Today on the site:
We have an excerpt from TCJ-contributor Sean Howe's Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, which is out today. I recommend the book very highly -- it's deeply researched and vividly written. Sean successfully weaves together a fascinating and detailed history of the company with evocative portraits of the people who drove it. The hippy 1970s and flat-out bizarre '80s, are particularly well done. Basically it's the book I always wanted to read about Marvel. Anyhow, we pick up the story in the '90s.
And Joe McCulloch is here with thoughts on Ware, Chaland and the best photo of Building Stories yet published.
Elsewhere:
Speaking of Joe, he and Tucker Stone must be happy about the news of a Garth Ennis crime comic. Ennis is like a one-man pulp line.
Here's an interview (on his own site) with Allan Holtz, longtime historian and author of the recent American Newspaper Comics: An Encyclopedic Reference Guide.
I haven't seen this before, though it's a few weeks old: An oral history of SpongeBob SquarePants by Tom Heintjes.
Not comics, but close enough: A series of stunning Seymour Chwast-designed advertisements.
