– Tom Spurgeon interviews Bill Schelly, who’s new biography of Joe Kubert, Man of Rock, should be out in stores any day now.
– In more depressing newspaper news: Acclaimed editorial cartoonist Chip Bok is taking a buyout and leaving The Akron Beacon-Journal. The number of full-time, on-staff cartoonists at daily papers gets smaller and smaller. Of course, so does the number of editors, reporters, photographers …
– On the BBC, they’re talking about comics.
– The Daily Cross Hatch begins a multi-part interview with Art Spiegelman.
– Go! Comi are so excited about their new 07-GHOST series that they’ve set up a whole Web site for it.
– Cool things to bookmark: Elizabeth Conley, Elena Diaz, Pancha Diaz, Andrew Farago, Shaenon Garrity, Konstantin Pogorelov, Jason Thompson, and Leia Weathington have formed a new group blog, titled The Couscous Collective.
– Steven De Souza, who wrote the screenplay for the 1987 Spirit TV-movie (remember that?) offers his thoughts on the upcoming Frank Miller film.
October 13th, 2008 at 11:25 am
I know there’s fewer editorial cartoonists on newspapers but apprently they appear in other places than newspapers. When I did a google search recently to find editorial cartoons about Sarah Palin, one site had about 40 that were pro-Sarah Palin but it didn’t indicate where they all came from!