Oh sure, we could link to the Avi Arad interview, or the many mainstream news articles on Free Comic Book Day, but everyone else is doing that, plus due to burnout from another killer work week we aren’t going anywhere today. Not to our local comic stores, not to the movies, not even outside for…
Via Val D’Orazio, here’s a delightful parody of the Mac vs. PC commercials as action figures of Spider-Man and Superman discuss Marvel vs. DC movies. Just one more thing to get you psyched for Spidey 3, in case you weren’t already.
Thanks, Entertainment Weekly! This is the shiznit! Okay, I know lots of people out there liked the old square tincan one, but this — this is sleek and brassy and colorful and… well, it just looks like I’d picture Iron Man’s armor looking. Kudos to FX guy Stan Winston, who designed them to fit on…
Remember how last Sunday I was lamenting the lack of comics based on classical literature by, say, "Virginia Woolf or a Bronte or two?" Well, via Down the Tubes comes news of a new UK-based company starting up to tackle even more classic literature in a graphic format. Classical Comics hopes to have its first…
While we’ve been in the throes of office hell, we’ve noticed some changes going on in cartoonist-land that bear passing along: Alison Bechdel has announced that she’s cutting back on production of her popular Dykes to Watch Out For comic strip from biweekly to monthly, in order to work on her new memoir, which she…
The comics industry stands at an exciting crossroads. International acceptance of graphic literature is starting to have a positive effect on how Americans see non-superhero genres, as manga saturates teen audiences and award-winning autiobiographical novels like Fun Home and Persepolis enthrall adults. When you factor the geek contingent into that, as even the superhero genre…
ComicMix friend (and my first husband) Steve Chaput reports that the Orange Public Library & History Center (in Orange California) where he works, has just opened its doors featuring an art exhibition called Read To Succeed®, sponsored by the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity and Orange Public Library. The exhibition includes original, hand‑painted animation cels…
One of my favorite bloggers, Jon Swift, stepped out of satirical mode for a post to excoriate Chris Muir, a radical reactionary strip cartoonist who recently drew Hillary Clinton in blackface to mock a recent speech given by the Senator in which she quoted a Negro spiritual by affecting a cadence that didn’t sound quite…
Via Lisa at Sequentially Speaking, the BBC has launched an interactive Comic Maker section of its ever-growing Dr. Who website. If you’re not from England, however, don’t bother clicking here, because rights restrictions will prevent you from using the site’s Flash portion. Nothing like proprietary software rights to take the fun out of things. Apparently…
When I was in Friends of Lulu, one of the main incentives to keep up membership was the opportunity to vote in the annual Lulu Awards, given to women of distinction whose contributions to comics kept getting ignored year after year by the major comics awards. Now an era appears to have come to an…
So I’m catching up on Previews magazine (more about which in my Wednesday column) and I notice this drop-dead gorgeous art in the Marvel Previews insert that caught my eye and made me stare at the page for like a minute and a half. And I’m one of those “usually more into the words than…
Where has the week gone? We’re still not recovered from the last few 9to5’s of our day job, so it’s a good thing we have Sunday to peruse all the regular ComicMix columns from this past week: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo #11: Death to Floppy! Dennis O’Neil – The Four-Color Answer? #11: Who knows…
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