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…TWO A slew, a spew, of unassailable facts, informed opinion, and the potential of wild, self-serving conjecture. As for the order in which these...
I gather, from a Facebook post this morning, that another cartoonist has joined the ranks of those afflicted by Shmuckholm Syndrome. Oh, well. In...
“I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.” ...
Written and Illustrated by Tom Scioli Published by Ten Speed Graphic Let me just say up front, I am a Stan fan. Tom...
YOU CAN WORK AT WHAT YOU LOVE EVERY DAY OF YOUR LIFE — IT’S STILL FUCKING WORK. I was born in 1950. I am...
…BUT FAIR I’ve long lost count of the number of times I’ve seen A CHORUS LINE, at one time the longest running show on...
…And over familiarity. I am often taken to task by enthusiasts for my dismissive, ruthless and callous dismissal of much, if not most, of...
Neal Adams, my mentor, friend, and surrogate dad has departed this mortal plane. I had always thought he was indestructible, or that he at...
The 1619 PROJECT apparently confirms for the right that the New York Times is a tool of the left. The recent editorial about free...
It’s 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t have the...
Alex Segura is a very busy man. A husband and father he spends his days working as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing...
As I started to write this, I realized that for those of you who know me and my work as a comic book man,...
“Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t...
What do Marc Guggenheim, Colleen Doran, Joe Hill, Mark Waid, Richard Starkings, Matthew Rosenberg, Shelly Bond, Amy Chu, and Greg Pak have in common?...
The fifth issue-which wraps up what I hope will be the first of three arcs of HEY KIDS! COMICS!—hit many of your comic book...
Trick or Treat… …Or, further vacation ruminations, this time as I pissed away a day aboard ship—staring at the azure skies between Corfu and...
Although I am delighted to be an October baby, that one defining thing about the month, namely Hallowe’en, has never been a thing for...
It’s October…time for unfortunate surprises, political or otherwise, Rocktober, Inktober, Marvelous Moondances, and for me, a birthday, or more realistically, the acknowledgment of being...
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.” – Pablo Picasso. “Keep on Truckin’!” – Robert Crumb. Years...
Just to be clear… There’s an awful lot of un-American shitting on each other’s parades lately. Hypermasculine man-boys on the energized right are affronted...
HOWARD CHAYKIN is a longtime veteran of the comic book business, serving as an artist and writer for nearly every publisher of comics in...
What we recognize as modern comic book fandom had its real start in the very early 1950s, in the form of what was called...
It’s been several decades since the late Brandon Tartikoff first identified comic books as the next big thing in dramatic narrative. He was right,...
That’s me—I’m a comic book man. And to be clear, not one of those guys on the similarly entitled television show – about which,...