Night of the FEMINAZIS!! Pt 1
I keep hoping to get a big enough caffeine buzz going to write about the current gender war raging in the comics petri-dish blogosphere, but it just isn't working. Maybe it's time to switch...
FCBD offerings at Salon
Douglas Wolk at Salon offers his take on today's Free Comic Book day Offerings. You need only watch a short ad to read the entire thing.
Five years ago, the weekend that the...
Comics Bestsellers: by the numbers
There's been a lot of talk lately about comics on various bestsellers lists, and of course, comics have their OWN bestseller list at Publishers Weekly. While manga has been quite rightly noted for its...
Personally, we’ve always been a Hanley’s girl
But George Gene Gustines' Free Comic Book Day Preview in the New York Times (!) gives a reason to check out Midtown for some:
Chuck McKinney, 41, a voice-over actor and Web cartoonist, loves...
Von Allan’s view from the trenches
Over at Von and Moggy's journal, cartoonist Von Allan takes a clinical look the metrics of attending a small press show like APE:
What do we know, then? Well, we know that APE ’07 had...
Media revolution
Speaking of magazine and blogs and whatnot, everyone has linked to this piece n cartoonist Daryl Cagle's weblog wher ehe lays out the challenges facing old media (print, newwspapers) very succinctly, Short version: there...
Catch-up: ComicsPRO
Somethiong we're sure to read: brian Hibbs account of the first ComicsPRO meeting for retailersheld recently in scenic Las Vegas:
Since we needed to have elections, we reasoned, maybe it would be better to do...
Format discussion continues
Will the future belong to the pamphlet peepers or the book buyers? The debate continues at Matt Maxwell's blog:
So, just jump in and do pamphlets and not worry about the trade, since it's all...
Is the pamphlet the future of comics?
The native are restless. Or at least the artists are. In our previous item we mentioned Bryan Talbot and ALICE IN SUNDERLAND -- it took him five years to finish it, and that's a...
And now a word from Jim Starlin
You may recall a few weeks ago when people were talking about what got them into comics, and it turned out that in the 90s, INFINITY GAUNTLET, an "event" mini-series by Jim Starlin, was...
Fight! Dirk vs Heidi, Round two
A deadline-pressured Dirk takes up his entire post today with the title "Drama Queen Bickering" to respond to my comments yesterday. While my comments are assigned such classic TCJ buzzwords as "gobbledegook", a "screed",...
Civilians in comics shops
MacGuffin looks at the products that are brining civilians into comics shops at an all time record pace: Buffy Season 8, Stephen King's The Gunslinger, and Captain America #25:
Over the long term, I suspect...
