Greg McElhatton
Rassling With Jeff Smith
Now, there's a chance you might not know who Jeff Smith is, so I'll try and be brief: he's one of the few genuine geniuses in comics.
All right, that wasn't helpful, so let me try this again. His comic book Bone was one of the great success stories of the black and white self-publishing age
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Ten Books You Should Buy: August 2007 (Part 2)
Picking up where yesterday's post left off... this is the second half of a rundown of ten books scheduled for August 2007 that aren't in the "front of the book" solicitations. As great as stuff from Dark Horse, DC, Image, and Marvel are, if you only look at those solicitations, you're missing a wealth of other great books
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Ten Books You Should Buy: August 2007 (Part 1)
When the comic book industry releases its upcoming solicitations (two months in advance), there's always a lot of buzz and fanfare over the announcements for the four "front of the book" publishers: Dark Horse, DC, Image, and Marvel. The thing is, some of the most exciting books due to hit are actually the ones from the other publishers
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Slimline Second Chances
When Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith launched Fell, a 24-page comic series about a detective banished to the worst part of a corrupt city, there was a lot of talk that it would fail. A regular comic in full color for just $1.99? Let's not be silly
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Avril Lavigne
I have a confession to make: I really know very little about Avril Lavigne. Don't get me wrong, it's hard to not know that she exists, but the only song of hers I could instantly recognize from the radio is "Complicated" and that's thanks to all the ads for that horrible Uptown Girls movie with Brittany Murphy and Dakota Fanning
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Think You’re Smart?
One of the things I love about the English language manga explosion from the past couple of years was that as more Japanese comics are translated into English, we get a widening list of genres and styles. Take, for instance, mysteries. Aside from old issues of Detective Comics and Elongated Man, mysteries in comics are pretty much dead
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Showcase Presents: Legion of Super-Crack
I'll admit that I never read Legion of Super-Heroes until the infamous "Five Years Later" series by Keith Giffen and Tom & Mary Bierbaum. I'd enjoyed it enough that I went back and read some of the Paul Levitz issues as well, but when it comes to LSH history, that's as far back as my knowledge really went. So
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All Naruto, All The Time
If you've ever seen a BookScan sales chart for graphic novels and trade paperbacks in bookstore chains, you might have noticed a certain little book called Naruto. Specifically, the fact that every time a new volume shows up it dominates the sales charts
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2007 Eisner Award Nominees Announced
The 2007 Eisner Award Nominees were announced yesterday, and that means that everyone connected with comics will do one of three things:
Get excited about this listing of some of the great comics released in 2006
Complain that they don't see their favorite comic on the list
Ignore the announcement and/or generally be oblivious about the whole thing
Now, sadly, the third option is probably the