Author: Andrew Wheeler

The Washington Post profiles Hate! cartoonist Peter Bagge, focusing on his current work for the magazine Reason.

Comic Book Resources infiltrated a Comic-Con panel with Matt Wagner talking about 25 years of Grendel – and they report back what they learned.

Wizard interviews Mouse Guard creator David Petersen.

Heidi MacDonald video-interviews Scott McCloud, creator of Making Comics (and, of course, Zot!).

The Orange County Register talks to Kevin J. Anderson about Slan Hunter, the novel he completed from A.E. Van Vogt’s outline and incomplete draft.

Forbes quotes from a USA Today interview with J.K. Rowling, in which she mentions that she’s already working on two non-fantasy projects – one for children and one for adults.

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People reporting from Comic-Con:

• Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing — a “voice post”
• Mark Evanier
• the ultra-fabulous, even-cooler-than-we-thought Maddy Gaiman
• Laurell K. Hamilton
• Irene Gallo: 1, 2, 3
• Jeff Smith
• Heidi MacDonald of The Beat: photos, report
• Tom Spurgeon of Comics Reporter
• Brian Cronin of Comics Should Be Good

Everyone’s reporting on DC’s new license to publish comics based on the TV show Heroes; the longest piece I’ve seen so far is from The Beat. (What does it all mean? Don’t ask me…I’m just Link-Boy.)

New York Magazine has a sixteen-page excerpt from the beginning of Osamu Tezuka’s Apollo’s Song. (And let’s not forget the ComicMix review of Apollo’s Song.)

All the ‘60s Batman sound effects you could ever want. [via When Gravity Fails]

NPR has a story about this year’s Eisner judges and their decision process.

The Beat reports that Mark Waid has been named Editor-in-Chief of Boom! Studios.

The Beat also explains the whole Dark Horse-MySpace thing – which I think means that they’re totally BFFs.

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GalleyCat reports that Karin Slaughter, a popular thriller writer from the UK, and Oni Press are teaming up to create Slaughterhouse Graphic Novels, which will adapt prose fiction into comics form. The idea is to emulate Stephen King’s Dark Tower, and not Isaac Asimov’s I-Bots, I think…

(By the way, Slaughter is our covergirl for this installment.)

Chris Roberson looks at two different projects bringing back public domain superheroes.

Comics Fodder wants to see the return of footnotes to superhero comics – you know, the little boxes that said things like “The Fabulous Sheep-Man, last seen in ish #3,141 – Parsimonious Pete.” I think that reviewer needs to look up the phrase “continuity porn,” because he’s soaking in it.

Your cognitive dissonance headline of the day: “Euro Books transforms ‘Agatha Christie’ into graphic novels in India”, which is for an article about, yes, a company making all of Agatha Christie’s books into graphic novels in English for the huge Christie-loving Indian market.

Exclaim!, a Canadian music publication, looks at DC’s new Minx imprint.

Brian Cronin, at Comics Should Be Good, makes fun of every single one of Marvel’s October covers.

First Second announced today (in a press-release e-mail, so I don’t have a link) that they’ll be collecting Paul Pope’s cool THB series in 2009 as a color, four-volume, 1200-page set under the title Total THB. But, before that, they’ll have a new Pope series for young readers, Battling Boy, published in two simultaneous volumes in 2008.

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MTV News talked to Todd McFarlane about the new Spawn movie he’s financing himself. (Wait…isn’t he also claiming he’s bankrupt? Now I’m confused.)

The LA Times has noticed that the dying-by-degrees traditional comic-book market isn’t looking quite as sickly as it had been recently.

The inferior4+1 reports on a DC Comics press release which says that Walter Simonson will be writing a new comics series based on the popular MMORPG World of Warcraft.

PopMatters has an interesting (by which I mean silly) theory that Generation X loves Transformers because it symbolizes their wish to “transform” into adults. (That would be more interesting if they meant the old Marvel series Generation X, but they’re talking about the Americans born in the late ’60 and early ’70s.)

The San Diego Union-Tribune has an article on comics today to get ready for some kind of event happening in their fair city later this week.

Fantasybookspot reviews GI Joe: America’s Elite #25.

Monster & Critics reviews Amazing Spider-Man #542.

Publishers Weekly has a handy chart comparing and contrasting four recent superhero-themed novels.

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