What do you get when LOLcats meets PostSecret? Lolsecretz! [via John Scalzi] Comics Links Camden New Journal reports on a “market trader” (is that like a day trader, or does it mean a professional?) whose graphic novel Brodie’s Law has been bought by Hollywood for the proverbial pile of money. Comic Book Resources talks to…
A few months back, I reviewed the second and third graphic novels from Minx (DC’s new line aimed at teenage girls, published in a manga-ish size and format but not otherwise much like manga). I’ve since dug up the first and fourth Minx titles, The Plain Janes and Good As Lily, for another compare-and-contrast. The…
Comics Links R. Sikoryak’s Dostoyevsky Comics, an adaptation of Crime and Punishment staring a Dick Sprang Batman and originally published in Drawn & Quarterly #3 in 2000, has been posted on the web. Amazon Daily interviews Nick Abadzis, author of Laika. The New York Times Magazine last weekend started its serialization of Dan Clowes’s comic…
Comics Links Scripps News talked to Mike Carey about his “real” novels, like The Devil You Know, and his graphic novels, like Re-Gifters. Comic Book Resources interviews Amy Kim Ganter, who creates American Manga. ICv2 interviews Marvel publisher Dan Buckley. The Daily Cross Hatch interviews Paul Karasik, who edited the Fletcher Hanks collection I Shall…
Halloween decorations are beginning to show up in stores, and the air had a decided chill today in my neck of the woods – so I guess the time is ripe to look at a couple of horror-tinged graphic novels for the fall. Angel Skin is an original GN and apparently the first published comics…
Now you have no excuse not to hang up your super-suit… Comics Links Eddie Campbell writes about speech balloons (including his differences of opinion with Bryan Talbot). Yann Martel, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Life of Pi, has been sending a book and cover letter to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper every week…
To start the week out on a pleasant note for about half of you – check out bikini jeans. [via Pat Cadigan] Comics Links The UK SF Book News Network talked to John Higgins, artist on a graphic novel adaptation of the old splatter-horror movie The Hills Have Eyes. Estoreal reports on representing the Jack…
As I type this, it’s still Friday, which was New Comics Day back in my own misspent youth. Very vaguely in honor of that, enjoy this picture of a Milk & Cheese magnet. Comics Links Jonathan Ross, British TV personality and famous snogger of Neil Gaiman, has an article in the Guardian about why he…
Hey, guess which loathed-by-the-Internets cover came out this week? Yup…that one. Comics Links Forbidden Planet International’s Continental Correspondent visits the Brussels Comics Center, and isn’t terribly impressed. The Seattle Post Intelligencer talks with Douglas Wolk. The Beat has some serious thoughts about the professionalism – or lack thereof – of the current crop of comic…
(See the continuation for an explanation of our "Bob & Godzilla" photo today.) Comics Links Publishers Weekly Comics Week talks to Matt Fraction, writer of Casanova. Steven Grant, at Comic Book Resources, thinks about Jack Kirby and the art of comic book covers, then and now. Brian Michael Bendis was interviewed by CBR about the…
Comics Links The ACLU has a new online comic to explain its mission: Defenders of Freedom. (I would have used a panel from one of their stories to illustrate this post but – irony of ironies – it’s left-click disabled, locked down tight by proprietary software. So, instead, you get the very first Google image…
Comics Links The Washington Post Express interviews Percy Carey, who recently told his life story in the graphic novel Sentences. Carey, best known as an underground rapper, also appeared on Sesame Street as a seven-year-old. Comic Book Resources interrogates Jonathan Hickman, writer/colorist of the upcoming A Red Mass for Mars. Tom Spurgeon of Comics Reporter…
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