There a great story on the fine printing folks at Yee Haw Industries restoring and printing a long lost woodcut by the late, great Jim Flora in the latest issue of Knoxville, Tennessee’s free weekly Metro Pulse. Go Read It. More Flora...
Read moreI wasn’t really going to do one of these, but basically had done most of the pieces elsewhere, so I’ve compiled it all here. Five Comics or Comics-Related Publications You Enjoyed Reading This Year (originally on The Comics Reporter)...
Read moreWow Cool was launched 20 years ago this month by Sam Henderson, Tom Hart and Marc Arsenault in New York. Tonight, a few of those characters and more are gathering in Carroll Gardens/Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, New York for a memorial pub crawl. If you...
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It seems that Wow Cool has been around long enough now (20 years this coming January) that it has attained some sort of historical signifigance, or at least our old friend Rick Bradford of the Poopsheet Foundation thinks so. I guess I need to get...
Read moreIf you occasionally check this thing out solely for the comic book related content, and could give a crap about the rest, all that noise has now been stuffed into it’s own category, named Funny Books. I would have just done this quietly...
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Simon is the subject in the third in this years series of holiday interview by Tom Spurgeon at his Excellent The Comics Reporter site. Tom talks to Simon about everything from his early anarcho-minicomics to his current success with Paris and...
Read moreIt was long past time I found a new place to buy books when in San Francisco… My local crappy shop in Brooklyn closed up a couple years ago and I finally sucked it up to ride the F out to visit Alex at his excellent Rocketship, and now...
Read moreI gleefully tracked the poetry of spam this past summer (or spoetry) in a couple of posts (Thing 1 | Thing 2). Now, Yale School of Art MFA candidate Tom Manning has gone one better and turned them into cartoons. See the results on the excellent...
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Swimming in the great idea pool of the collective unconscious, it can be funny the things that will float by you on the way to the top. I was more that a little confused and surprised this weekend to come across a comic strip called Truckhead in...
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OK. At long last I have converted the cluttered old mess of Stickies on my Mac (I had over 20) into something else. I’ve tried several other notes/thought organizer type apps and none of them, well… stuck. The recently released...
Read moreI guess it’s not good to go on first impressions in a review, but rarely have I seen such a gloomy and uninviting book as The Best American Comics 2007. The cover, when seen in person, is a ghastly thing, and a casual flip through revealed...
Read more10 years ago at SPX, me and Jason cornered King Cat creator John Porcellino and made him come clean about what makes him tick. With less than a week to go before this year’s Small Press Expo, we present to you an in depth interview with...
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