Right now, I’m reading the big honking collection of Howard Chaykin’s American Flagg! (review coming soon) but there’s two things that are really standing out to me.
This book barely feels like it’s 20 years old. Other than tripping over some dates (such as the 1996 Presidential election that never happened or the fact that [...]
So this afternoon, I’m reading all kinds of things about San Diego Comic-Con and the importance of it (here, here and here.) And really, from the comfort of my chair thousands of miles away from San Diego I have to ask is the comic convention there really all that important?
Or at least, is it all [...]
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Tom Spurgeon on what comics have or haven’t become.
“And screw the 1987 mentality that comics = fantasy genre. If Comic-Con is going to have shit that’s not comics, there’s no reason I can think of it shouldn’t be a Tom Wolfe lecture as opposed to another panel hyping a movie about teenage werewolves. Why not? [...]
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Remember those 2 or 3 reviews I said were in progress yesterday? Well, I was hoping to have at least one of them done today except Mother Nature had a different idea when she sent storms our way and knocked out power on our block for 10 hours last night and this morning. So instead [...]
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