Rock and Comics (revisited)
* I’m on a bit of a music geek kick this week and I thought it’d be interesting to revisit something I wrote for somewhere else and maybe spruce it up a bit and update it. The following article was…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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London’s Super Convention
On the weekend of February 25th–26th, London’s Super Convention will be taking over the Excel Centre at the heart of London’s Royal Docks. Sold with quite a few mouth-watering prospects including the great Stan Lee himself, whom makes his first appearance at a comic convention…
Store Closings & Our Part
A lot of news has been made over the closing of Dragon Lady Comics, a Toronto comic shop that’s been around for a long time, first on Queen Street and then on College Street since 1996. A good amount of…
Powernap
Powernap hits you over the head the minute you see it. I mean, seriously, look at this: Could you see that and not click on the next button? So Powernap is the new work from Maritza Campos and Bachan. Both have…
Crossovers I’d Like To See
Last week, a rumor made the rounds about a possible Spider-Man/Batman crossover. This rumor turned out to be false but it got me thinking, what crossovers would I like to see? If I could match up characters and licences from…
All Ages Comics: What Happened?
As regular readers are aware I’ve been reading a lot of older works, mostly comic strip reprints. The bulk of the material is pre-1945, and while it shares the a basic framework with modern comics they are vastly different. And…
Dark Horse Submission
With the ambitious, abiding, aspiring artist inside me still clawing its way to the surface, demanding relentlessly that I pursue a career in sequential story-art… I’ve decided to aim ridiculously high – and knock on the heavy, impenetrable doors of…
Creator rights
I found this column very hard to write. For while I agree that creators should be well compensated for their work, I also feel that the large companies do a lot of work in promoting and marketing characters as well.…
Shadowbinders
Well, it had to happen. I had to eventually stumble upon a Steampunk comic. Now I know there’s Girl Genius, (I actually bought a couple of floppies when it first started) and a couple others, but there was something about…
2012’s Potential
Now that 2011 is in the books, it’s time to look forward to what’s coming up in the world of comics. Some of these things are confirmed, some are rumor some are just speculation on my part. The Return of…
Reading To Enjoy, Not Complete
A great article about reading was published today and it really got me thinking about comics and how I consume them. I love comics and graphic storytelling; have been an avid comic reader and collector since 1980. Unfortunately it’s that…
Looking forward to 2012!
So now that we have all gotten our fill of “best of 2011” lists, it is time to think about 2012 and all the awesome comic book goodness that is coming our way. I don’t know if we will see…
Bryan Hitch leaves Marvel
British artist Bryan Hitch leaves Marvel after a solid decade, producing some of the industry’s best-loved work AND completing his piece in Marvel’s “foundation of 2012” (with Bendis), Ultron War, Hitch confirmed on Twitter… “my end is done!”. Hitch began his…
52Q | #61: Best Comics Experience 2011
This week's 52Q: what was your best comics experience of 2011? Comic, graphic novel, interpret as you'd like and share your most memorable comics experience of the year.
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2011 in Review (Part 2)
Since it’s the end of the year, I’ve decided to highlight some of the best and worst of this years comic book stuff, from my perspective. (click here to check out part 1) Best Social Media I’ve been following many…
Holiday Wars
Originally I was gonna write this last week, but illness kept me from doing my walkabout. But hopefully you are still in the holiday spirit. So the Easter Bunny is evil. Annnnd all those other Holiday characters? Yup, they exist…
2011 In Review: Best Monthly Series Secret Avengers
2011 has been a weird year for me in terms of monthly series. Traditionally, I don’t buy a lot of floppies. I buy a crap load of trades but not a lot of actual single issues. But this year I…
Post Christmas Sales
Really I’m talking about Boxing Day sales, but for those not living in Commonwealth nations I thought to provide a title that would be universally understood. Comic stores don’t run a lot of sales in general: most have something along…
New Year’s Columutions
So, with a perfect opportunity to start fresh – and turn a new page on my life in comics, I just wanted to share some plans for the future – and open the floor to suggestions for the forthcoming columns…
52Q | #60: Sight Unseen, Buying Blind?
It's a '90s flashback: Marvel is poly bagging all their comics that include a digital code. Plus they shrink wrap every hardcover, with DC joining in for books over $50.
This week's 52Q (#60): do you buy poly bagged comics or shrink wrapped books? Is it important to you to have a look through a comic before buying? Does that matter anymore with online previews?
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