One before the Big Anniversary Big ComicMix Broadcast – we dive into the BIGGEST pile of new comics & DVDs to be offered in a long time, so you better get a paper route, pal! You will need the cash! Plus good news for Fraggles, bad news for AntMan and a tease about 100 pages of Black Canary and Zatanna in one comic. And do you remember the time Evil Alice went soft – we do!
Stop thinking about all those fishnets & PRESS THE BUTTON!
With two years of The Best American Comics down now, it’s clear just how much the individual editor can influence the choice of comics. Last year, Harvey Pekar leaned towards autobiographical comics and towards long, complete works. For this second year, Chris Ware similarly goes where we’d expect him to go and picks a lot…
Here’s a tip that you may rarely need, but when you do, hoooo boy. Let’s say you’ve been flatting a page for coloring, or you’ve sent it out to be flatted. The page comes back, and it looks decent– except when you go to select an area, you discover that the page was created with…
Today sees the release of one of the most odd comics projects of late, a compilation of stories based on the music of Tori Amos, Comic Book Tattoo. Spinner has a lengthy interview with Amos on the subject, as well as chats with many of the project’s creators. Read it all right here. Amos offers…
The seventies were a great time to be a kid. Anything seemed possible. By that I don’t mean so much cloning or a cure for cancer. I mean important stuff, like Bigfoot. Nessie. Visits from alien life-forms. Week after week, no less an authority than Leonard Nimoy himself appeared on my television, solemnly narrating case-after-case…
Nobody would want Brian Fies’s career, not matter how many books he sells and how many awards he wins. Two of his three major books to date have been pure “making lemonade” activities: he went through things no one wants to and came out the other side to write about them. First was Mom’s Cancer,…
I had a close friend and brother-in-arms named Larry Schlam, an attorney who specialized in juvenile rights. He later became a law professor and a lecturer on that same issue. He had been a doo-wop singer in Brooklyn, but that has no relevance to this topic. As it comes to us all, Larry died last…
