Where is everyone?
Where's the blogosphere? What happened to everyone? Is it just the warm weather? We know *we* have problems, but what's everyone else story.
Maybe it's time for a poll:
What are the best message boards...
David Lapham’s dangerous life
David Lapham (STRAY BULLETS, YOUNG LIARS) joins the ranks of the bloggerati:One of the main reasons I decided to start a blog was to refute some of the rumors swirling around certain circles about...
Around the Web
§ Hope Larson has a new website up for her more adult art: Personal Ho. (left)
§ We totally forgot that the Pittsburgh Comicon was held this weekend, but it is now apparently dubbed...
Around the blogosphere
Big BIG report over at The Comics Reporter as Bart Beaty lays smack down on David Hajdu's THE TEN CENT PLAGUE:
I read The Ten-Cent Plague with great avidity. Hajdu is a compelling...
Word Balloons blog debuts
Word Balloons is a new blog which aims to be the daily morning read for kids comics. Tt's edited by Brigid Alverson, so that's a good start. She's aided by Katherine Dacey, Lori Henderson,...
Quick links
§ Via the Scienteers: Zuda -- ouchie.
Instead of forcing us to choke down the overly complex controls and key-strokes in order to get the comic to even be readable in the first place, why...
New review crews: Shuffleboil, Mindless Ones
Two newish review sites offering solid crticisms: Occasional comics writer John Mitchell, who works with wife Jana, has some lengthy reviews at Shuffleboil such as this one, on INCOGNEGRO:
Though not sold as part of...
Blog report: Mouly, etc.
Jeet Heer explains why Francoise Mouly is Underappreciated and Essential. We agree. Strongly.
Is there anyone in the cartooning world who is more underrated than Francoise Mouly? She has strong claims to be the...
Columns: Gender, stores, soaps
§ Kristy Valenti has the second part of her Gender and Reading Habits examination up, this time the girls are scrutinized, although more is known of their reading habits in general than comics reading...
Our vanishing internets
That last post about Ric Flair illustrated something we've been noticing for a long time: how the disappearance of the "fan page" is resulting in increasing constriction of some kinds of information easily available...
Levitz vs Jakala
Hey it's Paul Fridays! as DC head honcho Paul Levitz begins blogging at Blogorama.
Another interesting phenomenon is the difference in concentration between three types of graphic novels; manga, the strongest category in bookstores, seems...
MySpace Comic Books relaunches
MySpace's comic book page has just been revamped, with a new look and new mottos, such as the one at left, and a new commitment to daily updates and previews. Most of MySpace's comics...
