Committed: Artist’s Alley vs NYCC & How I Made NYCC Mine
Attendance at New York Comic-Con was up again this year, this time to around 116,000. Although Lance Fensterman said that with the increase in attendance there was also an increase in space, this space...
View ArticleCommitted: DC Got Their Marketing All Over My Constantine
The other day I finally got around to reading Justice League Dark #0. Now you can tell me that this is “a different John Constantine than the one in Hellblazer” or that “DC is a different universe than...
View ArticleCommitted: Halloween Interview with Steve Niles, Horror Writer
In case you hadn’t noticed, today is Halloween. It can be hard for me to understand how I can love some horror comic books, yet hold such an aversion to horror movies, so I asked acclaimed horror comic...
View ArticleCommitted: Graphically Communicating the Election
If you live in America (or the world) perhaps you were as enthralled by the election as I was. It was fascinating to watch unfold online, as the results were reported, extrapolated, and opined upon. If...
View ArticleCommitted: Hellblazer – DC Shoot Themselves in the Foot (again)
Today I found out that Hellblazer is cancelled, and John Constantine is moving into the main, general DC universe (see the CBR piece for more about the mechanics on that.) Unable to come up with any...
View ArticleCommitted: My Top Ten Photos of Male Cosplayers
Since I wrote you two columns last week, and this week I have both laryngitis and a sinus infection (aren’t you jealous? ugh…) this week I’m going to give you some fun pictures instead. Over the years...
View ArticleCommitted: Revisiting Charles’ Burns “Black Hole”
Last night I picked up Charles Burn’s Black Hole to read in bed. There are two reasons why this is a bad idea. First, the book is so good that there is absolutely no way that I could put it down...
View ArticleCommitted: Catwoman (The Dark Knight Rises Blu-Ray)
Since today is my birthday it is lucky that I get to write about something I really like; Anne Hathaway’s depiction of Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises. With the release of the blu-ray next week...
View ArticleCommitted: The More You Know…
Do we, as comic book readers and lovers really want to hear about the business of comic books? Do we want to hear about a director who used violent hate language to talk about women and homosexuals? Do...
View ArticleCommitted: Marvel Fairy Tales
This week I wanted to write about something sweet and lovely, far away from the silly horror stories and swashbuckling superheroes which have become my weekly ongoing comic book staples. So I looked to...
View ArticleCommitted: Happy Holidays!
This year I designed a particularly silly holiday card for you. Enjoy and have a wonderful time (if you can. If not, then I hope that you can read some comic books, listen to some music, and wait until...
View ArticleCommitted: My Top 16 Comics of 2012
In 2012 a broader variety of author communicated their joy and intensity using the alchemy that is art and literature in comic books. The wealth of great comic books published in nearly every genre...
View ArticleCommitted: “Elizabeth’s Canvas” Interview
Jud Meyers and Scott Tipton (founders of Blastoff Comics in North Hollywood) are the team behind the ambitious compendium comic book for Elizabeth’s Canvas; a non-profit organization which offers...
View ArticleCommitted: Big Bang Theory Vs. Morgan Spurlock (or “When a Sitcom is Less...
Like junk food, I expect my consumption of sitcoms to be unsatisfying and flippantly derogatory. I do not expect the same from films calling themselves “documentaries” but unfortunately that is what I...
View ArticleCommitted: Kyle Baker’s “Why I Hate Saturn”
Kyle Baker has posted small versions of his graphic novels on his website for everyone to read for free. I’m hoping that this will lead more people to discover the subtle genius that is “Why I Hate...
View ArticleCommitted: Jeff Lemire talks Constantine
Last week Jeff Lemire let me know that he and Ray Fawkes are committed to keeping John Constantine’s life filled with self-sabotage, demons, sex, and all kinds of insanity. After a sneak peak at the...
View ArticleCommitted: The “Batman On Robin” Exhibition (Warning: Explicit Imagery, for...
This Friday sees the opening of an exhibition of original art inspired by the relationship between Batman and Robin at Mission Comics and Art from February 6th – March 3rd. The exhibition includes...
View ArticleCommitted: “Reset”, “Seconds”, and Peter Bagge’s New Optimism
Reset is the story of out-of-work, B-movie comedy actor Guy Krause, whose life has become a series of tabloid story jokes. He’s penniless and out of work when he’s approached to be a guinea pig for a...
View ArticleCommitted: 10 Great Superhero Boots
Comic book artists make strange shoe designers. Some of them don’t really draw feet, others perch their heroes on tiny 6″ stilettos and assume they’ll be able to fight. Decades ago when I first began...
View ArticleCommitted: the Fallacy of Superheroes for Boys & Fantasy for Girls
Like a lot of adult comic book readers do at some point, I’ve been taking stock of my reading choices and the type of mainstream, ongoing, monthly comic books which I read. It took me a while to figure...
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