Poor Mojo Newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday
The best comics of the ’00s | Best Of The Decade | Comics Panel | The A.V. Club An interesting list. The problem with this sort of project is that a) you will ALWAYS forget something amazing (like Scott Pilgrim) and b) everyone has a favorite you will overlook (like Scott Pilgrim). The list isn't too surprising. You have your All-Star Superman, your Bone, your Blankets. You have a bunch of the...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | yesterday
With 2009 coming to a close, a lot of people are looking at the best comics of the decade. (There will be other sticklers who post about it next year. No complaining, people.) But the Onion A.V. Club has a list of some of the best of the best — 25 to be exact, with [...]
Comixpedia - Webcomic News & Views Daily (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Typically, in the great tug-of-war over which is most important to a comic — great art or great writing — I tend to think that writing wins out most of the time. A good narrative will get me through a webcomic any day, while nice art satisfies only but for a moment. But, you know, there’s a chance I’m looking at this debate all wrong. What if a lot of webcomic artists are just...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Publishers Weekly has published its Best Books of 2009 list and David Small’s STITCHES was named one of the Top Ten books OVERALL. There is also a Best 11 graphic novels: Parker: The Hunter, Darwyn Cooke and Richard Stark (IDW) Driven by Lemons, Josh Cotter (AdHouse) Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth,Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with [...]
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
That's all I'm promising you, all you're getting, and all you are allowed to complain about in the comments section. Top 21 Essential Marvel Runs I've Read:* 1. Wolfman and Colan Tomb Of Dracula 2. Lee, Kirby, and Sinnot Fantastic Four 3. Gerber, Brunner, Colan, and Infantino Howard the Duck 4. Lee and Romita, and friends Amazing Spider-Man 5. Lee [...]
Bear Alley (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
A few gems from yesterday's trawl of the charity shops around town.F. van Wyck Mason, The Forgotten Fleet Mystery (Arrow, 1958)In this exciting novel F. Van Wyck Mason has drawn action galore against the essentially dramatic background of the old wartime liners maintained in reserve transports off Maryland__The story deals with the efforts of the various powers to gain possession of a secret,
Bear Alley (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
I'm writing this at 11:07 pm... at 11:03 I ran a spell-checker over the last, the very last, review I have to write for Essential Cult Books. What cover scans I can do have been done, the master file has been updated and that's my job finished.And I'll add that it was finished against all the odds: Tuesday we had a slight plumbing problem when the tap in the kitchen started spraying hot water
Bear Alley (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
End of a busy week. The never ending saga of Essential Cult Books continues... two weeks ago I mentioned that I was getting towards the end of the work when we discovered a section that hadn't been assigned, meaning there was more left than anticipated. Well, I'd got it down to about a dozen reviews left when it was found that one section was coming in under size because of the proposed layout,
Parabasis (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
Batman And Robin, Written by Grant Morrison, Issues 1-3: Art by Frank Quitely. Issues 4-5: Art by Philip Tan and Jonathan Glapion. Published by DC Comics. Ongoing series. Batman is “dead”. So is Bruce Wayne. “Dead”. Not dead of course....
ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
DC Comics, Top Shelf and Dark Horse offered their congratulations to the winners of this year's Harvey Awards: Dark Horse is honored to have Gabriel Bá and Dave Stewart working on The Umbrella Academy . At the 2009 Harvey Awards at the Baltimore Comic-Con, Bá took home the award for Best Artist, while Stewart won for Best Colorist on the series written by Gerard Way. Dark Horse is also...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
All Star Superman gains further recognition with the announcement of the 2009 Harvey Awards.
GamersCircle (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
The 2009 Harvey Awards were announced at Baltimore Comic-Con this past weekend. The winners were: Best Writer: Grant Morrison, All Star Superman, DC Comics Best Artist: Gabriel Ba, Umbrella Academy, Dark Horse Comics Best Cartoonist: Al Jaffee, Tall Tales, Abrams Books Best Letterer: John Workman, Marvel 1985, Marvel Comics Best Inker: Mark Morales, Thor, Marvel Comics Best Colorist: [...] Related...
The Daily Cartoonist (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
This year’s Harvey Award winners have been announced. The Harvey Awards recognize outstanding achievements in over 20 categories, ranging from Best Artist to the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame. This years winners are: Best Writer – Grant Morrison, All-Star Superman, Dc Comics Best Artist – Gabriel Ba, Umbrella Academy, Dark Horse Comics Best Cartoonist – Al Jaffee, Tall [...]
East Bay View (mostly a food blog) (Free subscription) | 12/10/2009
Not a pure response to this , since my working definition of "of the decade" is more flexible. Though the Brits are overrepresented (too much reading of the Guardian) my list is more internationalist than the Millions list, plus I like some picture books a lot. Comics aside, there's very little genre fiction on the list: I find it hard to work out what's worth reading, as recommendations,...
Digital Spy (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
Comic author Grant Morrison signs with talent and literary agency International Creative Management.
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