Comics critics, attack! From Jack Kirby's The Hunger Dogs, ©2008 DC Comics.
The participants in our Best American Comics Criticism roundtable begin responding to one another: Here's Caroline Small, Ng Suat Tong and Jeet Heer, with the rest sounding off tomorrow.
Rob Clough reviews new small-press collections by Laura Terry and Penina Gal.
Anne Ishii discusses an odd controversy in Japan involving nuclear energy and Hayao Miyazaki's Totoro.
Not comics: Kent Worcester in Baghdad.
Over at The Hooded Utilitarian, cartoonist and teacher Sean Michael Robinson talks about teaching art to manga and anime fans.
Cartoonist and animator Satoshi Kon died yesterday of pancreatic cancer, two months shy of his 47th birthday. Kon began his career as a manga artist in the early 1990s before moving on to animation in 1995 as the writer for "Magnetic Rose," one of the short films in the Katsuhiro Otomo-produced, feature-length anthology Memories. His directorial debut, the Hitchcockian thriller Perfect Blue, introduced the themes that would color most of his subsequent work: the deceptive nature of fiction and fantasy, and their relationship with how we perceive the real world. The subsequent films Millenium Actress, Tokyo Godfathers and Paprika, as well as his animated television miniseries Paranoia Agent, cemented Kon's reputation around the world as a cult-favorite animation visionary.
An enigmatic image from the first chapter of Kaikisen, ©1990 Satoshi Kon.
"Barnes & Noble reported declining sales in its stores and increasing sales online in its fiscal Q1 (ending July 31) on Tuesday," notes ICv2.
Kai-Ming Cha looks at manga publishers' plans to offer their wares online for legal download.
Sandra Thomas investigates Toronto, Ontario British Columbia's ComicShop, which is being forced out of its longtime location due to neighborhood gentrification.
John Seven reports on the Stanford Graphic Novel Project, a creative-writing program that teaches the medium to students by collaborating on a book-length comic each session.
©2010 Kathryn and Stuart Immonen.
Mike Romo: Was I just embarrassed by my comics?
Johanna Draper Carlson: How frequently should kids' comics appear?
Detail from an Arco magazine ad, featuring oceanographer Jacques Cousteau; artist unknown.
A smorgasbord of commercial art, presented by a guestblogger over at Leif Peng's marvelous website.
The retiring Cathy creator and the editorial cartoonist do an hour of talk radio, with the results available in streaming audio.
The photography of Barry Goldwater.
Aug. 25 (Manhattan Beach, CA): Mike Mignola and Daughter Katie will be signing copies of The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects at The Comic Bug on Manhattan Beach Boulevard, from 5-8PM. Details here.
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