I’ve got a real soft spot for what’s called “all ages” comics. This will come as no surprise to those who know me well. And anyone who’s paid attention to how often I like to blog about things like Hayao Miyazaki films, cartoonists like Charles Schultz and Bill Waterson, and the works of Dr. Seuss [...]
While watching In Search of Steve Ditko, one thing struck me in a very personal way. It was the part of the interview with Stan Lee in Part 6 where the discussion of credit comes up. Over the years, there has been a lot of grief thrown Stan’s way about taking sole credit as the [...]
A couple of days ago I made a post about the Spider-Man rockcomic that I got as a present when I was a kid. Reminiscing about that got me thinking about Spidey and Doc Strange — two of my favorite comic characters, and both created by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko. And that got me [...]
For Christmas in 1972 I got From Beyond the Grave, a the Spider-Man “rockcomic” — that’s a “rock & roll comic,” even though there really was more like a groovy soft-rock illustrated radio show … but I’m getting ahead of myself. I didn’t have any idea how cheesy the music, writing, or acting were … [...]
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Yeah, so as this post’s title suggests, it’s been a busy couple of weeks here at the Stan!plex. Besides working Mon-Fri at Wizards of the Coast, I’ve been spending my evenings and weekends working on some of my ongoing freelance assignments. As fate would have it, four separate turn overs all came due in the [...]
Thursday, February 2, 2012
As I said in my previous post, yesterday was Hourly Comic Day 2012 — a day when cartoonists all over the world participate in a fun challenge: To draw an autobiographical comic during (and about) every hour that they are awake during the day. I’ve been participating in Hourly Comic Day since 2007, and I [...]
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
I haven’t been doing as much cartooning as I’d like, recently. But for at least one day, that’s changed. Today is Hourly Comic Day — a day when pro and amateur cartoonists around the globe participate in a fun little exercise, doing an autobiographical comic for every hour that they are awake during a single [...]
The Internet is abuzz today with gamers trying to figure out what they should buy at Gen Con. Just to make sure that I’m never accused of missing an opportunity to blatantly plug projects I had a hand in, I suggest those of you in Indianapolis this week check out these booths. STUDIO 2 PUBLISHING [...]
Today is another of my artist holidays … well … actually it’s TWO of my artist holidays all rolled into one square on the calendar. June 21st is both Al Hirschfeld’s and Berke Breathed’s birthdays. Al Hirshfeld is one of the great caricaturists of the 20th-century, indeed (in my opinion) of all time. I became [...]
They released a new trailer for the Green Lantern movie … one that, if it had been the first or second bit of info I’d seen on the film, would have filled me with eager anticipation (rather than the anxiety I blogged about the other day. This captures the majesty of the GL Corps, gives [...]