Alison Bechdel

I’ve been a fan of Alison Bechdel’s cartooning for a long time. I have several of the collections of Dykes to Watch Out For comic strips, and when I read her graphic novel Fun Home I was absolutely blown away. I’ve been following her weblog for a while, and I can’t tell you how happy [...]

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Gene Colan in Hard Times

One of my favorite comic artists of all time is Gene Colan. He drew Iron Man, a classic run on Tomb of Dracula including creating the Blade character, a stretch on Doctor Strange that I loved, and even worked on Howard the Duck with the late Steve Gerber. In the 80’s Eclipse comics published some [...]

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Free Comic Book Day

We’re out of town visiting my father-in-law in Goldsboro NC so I requested a side trip to the local comic store here for Free Comic Book Day. We got there about an hour before the store closed, so I don’t know if the comics selection was depleted or if they didn’t get the full array [...]

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Myrtle Beach’s Comic Shop is Back!

There used to be one comic shop in my area, which was in Surfside Beach at Highway 544 and Kings Highway. We’d drive by it if we were going to Myrtle Beach State Park or the dog park. That shop closed a while ago, which left me with no local comic options. I have periodically [...]

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Dave Stevens, R.I.P.

Sadly, artist and writer Dave Stevens died of leukemia yesterday. Here is Mark Evanier’s obituary of him. I’ve been a fan of the late Mr. Stevens since reading the Rocketeer stories in Pacific comics in the early 80’s. His art has always been fantastic, whether in comic book form or his exquisite paintings. [...]

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Bernie Mireault Interviews Himself

I’ve been skipping this interview in my Google Reader for weeks because when I reach it, I typically don’t have the time to focus my full attention on this long piece. The Comics Reporter has a long interview with Bernie Mireault that looks fascinating. This is a guy whose work I have followed since the [...]

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RIP Steve Gerber

I’m a long time fan of Steve Gerber’s comic book work, from Howard theDuck, Omega the Unknown, the Defenders, and so on. I also was a big fan as a kid of Thundarr the Barbarian, a work that Steve drove forward.
A few weeks ago I started following his weblog and was keeping up with his [...]

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Achewood is Killing Me

I’m a many years fan of the frequently raunchy Achewood webcomic. Today’s strip has been making me giggle for four hours. I think the quote of today is “No one is going to like anything you do to their coffee with a dildo.”
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Punk Rock and Social Media

Justin Kownacki has an interesting post comparing social media to punk rock. I’ve long said that although I have a history in radio, to me podcasting is less like that and more like the science fiction and punk zines I read and/or published in my youth.
Earlier today on Twitter I said that the spiritual [...]

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Bring Me the Head of Del Close

The site ComicMix is an interesting one. It’s an online comic book site that is commissioning new work from creators I’m familiar with. They are off to a running start with a new Munden’s Bar story. It’s not just any old story but it is a story drawn by Skip Williamson and starring the skull [...]

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Bobby Tables

You have got to love a comic strip about SQL injection vulnerabilities.
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I Choose Panter

You know this is a sad election cycle when artist Gary Panter (the guy who does comics, did the Pee Wee’s Playhouse Set, Zappa album covers, etc) has a presidential platform that excites me far more than any of the candidates for either party’s actual platforms. I wish I could vote for Gary. We are [...]

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Anthony Bourdain/Harvey Pekar Crossover

Boy, I wish I had found out about Harvey Pekar appearing on Anthony Bourdain’s TV show before it aired, rather than after. It showed last night, and while the Travel Channel replays the living hell out of most programs, they don’t seem to be repeating the episode in the next week. I’ll have to keep [...]

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Achewood in the House: Chris Onstad Interview

Here’s an interesting interview from the Onion AV club with Chris Onstad of Achewood. That is the only webcomic I follow on a regular basis, and have for years. A few years back, my XMas gifts were collections of the strip and Achewood T-shirts, so I’m more interested than average. Apparently this is the first [...]

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Minicomics Subscription Idea

One of the tangible results I get from listening to the Indie Spinner Rack podcast is that my interest in mini-comics has been rekindled. I have a number of these, and I used to pick them up from people at conventions. I’ve got some of the old Matt Feazell Cynicalman comics, some Steeldragon Press comics [...]

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The Spirit Movie

I’ll admit it. I’m very nervous about Frank Miller directing a film of The Spirit. I really hope that he manages to pull it off and keep true to the spirit of the source material. I fear it, though. It can’t possibly be worse than the 1980’s TV movie adaptation with Sam Jones. I saw [...]

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Podcasting Use Case for Comics

Here’s an example of what podcasting can do that normal media just couldn’t. Derek Coward turned me on to Indie Spinner Rack. In a recent show, they had some correspondents at the Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo who did a freakish level of coverage of the Howard E. “Gene” Day Prize. They recorded the [...]

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Roast Beef Makes it Official

I for one am glad to see that an imaginary cartoon dog finally got off the stick and asked his girlfriend to marry him. I particularly like the density of emotion and information Onstad conveys in a one panel joke “Sigh. Part of loving a woman is accepting Sting.”
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Achewood Gets All Heavy On Us

Today’s Achewood comic strip not only wraps up the current arc, but in the last few panels gets philosphical about the nature of happiness. Since that’s a topic high in my thoughts lately, I thought I point out the money shots. I think everything in the entire Achewood run up to today is [...]

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Darwyn Cooke and the Spirit

Here’s an article on Darwyn Cooke and his modern revival of the Spirit. It’s a good read. Even though I have the first 5 issues, I’ve been too big of a spazz to sit down and read them. Soon, soon.
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