Without having even read it, I know the Kirby biography by Mark Evanier is awesome

Just opened my copy of the Kirby biography by Mark Evanierfrom Amazon today. It SMELLS like old comics. And that’s a good thing, a wonderful thing.
I’ll be able to say more about it after I’ve read it. But good God, the book smells like a pulpy old comics store. And that’s the feeling you should [...]

March 14th, 2008 | Category: What I Love | Leave a comment

SPLAT! on Saturday, March 15

Thanks to the good people at Collected Editions, I will be attending SPLAT!, a graphic novel symposium in NYC this Saturday. This event is sponsored by the New York Center for Independent Publishing, and panelists include Understanding Comics’s Scott McCloud, DMZ’s Brian Wood, I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets’s Paul Karasik, and many more [...]

March 12th, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Con Report | Leave a comment

Joe Quesada Day in Orange County, FL

Congratulations to Joe Quesada, Marvel’s Editor-In-Chief. The mayor of Orange County declared March 8, 2008, as Joe Quesada Day, recognizing his accomplishments in comics.
We can argue about the individual stories that Marvel’s put out over the years, but Quesada has been the most open high-ranking comics exec over the last decade. And I’ve found out [...]

March 9th, 2008 | Tags: , | Category: Superheroes | Leave a comment

Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years…

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(Any accusations that I picked the title for this post just so I could post up an old school jam are completely, 100% true.)
I’m ending my months of silence on the blog starting now.
2007 was a weird year for me. In the first few months of 2007, I was basically crippled. I had a painful [...]

March 7th, 2008 | Category: Rants | Leave a comment