Before we get into the meat of today’s Comic Art Friday post, let me remind you all that tomorrow (Saturday, May 1, 2010, for those who may stumble upon this missive in the distant future) is Free Comic Book Day. If you drop by your participating local comic book shop, chances are excellent that you [...]
Archive for April 2010
Comic Art Friday: Sittin’ on the dock of DuBay
April 30, 2010You’re a good commodity, Charlie Brown
April 27, 2010This just in via Sopwith Camel… The E.W. Scripps Company, the struggling one-time media giant whose newspaper empire has in recent years been shrinking as if it had been dunked in ice water, today sold its subsidiary United Media Licensing for $175 million. United Media‘s best-known property is Peanuts, the seminal comic strip created by [...]
Comic Art Friday: Phantom Lady is a “Heart Baker”
April 23, 2010When I first conceived the Bombshells! project two years ago, I believed that I had a relatively narrow commission series ahead of me. After all, how many comic book heroines existed before 1960, the arbitrary parameter I set? Surely not that many. I jotted down the dozen or so names that came immediately to mind, [...]
Rest in peace, Alicia
April 22, 2010Although I’d known for several days that this development was imminent, it still grieved me to read the news that Alicia Parlette died from cancer today at the tragically young age of 28. I first wrote about Alicia nearly five years ago, shortly after her blog Alicia’s Story began to appear on SF Gate, the [...]
To sleep, Peru Chanchamayo to dream
April 21, 2010Generally speaking, I prefer a pungent, bold-flavored coffee to kick-start me in the morning. (Because if you’d ever seen me in the morning, you’d know that I need all the kick-starting I can get.) Over the past few weeks, however, my morning brew of choice has been the latest seasonal coffee offering from Starbucks: Peru [...]
Through being Carl
April 20, 2010I was surprised and saddened to read earlier today that Carl Macek passed away suddenly this past weekend. To millions of anime (that’s Japanese animation, for the benefit of the uninitiated) fans, Macek gets credit — and, judging by several of the comments I’ve read at various online tributes, a considerable amount of abuse — [...]
Comic Art Friday: The WonderCon job
April 16, 2010I know, I know… I’m a week late with the annual WonderCon post. It’s been busy around here. Learn to deal. WonderCon 2010 took place at San Francisco two weekends ago, and while I didn’t count noses, it certainly appeared that neither the shift in dates (in previous years, WonderCon was in February) nor the [...]
A shaggy dog story, in a comic vein
April 6, 2010So… The other day, I was chatting with the award-winning cartoonist who created the Flaming Carrot and the Mystery Men, and for whom SpongeBob SquarePants was named. The artist said to me, “You know, now that Marvel is rebooting the X-Men movie franchise, you’d be the perfect actor to play Hank McCoy.” “How so?” I [...]
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