Lookee! for 2/4/11
Fascinating. Science writer Lee Billings has been guest blogging for BoingBoing this week, dissecting NASA’s big Kepler news and exploring other exoplanetary pursuits. Have ya heard the one about Bill Murray at a Bears playoff game? A Song of Ice and Fire comics coming from Dynamite and Bantam. Man this is gonna suck, OR, All [...]
Graphic Novels as Gifts: NY Times & Doctorow
The Times has published an article with recommendations of gifty graphic novels for the 2009 holiday season. I’ll have my own in the next few days, but theirs is an eclectic bag and includes many obvious choices (Scott Pilgrim, Fables, Gaiman books). One notable entry surprised me (in as much as I wouldn’t normally expect [...]
Comic Book Guy
“This will not do!” It always amazes me peoples’ varied perceptions of our cumulative geekiness as comic and SF fans. And were you in my position you, too, would struggle with the connotations people in “the real world” associate with my work in a store that sells comics. I was at my friend’s birthday party [...]