Unhappy Trails: Bill White follows up on the reception of the recent Mark Trail storyline dealing with a troubled married couple that seemed to offer a rather…unusual take on domestic violence.
The Doug Wright stuff: This year’s Doug Wright Awards, honoring Canadian cartooning, will be a little different than in years past in that this year coincides with Drawn and Quarterly’s launching of The Collected Doug Wright: Canada’s Master Cartoonist, a two-volume book about the work of the awards’ namesake.
“I’m called the father of the modern graphic novel. If that’s true, I want a blood test”: Art Spiegelman prefers the word “comics” to “graphic novels.” (I agree, but I like ‘em both more than “graphic books,” New York Times). That quote’s from a Christian Science Monitor blog, linking to this Economist piece on Spiegelman.
It’s Spiegelmania!: Want more about Spiegelman-realted reading? Here’s an interview by Kiel Phegley.
A Watchmen review that could fit in a fortune cookie: Fantagraphics’ Eric Reynolds’ five-word review of the film (with a two-sentence introduction).
WFA is dead, long live WFA: The new fangirls who will be leading the attacks of When Fangirls Attack introduce themselves here, and here’s their first post. Good luck ladies; I look forward to stealing links from you in the future!
