Naturally, the place was lousy with cartoonists. Thought these To/From gift tags might make you chuckle:


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Okay, never mind the occasional creepifying turns this week's Doonesbury has take, what the eff's up with that guy's nose?


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So, who are the best comic book and cartoon villains to work for? Consider pay, job security, and likelihood that the boss might kill you for looking at him funny or throw you at Superman when his scheme turns to shit. Use a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the ideal. Explain your answer.

Hank Scorpio has a 10 rating.


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Cap Fatty!


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So, who are the best comic book and cartoon villains to work for? Consider pay, job security, and likelihood that the boss might kill you for looking at him funny or throw you at Superman when things starting turning to shit. Use a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the ideal. Explain your answer.

Hank Scorpio has a 10 rating.


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But sometimes Joss Whedon's ponyboy take on male characters really skeeves me out.

Dude needs to stop writing comics for a little while too.

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Does anyone have a copy of the Comics Journal from the 80s, particularly one with the explanation of their "old ladies" rating system? I'm trying to remember which comics they used as examples. I remember that three old ladies was equivalent to "Kirby and Lee when they were hot," while four old ladies equaled a particular run of Howard the Duck (I ( Read more... )

Okay, this is strange. Tintin and Snowy was a Belgian comic strip by an artist named Hergé. While, yes, Tintin often went to exotic climes where the locals where thick-lipped cannibal negroes, ching-chong Chinamen, and so on, the strip is basically a boy reporter's adventure story. Unlike, say, Tom Swift, Tintin rarely invented flying death rays ( Read more... )