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Fantagraphics has collected horror and mystery stories preceding the comics code restrictions by comic master Steve Ditko in Strange Suspense: The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 1 . Check out the video preview below.
Before the Amazing Spider-Man, before the mysterious Dr. Strange, before the black-and-white world of the Ayn Rand-inspired Mr. A, the legendary comic book [...]

Dave Sim, creator of Cerebus, is one funny – some might say odd – dude. He won a Shuster award a few weeks ago for his most recent work Glamourpuss. He couldn’t be there  (and neither could I). But here’s one of three pre-taped acceptance speeches he sent in advance to the committee.

How about that [...]

This is basically a 7 minute ad for The Vertigo Encyclopedia by DK Publishing. But it offers a few soundbites on the imprint’s history.
The first half of the video is Karen Berger, who runs Vertigo and has been there since the beginning, talking about its genesis 15 years ago, Vertigo’s editorial philosophy, the appeal among [...]

This year’s CBC’s Canada Reads program includes a few graphic novel and comic picks.
In this video, The Beguiling’s owner Peter Birkemoe showcases Seth’s new book, George Sprott. Just have a look at how those pages are put together. Amazing.

Browse Birkemoe’s full list of recommendations here. I’ve not read a single one on the list, which [...]

I was away on vacation this year during TCAF so missed out on it entirely. I found this well-produced clip that offers some coverage of the event. For those who have never attended, TCAF is less like a comics convention and more like a zine festival or Word on the Street.

This year’s event was held [...]

Marvel has been beating the drums on Captain America #600 for weeks now, and the news is finally out. Steve Rogers – back from the dead?! Yawn.
Don’t get me wrong. I read the first 4 years of Ed Brubaker’s run on Captain America (42 issues to be precise) and loved nearly every page. And I [...]

This Best of the Year with lots of names - Frank Quitely and Emmanuel Guibert - to name a few

The article I'm most interested in reading is the feature on French artist Emmanuel Guibert and his book The Photographer

I just came across the Fantagraphics channel on YouTube where they post video previews (no audio) of newly released books as well as the latest issue of The Comics Journal.
I haven’t read the Journal in a long time. In fact, the last issue I have is the Best of 2006 from Feb ‘07. It’s always [...]