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§ THOUGHT BALLOONISTS is a new blog of comics criticism by by Charles Hatfield and Craig Fischer. In their inaugural post they analyze just what makes Shaun Tan's THE ARRIVAL so great. One...

Jeff Lester and Ian Brill rap about what it takes to read comics in the "No Fun" era: IB: Let me ask you, do you feel the effect of this climate of sensationalism affecting what...

The Spurge--or at least his website--is up and at 'em again! His holiday interview series continues today with Eric Reynolds, publicity maven and so much more at Fantagraphics. (And Tom is right; Eric...

Yet more year end lists: § We (that means me) compiiled the Second Annual PW Critics poll, which was topped by Exit Wounds and Scott Pilgrim IV. § Kai Ming's Top 10 Manga of the year...

Tom Spurgeon reports on his continuing website outtage over at the TCJ board: Since we've been unable to a) get the site back, or b) have any polite question answered as to what the...

Gawker Media, the blogging empire behind Gawker, Gizmodo and Defamer, has just launched a new "science fiction" blog called io9, which will be covering comics, presumably through contributor Graeme McMillan. We'd been hearing rumors...

Indefatigable Cheryl Lynn has launchedTorchbearers, am LJ blog given over to...well, we'll take the liberty of quoting Cheryl's introductory post in its entirety: Welcome to Torchbearers! This community is in some ways an extension of...

In a column that is sure to send his already high popularity soaring, Rall looks at and rejects the New York Times Magazine's comics pages, declaring Chris Ware's "Building Stories" Clowes' "Mr. Wonderful"...

We thought Tom was just taking some well deserved time off, but it turns out Comics Reporter has suffered a big outtage, and his exemplary interview series has been interrupted: This really screws up the...

While Dirk has rolled up his welcome mat, and The Beat has been loafing, at least a couple of bloggers have been WORKING. Brian Heater at Daily Cross Hatch polls a wide-ranging list of...

PR: The HealthCentral Network, Inc. (www.HealthCentral.com) today announced that cancer survivor and fashionista cartoonist Marisa Acocella Marchetto (The New Yorker, Glamour) has joined MyBreastCancerNetwork.com as an expert. Author of the acclaimed graphic novel Cancer Vixen,...

Tim Hensley, Jonathan Bennett, Todd Hignite, Alvin Buenaventura and Ken Parille have united for a new blog called simply Blog Flume. Thus far they are blogging up a storm! Topics covered: Bennett on the...