Jul 12 2007
Thanks to friend and Heroes Con Creative Director, Dustin Harbin for forwarding me this photo from this year’s convention. It was taken by James Sack, a creative director at a local Charlotte web design firm. I believe the sketch here was being done for Ebony Looney.
Jun 25 2007
The folks from The Dollar Bin Podcast just posted audio from this year’s mini-comics panel, featuring Andy Runton, J. Chris Campbell, Jim Mahfood, Rob Ullman and me. I just listened to the beginning bit of the recording and the sound quality of the thing sounds great. As I recall, the panel had some pretty hilarious …
Jun 22 2007
Vermont’s Center for Cartoon Studies recently announced that it will now be offering MFA degrees–a achievement for which I congratulate them heartily. Much of the reporting on the event, and discussion thereof, though, has conflated two separate but related concepts: degree granting, and accreditation. I myself made the same mistake when I first heard this …
Jun 21 2007
Head on over to The Pulse to check out an article they’re running there by me all about MODOK, in which I examine the character’s newound semi-ironic poplarity among mainstream readers and indie hipsters alike. Also included are some excerpts from James Sturm’s super-rare tribute to “The Rhino,” a few tidbits from The Journal of …
Jun 20 2007
For decades, comics enthusiasts and practitioners have been complaining, Rodney Dangerfield-style that the art form doesn’t get the respect it deserves. Among the many standard grouse formats is the “museum grouse,” which goes a little like this: “Museums will put some Roy Lichtenstein riff on a Kirby panel on the wall and everyone goes apeshit …
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