Props to the folks at the Newsarama.com blog (blog@newsarama) not just for picking up my post yesterday where I briefly discussed the odd squarish format of the Midnight Sun GN, but also for coming up with the title I should have come up with for that post: “Hip to be Square.”
Tag: Comics
Jan 17 2008
Midnight Sun on ComicsWorthReading
Johanna Draper Carlson has posted a great review of Midnight Sun over at ComicsWorthReading.com, Midnight Sun – Recommended. Among other things, she mentions the book’s trim size: Plus, the package is well-chosen. It’s a squarer book than typical, making for a compact volume that feels great in the hand and suits the rectangular panels and …
Jan 17 2008
ThoughtBalloonists.com
Comics scholars/writers Craig Fischer and Charles Hatfield have launched a new comics blog of comics writing and criticism at: http://www.thoughtballoonists.com. Both writers are involved with teaching comics curricula, have worked together on The International Comic Art Forum, and both have written for publications such as The Comics Journal. It looks like the plan is to …
Jan 11 2008
Final Chapters of Midnight Sun Available for Download
The portions of the recent Midnight Sun graphic novel that would have been the final comic book issues of the series are now available together as a single download on SLG’s digital download site, eyemelt.com. I know some folks who bought issues 1-3 have bristled at the prospect of potentially having to “rebuy” that same …
Jan 09 2008
Pub. Weekly: Haunted Mansion Hardcover
The most recent Publishers Weekly Comics Week contained a writeup about the recent SLG Hardcover collection of its Haunted Mansion series. The book collects the first six issues of the anthology, issue five of which contained a story I did about one of the few non-ghost characters in the Mansion cast, the Loup Garou. I …
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