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…
Comics Links They’re sold out now, but for a brief, shining moment, the world had a chance to buy knitted Hellboy dolls. (Figures? Plushes? What do you call these things?) [via Newsarama] This weekend, The New York Times dug through Stan Lee’s boxes of old photos for an article about the places he’s lived. Comic…
Comics Links Comic Book Resources talks to producer Tony Panaccio about the recent Heroes Initiative DVD, featuring a conversation among Stan Lee, Joe Quesada, and Kevin Smith. CBR’s Mayo Report crunches the numbers on comics and trade paperback sales in July. Bottom line? Marvel is selling a hell of a lot of TPs collecting series…
Comics Links The New York Times declares that Britain is finally embracing the graphic novel. Well, good for them! Inside Pulse apparently has a story about comics, but some kind of SQL error is preventing me from actually reading it. Perhaps simply knowing it exists will give some readers a tiny bit of pleasure. Publishers…
Comics Links Costumes? Check. Vigilante activities? Check. The KKK were always closer to mainstream superheroes than we’d probably like, but it took Craig Yoe to dig up the bizarre ‘20s newspaper comic strips in which a flying KKK squad do good deeds. Political cartoonist Steve Bell is interviewed by the Sunday Herald. [via Forbidden Planet…
Labor Day’s over and it’s back to work or school. Here’s some cheap thrills to get you through the day. (Our illustration is a recent Clay Bennett editorial cartoon.) Comics Links The Daily Cross Hatch interviews Evan Dorkin (in the first of what may be many parts). Eddie Campbell remembers zipatone. Comic Book Resources talks…
Comics Links Wired has a long article about the creators of Penny Arcade, Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. Rick Geary presents: The Comic Con Murder Case, a short online comic. Comics Reporter interviews Nick Abadzis, cartoonist of Laika. Greg Hatcher of Comics Should Be Good thinks about history and comics and ends up daring DC…
Chance in Hell is Gilbert Hernandez’s second stand-alone graphic novel, after Sloth. Like Sloth, it’s unconnected to his Love & Rockets work, but – unlike Sloth – it’s deeply metaphorical and difficult to follow. It’s set among unnamed people, living in unnamed places in an unspecified time, worrying about criminals with monikers but not names…
Comics Links Shaenon Garrity imagines what Edward Gorey’s adaptation of “The Trouble With Tribbles” might have been like. The Beat takes a look at DC’s sales in July. Comicon interviews James Kochalka, whose new children’s book Squirrely Grey has just been published. Comicon also talks to Scott Shaw! about the rebirth of Captain Carrot. The…
Comics Links Hipster Dad thinks that there should be an Inferior Five collection. Comic Book Resources talks to Christos Gage. Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog presents more evidence that Bob Kanigher was a mad genius. Greg Burgas of Comics Should Be Good reviews this week’s comics, starting with Batman Annual #26. Brian Cronin of CSBG reviews the…
Today, our illustration is of a felt replica of an Underwood typewriter, simply because dogged persistence in the pursuit of idiosyncratic ends should always be celebrated. That is really impressive. Comics Links Comic Book Resources has a Bizarro talk with Geoff Johns. CBR also chatted with ComicMix‘s own Mike Baron, whose character The Badger…
Comics Links The New York Times notes what would have been Jack Kirby’s 90th birthday. (And, in honor of that, a random odd Kirby drawing is our illustration today – a stamp with a Kirby Silver Surfer.) The Beat digs into Marvel’s sales figures for the month of July. Blogcritics interviews Mike Carey about his…
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