GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA, January 28, 2026 /budsartbooks.com/ – Longtime comics industry icon Bill Schanes, who entered the comics field at the age of 13 selling at local Southern California comic shows, has concluded his bid to purchase the online mail order business, Bud’s Art Books, the long-serving purveyor of comic strip, comic book, fantasy, horror,…
Chip Kidd is one of the premier book designers of our day, and a big proponent of comics as an art form. He also has a tendency to get…let me say “fussy”…in his designs – he came of professional age in the go-go Nineties, and that can be seen in his work sometimes. He also…
I don’t want to say “art of” books always come out as line extensions after a creator has died and can’t produce new work, but…it’s pretty darn common. This book, for example: The Art of Edena , part of the vague “Moebius Library” (which seems to be primarily, if not entirely, posthumous itself). It was assembled…
This is not a comic. It’s an art book by a cartoonist, featuring covers (from his own books and guest covers for others’ comics), sketchbook pages, odd single-page comics from in-house Image newsletters, convention posters, a T-shirt design or two, some logos for porn companies and stars, a little bit of movie concept art, and other…
So my last couple of columns have been a bit on the heavy side. This week Iâm going back to telling all of you how I feel about specific comics. This week is a Kickstarter project, The Showdown Volume 2, by creator, writer and letterer Russ Lippitt, illustrator Ezequiel Pineda, colorist Nate Esteban, and editor…
I think I have too many RSS feeds in my reader; I keep getting behind and then leaving things unread to deal with “later” — but then there’s too much new stuff I haven’t even looked at, which pushes “later” much further than I’d like. That’s all prologue to the fact that these awards came…
Rob Corddry gives us the “secret origin” CHILDRENS HOSPITAL and why clowns just suck, plus if you watch GLEE are you watching THE GLEE PROJECT on Oxygen? we talk with Ellis Wylie booted off the show just days ago. Do you watch CHILDRENS HOSPITAL? Drop us a comment below! Transcript Hello, it's Mike Raub…
WAYNE REINAGEL-Publisher/Writer/Artist AP: Wayne, thanks for stopping by ALL PULP once more! Your interviews in the past concerning the first two books in your epic PULP HEROES trilogy still pull the viewers in! Before we get into what you have happening right now, remind us what PULP HEROES is about. WR: The original concept of…
Performing live for scores of college audiences helped the guys at Broken Lizard put together their plan for the long awaited SUPER TROOPERS 2. So who’s coming back for the sequel? KEVIN HEFFERNAN shares the news, plus Brett Ratner on Hercules? And yes, there IS that ComicCon thing happening…. Follow our reports DIRECT from the…
There’s been a flurry of posts lately in the comics blogosphere, including Glenn Hauman’s last column here, about perceived value for money (let’s just call it PVFM) when it comes to comics. The consensus seems to be, American comics periodicals from the Big Two are usually about 22 pages long and take mere minutes to…
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…
