July 2011
22 posts
Re-Reading Buz Sawyer In 2011 →
I happened upon some Buz Sawyer reprints lately and thought it might be interesting to give them a peruse. These particular ones are from Pioneer circa 1988. They took a somewhat…
News + Notes →
It’s time for another edition of “What Sean’s Up To”… Ethan Young Interview At Comic-Con International, Hermes Press announced that they’ll be doing a printed version of Ethan Young’s Tails…
Touring A Printing Facility →
How many of you are familiar with how a comic book gets from the original art in the creators’ hands to the stapled paper pamphlet in your hands? In my day job, several of us graphics folks filmed a…
Early-ish Wednesday Links →
The Tellers of Weird Tales blog recently ran a four-part series reprinting a letter from James O. Causey dating from sometime in the early 1980s. The letter was in response to a request from Randal…
The RoadID Comic →
I took up running relatively recently. I was never a great runner, so I started slowly. On the treadmill. Over the past several months, I’ve improved considerably and these days, a six mile run…
The HLN Logo →
When I’m on the treadmill at the gym, I’m stuck staring at a handful of televisions tuned to one of five stations, with CNN being the least horrible among them. And periodically, they run ads for…
Borders Order Canellation →
This morning, I received the following email from Borders concerning an order I had placed with them a month or so back. The cheapest used version on Amazon right now lists at $82, which…
For Those Playing Along At Home →
A couple of minor updates from yesterday’s note about watching Comic-Con International from home… Comic Books Resources’ news feed is almost exclusively CCI related material at the moment. They…
Tracking SDCC →
Like many of you, I am decidedly NOT attending this year’s San Diego Comic-Con, but I am interested in what’s going on there. Back in the day, you used to have to wait weeks or even months to hear…
Why I'll Miss The Xerics →
News is circulating about how the Xeric Foundation will cease providing grants to comic book creators. It’s hardly surprising that they’re changing focus, as the web has allowed creators to post…
My Day Of Avengers Training →
I opted to head over to today’s extras casting call for the Avengers movie. It was supposed to run from noon until 4:00 at an almost-local Holiday Inn. I was mainly curious about the extras casting…
Random Comic Photos In The Library Of Congress →
I was just trolling through the Library of Congress website and found a few photos of possible interest to comics folks… Winsor McCay sketching for the Actors Benefit for Crippled Children, 1908.
Links-A-Daisy →
The French website madmoiZelle recently conducted an interview with Jimmy Beaulieu about his new graphic novel, Comédie sentimentale pornographique. This Google translation of the page is pretty…
ISO Webcomic Artists →
You know how I was talking about biographical comics just yesterday? I might have an opportunity to do some short biographical webcomics in the semi-near future. I’ve never thought of myself as…
Tell Everybody →
I was having dinner with an old friend this weekend, and I told her a story from school. I had just read the two-issue Golden Legacy biography of Frederick Douglass and — lo and behold…
The Griff Review →
Aliens have invaded Earth. They’ve strategically wiped out much of the planet’s formalized defenses, often doing so with such speed and efficiency that no one even had a chance to…
Panicked Mashup! →
Gah! This whole week has been one of just trying to keep my head above water, so I’m signing out today with a mashup. You know the rules: Text from today’s Garfield, art from today’s… Evil,…
Cubicles Review →
Cubicles is Red 5’s latest offering in their “Digital First” line of titles. Unlike their previous/initial release, Bonnie Lass, this book is being presented as a single graphic novel….
Link-A-Dink-A-Do →
This has been around for a few weeks but, in case you haven’t read it yet, Gary Groth has a rather scathing piece on Jim Shooter’s attempts at re-writing comics history. More specifically, his…
In Search Of The One Piece →
I just started watching One Piece over at Hulu about a week, maybe a week and a half ago. I’m a little over 40 episodes in now because, wow, am I enjoying it! I wish I had started in with…
Whither Wizard World →
I last attended a Wizard World convention in 2008. That was, I think, the last year before they really got into competition with the ReedPop conventions. I was, at the time, surprised just how much…
Google+ Likes Comics →
I managed to score a Google+ account last night (thanks, Keidra!) and have been trying to poke around and figure out how it works and compares to Facebook. It seems like some of the features are…
