Opening the door to a wider world of expression
It’s been a while since I last posted anything here, as most of my efforts have been focused on Comics Unbagged, but this seemed like a better place for this. After so many years and so many offers of any amount of money, the legendary 1982 DC Comics Style Guide is going to be released…
It took more than two years, but I finally managed to exert some control over my life. Yes, that’s right: all of my comics, trade paperbacks, and hardcovers have been entered into my CLZ database and are all organized and neatly put away. Over the past few days, I built up enough motivation to finish…
The time those of us who knew him either personally or through his amazing creative output have dreaded has come to pass. George Pérez has died. I don’t have the words to express how much this man meant to me, and will continue to mean to me, but I have to try to say something.…
While I will be talking about some comics today, and it is Sunday, this isn’t a Spotlight Sunday post. Instead it’s just something of a casual, meandering walk down memory lane inspired by some recent acquisitions, though in one case it’s a reacquisition. I’ve written before – at length – about how, for various reasons,…
There are always those things you know, tucked away somewhere deep in your brain’s archives that you can’t immediately retrieve but that just pop out of hiding once you’re reminded of it. Some little factoid that you wouldn’t be able to just blurt out on command – or even at random – but upon someone…
It’s not exactly controversial – and is a complete understatement – to say that things in general aren’t really going so great right now. This is as true in my own life as it is for the world at large, and at both levels there is very little over which I have any significant amount…
On Miracle Monday the spirit of humanity soared free. A good Miracle Monday to you all! I hope you’re celebrating safely and – Wait, you didn’t know that it’s Miracle Monday? You don’t even know what Miracle Monday is? Well, let’s remedy that! To answer the question, we have to travel back in time –…
It’s the first Saturday in May, and if it were any ordinary first Saturday in May it would also be Free Comic Book Day. But, of course, it is not an ordinary first Saturday in May, and so that joyous occasion has been postponed until an as-yet-to-be-determined date. Still, as I pointed out in the…
As we enter Day Whatever-Number-It-Is of isolation and continue to press forward in what has become our new normal, I thought I’d share a few comics-related items that might help pass the time. For example, this free online Batman comic, produced by a group of comic professionals. What this fabulous fivesome have brought you is…
In what we now know as “The Before Times,” today would have been the best day of the week, AKA New Comic Book Day. However, as noted last week, one of the many challenges we’re facing in the midst of this global pandemic – and, admittedly, one of the more minor inconveniences, all things considered…