2010 August
Get Ready to Buy a Book About Watchmen!
This October, a book by SequArt is coming out containing essays about Watchmen. One of them is by our very own Chad Nevett. The editor and that Callahan guy are also good, but Chad actually writes here, so he gets top billing!! So you know you have to get it! Click here to read a [...]
Committed: Guy Delisle’s Burma Chronicles
- by Sonia Harris
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After a couple of months I finally finished reading Guy Delisle’s Burma Chronicles. Usually a fast reader, I could excuse myself because I was reading a few different things at once, but if I’m completely honest I have to admit that I was hoarding it, keeping this strangely mellow, deep book for the late nights [...]
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 236
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the comics posted so far! Today [...]
The Line it is Drawn #4 – Comic Characters and Saturday Morning Cartoon Characters
Let’s get the standard stuff out of the way. You should follow Comics Should Be Good on Twitter (if you have Twitter, that is – if you don’t, you can go sign up). Here is our Twitter page… http://twitter.com/csbg. And here are the Comics Should Be Good writers who are on Twitter (the links go [...]
Random Thoughts! (August 24, 2010)
Random Thought! The girlfriend is out of town camping… I’ll admit that I’m a little lonely right now. It’s random thoughts time! Get excited!
Booster Gold/Pebbles Flintstone and a Question
- by Brian Cronin
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Bill Walko (who runs the awesome Titans website, Titans Tower) sent me the following neat drawing, which was a riff on the recent The Line It Is Drawn featuring DC characters teaming up with Warner Brothers characters. You can check out more of Bill’s work at his DeviantArt page here. So this (and an e-mail [...]
Any Big Little Lulu Fans Out There?
Typically, when I’m looking for a particularly difficult-to-find DC or Marvel issue for an installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, I have people I can go to for help. Folks with large, decades-spanning collections that can find stuff for me. But when it comes to Little Lulu, well, I’m stumped. So if there’s anyone out [...]
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 235
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the comics posted so far! Today [...]
What I bought – 18 August 2010
“It never occurs to you that the beautiful princess and the wicked old witch believe exactly the same thing: Anything at all, including cunning and lies, will work for the beautiful; nothing helps the ugly.” (John Gardner, from Freddy’s Book)
She Has No Head! – Spotlight: Rutu Modan
I don’t know how I missed out on Rutu Modan’s work for so long, but man am I glad I finally discovered her. Modan, an Eisner award-winning illustrator and writer worked as an editor for the Hebrew edition of MAD Magazine after graduating from the Bezarel Academy of Art & Design. She founded Actus Tragicus [...]
Comic Critics #128!
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 hundred and twenty-seven strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 234
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the comics posted so far! Today [...]
Sunday Brunch: 8/22/10
The comics internet in a nutshell. Gird your loins!
A Year of Cool Comics – Day 233
Here is the latest in our year-long look at one cool comic (whether it be a self-contained work, an ongoing comic or a run on a long-running title that featured multiple creative teams on it over the years) a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the comics posted so far! Today [...]
Ten Days on the Road, conclusion
Concluding the series of columns recounting Greg and Julie’s Excellent Bookscouting Adventure. For latecomers, here is part one, part two, part three… and our conclusion lies below the fold.
