October 31, 2013
Go, Look: A Hand-Painted Calvin And Hobbes Sunday
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Assembled, Zipped, Transferred and Downloaded: Digital News
By Tom Spurgeon
* the alt-comics veteran Jose Neufeld
is beginning a series of stories about those whose lives felt the impact of Hurricane Sandy over at the Nib on Medium.com. Neufeld has something of a history with the subject of hurricanes.
* Viz taking
making its catalog available via iBooks completes a digital-offering strategy that pretty much covers all the major, standard ways work like that is distributed, including from the publisher itself.
* I don't exactly know what
this is, but I wanted to mention it here so I could go back to it at a later date. It looks to be some sort of clearinghouse for on-line work and parts of same.
* a CBLDF fundraiser on the Sunday after CAB (making it November 10) at the Society of Illustrators
will encompass a debut for Jeff Smith's much-anticipated webcomic
Tuki Save The Humans. That is one high-profile webcomic launch.
* the last item in
this post by Gary Tyrrell goes over the Megan Rose Gedris situation regarding taking down a bunch of webcomics in support of a project she created because the comics-as-launching-point-to-movies company Platinum has turned out to be such a rotten partner in terms of developing anything regarding that work, and that there is no rights reversion so she's basically supporting an enterprise that is not hers and will never do what she hoped. It's worth mentioning in this site as many times as possible if it leads to one person lawyering up or otherwise thinking through a deal for the sake of a deal.
* finally, I'm going to "go look" it at some point, but the e-mail from Dan Berry suggests
this collaboration with Nate DiMeo will be the first of a series rather than a one-off, which is great.
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If I Were In Los Angeles, I’d Go To This
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If I Were In Minneapolis, I’d Go To This
I actually don't know if there's any comics content at all, but I don't know anyone in Minneapolis so I would totally go
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If I Were In Boston, I’d Go To This
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If I Were In Amadora, I’d Go To This
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If I Were Near Lucca, I’d Go To This
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Not Comics: The Months That Followed
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* it's not really comics, but the great writer Bob Levin sent along
this 2013 SVA graduation address from Greil Marcus suggesting I might like it and think it has something to say to readers of this site. I did and I think it does.
* Petra Mayer talks to
Gene Luen Yang. Chris Arrant talks to
Hank Kanalz. Raighne Hogan talks to
Rob Kirby.
* there's a major preview by Charles McGrath
here of Art Spiegelman's exhibit opening at the Jewish Museum next week. That should be an awesome sight to behold.
* the
Plain-Dealer has a profile up on the news Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum digs,
two weeks away from the grand opening festival.
* Scott Keys on
The Fox #1. Brett Schenker on
The Fox #1. Jacob Schraer on
Woman Rebel. Sean Gaffney on
Love In Hell Vol. 1. J. Caleb Mozzocco on
a bunch of comics-shop comics. Colm Creamer on
Savage Wolverine #9. Joe Gordon on
The Sandman: Overture #1. Richard Bruton on
Knight And Dragon. Rob Clough on
a bunch of mini-comics.
* Johanna Draper Carlson
reminds us to note the Megan Rose Gedris story. The thought of taking that much word down because the contract is such that you can't even work in mutually beneficial partnership with the rights holder is super-depressing.
* finally, Frank Santoro talks to Sean T. Collins
here about the current state of criticism about comics. This is something I never thought of as having a state so it's hard for me to wrap my mind around what they're talking about conceptually. On the other hands, there's a lot of meat in the individual lines and tossed-off asides that it's easy not to care if some sort of theory is explicated.
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Happy 49th Birthday, Whit Spurgeon!
my brother Whit takes this site's better photos
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Happy 71st Birthday, Michael Fleisher!
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Happy 41st Birthday, Zander Cannon!
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Happy 46th Birthday, Rich Koslowski!
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Go, Look: Vile 2013
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October 30, 2013
Go, Look: Nicolo Pellizzon
thx, jeremy baum
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Finally, An Article About Collecting Comics That Tells The Truth
Here. It's still pretty astonishing to me that anyone can sell things like
X-Men #94 and
Incredible Hulk #181 for anything more than a few bucks -- seems like there should be plenty of copies of those comics in circulation. I am grateful to the comics shops that have made use of reasonably-priced back-issue comics as a feature of their store, and love having that relationship to the art form available to me.
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Go, Look: John Buscema Mini-Gallery
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Go, Look: Tatsuya Morino Mini-Gallery
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The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Cons, Shows, Events
By Tom Spurgeon
* LICAF has announced dates for 2014:
October 17-19.
* I keep forgetting to post
this report on the Boomfest festival. Unless I didn't, in which case here it is again. Sorry: old.
* it should come as no surprise to anyone that's been paying attention
that Emerald City Comicon is seeing advance interest.
*
Chris Pitzer is getting ready for CAB.
* if you're interested in conventions generally or the experiences of mainstream comics professional at conventions specifically,
this is a fine piece by Ron Marz about a recent convention trip to Cleveland.
* Rob Ullman went to Kent for a comics show, and
wrote this report.
* finally, a show in Tucson
previewed.
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If I Were In Wellington, I’d Go To This
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If I Were In Amadora, I’d Go To This
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If I Were Near Lucca, I’d Go To This
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Go, Look: Supply!
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Random Comics News Story Round-Up
* Amy Lee profiles
comiXology. They are the giant in the room right now.
* missed
this post about Mick McMahon's cover process, featuring the Hellboy character.
* last chance to get
a monster picture from JT Dockery.
* you have to look at a photo of a turd, but once you get past that particular unpleasantness,
this essay about the recent PBS superhero comics documentary by Gerry Giovinco marks the objection of someone who was in a different part of the industry than that which was heavily represented by the makers of the documentary. I failed to see the documentary, but it looked like a bunch of smart people and respected pros in service of a kind of needlessly whitewashed and narrowly focused take on that genre and thus comic books in North America more generally. The key word is "needlessly," because of course a documentary needs to leave something out -- but what it does and how and to what effect is the basis on which they're judged in certain corners.
* James Romberger talks to
Frank Santoro.
* Johnny Ryan draws
Cthulu.
* Sean Howe's publication of
Jim Lee's rejection letters received some traction.
* I think
this is one of those comics working within the Bill Watterson milieu that people are talking about.
* J. Caleb Mozzocco on
New Avengers Vol. 1 and The Punisher Vol. 1.
* Graeme McMillan
explains why Alan Moore had his name removed from the forthcoming
Miracleman effort at Marvel. The narrative about Moore is so goofy that I imagine a lot of folks process everything he does as kind of Moore being wacky or unpleasant, but it looks like he thinks that maybe he perpetrated a wrong against Mick Anglo by participating in a project to which that creator may have had rights. I don't know, it seems to me we could use more people thinking that way, and the hell whether it conforms to come sort ideal of collegiality.
* finally, Joseph Maurer
selects the top five comics that take place on Halloween.
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Happy 76th Birthday, Frank Stack!
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