John Gaunt confers with Goethe, the Fat Man, over absinthe, rot gut, and a beautiful pussycat in today’s episode of GrimJack. Written by John Ostrander, drawn by Timothy Truman, it’s a look into the freak side of Cynosure’s dark underbelly.
I liked Paul Newman. I should’ve hated him; bastard was too damn good looking and should’ve given me an inferiority complex. The fact is I didn’t always like how I looked but what I learned was that he didn’t always like the way he looked, either. Newman felt his looks got in the way of…
Client newspapers of Newspaper Enterprise Association will be treated to a special 16-strip, The Search for Santa. According to Daily Cartoonist, the strip is effectively a spin-off from Luann by Greg Evans. NEA has been producing annual Christmas strips for their papers since 1937 and this year’s is a reprise to one Evans created previously. …
Not a cosplay project – there’s plenty of resources for that. Heck, the BBC used to send out official plans for one. But an actual, proper one, with the mutant and the hoverpad and the exterminatey-ready-to-go-ness? The UK’s Horror Channel are now running classic Doctor Who episodes, and they took the opportunity to run the…
Damon Winter writes in the New York Times about the closing of the legendary St. Mark’s Comics in the East Village. On Sunday, after 36 years in business, the store finally closed for good. I’d been buying comic books there since it opened, when I was 7 years old, but I had never known Mitch’s…
Concurrent with the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival (at which Spider-Man 3 will have its U.S. premiere) will be a series of panels called Tribeca Talks, and right up there with all the other luminaries scheduled to talk is Marvel EIC Joe Quesada, appearing on a panel called "Heroes for Hire." Presumably the panel will not…
Random thoughts and vague notions. New Girl On The Block. Samantha Bee has launched her new weekly news round-up show, Full Frontal. Two episodes have aired so far and, IMO, both were killer. I always loved Samantha Bee on The Daily Show – she was a great combination of fearless and shameless, and she carries…
