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Comics A.M. | The comics Internet in two minutes
- Posted on February 9, 2009 - 06:19 AM by Kevin Melrose
The Monthly Crisis
NYCC | Blogger Deb Aoki rounds up the biggest manga news, and best quotes, from New York Comic Con. [About.com]
NYCC | "Pop Candy" blogger Whitney Matheson also has a roundup, of mostly movie- and TV-related tidbits. [USA Today]
Conventions | Paul Gravett reports briefly from Angoulême. [The Guardian]
Creators | Best wishes for a speedy recover to former DC Comics editor K.C. Carlson. [Comics Worth Reading]
Pop culture | The Chicago Tribune compares White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel to ROM: Spaceknight -- in a three-quarter-page feature. [Phoning It In]
Blogosphere | Blogger Kirk Warren gets fancy with his best-of-2008 overview by transforming it into a 26-page downloadable magazine. [The Weekly Crisis]
Creators | Cartoonist Norm Feuti discusses his syndicated comic strip Retail and his webcomic Gill. [Comix 411]
Hollywood calling | Nigel Andrews considers the movie industry's comics fixation: "... I wonder if the cinema’s obsession with comic books (apart from their earning power at the box office) does not come from some yearning to un-invent the wheel. Guilty about the perceptual fraud practised on the viewer, the filmmaker longs to revert to the chaste integrity of still frames in sequence." [Financial Times]
Retailers | Brave New World Comics in Newhall, Calif., plays host to Geek Singles Night. [Los Angeles Daily News]
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