Tag: Comics

Heroes Khaaaaaaaan!

We’re at T-minus three days and counting from the opening of Heroes Con, the biggest and best comics convention in the Southeast… and one of the very best anywhere in the country for us “indie” comics folk.  So, here’s my official pre-con post/roundup: WHAT I’M SELLING This’ll be the first major convention I’ll be at …

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Con Season Approacheth: Kinko’s Mini Banner

OK, I don’t really know if “approacheth” is a word, but if “cometh” is a word, then maybe it is. Anyway, the big summer convention season is upon us as of this Friday with Heroes Con cranking up in Charlotte* and I’ve been trying to get organized this week. One thing I just discovered that …

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MAD/E.C. Comics Panel at Heroes Con ’08

As mentioned in my last post, I–along with pal Craig Fischer–have been working on putting together a special two-part panel for the upcoming Heroes Con all about the legacy of Mad Magazine and E.C. Comics. If’n you’re going to be at the convention, (and you darn-well should be) please consider attending. We’ve pulled out all …

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Mad Magazine’s Potrzebie on Google

If you use Google, (and who the heck doesn’t?) you may know that it features a calculator that can convert between various units of measure. If, for example, you search for “pints to quarts,” Google will return the correct conversion, in this case, “1 US pint = 0.5 US quarts.” But here’s something funny I …

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A Few More Midnight Sun Reviews

Midnight Sun has now been out for about five months and I keep thinking that I’ve seen the last review of the book pop up online, but here are a few extras that arrived in my Gmail box courtesy of Google alerts. First up is from Ray Ellis over at BlogCritics.org. At its heart, Midnight …

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