Damon Winter writes in the New York Times about the closing of the legendary St. Mark’s Comics in the East Village. On Sunday, after 36 years in business, the store finally closed for good. I’d been buying comic books there since it opened, when I was 7 years old, but I had never known Mitch’s…
Sunday is the longest day of the year. If the rain holds off, we will enjoy the most sunlight possible. I was thinking about this when I read a few recent news stories about our beloved comic book industry. The most amazing was a group of articles in the Arts and Leisure section of the…
NEW YORK TIMES Bestselling Author (and Eisner Award winner) Brad Meltzer is back with more shocking history facts. This time he reveals a number of important artifacts that have gone missing (JFK’s brain?), all in his new H2 Series LOST HISTORY. Plus there’s more with the cast of THE LEAGUE as Jason Mantzoukas (Rafi) talks…
I’m about to use a word that may be offensive to some, so if you’re one of them, I suggest you leave. You can make a ruckus as you go if you like; we judge here, but we do not blame. Evolution. That’s the word, and now it’s out there. It may or may not…
The New York show, which opened Thursday night at the Jacob K. Javits Center in Manhattan, bounced around the calendar for a couple of years before finding a home in October last year, when 96,000 fans made the trek to New York to attend. Organizers expect attendance at the show, now in its sixth year,…
In today’s edition of The New York Times, the Sports section features an article on our Original Johnson strip. George Gustines does a nice job placing Johnson in American and boxing history. If you haven’t checked out the story from Trevor Von Eeden, it’s still running with new pages every week here at ComicMix.
There’s an interesting question posed by the New York Times film critic A.O. Scott in a new piece regarding superhero movies. He surveys the Summer of the Superhero and notes the genre’s success, but then wonders if it might have hit a creative high-water mark. In other words, could the conventions of the superhero limit…
The people over at The New York Times Magazine clearly have a great sense of the contemporary comic book scene. Earlier this year they picked up a new series by Jason (of I Killed Adolf Hitler fame), and now they’re debuting a new series by Rutu Modan, whose graphic novel Exit Wounds was one of…
Comics have long been a haven for collectors, that niche of consumers who’ll drop six figures on an old Disney issue or a near-mint of a Golden Age superhero. As comics are becoming less of a disposable form of entertainment, the issues are increasingly common. So individual issues are no longer a hot commodity. I…
The Sunday edition of The New York Times included a special bonus for comic book and movie fans: a great in-depth article with Christopher Nolan, director of Batman Begins and its upcoming sequel, The Dark Knight. Feeling grim that you missed it? As the Joker would say in The Dark Knight promo poster "Why so serious?"…
The New York Times has picked up on the debut of The Search, a comic book we reported on earlier this month being used in German classrooms to engage young students on the horrors of the Holocaust. In today’s story from Berlin, a reporter visits one classroom and sees how strong of interest the students…
Comics Links The New York Times declares that Britain is finally embracing the graphic novel. Well, good for them! Inside Pulse apparently has a story about comics, but some kind of SQL error is preventing me from actually reading it. Perhaps simply knowing it exists will give some readers a tiny bit of pleasure. Publishers…
