02 June 2009

Ooh—Scarry!

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Sterling, the book-publishing wing of Barnes & Noble, has republished eight of Richard Scarry's books. These aren't his best kno...
01 June 2009

POD Overtakes Regular Printing

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Last week was all about the comics, so this week I'm gonna try to make Oz and Ends all about book publishing. The biggest news of last m...
31 May 2009

The Last Times We Saw Dick Grayson as Batman

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As the weekly Robin has traced, in the Batman comic books Dick Grayson has now taken over the mantle of the Caped Crusader while his mento...
30 May 2009

Restimulating Old Neurons with The Brave and the Bold

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On a whim, I picked up my public library's copy of Mark Waid and George Pérez 's The Brave and the Bold: The Lords of Luck , the fi...
29 May 2009

Judge Hand in the Land of Superheroes

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I was intrigued by the opening of an essay by Peter Coogan in A Comics Studies Reader , just published by the University Press of Mississipp...
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28 May 2009

Greek Myth Graphics as a Gateway

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At the Graphic Classroom , Chris Wilson wrote recently about using comics about Greek mythology as a way of buttering up elementary-school s...
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27 May 2009

Neil Gaiman on Robin (well, a little—but not enough for Sunday)

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DC Comics persuaded Neil Gaiman to write the script for a two-part Batman story called "Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?...
26 May 2009

Fleep Fleep

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A long while back, Publishers Weekly ran a rather extraordinary interview with Jason Shiga , library employee and cartoonist. His most rece...
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25 May 2009

Single-Sheet Comics

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From the Stumptown Trade Review's article and podcast , I learned about Kenan Rubenstein's single-sheet "oubliette" comic...
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24 May 2009

Competing Portrayals of Batman and Robin

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In September 2005, DC Comics launched a magazine called All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder , written by Frank Miller and drawn by Jim...