Just got word that The Influencing Machine is debuting at #8 on the New York Times Graphic Books - Harcover Best Seller list. (Try saying that five times fast.) And we're the only book not published by DC Comics - and the only one not featuring Wonder Woman, Batman, Green Lantern, or vampires (though Spider-Brooke does make an appearance in our ( Read more... )

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

The website The Daily Cross Hatch has just posted its year-end popularity list, "The Best Damned Comics of 2009 Chosen by the Artists." Here are my picks (in no particular order):

• Masterpiece Comics by R. Sikoryak - I’ve loved Sikoryak’s comics for years, and this beautiful volume collects all his “mash-ups” of high and low, merging the look of ( Read more... )