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Monkey business
The Manga Curmudgeon —
During last week’s round of perfectly justified disdain over the latest list of comics you can use to convert your female significant other to the one true hobby, Neil Gaiman also turned a year older, and I almost posted something in the Birthday Book category about how people who like comics should really read his Sandman series (Vertigo) when they get a chance, ...
LOCAL MAN IN HATE MAIL OUTRAGE SHOCK FIASCO
Neil Gaiman's Journal —
... And finally, someone on the NPR blog wrote about Sandman. It's meant to be a nice review of the P. Craig Russell Sandman: Dream Hunters, and I think it might be meant to be funny, but if so the author seems to have misjudged the tone, and instead just turned out a series of patronising cliches about somebody's idea of Sandman readers. ...
Nov. 19, 2009: No longer kid-friendly
Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal —
... “It’s not by mistake that [Richard] Sala has, over the years, drawn comparisons to the likes of Charles Adams and Edward Gorey. His work is often decidedly dark, but also frequently whimsically so, infused with the a playful spookiness, an aspect that manifests itself in the secret passageways and disembodied voices that populate Cat Burglar Black.”
[Commentary] Getting into Sandman
Link: Glen Weldon
“But here’s the thing you don’t often hear about Gaiman’s ...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 11/19/09
THE BEAT —
... That Isn’t, were hiding inside library binding at my local branch.[4] The World That Isn’t is a satiric, rise,-fall,-and-rise-again-of-man story, of the type that cartoonists still do today. Its pen-and-ink lines are controlled, flattened and simplified, with occasional tight curlicues.
§ The comics connections of the late Ken Ober are saluted at ComicMix.
§ Glen Weldon’s reviews of SANDMAN: DREAM HUNTERS at the NPR website, did not appeal to everyone. ...
Everyone's A Critic: A round-up of comic book reviews and thinkpieces
Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources - Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment —
Pim & Francie In Golden Days
• The Comics Comics crew are having another cage match, although this time they're calling it a round table, about Al Columbia's Pim & Francie book.
• Curt Purcell continues his examination of the Blackest Night event, this time looking at some of the tie-in books.
• Ng Suat Tong examines the ...
Linkarama@Newsarama
Blog@Newsarama —
“That’s what being a hero is all about, it’s that sometimes, you gotta take out a baby”: That’s Tucker Stone trying to look on the positive side of things in his latest Advanced Common Sense, which means Donna Troy taking out a zombie baby is actually an admirable thing, and Justice League: Cry For Justice helps teach kids about their bodies…? Give it a watch, but be warned, it may not be safe for work, depending on what you see when you see Stone’s defense of Gotham City Sirens.
“There is going to be an EXTREMELY COOL movie based on this coming out next year, and when it ...
