- Above: Fiffe and O'Connor do Beta Ray Bill. Look out.
- Total blockbuster: Gary Groth interviews Carmine Infantino. That's the top of the heap for comics critic and superhero penciler, yakkin' for your pleasure right there.
- It must just be Daredevil o'clock up in here, because not only did Tucker interview Mark Waid (who's currently steering one of the two superhero comics that I have to think about before I condemn the entire genre outright), Robin Barnard completed his epic cover version of Frank Miller's Daredevil #186, thus proving yet again that he's far and away the best human xerox machine operating.
- Great CF interview, done before everyone (including me) started asking him these same questions over and over again. Also the last two comments are pretty hilar.
- Damn dude, this is a ma zinggggg: the Least Exciting Action Sequence Ever.
- Missed this one last time: Jog's take on Color Engineering is better than mine (big surprise).
- YES: IDW is reprinting Otto Soglow's minimalist masterpiece The Little King in what looks like a pretty baller format. Soglow (little bit here) might be the biggest missing piece of the newspaper-comics reprint puzzle that's been so wonderfully constructed over the past decade. This is gonna be a buy-on-sight book if there ever was one. Garrett Price and Gus Arriola next please! (Google them.)
- Speaking of old comics, here's a bushel of old Gluyas Willaims comics for your pleasure. Williams has gotten some praise from the cognoscenti in the past few years, but no reprint love, maybe because there's old books by him cluttering up the cartooning section of every half-decent used bookstore in the country. Fun stuff. The selection linked to are from a daily comic Willams did that had no name but should have been called "Annoying Shit" -- few were better at capturing the way the high drama of mundane bothers and slight irritations unfolds.
- Hell yes they do. The cool thing about Rube Goldberg's early strip Don't Some People Ask The Biggest Fool Questions is how it presents six panels that could each easily function as single-image gags in sequence, the general topic forming the only connection between one and the next. It's pretty typical of "early comics", I guess -- guys trying things because they actually hadn't figured out what worked well and what didn't yet.
- Eddie Campbell on bitchez' feets. Not the first consideration a cartoonist brings to the table, but speaking for myself there's been no article I think about more when I'm drawing comics since I read it. "Remember that Eddie Campbell article!" my brain screams at me whenever I get my pen past a female character's shins. Essential reading for people who draw, and also lots of fun for those who don't, I'd guess.
- My all-time fave record label, Living Tapes, upgraded from a myspace to its own website a while ago. LA local represent.
- Finally, after an unscheduled hiatus due to technical/medical difficulties, my comic AFFECTED has roared back into action with a pretty awesome fake-Frank-Miller's-Sin-City sequence, and will resume its regular Monday/Thursday update schedule. Get readin'.
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Man, that Frank Frollo comic has its own kind of brilliance. It's like a Flash Gordon adventure that's taking place in a dimension where time and space work with different rules than ours... like, say, in Kubrick's 2001 Jupiter and Beyond sequence by way of Spartacus.
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