No need for an update today: Lynn Hsu lays out my life in all the detail anyone needs, several times repeatedly as ordered. To be honest, it varies greatly from department to department, which I know because I’ve reached the fabled three score and ten years, at which point you spend more time down at […]
In my defense, unlike Wallace the Brave (AMS), I’m retired and don’t have to know what day it is. The post office is closed from noon Saturday until Monday, which is when the Chinese restaurants and barber shops are closed. That’s about it. Now that I’m retired, I don’t get a haircut very often and, […]
Pearls Before Swine (AMS) reflects my own mood after today’s morning dip into Facebook and Twitter, which I take in part to make sure the world hasn’t ended but also because a lot of cartoons appear there before they show up on official sites. Though yesterday I had a pleasant conversation with a Gen-Z woman […]
This Pearls Before Swine (AMS) starts us off with something silly. But silly isn’t stupid. After all, Isaac Asimov wrote silly limericks, and nobody would call him stupid. And speaking of limericks, Oliver St. John Gogarty, James Joyce’s roommate in that Martello Tower, wrote very clever, dirty limericks — including the one ending “they argued […]
A few notable mentions as the comic community reacts to the shootings in Aurora CO. The Globe and Mail removed last Friday’s editorial cartoon because it contained a reference to the Batman movie. No information was given about the cartoon, so I’m not sure what exactly it was depicting, but because it was most likely […]
A near-mint first edition of a Batman comic book has sold for $850,000 in a private transaction through Heritage Auction. The edition was first printed in 1940. The new owners are only disclosed as an “investor partnership.”
According to an article on pinknews.co.uk (Europe?s Largest Gay News Network), Action Comics writer Grant Morrison says the Batman character is gay. “Gayness is built into Batman,” he said, adding, “I’m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There’s just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he’s […]
Jerry Robinson, perhaps best known for creating Batman’s famous enemy The Joker, has passed away at the age of 89. From Comic Book Resources: Over the course of his early years in comics, Robinson proved a creative and social dynamo, moonlighting as a comics artist on projects such as the infamous “created in one night” […]
Mike Lynch reports that a new Jerry Robinson documentary is in the works.
Pretty cool. Anyone know which app he’s using? H/T: GoComics and Comics Alliance
The Dakota County Tribune Business Weekly has great profile of MAD Magagzine cartoonist Tom Richmond and how he became a MAD Magazine regular, his caricature business and his obsession with Batman. Richmond broke in after “relentlessly” sending his work to the magazine’s art department and meeting twice with the art director in the summer of […]