First, the moment of zen: The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Moment of Zen – Coulter Sells More Books? Barack Obama Interview John McCain Interview Sarah Palin Video Funny Election Video So, since her next-to-last book only moved 126,000 units (we don’t have numbers on her new…
Lone Justice: Crash! is the new graphic novel from the Harvey award nominated team of Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley. This two-fisted pulp adventure began yesterday on ComicMix, but the roots of the creation of Lone Justice: Crash! started long ago. Creating a new graphic novel doesn’t happen in a vacuum. And people like Robert…
The Alcoholic By Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel DC Comics, October 2008, $19.99 The main character of T[[[he Alcoholic]]] is one Jonathan A., a writer who looks very much like writer Jonathan Ames and whose life has been exceptionally similar to Ames’s. Those who have read Ames before know that this is nothing new: he…
From the creators of the Harvey-nominated EZ Street comes a hero for the ages, in the thrilling pulp adventure Lone Justice: Crash! Lone Justice: Crash! is the new graphic novel from the Harvey award nominated team of Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley. It’s the sideways sequel to the Harvey Award nominated EZ STREET graphic novel,…
LONE JUSTICE: CRASH! is the new graphic novel from the Harvey Award nominated team of Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley. It will begin right here on ComicMix on Monday, January 12th. And in the interest of making all things EZ, we present the top 6 essential things you should know before you start reading: 1)…
Bottomless Belly Button By Dash Shaw Fantagraphics, June 2008, $29.99 Wrapped up inside [[[Bottomless Belly Button]]] is the realistically-depicted story of a family – aged parents, three grown children, and few others – coming all together for one last time as the parents divorce after forty years of marriage. But Dash Shaw is in no…
Today’s installment of comic-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest… * Missed this one in the holiday wackiness: A federal appeals panel said that child pornography is illegal even if the pictures are drawn, affirming the nation’s first conviction under a 2003 federal law against such…
French Milk By Lucy Knisley Touchstone, October 2008, $15.00 The first thing to know – and to keep in your head – is that Lucy Knisley is twenty-two years old. That’s fantastically young to be planning and executing a nearly two-hundred-page-long drawn book, and the mere fact that she did it is impressive. And so…
A press release from the Hero Initiative: The Hero Initiative announced today that annual memberships for the organization are now available for purchase. There are four levels of membership: Bronze, Silver, Gold and Excelsior! A Bronze membership costs $29 and includes: a personalized membership card (which will arrive approximately 4-5 weeks after you sign up),…
Babylon A.D. is actually two separate films, one with some noble themes worthy of exploration and one that is a derivative action film. Unfortunately, you have to suffer through the latter before the film oddly shifts gears and begins lightly exploring the former. The film is based on Maurice Georges Dantec’s [[[Babylon Babies], a science…
In May 2009, NBM Publishing brings back one of the 20th century’s great comic strips. George McManus’ Bringing Up Father is the third and latest in NBM’s Forever Nuts series of classic screwball strips. In 1913, McManus started a comic strip about Jiggs and Maggie, a lower-class couple who came into money. “While the snobbish…
Rod Serling’s [[[Twilight Zone]]] remains one of the brightest spots of television history. The teleplays were inventive, occasionally funny, often thrilling and always thought-provoking. In thirty minutes, he managed to tell a story with relatable characters and situations then twist things and entertain you through surprise. Most attempts to revisit the zone have met with…
