The literary/review blog ChasingRay.com has begun a series of author’s and cartoonist’s “favorites of 2008” lists and my list is currently posted. This isn’t technically a “best of” list, partially because the idea was to include your things you read in 2008, not your favorite things published in 2008–but also, as I note in the …
Tag: Comics
Dec 15 2008
Craft: How to Quickly Create Page/Panel Grids
I recently answered a message board post from someone wanting the convenience of those pre-ruled comic book pages that you sometimes see for sale in art supply stores, but wondering if there existed a similar product that was actually printed on decent paper. The notoriously fibrous nature of that paper has been a complaint among …
Nov 19 2008
The Jhonen Vasquez Comics Journal Interview… or Not
I just finished reading issue #292 of The Comics Journal–which features a fantastic interview with one of my favorite cartoonists, Kim Deitch–and noticed in the upcoming issues section that a scheduled interview with SLG’s Jhonen Vasquez appears to have disappeared without a trace. From issue #291: Now, from issue #292: I guess if it’s been …
Nov 07 2008
I’m a 2009 Eisner Judge
“Having read 5,000 comics in a single sitting to win a bet, this poor man suffered brain damage and appeared directly thereafter as – the Flaming Carrot!” Looks like I’ll be seeing if you really do turn into a Flaming Carrot as a result of reading tons and tons of comics in a short time …
Oct 18 2008
TIME Magazine Adds Comics Section, No One Notices
You’d think that when a magazine with a weekly circulation of over four million copies (that’s about 240 times the monthly numbers of, say, an issue of Batman, for example) adds a comics section there’d be some talk about it in the usual comics circles…. but I sure haven’t noticed any. This actually isn’t that …
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