No.But what’s more interesting is the examination that led to that conclusion.The Comics Reporter looks into the economic influences from within and from outside the business during recessions.
The Dark Knight is not a popcorn-summer-movie-tentpole-event-action-comic-book-based movie. It is a drama.Oh sure its all that other stuff too, with things going boom and such. But… Let’s just say that all the talk about a Best Actor Oscar nomination for Heath Ledger is not just sentimentality for him in the wake of his death. His […]
“Memory is a thing of quicksilver and smoke when you’re talking about inventory.” -Brian Hibbs, in his latest Tilting at Windmills columnLast year, Brian installed a Point of Sale system into his comic shop. He’s now armed with information he could never have gotten through his old pencil and paper system. In this month’s article, […]
Nick Gillespie on the handwringing over the layoff of editorial cartoonists.
Unqualified Offerings is a blog that is usually political, and sometimes goes into comics, and other aspects of pop-culture.It had been dropped from my RSS feeds due to an extended streak of “the war sucks” and “Bush is bad” posts that got to be a broken record. It may get back on my reading list […]
A candidate for the Kansas legislature (15th district), Sean Tevis, is getting attention for his attempt at getting contributions over the Internet.His campaign website features a comic from which he solicits the the online community for donations. It’s done in a stick figure style:Who knew that Cynicalman was running for office? Did Matt Feazell approve […]
Unfortunately, this one isn’t so graceful.A candidate who’s accused of using his office for personal gain and is going to face a jury on campaign rule violations, is trying to dismiss the controversy surrounding him by distributing a comic that explains that all his woes are due to a “homosexual conspiracy”.Read more, and see sample […]
It’s the use of random symbols and punctuation to replace a curse word!from Hoefler & Frere-Jones:The term is grawlix, and it looks to have been coined by Beetle Bailey cartoonist Mort Walker around 1964I never new there was even a word for this until I was tipped to this article by Daring Fireball.
In the monthly catalog in which 99% of all comics are solicited through, Previews, there are sections for each of the major publishers. Then there is the independents section where all other publishers are put in alphabetical order. Historically, the publishers whose names are earlier in the alphabet sell better due to being earlier in […]
Senator Partrick J. Leahy (D-Vermont), has been taken hostage by the Joker.Film at July 18th.
… quotes from historical figures, and a discussion about the resulting mashups and whether that is the geekiest blog post ever.(Funny, I don’t see any LOLcats or alternative keyboard layouts.) via Blog@Newsarama
… How about trimming them down to say, three?
In the Monty Python skit, “The Church Police,” a murderer being taken into custody admits his crime saying, “It’s a fair cop, but society’s to blame.”The detective replies, “Agreed. We’ll be charging them too.”Judenhass, is Dave Sim’s indictment of society, as the intellectual accomplice in the Third Reich’s acts of genocide.Sim here, as in his […]
There is a great discussion thread going ot at Last Free Voice, attached to the arcticle, “The Austrian/Monetarist split as a proxy for the rift within the LP.”The metaphor of the differing ideas on money translating to the radical/reform division within the Libertarian party is rather thin, but the discussion about fiat money, the gold […]
I’ve set up a Meetup group for Libertarians and those interested in libertarianism.It’s scheduled for Saturday, July 19, at 2 P.M., here in Rockland.More details at the meetup.com website Or, feel free to e-mail me.