The 2008 Weblog Awards finalists have come out and voting starts today. The nominees for Best Comic Strip:
Day By Day
Calamities of Nature
Town Called Dobson
Garfield Minus Garfield
What the Duck
The Book of Biff
Medium-Large
Dilbert
Jesus and Mo
xkcd
In addition, The Comics Curmudgeon is up for Best Humor Blog. Go forth, vote early, and vote often.
The ecosystem of graphic novels is still proliferating – it might not have quite as many niches as pure-prose books do, but it’s getting there. We may see a day where any kind of book that exists in prose also exists in graphic form. I Moved to Los Angeles to Work in Animation is a…
Once again, the fine folks at the DC Source Blog have given us a sneak peak at yet another cryptic image. Well, not so much 1 image and a collection of White Lantern covers that have/are/will be gracing comic retailers shelves throughout the nation. As always, we here at Comicmix like to help you, our…
It’s making the rounds – I first saw it on Budgie’s blog – but it’s "Weird" Al Yankovic so it’s bound to. With all due respect to fellow Long Islander (after all, Spidey’s home base of Queens is just western Long Island) Billy Joel… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ8H9JVf5Bc Not a bad way to watch movie snippets.
Well, duh. That was my first reaction when I read USA Today’s story regarding Manga’s loosening grip on readers in Japan. After all, we lived through it in America starting some 30 years ago, where three things happened around mid-decade: Cable television was introduced and began snaking through the country, suddenly captivating television watchers and…
Round 3 of Mix March Madness, and we’re down to the Sweet 16! Chaaaaaarge! To our left… Evil Atom, Miss Match, Captain Heroic and the cunning corporation known as… Evil Inc.! And to our right… Neil Gaiman says it “grabs you from the first and keeps going… does it with aplomb, with soul and with…
Perhaps it is not geekdom to celebrate, but it is geekdom nonetheless and it is to be remarked upon for the path it has set the world on since. Today in 1942, the Italian physicist, Enrico Fermi, and his team initiated the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction as part of the Manhattan Project. Why is…
