What it’s been like here recently… Just way too much stuff to go through, and we’ve been very busy with the print announcement and rushing to get things ready for the Previews catalog, and I have dozens of tabs open to blog about and consolidate. Wheeee! So this will be more of a high-speed link…
Man, we are so behind… busy busy busy here. Some items from the past few days to tide you over: The "comics on handhelds" panel at SXSW, covered by ComicMix contributor Chris Ullrich for one of the thirteen other blogs he writes for. And speaking of ComicMix contributors past and present, Rick Marshall made it…
Some items from the past few days: Sad news: Natasha Richardson, scion of the famous Redgrave acting family and star of the film adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s dystopian The Handmaid’s Tale, has died from injuries suffered in a skiing accident. Our condolences go out to her husband Liam Neeson, their two boys, and the rest…
Today’s– okay, this past week’s– list of quick items: Newsarama.com : True Weird War Stories: Mike Grell & Mark Ryan on ‘The Pilgrim’. Mark and Mike spill a few more details about The Pilgrim; including what parts may be true, and what parts you are not yet ready to know… mwah-hah-hah. The world wide…
Today’s list of quick items: The Future Now: Science Fiction Set in 2009. From io9. All you Freejack fans, raise your hands. Yes, you, Kathleen David. If you’ve always wandered the streets of Greenwich Village trying to find Dr. Strange’s loft, wondered which subway stop to get off at to get to Yancy Street, or…
Today’s list of quick items– Watchmen, Watchmen everywhere: Flickr: Bad viral marketing. See right. Dave Gibbons video on how 2000 AD influenced Watchmen. Also from Wired: Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic From the Onion A/V Club: In the wake of Watchmen: 24 more graphic novels…
The weekend’s list of quick items: WATCHMEN WEEK: Where Were You in 1986? Part 1 | Comix 411 Golden Age Comic Book Stories: Wally Wood does an EC story, and Frank Frazetta makes notes on redrawing it himself. Take a look and watch how the masters did it. Amazon Kindle is now also…
Happy Watchmas, everybody! Today’s list of quick items: In an alternate universe, Rick Marshall
You know Hellblazer #63, the issue where John Constantine turns forty? Yesterday was like that for me, only with cheesecake. And today was definitely like that scene at the end. So, now that I’m more or less recovered from that, today’s yesterday’s list of quick items: Ed Brubaker, Zoe Bell, Lucy Lawless, Doug Jones, and…
ComicMix’s production master is another year older and probably another inch taller today. Happy birthday, Glenn!
Today’s list of quick items: E-publishing stories all over the place: HarperStudio Re-Enters Digital Book Pricing Debate – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat Expert Explains Why E-Books Are So Expensive – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat Richard Curtis: Penetrating the Mysteries of E-Book Pricing. Kind of. Hearst to launch a wireless e-reader, and Hearst Dailies Look to Charge for Some Web….
Today’s list of quick items: Happy birthday to Theodore Geisel. And happy birthday to my dad. No, my dad is not Dr. Seuss. From an article in the Guardian: "Americans already consume va stly more paper than any other country — about three times more per person than the average European, and 100 times more…
