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Without having even read it, I know the Kirby biography by Mark Evanier is awesome

March 14th, 2008 at 7:12 pm PDT » Comments (0)

Just opened my copy of the Kirby biography by Mark Evanierfrom Amazon today. It SMELLS like old comics. And that’s a good thing, a wonderful thing.
I’ll be able to say more about it after I’ve read it. But good God, the book smells like a pulpy old comics store. And that’s the feeling you should [...]



SPLAT! on Saturday, March 15

March 12th, 2008 at 8:50 pm PDT » Comments (0)

Thanks to the good people at Collected Editions, I will be attending SPLAT!, a graphic novel symposium in NYC this Saturday. This event is sponsored by the New York Center for Independent Publishing, and panelists include Understanding Comics’s Scott McCloud, DMZ’s Brian Wood, I Shall Destroy All the Civilized Planets’s Paul Karasik, and many more [...]



Joe Quesada Day in Orange County, FL

March 9th, 2008 at 8:45 pm PDT » Comments (0)

Congratulations to Joe Quesada, Marvel’s Editor-In-Chief. The mayor of Orange County declared March 8, 2008, as Joe Quesada Day, recognizing his accomplishments in comics.
We can argue about the individual stories that Marvel’s put out over the years, but Quesada has been the most open high-ranking comics exec over the last decade. And I’ve found out [...]



Don’t call it a comeback, I’ve been here for years…

March 7th, 2008 at 10:15 pm PST » Comments (0)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7l250E5uM4

(Any accusations that I picked the title for this post just so I could post up an old school jam are completely, 100% true.)
I’m ending my months of silence on the blog starting now.
2007 was a weird year for me. In the first few months of 2007, I was basically crippled. I had a painful [...]