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Behind the cut is a study I wrote some fifteen years ago, of a comic by Jack Kirby that I regard as one of his greatest masterpieces.( Read more... )

I used to do an occasional series called "you couldn't make it up dept." featuring absurd and crazy stories from various news media. Now what got it started years ago were a few examples of egregious corporate stupidity; and when I read this news - Read more... )

Waringing - SPOILERS all over the place. This is written from the assumption that everyone who reads it will have seen the film

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Alan Moore, like Jack Kirby before him, was capable, when not at the top of his game, of being quite extraordinarily bad - not just, like the King, bad out of tiredness and lack of interest, but out of complete wrong-headedness, out of taking the wrong approach and insisting with it. A lot of his worst stuff is to do with sex. Moore is not really ( Read more... )

Gene Colan, a great artist who was also a wonderful human being, passed away a day or two ago. Apart from thanking God for this remarkable man and saying a prayer for his soul, what we should remember in such cases is how important it is to show everyone you admire and who has enriched your life just how grateful you are. You might not have the ( Read more... )

The superhero genre is so corrupt that there is little or no hope to go back to sanity unless Marvel, DC and the rest go bankrupt. It's just one big event after another, year after year, till all your characters have been rehashed and reworked and even just plain got wrong so many times that you no longer have anything there worth caring for. I ( Read more... )

While newspapers and TV waste our time with poseurs and trash, a Titan as great as any old master has passed away unnoticed (except by his grateful followers, who had been gathering in the last few years in the Facebook page). Jeff Jones - later in his/her life Jeffrey Catherine Jones - was simply the greatest artist in my lifetime. Newspapers ( Read more... )

One of the sad things about being even marginally involved in a living artform is watching your heroes pass away. A lover of classical music is unlikely to experience the sense of loss of losing a Beethoven or a Schubert in this day and age, but comics legends are always leaving us ( Read more... )

Yes, and it works. My friend ani_bester has come up with an absolutely delightful idea for satire/allegory which makes wonderful use of her charming, idiosyncratic art style and is frankly the most promising idea for a comic I have seen in years. Have a look - http://ani-bester.livejournal.com/851734. ( Read more... )