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03-Sep-2016
Captain Marvel and Captain Marvel
As I continue to catch up on reading RSS feeds what I have not read in a long long while, the ArtLung gaze turns its eye onto the wonderful blog Every Day is Like Wednesday by run by J. Caleb Mozzocco who in 2014 published a terrific explainer on the many, many, really more than...
02-Sep-2016
6 Months to another March MODOK Madness.
Sigh. Our final days of MARCH MODOK MADNESS 2016. Repent! Catch up with what it’s all about at marchmodokmadness.blogspot.com. I submitted one back in 2012 (here). I need to do another one in 2017.
31-Aug-2016
SHRIPP! Adam Warren on sound effects in comics
I love Adam Warren’s work so much. His comic Empowered comic manages to be satirical and yet dramatic, ridiculous and yet science fictional and superheroic. He also has a penchant for cyberpunk and pop culture, which is wonderful. Quote of the day is from him on sound effects, contemplating his work on Empowered Volume 2,...
06-Jul-2015
Maybe 2 days.
I looked at this Evel Knievel ad, the back cover of World’s Finest #243 from January 1977, far too much. Probably when we moved to the Philippines it was lost. Maybe to Goodwill? Maybe in a yard sale? Maybe in the trash. I loved comics. And in the Philippines I learned to love Asian media,...
18-Dec-2014
TO APPEAL TO GIRLS WITH LEGOS
I have to check out this webcomic: SEASONAL DEPRESSION
15-Dec-2014
Comic-Con 2013
I went to Comic-Con this year! It was great. Things I did: Things I wanted to do but couldn’t. GOOD LORD. I started this as a draft and NEVER wrote about my experiences at Comic-Con 2013. PLUSWHICH I didn’t write about my experiences at 2014 Comic-Con. Will I write about my 2015 Comic-Con experiences? Only...
04-Feb-2011
Notebook Cover, 1985
YET. ANOTHER. COVER. From High School. The kid in the uniform is called “The Punk” and I have a few drawings of him. Not particularly interesting in retrospect. The backstory for The Punk was something rather like Kick-Ass. Basically, a teenage kid, trying to be a “realistic” superhero. No powers, some cool gadgets. In some...
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24-Jan-2011
Interview with Brett Jackson, creator of Massive Sqwertz
Brett Jackson is a designer who’s been working the web since 1997. He left his cushy gig as Art Director for Google in New York to move to Switzerland with his wife. He has recently relocated again to Los Angeles where he freelances Flash and graphic design. In April 2010, Brett began working on a...
20-Jan-2011
Comics and the Law
In about 1985, at San Diego Comic-Con, I received a free copy of the weekly Comic Buyer’s Guide (Wikipedia says it’s the longest running English-language periodical reporting on the American comic book industry). I got myself a subscription and I was hooked. It was a tabloid, newsprint at the time. But I loved getting that...
15-Jan-2011
Warren Ellis Notices Massive Sqwertz
Well this is cool: Warren Ellis noticed Brett’s article “How to sell your book or comic for the iPad & iPhone without Apple’s help.” Warren Ellis is pretty awesome. You may remember Massive Sqwertz as the site I did the theme for. I also read and enjoy it. You can follow Massive Sqwertz too: @massivesqwertz.
20-Apr-2010
Massive Sqwertz
Psst… just between you and me, can I tell you about a new webcomic I think you should look forward to? I’ve known Brett Jackson since sometime in the 20th Century. At the time I believe he was the prime mover in the San Diego Macromedia Users Group. He is soft-launching a webcomic, and I...
15-Feb-2010
Liz Prince
Today’s comic from Liz Prince is adorable. No, really, ADORABLE. Have you clicked through yet? Because it’s really adorable. Seriously, click.
14-Feb-2010
Happy Valentine’s Day!
For Leah: image via thisisnthappiness
25-Jan-2010
The Comics Journal: Online & Off
For some cultural things I much prefer the journalism about a thing more than the thing itself. Sports is one area, for example, I really enjoy the reporting of Bob Costas and HBO’s Real Sports show. Another area where the reportage gets more attention than the thing itself is in comics. You may or may...
12-Jul-2009
Mastering the Art of Combat!
I find Nobody Scores! inscrutable, which is often good, and sometims the flashes of brilliance crack me up!
14-Mar-2009
Watchmen Advertisements, 1986
17-Feb-2009
Because, you know, the Silver Age
Sentence of the day, from Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog: Romance Special: The Time-Travel Heartbreak of Lois Lane. Anyway, Lois makes the connection that a device designed to stop planets from exploding might be useful in keeping the planet Krypton from exploding, so she gets a copy of the plans and grabs a time machine, a process...
26-Jan-2009
Beetlejuice & The Joker
I’m sorry to report I forget where I found this last week. But I love this image of two of my favorite tricksters: What’s a trickster? In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphic animal who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal...
25-Jan-2009
Who Watches the Watchmen?
In 1986 and 1987 the comics series Watchmen came out. I was 16 years old at the time and the work was mindblowing. I had been looking forward to it since I had read it was coming in DC Spotlight #1, a freebie I’d acquired at Comic Con the year before. It looked like it...
04-Jan-2009
Sinfest Comic from 28 Dec 2008
I really liked this Sinfest comic, turning Buddha into the little drummer boy, drumming a Japanese style Taiko drum. I keep re-reading it and figured I should post a link:
30-Oct-2008
Vampirella like Rio by Nagel
Terrific Vampirella drawing by Cliff Chiang, who has a fun blog. It’s an homage to Rio, of course — by Patrick Nagel. Nagel was among my inspirations when I was a teenager. The technical craftsmanship, the acute graphic design sense inspired me.
23-Aug-2008
Bear Creek Apartments; Bryan Lee O’Malley
When I was in San Francisco I picked up the first two of the Scott Pilgrim comics while at Isotope Comics (whose very cool owner James Sime has a twitter stream). I enjoyed them immensely on the trip back home and have subsequently picked up numbers 3 and 4 as well. In addition I picked...
19-Aug-2008
Donald has a Brewski
And engages in wacky shenanigans, no doubt: via Cover Browser‘s Daily Cover Feed.
18-Aug-2008
Latest Items That Made Me Laugh
Mack Reed penned The Fastest Spider in Los Angeles, which charmed me and made me laugh. PCL Linkdump posted a link to a Simplicity Hammer Pants. Giggled at that one. File under “funny ’cause it’s true” — Sassy‘s Tips for New Dads. Also: Matthew Baldwin‘s Thought Crimes and Re: Cephalopod are both hilarious. Neil Kramer...
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