2011 April
Comic Critics #157!
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 fifty-six strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!
The Comic Book Fools of April – The Adventures of the Rifle Brigade
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 Artists: #105-101
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!
Come By and See Us Tonight at Our MoCCA Get Together!
- by Brian Cronin
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Hey folks, come by and see us after the MoCCA festival tonight in New York City! We’re having a get together. Here is the flyer… And here is a picture of me and Joe (from left to right it is Nicole – who I think will be at the event tonight, me and Joe), so [...]
Comics Should Be Good March Madness Winner!
After over 3,200 votes in the final match-up, I’ll finally announce the winner of the 3rd Annual Comics Should Be Good DC/Marvel Comic Book Character Tournament! Was it Batman or was it Thor? Find out!
Top 125 Comic Book Writers: #110-106
Here are the next five writers on the countdown, based on your votes for your favorite comic book writers of all-time!
The Comic Book Fools of April – The Heckler
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, [...]
Cross-Hatchings for Friday, April 8
By the time you read this, Julie and I will be on the road again, for a long weekend of bookscouting and goofing off in and around The Dalles, Oregon. (Apparently, just in time for the Cherry Groove Festival. No, really.) So here’s a bunch of little bits and pieces that have been accumulating in [...]
Comic Book Legends Revealed #308
Welcome to the three hundredth and eighth in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This week, we examine three legends related to the classic comic strip, Ripley’s Believe It or Not!, including whether a Ripley’s strip led to the “Star Spangled Banner” becoming the national anthem, [...]
Top 125 Comic Book Artists: #110-106
Here are the next five artists on the countdown, based on your votes for your favorite comic book artists of all-time!
The Comic Book Fools of April – Deadpool Time Travels Into an Old Issue of Spider-Man
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, [...]
What I bought – 6 April 2011
A young girl, a frailty, simple and true, who had been unable to stand up from the piano and had had to be carried; a girl half his age; a girl who could not shoot a gun, had never been in an oyster house, atop a tower, or under the wharves; a girl hotter always [...]
Two Notable Eisner Nomination Congratulations!
The 2011 Eisner Nominations are out, and while they seemed like a nice batch of nominees, I felt it worth spotlighting a couple of particularly notable congratulations. First, congrats to Comic Book Resources for getting a Comic Book Journalism nomination. But also, congratulations to our Line It Is Drawn artist, Caanan Grall, who was nominated [...]
Fear Itself #1 Review
Marvel’s 2011 crossover event began this week with Fear Itself #1, written by Matt Fraction and drawn by Stuart Immonen, Wade von Grawbadger and colorist Laura Martin. It is a very compelling prologue to what looks like it will be a very enjoyable crossover, perhaps one of the all-time greats, really.*
The Line It Is Drawn #35 – Comic Book Spokesmodels
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 [...]
