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Journalista for March 17, 2010: False bottom

Posted by Dirk Deppey on March 17th, 2010 at 10:53 AM

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2009 manga sales in Japan drop 6.6% ♦ Frazetta family feud heads to court ♦ more

Datebook: Emerald City 2010 – Con Report

Posted by Gavin Lees on March 16th, 2010 at 11:57 AM

Journalista for March 16, 2010: The world that happened in

Posted by Dirk Deppey on March 16th, 2010 at 8:38 AM

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RIP: Turhan Selçuk, John Kane ♦ suspect arrested in Glauco Villas-Boas murder ♦ oh, and the Kirbys sue someone or other ♦ more

Journalista for March 15, 2010: Why I work here

Posted by Dirk Deppey on March 15th, 2010 at 11:38 AM

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Brazilian cartoonist Glauco Villas-Boas and son murdered ♦ two Americans detained over Muhammed-cartoon murder plot ♦ more

Trina Robbins: Valerie Barclay 1922 – 2010

Posted by admin on March 11th, 2010 at 10:01 AM

In 1947, readers could mail in one dollar bill to Timely Comics and receive back in the mail a wonderful (and today priceless) little book called “Secrets Behind the Comics,” by Stan Lee. Along with such brief articles as “Who is Stan Lee? And why did he write this book?” and “Startling Facts About the Comics!” are snippets about pencilers, inkers and letterers like Ed Winiarski, Ken Bald, Morris Weiss, Syd Shores and George Sekowsky. There is exactly one woman mentioned in this little book: Violet Barclay, “Glamorous Girl Inker.”

Journalista for March 9, 2010: An excessive use of first-person pronouns

Posted by Dirk Deppey on March 9th, 2010 at 7:32 AM

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Seven arrested over Muhammed-cartoonist murder plot ♦ more

Journalista reputation-destroying extra: Four years’ work

Posted by Dirk Deppey on March 8th, 2010 at 11:50 AM

 

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As you might be aware, I generally try to avoid product announcements in this blog — with that going double for Fantagraphics products, what with the obvious “Dirk=company whore” connotations they bring. Nonetheless, I’ve spent the last four… long… years helping nurture this one into being, and pretty much demanded the right to be the one to break the news. And since Amazon just beat me to it, I might as well make the announcement here:

 


Panel from “The Willow Tree,” ©2010 Moto Hagio/Shogakukan.

 

Fantagraphics has signed an agreement with Shogakukan to launch a full manga line edited and curated by Matt Thorn.

For the record: Four years is a hell of a long time to keep a secret.

 

Journalista for March 8, 2010: Actual gay cartoonists need not apply

Posted by Dirk Deppey on March 8th, 2010 at 9:20 AM

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Corpus Christi Caller-Times editorial cartoonist Herman Gutierrez dies ♦ Eight on trial for murder of Argentinian writer Héctor Oesterheld ♦ more

What the %@&*! Happened to Comics?

Posted by Gavin Lees on March 8th, 2010 at 12:01 AM


A report from Art Spiegelman’s illustrated lecture at the Liberty Theater, Puyallup, WA.

2010 Festival of Cartoon Art

Posted by Jared Gardner on March 5th, 2010 at 8:31 AM

One of the myriad pleasures of studying comics here at Ohio State University is the opportunity to work closely with the remarkable folks at the (recently renamed and soon-to-be-rehoused) Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum and to…

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