2011 April
The Comic Book Fools of April – Guy Gardner on Ice!
Every day in April I will be featuring a humorous comic (either an issue or a series of strips) that I found particularly amusing. Feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com the comic stories that are your favorites when it comes to hilarity, and I’ll see if I can’t feature some of them this month, [...]
Another Friday With The Godson
A great many of us that write about superhero comics spend a LOT of time worrying about “getting the kids back.”
Top 125 Comic Book Writers: #55-51
Here are the next five writers on the countdown, based on your votes for your favorite comic book writers of all-time! Here is the archive of all the writers featured so far!
Top 125 Comic Book Artists: #55-51
Here are the final five artists on the countdown, based on your votes for your favorite comic book artists of all-time! Here is the list of all the artists listed!
The Comic Book Fools of April – Milk and Cheese #666
Every day in April I will be featuring a humorous comic (either an issue or a series of strips) that I found particularly amusing. Feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com the comic stories that are your favorites when it comes to hilarity, and I’ll see if I can’t feature some of them this month, [...]
Superman Didn’t Originally Fight for “Truth, Justice and the American Way”
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
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SPOILERS FOR ACTION COMICS #900 AHEAD!
Comic Book Legends Revealed #311
Welcome to the three hundredth and eleventh in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, we discuss how DC took issue with a classic hero seeming “too gay,” whether John Byrne determined that James Rhodes would be black and whether comics actually cut down the [...]
The Comic Book Fools of April – Franklin Richards, Son of a Genius
Every day in April I will be featuring a humorous comic (either an issue or a series of strips) that I found particularly amusing. Feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com the comic stories that are your favorites when it comes to hilarity, and I’ll see if I can’t feature some of them this month, [...]
Top 125 Comic Book Writers: #60-56
Here are the next five writers on the countdown, based on your votes for your favorite comic book writers of all-time! Here is the archive of all the writers featured so far!
What I bought – 27 April 2011
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be defined by. (A. S. Byatt, from Possession)
The Line It Is Drawn #38 – Characters Drawn in the Style Of…
Go 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 to the person’s Twitter account) – myself, Greg Hatcher, Chad [...]
Top 125 Comic Book Artists: #60-56
Here are the next five artists on the countdown, based on your votes for your favorite comic book artists of all-time! Here is the list of all artists featured so far!
The Comic Book Fools of April – Kyle Baker’s You Are Here
Every day in April I will be featuring a humorous comic (either an issue or a series of strips) that I found particularly amusing. Feel free to e-mail me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com the comic stories that are your favorites when it comes to hilarity, and I’ll see if I can’t feature some of them this month, [...]
The Listener OGN Review
One of the more interesting sensations is speaking to others, whether with your words or through your art, and actually seeing them LISTEN to you. It can be frightening, but it can also be quite a kick. In David Lester’s new graphic novel, The Listener, we see the story of an artist who chose to [...]
Committed: 10 Tips for a Superheroic Life
Superhero comic books have provided me with some incredible lessons in life. Superheroes can be selfless, generous, helpful and resourceful individuals. They are flawed, just like the rest of us, but despite (and sometimes because of) those flaws, superheroes still manage to do good.
