NYCC 2009: Setup day photos
Listen… you can hear the engines beginning to rev… But what’s on the floor? Let’s take a look…
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Review: ‘Typhon’ Vol. 1
Typhon Dirty Danny Press, $24.95 At 50, I’m pretty set in my comic book reading habits. Having been raised largely on the output from DC Comics and Marvel, I have fairly mainstream tastes. Now and then, though, I push myself to see what else is out there. As a result, reading Danny Hellman’s recently published…
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Norman Mailer, Neil Gaiman Fanboy
Norman Mailer died this morning, age 84, at Mt. Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. You can scour the news to read about his importance to literature in the Twentieth Century, from his ground-breaking novels to founding the Village Voice. But did you know he also helped change comics? One night, we had a dinner party for…
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COMICS LINKS: Inferior Five Edition
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…
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MARTHA THOMASES: Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker was a poet, short story writer and critic for The New Yorker in its heyday. When I was first writing, I wanted to be Dorothy Parker. Well, actually, I wanted to be Nora Ephron, who wrote a column in Esquire at the time, and who said that she had once wanted to be…
