A review of the Jason Martin Stupid Pages strips (seen about a year before we decided on that as a name to package them in) from Tom Spurgeon The Comics Reporter on a Comics Comics thread “There were also some passed around comics by...
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by Jason Martin 1991
Read moreRestoring Jim Flora
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 moreThe Stupid Pages 17 – Wall 10 (2)
Wall 10 by Jason Martin 1991 This strip is available on the Brown Cuts Neighbors T-Shirt.
Read moreIt’s a pizza!
Homemade dough, sauce and mozzarella. A pretty good Neapolitan. Food still is the best thing to eat when you’re hungry.
Read moreThe Damn Best of 2007 List
I 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 moreCosmos is on TV again
We are all made out of star stuff. For those of us who remember a time when Pluto was a planet, Australia was a continent and Vegetable Soup was a tv show… there is one magic, authoritative voice that has always sent a shiver of awe through...
Read moreBubble Bath packaged as motor oil and marketed to kids
I think it’s pretty clear what a bad idea this is… “We’re out of bubble bath” “Hey, I think dad has some in the garage!”
Read moreWow Cool turns 20
Wow 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...
Read moreWow Cool gets all historical
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 morethe Funny Books have been put in their place
If 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...
Read moreThe Comics Reporter interviews Simon Gane
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...
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