Publishers Weekly reported this week that DC Comics will be releasing collections of their New 52 series as books — some hardcover and some paperback — this week. A revamp of DC’s comic book series, the New 52 reset the universe of its characters, canceling…
Superman: the Man of Steel, a shining example of justice and honor, and, apparently, a sexist dolt at times. HappyPlace has posted a series of seventeen vintage Superman comic books that show him treating Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen cruelly, charging money for his good…
Times are tough. The economy sucks. 85 percent of college graduates are moving back in with their parents. If you’re like millions of America, your A-plan (Get an education! Find a job! Pay your loans! Buy a house!) is going exactly nowhere. Admit it. You…
If you were idly speculating whether Super Man would side with the 99% you can now be certain that the “Man of Steel” is decidedly of the 1%. A long-lost, stolen in fact, copy of Action Comics #1 has turned up after going missing for…
So who will be Kickstarter‘s Amanda Hocking? That’s the question that immediately comes to mind after reading this article in Publishers Weekly by Todd Allen. Kickstarter, if you don’t know, is a sort of public venture capital fund where you post projects that you’d like…
For those of you who haven’t been following David Rees‘s ”Relationshapes” cartoons, in which bizarre geometric shapes discuss their love lives, you can catch up on them all right now by clicking here and here and here and here and here and here and here and…
Via @EvilWylie (one of the funniest Twitter feeds, BTW), a comic summing up Neil Gaiman‘s recent tangle with Minnesota state House Majority Leader Matt Dean over some money the state paid Gaiman as a speaking fee:
I missed it when it originally appeared in the Guardian recently but, thankfully, as I was catching up on my Casual Optimist today, I caught this rather excellent comic strip by Tom Gauld that sums up the situation pretty well for the soon-to-be orphan books…
Just when we thought we had seen every form of publicity possible for Tao Lin‘s Richard Yates (a parodic cover story, an 11,810-word interview, a slideshow biography, an emo song), genius indie cartoonist James Kochalka knocked our socks off with this comic “review” of Richard Yates:…
Time now for another episode in the “Non-Adventures of Wonderella” by Justin Pierce ….
