Toon Books, Françoise Mouly & Art Spiegelman new Imprint Here is a recipe for an appetizing collection of books that will be the perfect nutrition for your child’s hungry little mind. For many years I have approached a few publishers to try consider publishing a kid friendly comic book related book line to stimulate kids to […]
Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device Could you imagine if you were able to carry all your books in your palm with some kind of gadget that would let you view all your books. That would put Ikea of of business. No more bookshelves, just scroll and you are there. Are we there yet? Well Amazon […]
Super Mario Galaxy My kids can’t get enough of this game this week. It’s the coolest offering so far on the Wii. Become Mario as he traverses a galaxy of gravities, traveling in and out of gravitational fields by blasting from planet to planet. Players experience dizzying perspective shifts as they run upside down through […]
Seems every publishing house is raiding the senior comic book characters. Must be that copyrights have elapsed or the ink well is drying up. Where are the exciting new characters this young generation is creating today? Most likely on the net for free, nobody is ready to gamble on new projects. Word has it that […]
Sooner or later this was going to happen. Marvel is releasing about 2500 comics online to view at your leisure. For the price of a trade from their company, $59.88 a year or for $9.99 a month will get you a full year of comic viewing. Not bad at all. No more un-bagging and stuffing comics away or […]
Moomin Special Box Set Thanks to Drawn and Quarterly who saw potential in a little hidden treasure in Europe called Moomin decided to collect and print the series into a book format for the North American audience and it is paying dividends for those who thirst for this amazing forgotten series. In the wake of […]
The Dream of the Rarebit Fiend What is over one hundred old and still has relevance today and can be attributed as one of the founding fathers of comic strip foundation to all we read today in comic book form. Everything begets to something in a grandeur scale in any form of entertainment. The Dream […]
Ralph Bakshi with a rare cartoon from Paramount called Marvin Digs. Dig it man!
Street Sketchbook: Inside the Journals of International Street and Graffiti Artists I can honestly tell you I was never a fan of graffiti, like any art-form there is good art and there is bad art. Now graffiti falls into that category also. I would not be a happy camper to be the recipient of scribbled […]
Street Sketchbook: Inside the Journals of International Street and Graffiti Artists I can honestly tell you I was never a fan of graffiti, like any art-form there is good art and there is bad art. Now graffiti falls into that category also. I would not be a happy camper to be the recipient of scribbled […]
Some of the best work is not necessarily coming from the big two power-houses in the comic industry. Sure manga has a stranglehold on the industry not the best in quality in my opinion. Then along comes this little book with no fanfare from Slave Labor Graphics, with the coolest name and cool art to […]
It’s not easy being a super-hero in Hollywood. Matt Ogens chronicles the lives of Christopher “Superman” Dennis, Maxwell “Batman” Allen, Jennifer “Wonder Woman” Gehrt, Joe “Hulk” McQueen in this documentary of the hardships of being a super-hero without powers. Their love for the characters is their bread and water and also their falter. Tragic at […]