Brevoort’s an editor at Marvel, and responded to some comments on his blog with this gem:
"Here’s the thing: the characters are invulnerable.
"I’m not talking about super-powers here; I’m talking about the ability to survive bad stories and bad times and to live on and prosper again. The primary Marvel characters have been around for four [...]

Colleen Doran posted this LA Times story about a retiring librarian from Mississippi and his struggles with a community where illiteracy runs rampant. There’s some comics content in there too, including a note about a custom comic the people at Archie created for the community.
I’m lucky. I’ve been able to read all of my [...]

How many major Frank Miller works aren’t in oversized books?
Dark Horse put out Sin City in 8 oversized tomes. Marvel’s putting his Daredevil work into two Omnibus volumes, and they’ve already published his Spider-Man work and collaborations with Bill Sienkiewicz in oversized hardcovers. 300, his story about the Persian invasion of Greece, was originally [...]

Hello! Just wanted to let you folks know the newest edition of our comic review website Comic Widows is now up.
Comic Widows presents articles, opinions and reviews of comics in all forms of the media: mainstream and independent print, film, television, manga and anime, gaming and on the web.
Our September issue features a [...]

3 strips for you this morning; take your pic:

Questionable Content mixes quantum mechanics and sexual fetishes together and comes up with a joke that all dirty-minded physicists will be using for years.
Reprographics, the web’s best fumetti comic, gives us the new ditty about cubes. Cubes!
xkcd reminds you why you shouldn’t drive after gaming. I expect [...]

Lynn Johnston opens up her studio to the public and shows how her award-winning strip, For Better or For Worse, gets made. Here’s the link, courtesy (again) of Blog@Newsarama.
No reviews tonight again, but I’ll catch up this weekend.

Amazing what you can learn on the intarwub these days…
Reviews should be back tonight; I’m nearly finished a few books, but I was wiped last night.

Found this on Neilalien: Alex Toth wrote a scathing, brutally honest critique of a Johnny Quest story Steve Rude had drawn. It’s a real piece of tough love. Toth points out every flaw in Rude’s story to try to inspire him to draw better. Take a look.
One thing that I’ve always loved about comics is [...]

Scott Kurtz is best known for his work on the webcomic PvP, one of the longest running and most successful in the field. PvP started mostly as a strip focused on video games and gaming, but has evolved into a very entertaining situational comedy.
But before PvP (and this book), Kurtz was struggling to find [...]

The champion of the comics blogosphere, Heidi McDonald, has posted breaking news about Harlan Ellison’s lawsuit against Fantagraphics. There’s a PDF of the complaint at Journalista here. From reading the PDF, Harlan is suing over two issues: published excerpts from Fanta’s upcoming company biography, Comics As Art: We Told You So, and the cover attribution [...]