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 …
Tag: Comics
Jun 22 2007
Degree Granting vs. Accreditation
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
There’s a Whole Lot of M.O.D.O.K. Going On.
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
“Masters” Exhibit Fallout
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 …
Jun 17 2007
Heroes Con ’07 – Sunday
Sunday, the final day of Heroes Con in Charlotte, is known for its languid pace, both as far as visitors and sales go, and today was no exception. Most of the Indie Island folks, myself included, had been up way too late the previous evening, thinking foolishly that the comparatively late opening time of 11 …
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