• Artist Jim Rugg shares a commission he did for a local comic shop.
• Joshua Dysart has started a blog on his site about his Vertigo title The Unknown Soldier, where you’ll be able to check out a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff like script excerpts, pencils, layouts, etc.
• Friends of Lulu is looking for nominees for treasurer, reporting secretary and membership secretary for their board of directors. Lulu President Valerie D’Orazio has more details.
• Mark Evanier reports on the death of Tom Fagan, who was responsible for the annual Halloween parade in Rutland, Vt. “Writers and artists from the industry journeyed to Rutland to participate in the festivities, often in costume, and art began to imitate life: Many comic book stories were done that were set in Rutland involving DC and Marvel heroes actually attending,” Evanier writes.
• Austin English has a new blog where he’s interviewing various comics creators like David King and Dylan Williams.
• Just in time for your Halloween viewing pleasure, SLG Publishing posts a creepy story on their website — “The Addlepated House of Odds” by Kurt Hartman.
• The Sardinian Connection posts Mike Carey’s afterword from an Italian tribute book to Watchmen (the afterword is in English, BTW).
• Don MacPherson wonders why he hasn’t seen more about Stephen Colbert’s comic book tie-ins on The Colbert Report.
• Shannon Smith takes a look at the minicomic anthology Not My Small Diary #14.
October 24th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
RE: Rugg commission
I’d pay big money to see that as a short!
October 24th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
“We’ll keep these posts up throughout the first story arc. But when the trade hits, all this info evaporates. Just so you know! Thanks for reading. – Joshua Dysart”
Why would he want it to dissapear ! Interesting stuff !
October 24th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Copacetic Comics is just around the corner from my house, and it’s hands down the best comic shop in Pittsburgh. Nothing else even comes close.
(also, that’s a great piece!)