Entries from November 2008

November 30, 2008

Miscellaneous Monday: Dec. 1, 2008

FANATIC QUIZ OF THE WEEK

Name both the publishing company and the person who served as publisher for this blast from the past title. Sure, you could search the internet and get the answer, but how many of you have the answer trapped in the recesses of your minds?
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November 28, 2008

A (Walter Simonson) lesson for our times

Listening to President Elect Barack Obama talk about his desire to change the way politics work in this country, I began thinking about my first encounter with comic writer/artist Walter Simonson.
Obama says (and I believe him) that he wants to change to the past political strategies of division and fear mongering with a civil discussion, [...]

November 27, 2008

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Multiple covers around the same printed comic pages. They are a little piece of hell that comic readers and collectors either tolerate or celebrate depending on the how’s and why’s of your comic buying habit. There are a number of trains of thought about the benefits or lack thereof.
They do allow, under the best of [...]

November 26, 2008

No one will take you seriously if you work in Funny Books.

Inevitably, if you’ve ever had a job at a comics company, you’ve had an experience where someone asked you what you did for a living. Before the Simpson’s made Comic Book Guy famous, before comic book movies were known as box office blockbusters, before Entertainment Weekly even existed (let alone ran reviews of graphic novels), [...]

November 25, 2008

Welcome to my blog … can you believe it?

It was suggested to me that writing a blog would be a good idea. So here I am. 
It occurs to me while I’m sitting here writing this in the middle of the night that I’m an absolute novice at this. There is no plans to make this a personal blog, although I suspect that tons [...]