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The Lightning Round

September 17th, 2008
Author Chris Mautner

– Build your own square-headed Scott Pilgrim.

– Charles Brownstein with the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund passes on a message about Echo creator Terry Moore and his wife Robyn, who live in Houston and were affected by Hurricane Ike:

As you may be aware, the Abstract Studios team, Terry & Robyn Moore, live in Houston where they are set back slightly by Hurricane Ike. They personally are fine, but don’t have any utilities, including electricity and other business necessities. They’re only able to be online for about 10 minutes a day because of very nice neighbors. They want people to know that they’re going to be out of touch for about a week, and ask that you please be patient while they get back up to speed. Please join me in keeping them in your thoughts.

– Congrats to the cartoonist Kaz, who won an Emmy for his story on an episode of Camp Lazlo!

PWCW previews the New York Anime Festival.

– Bid adieu to The Holy Consumption.

Dave Sim reviews Blake Bell’s book about Steve Ditko.

Frank Santoro writes about Frank Franzetta.

Here’s a profile of mangaka Shigeru Mizuki.

Stephanie Mangold looks at Antarctic Press’ future plans.

– Hey, Chester Brown is running for office!

Evie Nagy reports on Oni’s plan to publish “definitive editions” of Queen and Country.

Van Jensen writes about the popularity of Image’s PopGun anthology.

– The Southern California comics retailer Brave New World Comics is hosting a party this Friday to celebrate their Will Eisner Spirit of Retailing Award.

Eight reasons why the G.I. Joe comic was better than the cartoon.

Compiled by JK and Chris.

 
4 Responses to “The Lightning Round”
  1. Lawrence Says:

    Never try to read a Dave Sim review when you just woke up; I could barely understand it the first read through. It seemed less of a review of the book and more about a critique on society.

    Although it does provide a handy link to buy essays written by Ditko.

  2. Spidey_82 Says:

    The Scott Pilgrim link is dead.

  3. JK Parkin Says:

    Try it again; it works fine for me.

  4. Spidey_82 Says:

    Yes, it is. Thanks.

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