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Essex County: I'm late to the party, but I'll still wear a lampshade on my head

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 04:40:00 +0000

Elsewhere: I reviewed Strange #2 at Comics Bulletin. No TV reviews this week, since neither show I write about had a new episode. Sorry, Brady-addicts. Links: One Patrick Wensink informs me that he is having a coloring contest using images from his book, Sex Dungeon For Sale! , and one of the ...

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Dynamite Acquires Dabel Brothers Titles

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 04:28:57 +0000

Dynamite Entertainment will be adding to it's classic character-driven line of series in 2010 after purchasing a wave of titles adapted from the works of Dean Koontz, Jim Butcher and more from Dabel Brothers Publishing.

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A Post Post

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:18:24 +0000

This post of a comic by Howie Post is purely nostalgic for me. I bought this comic off the spinner in the winter of '68, weighing in just at the tail end of the Silver Age, according to the reckoning of some, just before the demise of the 12 centers. Anthro was edited by Joe Orlando, who ...

Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics ... found this 15 hours ago on mydelineatedlife.blogspot.com

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“The Lost Cat,” a Lost Comic

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:18:24 +0000

Here’s one from the vaults. A one-page comic I did in 2004 for the short-lived Prophecy Magazine. Since very few people saw it at the time, I figured I’d share it here. (Bigger jpg here.)

Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics ... found this 15 hours ago on scottmccloud.com

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The Little King by John Stanley?

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:18:24 +0000

Sing little bird, sing!! Hey there! Here goes a really dig story likely written by John Stanley . I was reading some Four Colors last week when this story published in issue 494 of the series (1953) blows into my mind. Frank Young brought to us the other The Little King story from this ...

Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics ... found this 15 hours ago on joyville.blogspot.com

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Rhapsody in Brown

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 01:32:29 +0000

Here's a Fred the Clown strip I did for Tripwire a couple of years ago - I think enough time has passed now for me to post it here without getting anybody annoyed. Art and Story Extreme!! had a short appearance by me last week - just a fun cameo on a call-in show, and nothing there for the ...

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Review - Lost At Sea

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 19:00:00 +0000

In lieu of not having weekly reviews on Thursday this week, I figure it wouldn't hurt to get up at least one review anyway! Recently, I did a little hunting in order to find something by Bryan Lee O' Malley. As I traveled from store to store I had to repeatedly say that no, it wasn't Scott ...

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American Splendor's Inimitable Harvey Pekar on The Pekar Project

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:55:34 +0000

Words: Christopher Irving. Fumetti (Photo Comix): Seth Kushner Harvey Pekar sits in a comfortably worn plush chair in the Brooklyn Lyceum, the start of the second day of the King Con, where he’s a guest, there to promote The Pekar Project , his venture into a territory where he’s completely ...

Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics ... found this 2 days ago on nycgraphicnovelists.com

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Turns Out President Obama Is A Vampire Slayer Named Twilight

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:30:00 +0000

I'm a pretty casual Buffy fan. I watched the final season kind of in passing (but I did see it all, by golly), I admittedly didn't catch much of "Angel," and I've been a little behind on the trades from the latest Dark Horse comics. So finding out ... Read more Permalink | ...

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Portland Mercury

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 06:18:00 +0000

Arts & Literature Oh, Comic Book Nerd! Oh, Comic Book Nerd! Donated by Top Shelf Comics / Fantagraphic Books / Oni Press, Inc. / Floating World / Katee Sackhoff Get all of your graphic novel needs for 2010 taken care of in one fell swoop! Local comics publisher Oni Press (onipress.com)the ...

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Coping Through Comics

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:18:24 +0000

Graphic novel that examines schizophrenia hits shelves at local comic book store.

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'Genesis' Is #1!

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:18:24 +0000

Robert Crumbs’ The Book of Genesis took the #1 slot in the adult graphic novel chart for November, after moving up steadily since its debut in September.

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Tokyopop CEO Considers Using Fan Translators (Updated)

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:18:24 +0000

The North American manga publisher Tokyopop hosted a "webinar" in Tokyo on Wednesday with company founder and CEO Stu Levy and editor Lillian Diaz-Przybyl . During the webinar, Levy said he was curious to see if fan translators would be interested in translating work for Tokyopop . Levy ...

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10 Things About the 2000s that Wizard Forgot - Part One

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:04:08 +0000

by Ron Richards This past Wednesday, I picked up the latest issue of Wizard , issue #219, which was billed as "The Decade Issue," which promised to celebrate the past 10 years of comics over the span of the somewhat thin magazine. As I eagerly read through the articles, ...

Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering ... found this 15 hours ago on ifanboy.com

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It Came From the NYPL: Dignifying Comics: Stories about Women Scientists

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 15:18:24 +0000

Dignifying Science: Stories about Women Scientists Written by Jim Ottaviani Illustrated by Donna Barr, Stephanie Gladden, Roberta Gregory, Mary Fleener, Ramona Fradon, Lea Hernandez, Carla Speed McNeil, Linda Medley, Marie Severin, Jen Sorensen and Anne Timmons Published by GT Labs ...

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TMNT Fan Film Gets A Graphic Novel, Continues To Inspire Curiosity

Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:00:00 +0000

Fan-made comic book movie trailers are pretty common fare these days. Some are excellent and show off passion and skill, others feel more like high school video editing class projects. For the creators of the forthcoming "Dawn of the Ninja Turtles," ... Read more Permalink ...

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Constructing Humanity– a review of Pluto Volume 6

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:52:13 +0000

It’s been fascinating seeing how Naoki Urasawa constructs stories. In a relatively short span of time, Viz has released his Monster, Pluto and 20th Century Boys and in each, Urasawa has put together his stories in different ways. Monster was a marathon, with the main two contestants ...

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The Phantom - "The Belt"

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:55:34 +0000

Within Skull Cave, he sits on his throne of stone. His face appears as hard as the rock that surrounds him as he broods over the death of his ancestors. The walls are lit by torch fire. Devil, his half-mad wolf, sits nearby; regal and somber as his master. He is the Ghost who Walks ; the Man ...

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Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:04:41 +0000

PROLOGUE The Sixth Gun: That What Ails Ya, Prologue PART ONE “If old Ezra could read minds and foretell the future and such, how come he didn’t know he was gonna get himself ate by cannibals?” That’s how my brother, Jessie, saw things, and I reckon it was difficult to argue with his reasoning no ...

Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering ... found this 7 days ago on onipress.com

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“Birdland Reconsidered”: The roots of Gilbert Hernandez’ sex comic in Reich’s orgone energy.

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 17:03:18 +0000

“Birdland Reconsidered”: The roots of Gilbert Hernandez’ sex comic in Reich’s orgone energy.

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More Mega Man Coming To Comics Care Of UDON

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:30:00 +0000

UDON's on a roll these days. Just weeks after announcing a new "Darkstalkers" title, the publisher's pulled back the curtain on a forthcoming Mega Man series. "Mega Man Megamix," is a three-volume manga by Hitoshi Ariga and has been around since '97, ... Read more Permalink ...

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Up Pops the Devil!

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:14:20 +0000

December is here, the holiest, most inspirational month of the year. And to honour all things held most sacred this holiday season, THOIA has decided to do an entire month devoted to The Devil . Sounds like Hell you say? Perfect. So come with us now as we resurrect Mister Lucifer in his less ...

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Past Predictions for Webcomics

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 15:14:20 +0000

I'm hoping to have a roundtable discussion of webcomics in 2009 up on the site later this month, but in the meantime I went back and looked at past ComixTalk roundtables ( 2007 , 2006 , 2005 ) to see how we all did with our predictions for the years to come. How'd we do? Tom ...

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McSweeney's San Francisco Panorama presented proudly by the San Francisco Chronicle

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:00:32 +0000

The new McSweeney's issue presented proudly by the San Francisco Chronicle as a Celebration of Print What happens when you bring together some of the country's most celebrated writers and artists - from Stephen King and Michael Chabon to Dave Eggers and Art Spiegelman - and ask them to use ...

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Best Comics of 2005 Meta-List

Wed, 2 Dec 2009 05:18:00 +0000

This meta-list of the top 30 comic books of 2005 is compiled from fourteen "best comics of 2005" lists from critics across the internet. Methodology: I gave each critic 550 points to distribute among the books on his or her list. Critics who wrote unnumbered lists distributed their points evenly ...

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LACMA Collections Online

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 05:40:00 +0000

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30 Characters in 30 Days: Round Up (All 30)

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 22:36:04 +0000

30 Characters in 30 Days: Round Up - Ralph Contreras. Thanks to all the great comments on the characters, both the constructive and positive. Seeing everyone’s awesome work helped keep me motivated. For this challenge I was in the company of super cool artistic and creative people. -SHAZAM!

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Super-Gods: The Greatest Mythology in Comics

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 13:00:00 +0000

This week sees the release of Michael Avon Oeming's "God Complex," a comic about a man named Paul who is actually the Greek god Apollo, trying to live a normal mortal life despite his divine family's best efforts at persuading him -- which, as this ... Read more Permalink | ...

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Eric Burns-White: When confronted with these facts, the old guard almost always makes an "ADHD culture" crack. Because obviously the entire world must be disabled instead of Rupert Murdoch being wrong.

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:55:34 +0000

One of the most cogent folks I know, particularly in discussions of publishing and the internet, is Adam Tinworth. I've known Adam through a number of settings, but the one most germane to the discussion is as a business...

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Remember, Remember, The First Of December

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 14:55:34 +0000

Once upon a time I lived with Bryan Lee O’Malley and this other guy, and we used one of the rooms in the house for our office. It housed all of our computers. I was kind of poor, so I had a pair of hand-me-down speakers for my computer and no headphones, wheras Mal and Other Guy both ...

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The Comics Reporter

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 02:56:51 +0000

CR Review: Pim & Francie: "The Golden Bear Days" image Creator: Al Columbia Publishing Information: Fantagraphics, hardcover, 240 pages, November 2009, $28.99 Ordering Numbers: 1606993046 (ISBN10), 9781606993040 (ISBN13) There's a picture in the new Pim & Francie book my ...

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The Comics Reporter

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:04:15 +0000

Flipped! David Welsh On Osamu Tezuka's Swallowing The Earth image By David P. Welsh I'm of the opinion that there should be a constant influx of translated comics by Osamu Tezuka. He's so essential to the history and evolution of manga, redefining storytelling techniques ...

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Aren’t We All Looking for Calvin and Hobbes?

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:36:05 +0000

A couple of decades ago, most people probably read Calvin and Hobbes, holding the daily newspaper over a bowl of cereal or a plate of toast. I know I did. It was one of the few comic strips that was actually funny or interesting. By the time Calvin and Hobbes started running in 1985, most [...]

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By the 10's: Li'l Abner!

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 08:01:00 +0000

Do I really have to tell you guys who Li'l Abner was? I didn't think so. Let's just enjoy the covers! This is kind of an odd one, because the Toby Press Li'l Abner comic picked up the numbering from Harvey's title, but the Grand Comics Database doesn't indicate where that book picked up the ...

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30 Characters in 30 Days: Nov 15 - Boss Holiday

Tue, 1 Dec 2009 00:11:20 +0000

30 Characters in 30 Days: Nov 15 - Boss Holiday - Ralph Contreras

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Gene's Journal: Night Before Xmas

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:19:24 +0000

From the brainy geek comic about the young life of SciFi legend Gene Roddenberry

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PA Reality Show!

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:20:21 +0000

I have exciting news to share! A while back we talked about a reality show based on life here at Penny Arcade. It was just something we kicked around during a podcast but the idea stuck with us. We kept getting mail from people saying that this was actually something they'd be interested in. ...

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Penny Arcade - PATV

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:27:05 +0000

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Penny Arcade Forums

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:10:02 +0000

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Sound Current: '2 Player Productions

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:10:02 +0000

[Continuing his 'Sound Current' interview series for GameSetWatch, Jeriaska sits down with video game and music documentary makers 2 Player Productions to discuss their work showcasing Blip Festival -- and, notably, this year's Penny Arcade Expo -- in cinematic form.] When the chip music ...

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TLRHB: My 50 Favorite Films of the First Decade of The 21st Century

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:34:00 +0000

This list means nothing, except to me. It's a list of 50 movies that gave me pleasure over the past decade. I can say without reservation that I would watch any of these again. Would I say that all of them are great films, however great films are supposed to be defined? Probably not. But ...

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Moonstone Books

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:34:40 +0000

A stop-lossed Army vet. A president in office without the popular vote. A terror crisis gripping the nation. Meet William Wade, newly minted and seriously resentful secret agent for President Rutherford B. Hayes. His mission with cerebral partner J.J. Flynn: travel the West and investigate ...

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Lenore vol. 2 #1

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:55:00 +0000

By Roman Dirge 32 pages, color Published by Titan Books Back in the day, if Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (and its spin-off Squee! ) was title that SLG Publishing was best known for, Lenore was certainly right behind it. Roman Dirge’s stories of a cute little undead girl mixed sick humor ...

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How I Conquered a Terrible Plague

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:55:00 +0000

It's the final day of Pierre's fabulous "Boris Karloff Blogathon" at Frankensteinia , and THOIA has one more Dick Briefer Frankenstein tale for you as well, this time from the earlier kids humor series, or more precisely the Nov-Dec 1946 issue of Frankenstein #5 . And kudos again to Pierre ...

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Two recent comics starring tough broads.

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:55:00 +0000

I wonder, is it an insult or a compliment to say that Greg Rucka’s Stumptown #1 (Oni Press) reads precisely what one would expect a Greg Rucka-written comic to read like? Because the first issue of Stumptown , Rucka’s new creator-owned crime series from the publishers of his Queen & Country ...

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A Crumb Cameo

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:55:00 +0000

Comic fans who pick up E.L. Doctorow new novel Homer & Langley will be interested in a character named Connor who is described by the sight-impaired narrator Homer Collyer in these terms: Connor, or Con, was monosyllabic and from what I could infer a cadaverous figure with a long neck ...

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New G.I. Joe Toys Include The Long Lost 'Big Lob'

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:30:00 +0000

If you're a fan of the classic 1987 animated "G.I. Joe" film - and how could you not be, what with the copious spores and the itty bitty ditty bags and the once-was-a-man's and the Cobra-la-la-la's -then prepare to change your diapers, because Big ... Read more Permalink | ...

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Anime News Network

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:21:20 +0000

The Japanese publisher Shueisha is producing 2.85 million copies of the 56th volume of Eiichiro Oda 's One Piece pirate manga — the largest print run that any Japanese manga has ever had in its first printing. The volume will ship on December 4. Since the manga began in Weekly Shonen ...

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Comic AG to end with issue 110

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 14:45:00 +0000

In about a month, you will be holding the last issue of Comic AG in your hands. All things considered, it was a good run, eh? Yes, we will be ending our magazine with issue 110. There is a multitude of reasons behind this decision, the biggest of which being merely happenstance, fate that all ...

Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics ... found this 6 days ago on icaruscomics.com

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Multiversity Comics Presents: David Gallaher

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:15:00 +0000

This weeks Multiversity Comics Presents features David Gallaher. He is best known for his work on the Harvey Award winning digital comic series High Moon. He is a digital comics pioneer and rising star of the comic industry in general. Mr. Gallaher agreed to stop on by and answer some ...

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