Category Archives: comics
More Ellisonia
Good God, will it ever end? Of course it’s my fault for perpetuating this by continuing to comment, but I checked the original post on Heidi McDonald’s The Beat and discovered yet more by Harlan Ellison. Quoted in its entirety: … Continue reading
Ellison Lost
(UPDATE 9/7/07: Honest to god I have a life. The latest.) The Harlan Ellison -vs- Fantagraphics Lawsuit has been resolved through mediation and the details of said resolution have at last been posted. I’ve commented on this lawsuit before. (And … Continue reading
Alan Moore's The Killing Joke
Dirk Deppey has been linking, and probably causing, a mini-debate amongst female fans of comics regarding Alan Moore’s The Killing Joke. This centers, as with every other discussion of The Killing Joke, on the victimization of Barbara Gordon/Batgirl by The … Continue reading
when you done seen the gypsy, the gypsy done seen you
We went to San Diego for the Comic Con 2007 International Biennial. I wish I had more to say about it, but I’ve got nothing. I may still be exhausted. We didn’t even take any pictures, which is strange. San … Continue reading
Letter to Dave Sim #2
Jarett Kobek Los Angeles, CA 90029 Mr. Dave Sim Aardvark Vanaheim, Inc P.O. Box 1674 Station C Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2G 4R2 July 19, 2007 Dear Dave, You blog post of July 1st touches, in part, on your syncretic view … Continue reading
Letter to Dave Sim #1
Jarett Kobek Los Angeles, CA 90029 USA Mr. Dave Sim Aardvark Vanaheim, Inc P.O. Box 1674 Station C Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2G 4R2 7 July 2007 Dear Dave, Three points: #1. A post in Neil Gaiman’s blog extends your offer … Continue reading
You're a good man, Eddie Campbell
I’m most dissatisfied with my review of Eddie Campbell’s The Black Diamond Detective Agency. Somehow I came off 1000% more negative than I had intended and not enthusiastic enough about the book’s many virtues. I’ve noticed that this negativity is … Continue reading
In which technology changes… nothing
As I’ve mentioned, most of my books are bought in a haphazard fashion, generally at the Hollywood & Western Out of the Closet. The most fascinating thus far has been Timothy Crouse’s The Boys on the Bus. Published in ’73, … Continue reading
REVIEW: Black Diamond Detective Agency
In a previous sycophantic post, I mentioned that I think Eddie Campbell is the single smartest person, both as an artist and a writer, to have ever worked in comics. Bacchus (under its 200 different titles of publication) was possibly … Continue reading
live, die, live again: rory hayes
Yesterday’s post reminded me that I’d read an article about Rory Hayes in The Comics Journal. This lead to digging through back issues and old books. Eventually I found it: issue 250, February 2003. I was living in a basement … Continue reading
Art Out of Time
A pleasure of returning home is the revisitation of old habits & things. Of particular interest is the book collection. As I’ve roughly 5-6,000 books stored in Rhode Island, I’m unable to bring them wherever I go. When I move, … Continue reading
Terry meets Julie
Having been an Internet user for years and years and years, I’ve racked up a fair number of web results. Many of them embarrassing. Some are from the days before there was a web, let alone search engines. Had I … Continue reading