Goodwin, Lieber get the Finger Award
The winners of this year's Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing have been announced, and worthy ones they are: Archie Goodwin and Larry Lieber. . The award is presented each year to...
And you can look it up…
Thanks to all who sent me the link for the word "Fanboy" entering the Merriam-Webster dictionary along with other useful terms like "edamame" and "webinar". The word is cited all the way back to...
Oh, Mark Millar!
What with WANTED's very strong debut, original scribe Mark Millar is having his day in the sun, and you know what? He's earned it. A few days ago, the UK Evening Times profiled him:
JET...
Vaughan at Midtown this Thursday
Brian K. Vaughan, who is now a "beloved comics figure", makes an incredibly rare signing appearance this Thursday at Midtown Comics:
Midtown Comics in New York City will host a comic book signing event with...
Chuck Dixon and the DCU — UPDATED
UPDATE: Well well well. The Diamond figures for the month are out, and Secret Invasion #2 came in at #1 with Final Crisis #1 coming in at #2. We can't imagine anyone at DC...
Chuck Dixon out at DC
Or so says this post at the Dixonverse Message Board:
I am no longer employed by DC Comics in any capacity.
Dixon was currently writing Batman and the Outsiders and Robin.
UPDATE: Kevin Melrose reminds us that...
Young John Stanley
The D&Q blog runs this picture of cartoon master John Stanley when he was a teenager. It's always refreshing to see a great artist captured in the full bloom of youth; our ideas of...
YOU’LL ALL BE SORRY in August
About Comics has just announced a collection of Gail Simone's HIGHlarious "You'll All Be Sorry" columns, originally published on Comic Book Resources. The cover is by Scott Shaw! (left):
The entire comics community will rue...
Steve Gerber Links
#1. Grady Hendrix talks about Gerber changed comics :
But Gerber himself was trapped in a vulturelike publishing industry. A dispute with Marvel over payment terms for the artist on the Howard the...
Trapped in a world he never made
The "tweener" generation of comics readers and creators -- of which I'm one -- were lucky enough to come of age in an era of comics struggling to break out of a chrysalis. Nurtured...
Paper choice kills Finnish edition of HP VII
From the New York Times:
J. K. Rowling blocked the Finnish publication of her latest Harry Potter novel on paper from Finland because it lacked the ecologically friendly certification she favors, Agence France-Presse reported. Her...
