This is majorly good news, and I’ll pass along [...]
Tweet Milk is an illustrator from Tucson, and we don’t know much more than that but her MySpace page is amazing.
Tweet [Click on all images for larger versions] By now most everyone who spends a lot of time readings blogs an message boards has seen this: reproductions of a letter from 1986 wherein legendary cartoonist Alex Toth critiques Steve Rude’s layouts for a JONNY QUEST story. The critique is not kind. “FAKE! …Too little thought [...]
TweetApparently, the late shipping CIVIL WAR #4 shipped this week, with many shocking revelations. (Hint: We’re going to need a bigger grave.) However, reaction in the blogosphere has been, well, contemptuous. Normally we take such things as momentary ventings, not life-changing moments of clarity: despite all the retailer and internet whining about CIVIL WAR, no [...]
TweetWill COMICS AS ART: WE TOLD YOU SO, the oral history of Fantagaraphics be published, in the wake of the Harlan Ellison lawsuit? We sure hope so, especially after reading this review in PRINT MAGAZINE: Compiled by comics historian Tom Spurgeon and related in anecdotal fashion, Comics as Art is an entertaining, engaging dialogue that [...]
TweetMcCloud was right! Micropayments! Sort of. DriveThruComics.com is a spin off of a very sucessful RPG downloading site that has begun to offer downloads of comics from Dabel Brothers Productions, Shi, About Comics, Arcana, Archaia, NBM, UDON, Heroic Publishing, and Kenzer and Company, with more on the way. ICv2 has an informative write-up. The business [...]
TweetBob Fingerman’s new book Recess Pieces is gory horror fest about kid zombies, but Bob admits he’s squeamish about violence, and was even grossed out by Monty Python as a kid. “I remember being pretty freaked out by the âgoreâ? in that Monty Python âSalad Daysâ? sketch (the one with all the â20s fops sitting [...]
TweetThe long awaited TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN opera opens tonight, and The Portland Tribune has a preview: They sing another ode to coffee, and thatâs it. âIn the comic there were three locales, but I cut them down to one so we could do this cheaply,â? Wheeler says cheerfully, as he lurks at the edge [...]
TweetITEM! Of all the pages that have linked to us, this is probably the coolest ITEM! New York Times covers Invisible Woman/Mr. Fantastic break-up. ITEM! Pia Guerra blogs the last year of Y THE LAST MAN. ITEM! Funky Winkerbean creator gives character cancer. ITEM! The Kryptonese Alphabet. {Link via Kottke.]
Tweet Too bad the sound is a bit wonky in this clip. Almost defeats the purpose. It’s the trailer for the Hollywood Reporter Key Art awards, given to movie trailers. (Trivia: In our own slender youth, we were once one of the awards girls at this ceremony, you know, helping befuddled winners off stage at [...]
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