Snyder takes on Bode
Director Zack Snyder just can't get enough comics book movies to direct!
his upcoming film of 300 is generating huge buzz, he's supposed to be next in line to direct WATCHMEN, and now...
Breaking: Dinosaurs had worms
Fossil evidence shows beloved ancient saurians had "little friends":
Gut contents from the fossil of a plant-eating dinosaur living 75 million years ago reveal what could be the first evidence of parasitic stomach worms, scientists...
Notable quotables
§ Michael Chabon is still all about the kids comics:
In the past, you sometimes weighed in and defended or promoted comic books and graphic novels as an art form. Do you think that's broken...
Brief linkage
§ George Khoury presents a long interview with Roger Stern.
§ Long ago retailer Brian Hibbs said that if ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN made it to issue 100 he would eat a bug. Proven wrong, he makes...
Linkage 10/9
§ This story from the New York Times on the diminishing appeal of animated films has been getting a lot of links, but it actually came out last week -- hurry up and read...
BLANKETS and FUN HOME on hot seat in MISSOURI
A Marshall, Missouri woman has requested that FUN HOME by Alison Bechdel and BLANKETS by Craig Thompson be removed from the library shelves, because she feels they are inappropriate, writes the Marshall-Democrat News. ...
Those were the days
Kevin Huizenga posts pictures from The Golden Encyclopedia, and we are stupefied with jealousy.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 9/28
• Utterly adorable t-shirt designs by Vera Brosgol
• Comic Book Resources launches new comics sales analysis chart. Frankly, anything that includes columns entitled "Delta" slings us back in time to a hellish world of...
Diamond to distribute HOUSE OF SUGAR
Some 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...
If cartoonists were celebrities
Bob 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...
Linkage 9/22
ITEM! 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!...