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On the Scene: The Future of Television Conference Goes Digital
Tweet On November 16th, a one day conference held at the Museum of Jewish Heritage brought out the best and brightest in Television to talk about the future, and that meant digital media. TiVo,...
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Things we liked that aren’t on the internet any more
Tweet The other day we were polishing our buggy whip collection, cleaning the heads on our VCR player, and updating our RSS reader, getting rid of the dead feeds and nuking categories like “Lost blogs”...
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New tumblr alert: Tom Fowler
Tweet Artist Tom Fowler has a new tumblr blog called D&D&D. That is all. #call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;} #social-essentials {margin: 0 0 10px 0;}
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The Hawkeye Initiative launches—and genderswapping will never be the same
TweetOver the weekend someone on Tumblr got the great idea of satirizing anatomically unlikely, and overtly sexualized comic book covers by replacing the women with Hawkeye. As far as we can make it...
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The Path to Becoming a Bestselling Graphic Novel
TweetWhen I first began writing this column, my intent was to help creators and comics publishers understand the methods to the madness of landing a book on the bestseller lists. After the November 8th...
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Arthur Magazine is back with Rick Veitch cover
Tweet AUGHTS NOSTALGIA. Arthur Magazine was a FREE culture magazine that defined a lot of the early internet/alternative culture of the early century, before the internet drove it out of business by...
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RIP: Comics Buyer’s Guide (1971-2013)
Tweet In a brief statement, publisher F+W announced the closing of CBG, the Comics Buyer’s Guide, today. The magazine’s 42-year run will end with issue #1699, one shy of the farewell #1700 that the...
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A few images from the TBG/CBG days of yore
TweetAnd oh how yore they are. Alan Light, founder of The Buyer’s Guide/Comics Buyer’s Guide is one of the most organized Flickr users we’ve ever encountered and he has a couple of sets from the...
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Jane Mai’s Poop Nightmare
TweetAt the risk of lowering the tone, I relay to you the news of Jane Mai’s Poop Nightmare: so bad it needed capitalization As someone who lives in an old Victorian house, I can say with the weight...
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‘Seconds’ from Bryan Lee O’Malley Delayed until 2014
TweetOver on his Tumblr blog, writer/artist/Backstreet Boys maven Bryan Lee O’Malley has explained that – due to a shoulder injury he suffered last year – his next project Seconds will be delayed until...
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Wertham and Are Comics Art? — is it 1981 again?
TweetA must read and a must-read for masochists top our linkage today, both returning to topics that were much on the minds of anyone in comics about 30 years ago — oldies but goodies. First and most...
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When the internet shuts down: UGO and Posterous
Tweet Although everything seems to be forever on the internet, it really isn’t. It’s oh so fragile, and the prime time of your life can be crossed out by one CEO’s pen swipe. Take UGO for instance. The...
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I’m going all Tumblr on ya
Tweet This is an announcement of vital import and historic significance! The week following Daylight Savings Time is in many ways the worst of the year for me. And this will be no exception. In my...
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INTERVIEW: 2000AD’s Mike Molcher on Spreading The Word of Tharg
TweetMike Molcher is the PR Co-ordinator for Rebellion, meaning he is the man directly responsible for promoting their comics, 2000AD and Judge Dredd Megazine. If you’ve noticed over the last few...
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Behold: Bartkira! An intriguing comics jam proposal
Tweet Ryan Humphrey posted this fantastic Simpson/Akira mash up comic on his tumblr last night and it’s been picking up a healthy number of notes since. The comic (which you can see below) is really...
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Kubla Comics—a Rotten Tomatoes for Comics?
Tweet A new site called Kubla Comics aims to be a review aggregator for comics, with a Rotten Tomatoes-like 0-5 rating system and pages for series and reviewers. Tyler James interviews site runner Ken...
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Not at C2E2? Just watch it on your computer
Tweet It seemed to start at this year’s ECCC, and before the year is out we’d expect it to be the new standard: streaming panels live from comic-cons for those who can’t go but want to follow along at...
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The Outhouse on Comics Press and Blacklists
Tweet There was a lot of talk at C2E2 about press lists, who’s on, who’s off, how you get on and what’s expected. There’s no question that Marvel and DC, like the studios that own them, want to have...
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Viva Comics Alliance!
TweetThis has been a rough week for the internet. The news that Comics Alliance was to be shut down, thus removing us all from our right to read daily articles from Andy Khouri, Joe Hughes, David...
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More rumblings in the comics blogosphere: Valerie Gallaher leaves MTV Geek
Tweet Well now. As of today, I am no longer working at MTV Geek. Much thanks and appreciation to my intrepid and talented writers — among them Charles, Sean, Brigid, Jorge, Kendra, Steven, Ali, Zack,...
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