July 1, 2005
Getaway Friday Soft News Bonanza
It's the Friday before a holiday, which this year has seen the full unleashing of feature articles and the like concerning comics. Here's a sampling:
* The cream of the crop is
a short but sweet interview with Joe Sacco at
Mother Jones, in support of
War's End. Sacco may be the cartoonist for whose new works I apply the shortest buy-to-read time; he's really in the prime of his career, and everything he does is a must-read.
* Douglas Wolk continues with his new column at
Salon with
a look at the Alan Moore-written comic Promethea.
*
Newsweek profiles Stephen Pastis of
Pearls Before Swine, a newspaper strip hovering right around breakout status.
* A Hooters
takes revenge on Thien Pham's newspaper review of one of their fine establishments, taking umbrage being one of those things you'd think one gives up the moment you embrace the name "Hooters."
* Bil Keane reacts to Pastis' most recent parody of
Family Circus here.
* Finally, the successful mainstream comic book writer Mark Millar and his on-line community have launched the first issue of their magazine, which you can access (or maybe not) through a
re-vamped web site. One person interviewed is Stan Lee, although darned if I can get to it. Wait!
Here it is, thanks to an e-mailer.
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