2009 March
Art Meets Commerce, Hopefully Survives the Experiences
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
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DC officially announced Wednesday Comics today (read about it here at Newsarama), and wow, it sounds like it will be an amazingly awesome comic series. 12 issues produced in the format of a Sunday comics section in a newspaper. 14” x 20” broadsheet format that will have to be unfolded and opened to be read. [...]
Danielle Leigh’s Reading Diary — Crown vol 1 & 2
Today I examine Crown volumes 1 and 2 (published by Go! Comi), a light, frothy shojo manga featuring deadly assassins, a little bit-o-incest (just a little bit!) and a sweet-shojo-heroine whose shojo-ness is so concentrated I’m not entirely sure she isn’t a weapon of pure unadulterated cuteness. Of course there’s also this “heir to the [...]
Comics Should Be Good March Madness!
Why let the basketball fans have all the fun? So today begins Comics Should Be Good DC/Marvel Comic Character Tournament! As the basketball tournament goes along, so will a series of polls matching various comic book characters against each other. You’ll have 24 hours (from when the polls go up) to pick whichever character is [...]
Little Nothings: The Prisoner Syndrome Review
Lewis Trondheim’s second volume of Little Nothings might be better than the first, and since I thought that the first was one of the ten best comics of 2008, you can safely assume that I thought that this book was excellent.
A Month of Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoons – Day 18
I thought it would be an interesting look into our nation’s political cartoon history if, this month, I took a look at a different editorial cartoon each day that won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Do note that we’re talking basically 1922-1967 here, as since then, the Committee has almost always awarded cartoonists generally [...]
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 77
Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! Today we look at a mind-blowing scene from Jim Steranko’s Captain America “run.” Enjoy!
Hey, Now Cronin Can Put Songbird In The Avengers!
By buying a copy of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, which she will be appearing in. Gaming blog Kotaku points out this point from the game’s blog, where the developers talk about translating her from the page to the game. They talk about how they used Marko Djurdjevic’s Thunderbolts covers as inspiration for her look and [...]
Hey Look! A Rotoscoped Comic Book Cartoon!
Well, that’s how the visual style of this video by Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard is described. If you’re in to process, you can check out the making of video here. It’s part of an ad for Verizon wireless internet, but don’t hold that against it. I’m not entirely sure that this counts as comics.but [...]
Cronin Theory of Comics – Keep Insults of Other Creators Out of Comics
The other day, someone linked to a blog post Tom Brevoort did awhile back, and in it, Tom makes a comment that I completely agree with, and I’ve been meaning to post about for awhile. To set up the quote, Tom was talking about a “Year One” Hulk Annual by John Byrne that had some [...]
Cool Release Schedule Coincidence
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 5 Comments
I just noticed this last night. The same day that my book is being released (April 28th), guess what else is being released? Awesome. I bet someone told him. That’s the only logical explanation.
A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 76
Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! Today we look at a special St. Patrick’s Day issue of the Boys. Enjoy!
A Month of Pulitzer Prize Winning Cartoons – Day 17
I thought it would be an interesting look into our nation’s political cartoon history if, this month, I took a look at a different editorial cartoon each day that won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Do note that we’re talking basically 1922-1967 here, as since then, the Committee has almost always awarded cartoonists generally [...]
Brand-new comics creators Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill have a new book coming out – I predict big things for these two!
I’m just prescient that way.
Cracked Shows How The Watchmen Movie Could Have Been Worse
- by Brad Curran
- in General
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Well, that’s the idea, at least. To be honest, some of the things in this are better than anything in the movie or the book. Like this: DR. MANHATTAN grapples with THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION, the pair of them rolling outside where they grow to titanic size, striding across the Antarctic landscape, exchanging helicopter kicks [...]
Comic Critics #46!
Here is the latest installment of the Comic Critics strip, courtesy of Sean Whitmore (writer) and Brandon Hanvey (artist)! You can check out the first forty-five strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
