Conservatives simply cannot believe Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) dared to wear a costume on Halloween “As House Democrats prepare to officially blow up their Majority with impeachment, @RepKatiePorter is prancing around dressed as Batman,” the National Republican Congressional Committee tweeted on Wednesday. “This is how seriously these clowns are taking impeachment. #CA45” Originally at talkingpointsmemo.com…
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This week’s tempest in a book-pot was sparked yesterday by the fine writer Michael Chabon, but it could easily have been any one of a thousand other authors. In an interview with the Washington Post, occasioned by the upcoming flood of his back catalog into electronic formats, Chabon complained about his royalty rates: When it’s…
POWELL MAKES THE POST!!! Martin Powell, renowned Pulp and Comic Author got a mention in the Washington Post recently for his well known work SCARLET IN GASLIGHT. The article is reposted below, with appropriate credits and links provided following!! Three books on Dracula, selected by Michael Sims Friday, October 29, 2010 Like Bela Lugosi, his…
On October 2, 1950, Peanuts premiered on October 2, 1950, in eight newspapers: The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Minneapolis Tribune, The Allentown Call-Chronicle, The Bethlehem Globe-Times, The Denver Post, The Seattle Times, and The Boston Globe. It began as a daily strip, reprinted above. If you’ve never heard of Peanuts, I, for one,…
To the list of Wolverine artists that we’re appreciating because Marvel isn’t, it seems we sadly must now add Frank Miller and Josef Rubenstein. Why? Because of this cover. The Washington Post lists the artist as Morry Hollowell, completely skipping over the work of the original artists. Unless they’re really trying for the Pop Art…
The Washington Post recently posted their lists of best comics of the year and they include: The Alcoholic, By Jonathan Ames and Dean Haspiel (Vertigo/DC Comics, $19.99) Bottomless Belly Button, By Dash Shaw (Fantagraphics, $29.99) Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Eight, Volume Two: No Future for You, By Brian K. Vaughan, Georges Jeanty and Joss…
Over at the Comics Reporter, Tom Spurgeon has done quite a service by compiling the thoughts of a huge (HUGE) number of comics creators on the controversial cartoon gracing the latest issue of the New Yorker. You can see the image at right. It shows a Muslim, militant Obama and his wife in the Oval…
I had all but given up on newspaper comic strips in recent years. My favorites (Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Peanuts, etc.) had disappeared and every new innovative comic appeared online, not in the funny pages. Then a friend pointed me to Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson of the Washington Post. Like many…
Spoiler alert! Spoiler alert! Spoiler alert! Danger Will Robinson! Alarums and excursions! Better watch out, better not cry, better not pout…Beware! Mayday! Here there be dragons! Detour, there’s a muddy road ahead… Okay, enough of that. What I’m warning you about is the ending of The Bourne Ultimatum, now playing at a multiplex near you,…
Jennifer Fallon loves Wile E. Coyote, and doesn’t care who knows it. (She also lists Chuck Jones’s very interesting rules for Roadrunner cartoons, which show just how much of a brilliant formal exercise those shorts were.) But Wouldn’t It Be Cool? lists nine reasons that he reads SF. The Philadelphia Inquirer uses the Harry Potter…
I should warn you about these link-lists: Mondays tend to be longer than usual (since there’s a lot of content that goes up on the weekend, or early on Monday), and the beginning of the month tends to be longer than usual. Since we’re just past both of those things, this is going to be…
