Another week older and deeper in debt — to you, our readers! Here again is your one-stop shopping post linking to this past week’s regular columns: Mike Gold, every Monday – Whizzy’s Wazoo #3: True Convention Thrills! Dennis O’Neil, every Tuesday – The Four-Color Answer? #3: Heroes and Villains Me, every Wednesday – It’s All…
What are journalists for non-comics-centric media writing about our passion? Let’s take a look: Lots of not-quite-closeted comics geeks inhabit mainstream newsrooms, and the San Francisco Chronicle’s Peter Hartlaub is no exception, as he "comes out" during WonderCon weekend with a nice overview of how the comic industry and wider entertainment world have interacted of…
For those "process wonks" out there, two good blog posts that shouldn’t be missed: Steve Gerber writes about his upcoming Dr. Fate series (it’s billed as "Part 1" so keep checking back with Gerber for more), and Marv Wolfman shares his thoughts on Nightwing. Do you have a favorite "process wonk" post? Let us know!
The British Film Institute is celebrating 100th anniversary of the birth of Hergé (Georges Remi) with an evening of English-language versions of the live action 1961 film Tintin and the Golden Treasure. The showing also includes rare footage of Hergé speaking in English about his creation (from the 1975 BBC programme Them and Us: Belgium)…
Keep an eye on your bandwidth, comics folk — if Cory Doctorow or Mark Frauenfelder or any other contributor to the must-read "Directory of Wonderful Things" site Boing-Boing notice you, your traffic may just bounce into the stratosphere. So far in the past couple days, Cory’s briefly reviewed the new Jack of Fables collection (which…
At New York’s Museum of Modern Art, highbrow meets lowbrow once more – and, as usual, doesn’t get it. “Comic Abstraction: Image-Breaking, Image-Making” is organized by Roxana Marcoci, curator of the department of photography, and features "nearly 30 works in drawing, painting, sculpture, video and installation made over the last 16 years by 13 artists…
The CBS Late Show with David Letterman took a look last night at the New York Comic Con, offering the following bit: Said Letterman, "We got some footage of the event. We then compiled this quiz. Some of my favorites: (Heavy guy thumbing through comic books) "Just an hour into the convention, this man has…
One of the highlights of the Black Panel at NYCC was when Denys Cowan started mentioning all the pioneers deserving of wider recognition. Scott Shaw! celebrates Black History Month on his Oddball Comics website with a title from 1947 called All-Negro Comics entirely produced by black cartoonists/ The page also includes a discussion of other…
Hey New Yorkers! Not doing anything tomorrow night, and frustrated because you can’t draw or sell gag cartoons? Yeah, you know who you are. Funny thing, Media Bistro at 494 Broadway has just the solution — a 3-hour intensive course (starting at 6:30 PM) on How to Draw and Sell Gag Cartoons, taught by John…
The Ain’t It Cool News site has just come out with an "AICN Comics" presentation of its third annual @$$ie Awards, featuring your host Crucifer (the @$$keeper?), above. Categories include Best Single Moment/Single Issue, Best Cover Artist, Best Miniseries/Special/One-Shot, Best Comic Book Character, Best Artist/Art Team, Best Writer, Best Publisher, and Best Ongoing Comic Book…
Auntie Beeb covers the story of "a wide-ranging survey produced by the South Korean government to find out what consumers will want from future technologies." The survey also features long-range predictions gleaned from interviews carried out with about 3,500 of the country’s technology experts, including online smell-o-vision within a decade, a two-month duration for mobile…
Paramount has announced the next Star Trek movie (number XI, for those of you counting Roman-style) will premiere on Christmas Day 2008, no doubt delighting many Jewish Trekkers, as going to the movies on December 25 is almost as popular among Jews as going out for Chinese food. Eleven is being helmed by fan favorite…
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