Tag: comics

“…and we change with them.”

October 26, 2014 at 11:11 pm

When I moved to Michigan in 1996, one of the first things I set out to do in my new hometown was find a comic book store. Finding the right comic book store is like finding the right church. And more difficult in a town where there is a church […]

This is important.

February 21, 2014 at 12:15 pm
Bill Mantlo

If you read comics back in the late 70’s and through the 80’s, then you might very well have read a comic or two by Bill Mantlo. For me, the standout is his work on the Micronauts title. In lesser hands, that book would have never been much more than […]

“Where is everybody..?”

July 28, 2013 at 10:07 am

Words fail me when I try to express what the book means to me, personally and creatively. It’s in my DNA. It taught me so much (possibly everything) about story, pacing, and character. The A MOMENT OF CEREBUS website has posted a little something I wrote last week. This makes […]

Damage Control

December 18, 2012 at 9:15 am

In recent days, some folks have noticed that I’ve been mentioning harpies on my Facebook page. I’m working on a new book, hence these little glimpses of the story. There will be more as I go along. This morning I was looking over my blogroll, in particular one of the […]

Lunchtime Reading: “Why I turned my back on Hollywood”

December 17, 2012 at 1:23 pm

Kids at the nearby shopping centre sometimes heckle, Moore says, calling him God, or Jesus, “which I’ll take, because Jesus died at 33 and they’ve obviously mistaken me for a much younger man”. Read the rest here…

Lunchtime Reading: Geek Masculinity and the Myth of the Fake Geek Girl

November 15, 2012 at 1:18 pm

“Geek” is a gendered noun. There’s a GeekGirlCon, but no GeekGuyCon: every con is GeekGuyCon, unless it specifies otherwise. You don’t say “geek guys” the way you say “geek girls”: once you’ve said “geek,” the “guy” is pretty much taken as read. When a label is gendered, it carries all […]

Mo(o)re Lovecraft in 2013

October 8, 2012 at 4:26 pm

Howard Phillips LovecraftAfter the overall fizzle of DC’s so-called “New 52”, the remarkably ill-conceived and even more poorly executed Before Watchmen, my ongoing disinterest in anything that Marvel’s “House of Ideas” — or should that be “House of ‘Ideas'”? — has to offer, to say nothing of the genuinely heartbreaking news that Dave Sim is likely turning his back on comics altogether… well, the news that Alan Moore is working on a new miniseries about the life of H.P. Lovecraft has gotten me excited about comics again.

I’m not the first person to say this, but…

August 24, 2012 at 11:21 am

…the news that Superman and Wonder Woman are now officially to be an “item” is just a predictably short-sided editorial move to drum up sales. No kidding, right? What else is new. I’m feeling more and more cynical about comics these days — at least, cynical about the mainstream ones. […]

A Moment of Geek: Argo, Kirby, Parks

August 15, 2012 at 4:59 pm

I’ve long been fascinated by the so-called Canadian Caper — particularly by the role that comics legend Jack Kirby played. The idea that the Canadian Government and CIA concocted such a daring and imaginative plan to rescue six diplomats during the Iran Hostage Crisis is pre-made for Hollywood. I think […]

“Superheroes are our dreams of ourselves.”

November 29, 2011 at 10:35 am

comicbookGRRRL has posted a full transcript of her interview with the extraordinary gentleman Alan Moore in which he waxes on all sorts of excellent topics, including his next novel “Jerusalem” which sounds fascinating… “And at the same time as this I’ve been working upon my novel Jerusalem which is at […]