Gramp-On
EDITOR’S NOTE: Unkiedev continues to prove himself unreliable at making deadlines, missing his column AGAIN this week. In an attempt to ratify this situation, while still bringing you the quality comic book coverage you demand, we have used the Time Machine located on the premises to bring Unkiedev’s great, great. great grandfather, Lord Gunther Horatio [...]
Drama Dairy
In 1621, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Natives of Massachusetts put aside their differences on a cold and dreary Friday in November so they could keep each other company as they waited in line to be the first people through the door at Wal•mart. They new that a Wal•mart wouldn’t be built for another three [...]
The Comicscological Constant
By Cornhusker T. Whiskerbooties (Just kidding, it’s by Unkiedev.) OFTEN times my “job” as a jet setting comic book journalist is a real grind…like when I get a paper cut on a near mint copy of Amazing Fantasy #15 and I bleed on the page and my blood lowers the resale value of Spidey’s first [...]
SDCC: Eisner Award Winners 2010
The Eisner Awards were presented Friday evening in concurrence with Comic-Con International at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront. Onstage guests included the cast of the imminent Scott Pilgrim film, Thomas Jane, Ben Garant (Reno 911), voice actor Phil Lamarr (Futurama, Samurai Jack). The event was MC’d by Maurice LaMarche (“The Brain,” from Pinky & The [...]
Evan Dorkin “Interview” from TCAF 2010
For your amusement and enlightenment check out this interview with Evan Dorkin (one of my favorite cartoonists of all time), the creator of Milk and Cheese and writer of the Eisner-nominated Beasts of Burden. “Interview” is in quotes because Evan basically takes over. Parts of this had me laughing my ass off. Alone in the [...]
Eisner-Winners Evan Dorkin, Jill Thompson @ Animal Planet
The Daily Treat, a blog for Animal Planet, one of the Discovery Channel’s other networks (sheesh, that was a handful) has a keen interview up with Evan Dorkin (Milk & Cheese, Dork) and Jill Thompson (Scary Godmother, The Invisibles) covering their new miniseries from Dark Horse, “Beasts of Burden.” Evan: The series is about a [...]
Everbody is Stupid Except for Peter Bagge
Fantagraphics has just published a new collection of comics from “Hate” creator Peter Bagge: Everybody is Stupid Except for Me. Originally appearing in the pages of Reason- a 40ish year old Libertarian magazine with a circulation that hovers around the sixty thousand mark- the work reprinted here runs the gamut of observations from the Seattle-based [...]