i’d love to tell you ALLLL about comic-con 2008 but the con is cracking down on “small-time press.” nuts!* thankfully, entertainment weekly is doing the job for me with this week’s issue (above) and continuing with live updates on their website.
*i’m heading out there anyway of course. i’m sure i’ll find something nice to say [...]

get a jump on next year’s summer movies. read watchmen. you can tell all your friends why the best superhero movie ever* was an even better book.
*fingers crossed.

light night rains: TICKET : HOW & WHY

Purchase TICKET at Cory’s shop.
Cory Godbey has just released a 28-page paperback picture book called “Ticket“. From the teaser:
Ticket is a story in pictures and a collection of all things Cory loves to draw. From windmills flying above grassy hills to massive birds landing in Grecian vineyards, Ticket [...]

are you old enough to remember the old superfriends cartoon? then you are just barely old enough for james kochalka’s superf*ckers.

what’s better than summer vacation? summer vacation with comics by michel rabagliati.

in an ideal world, scott pilgrim will replace archie comics at grocery store checkout stands everywhere. like archie, scott is young, needs a job, is in a band, and is stuck in a love… er, quadrangle. unlike archie, scott has to battle his true love’s seven evil ex-boyfriends before he can date her. and his [...]

now that heath ledger has demonstrated how bat-$#!t crazy the joker can be, check out the book (one of them anyway) that inspired the lunacy: batman: the killing joke. it’s disturbing.

if you have any reluctance to see the new hellboy movie, hellboy II: the golden army, zip over to the cinema right now! what i thought would be a silly beat up the monsters movie was actually an endearing, beautifully imagined fairy tale with puppets, tooth fairies, trolls under bridges, a magic bean and a [...]