Jerry Seinfeld once said something about how childhood is a constant quest for candy. I spent a lot of my time looking for candy, but I was hunting for comics even more. Comics equalled happiness–even bad ones were great. Obsessive wanting has led me to writing comic book reviews. Only now I no longer hunt for the comics. The comics come to me. Read more »
Giant Robot has been putting on these shows for the last three years where they get a whole bunch of comics-makers and illustrators to doodle on Post-It notes and then sell them for $20. If you lived in LA, you could go and buy them, but you don’t, so you can look at them here instead. Read more »
Detail from Jason and Kathryn's story
Comics are great, but all too often they are about silly adventures and muscular men in impossible costumes fighting a series of increasingly stunt-cast villains. I don’t care how much someone’s liberal degree thesis says that the Green Goblin is in fact an allegory to Sinn Fein or whatever, Spiderman is basically fighting to get laid. That’s why the new book involving the charity-funded magazine Ctrl.Alt.Shift and some of the world’s best known comic artists, Ctrl.Alt.Shift Unmasks Corruption, is a nice break. Well, not nice, because it’s depressing and will make you wish you had kept your head buried in the illustrated sand of big tits and Lycra thighs. Anyway, we spoke to Jason Masters and Kathryn White, who created one of the many stories in the book (theirs focuses on ethnic violence in South Africa). Read more »
You may have missed last Sunday’s comic, what with all the smoked animals and beaches and not looking at the computer. Well, Ginette Lapalme made it. She’s a quirky little Canadian with big glasses who made a big internet splash by drawing faces onto butts and boobs and giners and such. She’s part of a neat little group of Canadians who are doing funny, pretty comics. We interrogated her. Read more »
It’s come to my attention that Disney just bought Marvel Comics, whole company and the characters and everything. I am sure that many folks are freaking out because they think Marvel will change. “Oh no,” dumbasses everywhere are probably crying. “Oh no, they’re going to dumb down the Punisher. There’s a sophistication to a psycho with a skull on his shirt, running around and killing people who he doesn’t like! And Wolverine, oh Wolverine, he’s an unstoppable rage-filled asshole who murders people with razors that pop out of his hands. There’s a delicate poetry to him. On the one hand he wants to kill people and on the other hand he does kill people.”
You stupid, dumb, obnoxious pieces of shit. Johnny Cash’s corpse does not need to be exhumed via some kraut illustrator’s pen to show us the “unpredictable life of a loner, patriot, outlaw, and music rebel.” To the publicist who sent the press release to us: We guarantee you it won’t be “a compelling read for multiple generations of graphic novel and music fans” because the company you work for is completely uninspired and seems A-OK with raping the soul of one of America’s greatest cultural treasures. Even if you don’t respect his music (which makes you a moron, by the way), at least have some reverence for someone who spent most of the last century writing great songs without having to compromise his work or life for anyone.
I went to MoCCA and got a whole bunch of rad shit, mostly photocopied little mini-comics. It would probably be difficult for some people to give a bad review to someone that gave them a free comic face-to-face and had a conversation in which they hoped for a good review, but not Sweet Nick! I will give a bad review to the nicest person in the world! I don’t care about people’s feelings–I only care about comics! RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Read more »
We know. It's rough. You wait all year for the South End on Sea South- Beach-Singles-Slammer and right when Jeremy sidles up to you with a pair of appletinis that little fucking troll and her idiot sister dawdle out of the woodwork to ruin everything as usual. Let it out, Beth. This was YOUR day.
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Bow-ties are almost impossible to pull off without looking like a groom at a Las Vegas wedding or a magician who works children’s parties, but these two faggoty little smart Alecs have nailed it so hard they’re making me wonder what their warm little cocks would feel like in my hand.
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