Sandy of the I Love Rob Liefeld blog just posted his Best Comics of 2009 Meta-List. I love this list - and not only because A.D. landed at #13. No, I really love it because the "meta-list" was compiled in an obsessive, exhaustive way that matches my own long (sad) history of rating, chart-making, and list-making. Here, I'll let you read for ( Read more... )

As things wind down, prompted by the Daily Cross Hatch, here are my picks of the 00s, in no particular order...

• Safe Area Gorazde, by Joe Sacco
• Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel
• Ice Haven, by Daniel Clowes
• Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
• Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli

Wow, Now I'm on Twitter. It's so amazing! You should check it out - all the kids are doing it. You can "follow" me at http://twitter.com/joshneufeld

Over the last couple of years, I've become addicted to Wikipedia. Not just consulting it for answers about everything under the sun, but writing and editing articles as well. Yes, I am a Wikipedia editor. (And you can be one too ( Read more... )

An article in today's Times about Jack Kerouac's fixation on fantasy baseball caught my eye. (The term "fantasy," in this case, refers to a sort of role-playing baseball, rather than the rotisserie-type "fantasy" baseball that is so popular nowadays.) Seems most of his life Kerouac was obsessed with a baseball simulation game of his own creation, ( Read more... )

With the turning of the calendar page to April, Prospect Park softball starts anew, and with it comes last year's stats. I played in many fewer games last summer, a combination of A.D., daddy duties, and too many bad weather Sundays. But my production improved over the previous year, which is nice, though I would've liked to have had more RBIs. ( Read more... )

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For years I had this recurring dream where I would be walking down the street and come across a huge stash of comics sitting in boxes on the sidewalk. In my dream, I never got to open the boxes and see what was inside, but I envisioned them filled with great old books to complete my collection or at least sell for a tidy sum.

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I grew up (I thought) in a non-TV household. My mom was against television-especially for kids- and as far as I knew, we didn't own a set. (I found out years later my mom secretly kept a small black-and-white TV in the closet for emergencies and special circumstances, like news coverage of the Vietnam war, or Nixon's resignation.) Anyway, despite ( Read more... )