The Oregonian continues to provide updates on the recovering condition of underground comix pioneer S. Clay Wilson. Some weeks back, Wilson was hospitalized after a drunken fall and was in a coma for some time. He’s up and about, as well as lucid but is having short-term memory issues. "His vocabulary is returning. His sarcasm. His…
Gene Colan’s artistic career will receive the retrospective treatment as San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum presents Colan: Visions of a Man without Fear, opening November 15 and running through March 15, 2009. On December 4, there will be a special opening reception with Gene and Adrienne Colan in attendance. The exhibition will include over 40…
Big Finish, the British audio producer, announced this week that four new Doctor Who pastiches will be released featuring their own character, Iris Wildthyme. She was created by writer Paul Magrs and she’s described as “Bracing the temporal winds in her trusty bus and accompanied by the ever-loyal Panda (a ten inch tall stuffed bear),…
SFGate, the website for the San Francisco Chronicle, has put together a pretty interesting analysis of the recent relocation of the X-Men from Westchester County, NY, all the way out to the West Coast in X-Men #500. According to X-Men Editor (and Bay Area native) Axel Alonso, San Francisco’s often controversial status as a "sanctuary…
Later this month, Richie Rich, Casper the Ghost and the rest of the Harvey Comics crew will be the focus of a new exhibit in San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum. According to Diamond’s industry news site, Scoop: Beginning June 28, 2008 and running through November 30, the Cartoon Art Museum will host “Harvey Comics: From…
Over at ScreenRant, they’ve got a post up that gives us a look at the brand new Iron Man movie poster being handed out at this years WonderCon in San Francisco. This time around, the poster features all three versions of Iron Man’sarmor from the film: the original Mark I, the prototype Mark II and the final…
WonderCon is in full swing in San Francisco, with plenty of of guests and events on the schedule. Here’s a quick look at the convention news that’s popping up around the ‘Net. Over at The Beat, Heidi MacDonald has kindly done all the hard work for me, and the rest of you, and put together a…
Just in time for the opening of WonderCon in San Francisco today, the online arm of the San Francisco Chronicle, SF Gate, has decided to put out its list, a comics "mix tape" as they call it, of the "Eight Comic Books to Read Before You Die." Posted by Peter Hartlaub, the list includes many notables…
On the west coast, San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum is debuting an exhibit on Osamu Tezuka tomorrow. Creating over 700 manga titles during his lifetime, he is best known in the West for his cartoons of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. His prolific manga work contains two main streams: manga ‘comic pictures’ for…
The Jack Chick Parody Wing needs to update its listings now. BoingBoing (again) points to TIKI – A Jack Chick-style tract which the enthralled poster picked up at last weekend’s APE small press show in San Francisco. It warns against — well, you know.
The indie comics’ Left Coast division will have its chance to shine again this weekend, as the Alternative Press Expo (a.k.a. APE, run by the good folks from the San Diego Comic-Con) gets underway at the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco ("…my favorite city, where the women are strong and the men are pretty!"…
Now that comics have earned mainstream respectability, can videogames be far behind? Henry Lowood, curator of the History of Science and Technology Collections at Stanford University, is at the forefront of gaining recognition of this hobby and industry as having "a history worth preserving and a culture worth studying." So last Thursday at the annual…
