Mark Waid has reconstructed his controversial Harvey night speech and made what he was getting at much clearer: “Yes, Professor Waid, you hippie freak, sharing is all well and good, but how does that pay my bills?”
Mark Waid: What he meant to say about the digital reality
09/01/2010 by 44 Comments
Pekar legacy under dispute
09/01/2010 by 6 Comments
Tweet When Harvey Pekar died on July 12th, he was revealed in death to be a figure more influential and revered than he would ever have dared hope in life. He left a literary legacy as well as a wealth of projects in the pipeline. And he also left some awkwardness, as Dave Itzkoff in [...]
Download this: The Imp by Daniel Raeburn
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Daniel Raeburn has made the entire four-issue run of his 1997-2002 fanzine The Imp available for PDF download. Single topic issues on Dan Clowes, Jack Chick, Chris Ware and Mexican historietas generally defined the direction of all future scholarship on such topics and this is one of the finest and most influential bits of comics scholarship/criticism of the last 20 years. So go download for your iPad or whatever.
Only you can make Jim Woodring’s giant steel pen dreams come true!
09/01/2010 by 10 Comments
The great fantasist/cartoonist Jim Woodring has only raised 49 percent of the $4500 he needs to construct a Giant Steel Dip Pen and Penholder which he will use to demonstrate art, cure cancer, open a portal to Vhoori, save Social Security and make kittens fly out of rainbows.
In this dimension, Woodring’s plans for the giant pen are equally noble:
Briefs & Boxers! 09/01/10
In his “Emanata” column at Techland, Douglas Wolk looks at the promotional efforts for an upcoming Marvel story by Jonathan Hickman, singling out Fantastic Four as a series that particularly finds itself in the shadow of its creators: