On the site today:
-Stefano Priarone contributes a fine obituary of the Italian comics figure Sergio Bonelli.
-Joe McCulloch brings us his week in comics, as usual, like the animal he is.
-And Matt Seneca turns in a review of Prince Valiant vol. 4.
And elsewhere:
-Paper Monument has a rare bit of drawn reportage on Occupy Wall Street.
-Tom Spurgeon rounds up the 10 big stories from NYCC. Amazingly, I don’t think I care about 85 of this news. It’s a fractured medium these days.
Finally, lots of talk about critics:
-Eddie Campbell has some very funny words about one critic in particular.
-Idiom Magazine brings the latest “we’ll revitalize film criticism” game.
-And meanwhile, The New Yorker posted five of Pauline Kael’s best moments, while her legacy is discussed in the NY Times.
I’m not sure if any attention was ever given to this, but some lucky Googling has revealed that Mark Beyer has a new strip…
http://theendofbeing.com/2011/09/11/the-off-switch-a-new-serialized-comic-by-mark-beyer/
http://bit.ly/p84DpN
Looks like it’s already been abandoned, unfortunately. Mark’s work is so great. I miss it.
Part II:
http://theendofbeing.com/2011/11/10/the-off-switch-part-2-a-new-serialized-comic-by-mark-beyer/