(See the continuation for an explanation of our "Bob & Godzilla" photo today.) Comics Links Publishers Weekly Comics Week talks to Matt Fraction, writer of Casanova. Steven Grant, at Comic Book Resources, thinks about Jack Kirby and the art of comic book covers, then and now. Brian Michael Bendis was interviewed by CBR about the…
Comics Links The ACLU has a new online comic to explain its mission: Defenders of Freedom. (I would have used a panel from one of their stories to illustrate this post but – irony of ironies – it’s left-click disabled, locked down tight by proprietary software. So, instead, you get the very first Google image…
Comics Links The Washington Post Express interviews Percy Carey, who recently told his life story in the graphic novel Sentences. Carey, best known as an underground rapper, also appeared on Sesame Street as a seven-year-old. Comic Book Resources interrogates Jonathan Hickman, writer/colorist of the upcoming A Red Mass for Mars. Tom Spurgeon of Comics Reporter…
Comics Links They’re sold out now, but for a brief, shining moment, the world had a chance to buy knitted Hellboy dolls. (Figures? Plushes? What do you call these things?) [via Newsarama] This weekend, The New York Times dug through Stan Lee’s boxes of old photos for an article about the places he’s lived. Comic…
Comics Links Comic Book Resources talks to producer Tony Panaccio about the recent Heroes Initiative DVD, featuring a conversation among Stan Lee, Joe Quesada, and Kevin Smith. CBR’s Mayo Report crunches the numbers on comics and trade paperback sales in July. Bottom line? Marvel is selling a hell of a lot of TPs collecting series…
Labor Day’s over and it’s back to work or school. Here’s some cheap thrills to get you through the day. (Our illustration is a recent Clay Bennett editorial cartoon.) Comics Links The Daily Cross Hatch interviews Evan Dorkin (in the first of what may be many parts). Eddie Campbell remembers zipatone. Comic Book Resources talks…
Comics Links Hipster Dad thinks that there should be an Inferior Five collection. Comic Book Resources talks to Christos Gage. Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog presents more evidence that Bob Kanigher was a mad genius. Greg Burgas of Comics Should Be Good reviews this week’s comics, starting with Batman Annual #26. Brian Cronin of CSBG reviews the…
Today, our illustration is of a felt replica of an Underwood typewriter, simply because dogged persistence in the pursuit of idiosyncratic ends should always be celebrated. That is really impressive. Comics Links Comic Book Resources has a Bizarro talk with Geoff Johns. CBR also chatted with ComicMix‘s own Mike Baron, whose character The Badger…
No links came with obvious top-of-the-post illustrations today, so, instead, let’s focus on the Monday-ness of today, and think demotivation. Comics Links Comic Book Resources looks at webcartoonists at Wizard World Chicago. Wizard talks to Avatar Press artist Jacen Burroughs. Comic Book Resources interviews Hugh Sterbakov, writer of Freshmen. CBR also chats with artist Adrian…
Comics Links Suspension of Disbelief (which I haven’t seen updated much lately, so I hope it’s back) looks at Spirit #5, and that old bad-plotting standby, beating a guy until he signs a contract/confession/whatever. Think the San Diego Comic-Con is big? It’s only the third largest comics gathering in the world – and number one…
Comics Links Comic Book Resources investigates the existence of women – often attractive women, some of whom actually read comics – at comics conventions. Astonishing! (Illustration: one of those elusive “real women.”) A long 1977 New York Times article about Harvey Kurtzman and Mad magazine has been posted by Mike Lynch. [via Mark Evanier, who…
The official Comics Should Be Good “Reason to Love Comics” for Monday was my man Keith Giffen. (“My man” in the sense that I agree that he’s totally awesome, not that I’ve ever met the guy.) And once again, I must demand Ambush Bug trade paperbacks to make the world the kind of place it…
