Hoopla has a bingepass allowing you to read so many daily comic strips–including Dan Schkade’s Flash Gordon–from Comics Kingdom, King Features Syndicate’s comic strip website. If you have Hoopla, you can use it through your local library. (I assume this is US only, but don’t know for sure).
At Eruditorum Press, Elizabeth Sandifer writes about Neil Gaiman and Scientology. (Thanks, Bill!) “Gaiman has repeatedly drawn from his childhood in his fiction, however, and this paints a far darker picture. His earliest work to engage with it was Violent Cases, a 1987 graphic novel that begins with […]
On Criminal podcast, Phoebe Judge examines youth crime in the 1950s, comics, and Frederic Wertham. There are interviews with scholar Carol Tilley, writer Saladin Ahmed, and archivists at the National Archive in Washington, D.C. “’Children nowadays, they make maps. And say, this is the street where the store […]
So we don’t necessarily feel this way–to say that these shops felt tremendously unwelcoming for some of us here at the Gutter is an understatement–but it’s an thoughtful piece and people’s sense of loss and nostalgia is real. “In the last few months of 2022, I started playing Magic: […]
This year, I have actually received “for your consideration” emails from publicists. They are emails asking you to add a particular film to your year end lists, or if you are fancy enough, to vote for the films in various awards. All these emails were promoting Hundreds of […]
The Comics Journal has an interview with Francesco Matteuzzi and Luca Debus. “In 2023, a comics biography of Charles Schulz was published by Top Shelf, written and drawn by two Italian comic book artists: writer Francesco Matteuzzi and artist Luca Debus. The book was published directly in the […]
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