This week’s award for best weird blog site — the new Bad Spock Drawings, which invites bad drawings of the popular Star Trek character from the general public (here are their guidelines).
In keeping with Leonard Nimoy’s current interests, I’m looking forward to seeing an appropriately bad Spock done up as a fat nude (NSFW) Jewish woman (also pretty much NSFW).
With the bustle of the holiday season and the craziness that inevitably accompanies the end of the year, it wasn’t until this week that I was able to get to the final installment of Locke & Key. Joe Hill has been penning this amazing comic since 2008, but I didn’t start reading until 2012, so…
As is well-known, the Walt Disney Company purchased Marvel Comics a little over two years ago. Marvel joined the Muppets, Pixar, ABC and ESPN as tentacles of that great evil media empire that has done so much to homogenize the American culture. After all the jokes died down, some people wondered why the Mouse wanted…
We haven’t had a good, depressing, "the economy sucks and it’s even affecting my comics!" story in a while, but here’s a doozy: ICV2 reports that British company Entertainment Rights, which owns the video rights for Gumby, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Felix the Cat, She-Ra, Ghostbusters, The Lone Ranger, Lassie, Mr. Magoo, Rocky & Bullwinkle,…
Altus Press brings back a classic pulp character. Press Release: The Complete Cases of Captain Satan, Volume 1by William O’Sullivan The complete series… back in print after 75 years! Join the mysterious Captain Satan and his private army as they battle one of pulpdom’s most insidious rogues galleries! Commanding high prices on the vintage pulp…
He was a curmudgeon who didn’t have children, didn’t especially like children, and yet was probably the most noted children’s book writer and illustrator in the past fifty years, J.K. Rowling notwithstanding. He was Maurice Sendak and he died May 8th at age 83 after a stroke. Sendak was famous for many books, especially Where…
Illustrator, Nik Poliwko shared a new rough sketch for an upcoming illustration for the upcoming The Ruby Files Vol. 2, a companion to the illustration at left. The award-winning The Ruby Files returns for a second volume of pulpy detective yarns in 2013 from Airship 27 Productions. The Ruby Files Vol. 2 features stories by…
