I’ve admitted it before, I have no idea how to text message. Oh, I think I understand the basic principle behind texting; it’s like IM’ing using a handheld device, right? Only, I’ve never done it. I’ve sat through television shows that use instant polling via cell phone text devices for viewers to cast pointless votes…
You know the recent dire rumors floating about in the comics industry are heating up when they’ve made it to Nikki Finke’s Deadline Hollywood Daily blog, alongside a huge photo of Dan DiDio. DHD was an indispensable resource during the recent writers’ strike; let’s see how Finke helps raise the profile of the funnybook business,…
Kids, it’s been a rough six months for me. Well no, I take that back, it hasn’t. I should start off by saying that I’ve had a lot of advantages to take me through my most recent period of unemployment. I was eligible to collect over $300 a week in unemployment insurance (thank you, FDR!)….
This week we’ve brought you a man-sized portion of columns and features by our intrepid band: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo: Not Necessarily The News Rick Marshall – Doctor Who in Review: Season Four, Episode #6: The Doctor’s Daughter Dennis O’Neill – The Four-Color Answer: Getting Reality Right Chris Ullrich – Battlestar Galactica Interview: Jane…
With any luck, this morning the heat wave that has gripped New York since last weekend will have finally broken. I’ve never cared for extremes of temperature, but all in all I’m much better equipped to deal with winter than with summer. Winter has its hazards — for instance, our apartment is situated among a…
Smoke in the sub-basement, fire in the sky… As if this weekend’s MoCCA Art Festival weren’t already the hottest ticket in town during the hottest couple of days so far this year, there was a fire condition around 3 PM on Sunday that wound up causing an evacuation of the building. An earlier video of…
Greetings from the MoCCA Art Fest, where ComicMix will be out in force today! We’re probably having the time of our lives, having prepared this roundup well beforehand. Good thing, too, as we keep adding more new features! Here’s the scoop on what our columnists and feature-ists have brought you this past week: Mike Gold…
I first came across the concept of "safe spaces" for women when I was in high school. I went to an all-girls religious school (yeshiva) in 9th and 10th grades. The idea didn’t make sense to me at the time, separating boys and girls just when they were beginning to find out about each other,…
As readers doubtless have noticed, we’ve been adding a lot of regular features to ComicMix in addition to our columnists. So it’s time to add Van’s Weekly Haul comic reviews to our rotation! Here’s what we’ve done for you this past week: Mike Gold – Whizzy’s Wazoo: The Ghost of Wertham Dennis O’Neill – The…
Has anybody here seen my old friend Bobby Can you tell me where he’s gone I thought I saw him walkin’ up over the hill With Abraham, Martin and John. Well, last time I did an actual comic book review, and as expected it received almost no comments. So I don’t want to hear from…
Hope everyone’s having a nice three-day weekend, and that we all remember that the real focus on Memorial Day ought to be putting an end to the sheer folly of war, so that someday we won’t have to mourn all those whose lives have been lost in its perpetuation. Oh, and of course, outdoor grilling…
Oregon has become the latest state to garner the national spotlight in this Democratic Presidential campaign "silly season." Just about every liberal blog I read had effusive reports of the huge turnout at last weekend’s rally for Barack Obama in Portland’s Waterfront Park. Now me, I can’t think of Oregon without thinking of two things:…
