Tag: Comics

CCCG Holiday Brouhaha

Here’s the invite I did for our upcoming CCCG Holiday Brouhaha:

Heroes in NC for the Eisner Retail Award!

Ballots are now up and available for the Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retail Award.  Like the site says, the award is presented each year at the Eisner Awards ceremony at the San Diego Comic-Con to, ” an individual retailer who has done an outstanding job of supporting the comics art medium both in the …

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Spx Finds – pt 2

(If you don’t know what the heck “SPX Finds” is all about, see the original post…) Urban Legend – Bradley Day Mini-comic series, 8 1/2″ x 5 1/2″, ~36 pages each, B&W interiors, color covers Autobio comics, particularly autobio minis, are often the subject of a fair bit of scorn. What I find interesting about …

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Chris Ware and Perspective Drawing

The most recent Mad Magazine (the one with the insurance caveman on the cover) includes a Chris Ware parody among the gags in the “Fundalini Pages” at the beginning of the issue. Mad‘s comics/graphic novel parodies are usually presented in the form of a review, with text above and a (supposed) excerpted page from the …

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SPX 2007 – Final Thoughts

Saturday night after posting my previous entry on SPX, I headed downstairs to try to catch the tail end of the Ignatz awards and then to rendezvous with some folks afterwards, but managed–as seems to be becoming my unintentional tradition–to miss the entire ceremony.  Not in a million years will I ever suggest that a …

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