The Montclair Times (of New Jersey) profiles comics legend Joe Kubert. [via Journalista] Woodland Progress profiles graphic novelist Joshua Hale Fialkov, whose book Elk’s Run was published by Random House earlier this year. Comic Book Resources chats with Garth Ennis about Punisher #50. Comic Book Resources also talks with Durwin Talon about his new creator-owned…
Now that the movie’s been released, the articles are slowing down a bit, so Harry Potter Mania! will probably go on hiatus for a week or so — but you can be sure that local papers all over the country (and around the world) will be ready to run inane local stories on the 21st,…
Webcartoonist Dave (Sheldon) Kellett has some thoughts on DC Comic’s Zudacomics initiative. Comic Book Resources has discovered a “secret” price hike on some Marvel comics – and asked Marvel VP of Sales David Gabriel to explain it. Comic Book Resources has a feature article — not quite a review, not quite an interview with Jamie…
What all the cool kids are linking to: A Hole in the Head has scanned a feature () from a 1947 issue of Life magazine in which major strip cartoonists of the day (Milton Caniff, Chester Gould, etc.) first draw their most famous characters normally…and then try it again, blindfolded. Comics Reporter tries to explain…
More Harry Potter news and links for those whose eyes are starting to wander… The Whittier Daily News uses the release of the Order of the Phoenix movie as a hook to talk to a bunch of local librarians about their preparations for Deathly Hallows. SaukValley.com epitomizes the small-town paper approach to the Harry Potter…
Comic Book Resources interviews Mike Carey, comics writer and author of the novel The Devil You Know. Publishers Weekly talked to Icarus Publishing’s Simon Jones about the joys and problems of publishing pornographic manga. Publishers Weekly also has the second half of an interview with Eddie Campbell about The Black Diamond Detective Agency. Reason Online…
This is a book we never expected to see: a collection of the very earliest adventures of Matt Wagner’s dark signature character Grendel, the stories that were reworked into Devil by the Deed more than twenty years ago. It’s the very earliest published work of Wagner’s, and – while he was quite good for a…
Colleen Mondor has a long essay about mysterious houses in various genres. (That picture, by the way, is the very first result for "mysterious houses," though they don’t look terribly mysterious to me.) SF Signal thinks about who the next Grand Masters of the Science Fiction Writers of America should be. Cracked lists the seven…
The Beat swears it is not making this up: Yaoi Jamboree. From the outer reaches: Xtra lists some graphic novels of interest to gay Canadian men (starting with very specific titles, but including superheroes and suchlike as well). “Dana” of Comic Fodder reviews this week’s Marvel comics, starting with New Warriors #2. Publishers Weekly’s Web-only…
The 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award and 2006 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award were presented at the Campbell Conference this past weekend in Kansas City. Each award was voted for by a jury of experts. The Campbell Award, for best science fiction novel, went to Ben Bova’s Titan. The Sturgeon Award, for best science fiction…
Living Between Wednesdays has discovered some very weird Marvel toys, and documents them for our amusement. (That one there makes me want to sing: "Macho, Macho Spider! I’ve got to be a macho spider!…" Chris Sims (of Invincible Super-Blog fame) has been annotating all of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter comics so far, and he…
One of the science fictional world’s classiest conventions, Readercon, was held this past weekend in the suburbs of Boston, and your intrepid reporter was there. There wasn’t anything much comics-related happening — Readercon famously concentrates on the written word to the excusion of everything else — but two awards were presented over the weekend, which…
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