Named storms on the horizon, leaves changing from yellow to orange – we’re full soup mode in this week’s links, below, so bring your stock to the boil and chop some root vegetables, because we need to ...
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Whether we like it or not, entertainment has become the continuing education for most of America’s adult population. I’m sure I’m not the only one who learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre from the ...
Milton Caniff colored and personalized this black and white print of Steve Canyon for Richard A. Bauman in 1952. Richard A. Bauman’s decades-long obsession with the Steve Canyon comic strip began in ...
Fondly catalogued as the first comic strip in which the characters aged, Gasoline Alley was created by Frank King in 1918 at the behest of Chicago Tribune publisher Colonel Robert McCormick, who ...
I have a secret to tell you. If you’re ever been particularly moved by a line of dialog in a manga I translated; if something pithy spoke to you in some way, or had some meaning to you; if you thought ...
Oh, Vertigo. Back once again, I see. Just like Kim Novak. Or perhaps merely a chance resemblance. Or perhaps its would be more accurate to say, he founded their horror line. Prior to Orlando’s arrival ...
Cathy, Cathy Guisewite’s eponymous chronicle of one woman’s struggles with the “four guilt groups: food, love, family, and work,” ends not with a bang, but a simper. She visits her mom, claiming to ...
I've written about this before, but not in detail. From 1988 to 1993, the monolithic Hong Kong comics publishing entity Jademan (Holdings) Limited, which once claimed to control 80% of its domestic ...
Wowwee Zowwee and Holy Hell! These are the kinds of well-articulated thoughts that zip through my mind when I’m holding Blood of the Virgin: Crickets Colour Special Number One by the one and only ...
Publicity photo of Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne. Photo by Doug Bayne. Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy ...
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