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Comics in Context #214: The Essential Steve Gerber
Long, long ago, I attempted to persuade my high school English teacher that comics could be a means of serious artistic expression, just like prose fiction or film. She looked at me with disbelief, for this was the 1970s, and in those ...
02/18/08 PHD comic: 'You know you've been grading too long when...'
Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham. www.phdcomics.com. title: "You know you've been grading too long when..." - originally published 2/18/2008. For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Feb. 19, 2008: Tomorrow you’re homeless, tonight it’sa blast
Details here. Want to see your comics-related event listed here? Email a link to dirk@tcj.com and let me know. No sales-only events, please — it’s nice that you’ve marked things down at your store or website, but I won’t be listing it here.
All ages comics
This one belongs in libraries everywhere I think and I'm not just saying that because I love comics. Kibuishi has already proven himself capable with the very impressive Flight volumes for older readers; the series was long overdue to ...
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Marvel Saga
Despite what a lot of people might believe about comics fans, we do understand that the world of comics isn’t real. We know that none of the stuff depicted in the pages of the Fantastic Four or the Avengers actually happened, ...
Comics Of The Weak: Hey! Mediocrity! Drink OR GET OUT
The concept of a black-ops super-team isn't really that bad of an idea, in theory--after all, one thing super-hero comics never really deal with is why, exactly, their aren't more crazy Punisher type vigilantes. Nerd-wise, the biggest ...
Feb. 18, 2007: Voodoo economics
The fact that manga written and drawn by Westerners is starting to overcome fan resistance is a particularly welcome bit of news, since it’s the first hint at potential consumer overlap between the manga and Western-comics categories. ...
Y: The Last Man
Turns out my parents' friends had two very cool college-age sons who were amused by my interest in comics. By "cool" I mean they spent summers working in Alaska on the pipeline, certainly the coolest summer job I can think of. ...
WonderCon 2008, A Comics & Pop Culture Convention
WonderCon 2008, Northern California’s largest comics and pop culture convention, takes place February 22nd-24th at Moscone Center South in San Francisco. Here’s are this year’s full schedule, featured guests, list of exhibitors and ...
Comics Books - The Superman Saga
With the not so recent popularity of the hit TV series "Smallville" having celebrated its 100th episode with the killing off of Jonathan Kent, one can't help but think about the entire Superman legacy, not just in comics but on TV and ...