This year, as with the past few years, the good folks at Wide Awake Press are offering a totally 100% free downloadble anthology. Each year has a theme and this year’s is ancient civilizations–hence the title: The Ancient Age. Here’s the official skinny: The Ancient Age presented by Wide Awake Press On May 2nd (Free …
Tag: Comics
Apr 05 2009
Comics Goons Are Born, Not Made
This afternoon I was clearing out some junk from the cabinets in my studio, trying to make more room in there for the stuff that’s currently clogging up my shelves, and I came upon a really hilarious research paper I had to write, apparently in high school. Not surprisingly, the subject is superheroes. I present …
Mar 17 2009
Pre-Eisner Judging Reading (or, “Why Haven’t You Been Posting Anything?”
Just when I’d gotten into the habit of cranking out one substantive post every week or so, I’ve now pretty much ground to a halt. Why? Because, as some of you might know, the deadline for submissions to the 2009 Eisner Awards was a couple of days ago… which means that Eisner nomination time is …
Mar 12 2009
Interesting Word Balloon Use in Today’s ‘Cul de Sac’
Today’s Cul de Sac features an interesting formal use of word balloons that I’ve not seen before. The basic setup here is that Alice has a new pair of shoes that she’s been enjoying mainly for their incessant squeaking, which has now ceased. In the strip, she’s imitating the squeaking and the placement of the …
Mar 09 2009
CNN Reports on Real Tintin Submarine
When I saw this article on CNN.com about “winged luxury submarines,” the first thing I thought of was that awesome shark submarine from the Tintin book, Red Rackham’s Treasure: I was surprised to note that the article did in fact mention Tintin. I was really surprised, though, to note that the Tintin book mentioned was …
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