Random Comics News Story Round-Up

* two stories broke late in the day yesterday: 1) Michael George was convicted of murdering his then-wife Barbara in their comic book store in 1990; he had been convicted of the crime in 2008 but a judge dismissed that verdict. 2) Emily Nilsson announced that Sparkplug Comic Books will continue.

* go here to see a cute poster/cartoon by Andrea Tsurumi (the image here is only a tiny part of it).

* Gary Tyrrell looks at the numbers from a survey about digital comics.

* Rob Clough on two from Jon Chad. Sean Gaffney on Negima! Magister Negi Magi Omnibus Vol. 2. Johanna Draper Carlson on Galaxion Book Two: First Contact. Ted Brown on Sweets #1. Michael Buntag on Star Trek #1. Chris Duffy extols the virtues of the latest Chris Duffy-edited project. Win Wiacek on The Cabbie Vol. 1. Augie De Blick Jr. on the Bill Schelly art book about Joe Kubert and the first Carl Barks volume, both from Fantagraphics. Eddie Campbell on Habibi. Ruth Franklin on Metamaus. David Brothers on Casanova: Avaritia #2.

* the writer Alan David Doane writes on the unluckiest characters in comics.

* Deb Aoki takes a look at JManga.com a couple of months in, and has a few suggestions for improvement.

* Alex Robinson talks to Mike Dawson. Christopher Irving and Seth Kushner profile Dan DiDio. George Tramountanas talks to Kieron Gillen. Emma Brockes talks to Maurice Sendak. Albert Ching talks to Marc Guggenheim and Kieron Gillen.

* I might be tempted to buy that CBLDF grab bag even if it were being offered by the Comic Book Legal Attack Fund. That thing has some fun comics in it.

* Nik Scott reminds his fellow cartoonists that Steve Jobs is a Buddhist, so those cartoons of him showing St. Peter an app for getting into heaven or whatever are just weird. Alan Gardner suggests that many cartoonists doing eulogy cartoons could have taken a page from Jobs' life and been more original.

* finally, Hogun the Grim is totally undervalued as a mustache icon. If you'd like to take in one more piece of older comics imagery, this page from Curt Swan is a doozy.
 
posted 2:00 am PST | Permalink
 

---

 
Daily Blog Archives
November 2019
October 2019
September 2019
August 2019
July 2019
 
Full Archives