Archives for “Culture”

Oh Nick Simmons. I kind of wanted to post a spirited defense of you using scans of Even A Monkey Can Draw Manga, but I ...


From here: "I worked for them as a letterer at an embarrassingly low page rate. I took it to get some more superhero style stuff under ...


In reference to Specifically It would be nice if someone sent a copy of so he could stop giving that quote in interviews, cuz that shit ain't true. & ...


Three things in this post: An overview of my thoughts on digital printing/print-on-demand, a look at Dave Sim's move to ComiXpress for some of his ...


TONIGHT! and Saturday Morning at 10am. Evangelion 1.0, the first of four feature-length remakes of the Neon Genesis Evangelion tv series/movies, is screening tonight at 7pm ...


Hello lucky readers! I've managed to secure lovely large versions of Maurice Vellekoop's illustrations from this past Saturday's National Post Style Quarterly, as well as ...


A friend passed along a press-kit the other day that's 3 shades of awesome, announcing the team-up of manga-ka Moyoco Anno (best known in America ...


This past weekend a new Japanese pop-cultural centre opened in San Francisco, and it sounds pretty awesome. It's called New People and it's... well it's ...


One of the things I really enjoyed about my last trip to Japan was, in the Tezuka Museum, getting to see original art (manuscript) pages ...


[caption id="attachment_2738" align="alignright" width="135" caption="Oh, delicious assortment of Japanese alcoholic beverages."][/caption] So I am going back to Japan, with my darling and talented husband. As you ...


So that's my immediate reaction to the news that Christopher Handley has pled guilty. It's an easy way to feel, admittedly. It's not my ass ...


So I was counting up all of the events that The Beguiling either hosted or sponsored in 2008, in order to prepare our TCAF wrap-up. ...


 Tlönista clears things up for those of you who don't quite get it.  Click through to see the girl version as well. But yeah, go ahead ...


Amazon's "adult materials" policy (I didn't even know they had one) is thus: "In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude "adult" material from appearing ...


"Last week, Marvel’s 2007 adaptation of the Stephen King fantasy epic appeared, as if by magic, atop the hardcover list, unseating Watchmen. Although I couldn’t find ...


Today the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defimation, or GLAAD, announced the nominees for their 20th Annual Media Awards. Included again this year is a ...


I'm kind of sorry I ever picked on Blog@ previously... This whole new crew is just brutal. I'm done, delisting them from the sidebar, last ...


Just received from Archie Comics in a press release: "Ever since Archie's first appearance in 1941, Archie Comics has prided itself with keeping up with the ...


What do The RZA, Jay Z, Busta Rhymes, and ICE MUTHAFUCKIN T have in common? They're all over Kagan McLeod's completely, completely awesome HISTORY OF ...


"Update: Simon and Schuster representatives wrote CR Monday evening claiming that the number of images used in the publication of this interview (eight, including cover) ...


I don't know why everyone keeps going on about this "Archaia Studios Press" being bought out... I had thought it was the publisher of Publisher ...


Above is Pascal "White Rapids" Blanchet's poster image decrying the arts and culture funding cuts perpetrated by Stephen Harper a few weeks before he called ...


A few weeks ago I took a little vacation from my day job selling comics for The Beguiling, to head out to Seattle and sell ...


Hey, I actually got a chance to check out some of Kramers Ergot 7 while I was in San Diego. It was already on my ...


I never really wrapped up my Japan trip from last year. I think it's because my trip ran from September 3rd to September 17th 2007, ...