– First the publisher, now the Drawn and Quarterly store has gotten its own blog. Eat your heart out Fantagraphics store.
– Speaking of which, here’s a Flickr set of pics taken during the Fanta store’s recent one-year anniversary party.
–ComicMix talks to Texas Congressman and presidential hopeful Ron Paul about his favorite super hero.
–Afghanistan is using a comic to “increase public awareness about the Afghan constitution, civil rights and legal reform.”
“The idea was to use this comic book program to reach out and touch people, not just children, but adults as well, in a non-threatening way,” said Lt.-Cmdr. April Inglis, a Canadian legal adviser with the Kandahar PRT who is behind the program. “It starts to teach them about the fundamental document which governs their country.”
–Anyone remember Madballs, the “gross-out” toy balls popular in the 1980s? Marvel’s Star Comics even put out a few issues of a comic featuring the, um, talking balls. Anyway, Sacks 10 has an interview up with Madballs illustrator Jim Groman.
– As a public service, Jeet Heer compiles just about everything one-time wannabe cartoonist John Updike has ever written about comics.
–Apparently we missed Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day. Which wouldn’t be an issue if we didn’t have to pretend …
So what the heck is this? Well, even after we post everything that ends up on the blog everyday, we always end up with a few leftovers … stuff we found on the Web that didn’t warrant a full post or we just didn’t have time to get to. So Chris, Kevin and I decided we’d start sharing them in short little bursts like this. So watch for The Lightning Round most weekday mornings, as long as we have extra stuff to share or until Kevin or Chris comes up with a better name for it.
December 11th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Thanks for the plug BUT I didn’t collect “just about everything one-time wannabe cartoonist John Updike has ever written about comics.” What I posted was a mini-anthology. Updike has written a lot more on comics (and everything in my posting is just an excerpt from much longer essays and letters). There is actually probably enough Updike on Comics material to fill a book.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Thumbs up on the new Lightning Round feature, folks.