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From England, With Postage
Celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of spy-turned-writer Ian Fleming, this Tuesday the British post office will be issuing a half-dozen "extra-long" stamps featuring reproductions of...
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Happy Birthday: José Luis Garcia-Lopez, Brian Bolland, and Mark Verheiden
Today is a popular birthday for comic book creators! Three very different comic book luminaries all share March 26. José Luis Garcia-Lopez was born in Spain in 1948 but moved to Argentina in 1952....
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Review: ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ Deluxe Edition
As I picked up a copy of the new Batman: The Killing Joke 20th anniversary hardcover, I flicked open the first page and sliced my finger on its edge. The paper cut seemed fitting, a physical...
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Lego Version of “Batman: The Killing Joke”
Well, this is different– and yet, very familiar. Batman: The Killing Joke, written by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland, has been partially adapted into a Lego version. Voice actor Patrick Girts...
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MIKE GOLD: Important Advice For Comics Artists
Hardly a day goes by without my asking myself “How did all this crappy art get published?” Now, before all you upstarts get bent out of shape, please appreciate the fact that I’ve been asking this...
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Mike Gold: The Baltimore Fun
I like comic book conventions, although I’ve been pretty hard on them lately. These days most conventions have little to do with comic books. They have a lot to do with pop culture and celebrities and...
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Marc Alan Fishman: BaltiMORE!
Yeah, I know. The illustrious Mike Gold has already written at length as to why the Baltimore Comic-Con is an amazing experience. But Mike’s career in comics is older than I am. I had thought, for...
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Michael Davis: Why Do I Read Comics? Part 2
(Intermezzo) Some weeks ago I wrote part one of this series then I went to France and forgot to file it before I went. Once I arrived in France I was blown away by my comic experience and wrote about...
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REVIEW: Dredd
Despite Karl Urban uttering, “I am the law” his overall demeanor was just one of the many disappointments in the new film take on the classic 2000 AD hero, Judge Dredd. Dredd is out on home video this...
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Mindy Newell: Columnist Columnizing
“Don’t you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don’t even have to be true!” – Dave Barry Some thoughts this...
View ArticleMindy Newell: Mother’s Day
“I have called on the Goddess and found her within myself” Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon Feeling very Hemingway-esque because I am sitting here in front of the computer sipping a glass of...
View ArticleMike Gold: Free Comic Books, Now!
This is Wednesday, so perhaps you have finished reading all those free comic books you copped last Saturday – in time for today’s new releases, of course. I hope you tried some new stuff; that, after...
View ArticleMindy Newell: The Name Of The Monster
“Must a name mean something?” Alice asked doubtfully. “Of course it must,” Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; “my name means the shape I am – and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name...
View ArticleMartha Thomases: Killing The Killing Joke
Another week, another kerfuffle. This one, involving a variant Batgirl cover for the “Joker Month” promotion at DC comics, is actually a little bit more interesting than most. (Please note: I actually...
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Dennis O’Neil: Camelot 3000 and College Curricula
I must have been aware of Camelot 3000 back when it was appearing in 12 parts, from 1982 to 1985, me being a honkin’ big comics pro and all, and there were a lot of comics strewing my life. And, by...
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John Ostrander: Savaging Barbara Gordon
Warners has announced that they are making an animated feature of Batman: The Killing Joke, the 1988 one-shot by Alan Moore and Brian Bolland. Central to the storyline is The Joker shooting Barbara...
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Mike Gold: The Comic Con Can-Can
This weekend, a whole bunch of us ComicMixers will be making our annual trip to the Baltimore Comic-Con. For the record, that’s Martha Thomases, Adriane Nash, Evelyn Krite, G.D. Falksen, and myself....
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Ed Catto: That Other British Invasion
One day in the early 80s, I was with my girlfriend in a shopping mall. Somehow I had been relegated to the role of sidekick while she shopped. I liked to do a lot of things with her, but shopping...
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Mike Gold Pisses People Off (a continuing series)
Women… Do you look like this? Men… Do you look like this? I’ll admit, I am deathly afraid I haven’t pissed enough people off this past year and I’m rapidly running out of time. But, damn, people...
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: The Lego Version of “Batman: The Killing Joke”
Well, this is different– and yet, very familiar. Batman: The Killing Joke, written by Alan Moore and drawn by Brian Bolland, has been partially adapted into a Lego version. Voice actor Patrick Girts...
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