As mentioned here and on many other news sites, the voting is now open for this year’s Friends of Lulu Awards. Since the awards are all about enhancing women’s visibility in an industry that too often marginalizes and downplays them, and since there’s a lot of discussion currently going on about what real women look…
By the time this posts I should be nearing my comic shop (which I’m visiting for the first time in ages) to pick up the last couple weeks’ worth of comics, so why not treat y’all to the last week of ComicMix columns first?: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #14: Who’s taking the bullet? Dennis…
Even if you have a pretty new computer these days, you might be out of luck when it comes to new diversions. A brand-new web-only science fiction series called Sanctuary has debuted, and I couldn’t even get the preview to play on my new Macbook without it freezing and reloading four times in two minutes. …
He may be a bad, bad man, but he’s a good, good comic. Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix’s Stagger Lee garnered four trophies at last night’s Glyph Comic Awards, which signalled the opening of the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) in Philadelphia. The list of nominees is here; the winners appear below. …
This weekend Temple University in Philadelphia, PA is hosting the annual East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention, but itf you look at the poster you’ll note that the first event, the Glyph Comic Awards recognizing "the best in comics made by, for, and about people of color from the preceding calendar year," is actually…
Del Rey has just announced the newest addition to its growing lineup of original graphic novels, as it has acquired the rights to publish comic book stories featuring Dean Koontz’ popular Odd Thomas character ("I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it."). Wisely, Del Rey has enlisted the services of…
Found by our Spin Queen, and because conspicuous consumers just don’t have enough guilt.: Author Nicholas Carr (that’s his new book at right) knows a bit about evolving technology. So he decided to answer the question about whether the massively popular mutliplayer game Second Life was ecologically sustainable by doing the math and presenting his…
Wil Wheaton found a bunch of comics that Radio Shack/Tandy put out two decades ago to teach kids about computers, written by Paul Kupperberg with art by Dick Ayers and Chic Stone. Wil samples some of Kupperberg’s dialogue, which in hindsight seems very reminiscent of Bob Haney’s "so hip it’s instantly dated" flair. (‘S okay,…
In addition to the news about Lionsgate acquiring distribution rights to Frank Miller’s film version of The Spirit, we wanted to pass along a couple of casting notes: Thomas Jane tells Ain’t It Cool News (in a very strange email) that he’s dropped out of the sequel to The Punisher, said to be darker and…
John Lennon once observed, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.” And another John, ComicMix‘s own Mr. Ostrander, recently wrote here about a lesson learned (he calls it a “strange gift”) in the wake of his wife’s death: “One of the gifts I got was a deeper understanding of now….
Courtesy of the folks at Sequential Pictures, this re-imagining of Dune is just so very wrong. I’m the only one who actually liked the original Dune flick, aren’t I? sigh Also, via Fanboy.com, it’s 2001: A Space Odyssey in 5 Seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-5llTY44w8 That length seems about right to me…
Spring is definitely in the air, as more and more "comics couple" photos hit the internets. Youv’e already seen the one that Everybody’s Talking About. Here’s one of my favorites, of soon-to-be-wed cartoonists Mikhaela Reid and Makesha Wood, from Mikhaela’s Boiling Point blog. Lots more where this came from! Got any Cute Comics Couple photos? …
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