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Dec. 9, 2011: Your Geekazoid Friday laugh for the day

Comic book writer and artist Kerry Callen shows us what easily could have happened when baby Kal-El’s rocket crash-landed near Smallville, Kansas: Yep. Could have happened. In fact, that might have made for a much better Smallville TV series. I mean, John Schneider? Really? Kerry also has a fabulously warped take on the origin of the Batman as well: Coming [...]

Nov. 4, 2011: Geekazoid Friday: You can die as part of a Star Trek story. Wearing a red shirt.

As the Klingons say: Heghlu’meH QaQ jajvam Or… Today is a good day to die! Especially if you’re only doing it in comic book form. On the front cover, in fact. IDW Publishing — creator of Star Trek comic books — is holding a special promotion for local retailers and their customers. They’re asking fans to write 300 words or [...]

Oct. 28, 2011: Geekazoid Friday: Kryptonite candy for Halloween

I can’t eat candy any more. If you can — and if you love Superman comic books — then try this for something to take to that weekend Halloween party. Enjoy! Thanks to Boing Boing for blogging this today.

Oct. 16, 2011: The next two installments of the Victoria (Texas) Advocate’s graphic novel

Last week, one of my favorite small-town newspapers — the 28,300-circulation Victoria (Texas) Advocate — launched a special Halloween promotion. It’s an eight-part supernatural-themed graphic novel, written and drawn by the paper’s multimedia editor/illustrator Robert Zavala. Two parts run each week through Oct. 30. I told you all about parts one and two last week. Here they are again, though. [...]

July 21, 2011: A look at the San Diego Union-Tribune’s comic-con coverage (1)

Today, the annual comic-con convention opens in San Diego. As you’d imagine, the Union-Tribune is all over it today. The top of page one has been converted to a comic book motif. And a mainbar plus a column about the SDCC appear downpage. Managing editor/creative director Kris Viesselman cited these credits on her Facebook page today: Design Director: Peter Nguyen [...]

July 20, 2011: Going to the San Diego Comic-Con? Keep an eye out for Paul Horn

Former San Diego Union-Tribune news artist and illustrator Paul Horn is preparing for yet another crazy week at the San Diego Comic-Con. A 1991 graduate of the University of Nevada-Reno, Paul spent a year as an illustrator for the Daily Sparks Tribune of Sparks, Nev., before becoming assistant graphics editor of the Reno Gazette-Journal in 1990. He moved to the [...]

May 20, 2011: How are you covering Saturday’s doomsday/rapture?

Over the last couple of days, a number of papers have advanced Saturday’s rapture/beginning of armageddon, um, event. It’s supposed to happen around 6 p.m., I’m told. I’ve not yet heard how this has affected oil futures. Or NFL labor negotiations. Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich fills us in on the particulars: You may have heard that Saturday, May 21, [...]

May 6, 2011: Avengers assembled… in the Kansas City Star

Thor? I’m tho thor I can hardly type! But never mind that. Here’s the coolest thing I’ve seen all day: A look at this summer’s comic book movies… plus all the movies and TV projects in the works for summers to come. Make sure you click that for a much larger — and, yes, readable — view. That was a [...]

April 27, 2011: Chicago’s Field Museum creates comic book biography of entomologist (1)

A former colleague of mine — Cathy Clabby, who spent 13 years at the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer – is now associate editor of American Scientist magazine. Cathy wrote a story for American Scientist‘s May/June issue about a comic book. Not a comic book about a super-hero like, say, Ant-Man. Rather, one about a female scientist. Who studies ants. [...]

Nov. 11, 2010: Bad timing for Garfield (2)

Garfield comic strip creator Jim Davis apologized on his web site and his Facebook fan page today for “the worst timing ever” of today’s strip. Which appeared, at first glance, to be some kind of pointed statement on Veterans Day. The strip: Davis writes: In what has to be the worst timing ever, the strip that runs in today’s paper [...]

Oct. 5, 2010: Harrisburg’s Meg Lavey and her latest project: Collaborating on a web comic

Today marks the debut a new web comic: Namesake, drawn by Montreal-based artist Isabelle Melançon (below, left) and written by our pal Meg Lavey. Who happens to be a page designer for the Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pa. Namesake is a graphic novel. A fantasy story told in comic-book form, at a rate of three pages a week. A new page [...]

Sept. 1, 2010: How to cure Writer’s Block (1)

Mark Evanier is a writer. A writer of comic books, of TV shows. He’s even written a number of books — mostly on topics like comic books and TV shows. He’s also the author of one of my favorite leisure-time blogs, News from Me, which includes bits on writing, comic books, TV shows… the entertainment industry, politics and a whole [...]