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Day Ninety-One: Heroes and Villains
With the advent of the Internet, not to mention the fact that solicitations have to be thorough enough to allow retailers to know whether they need to order two or two hundred copies of any given...
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Day Ninety-Two: Comics' Constantly Copied Covers #2
Erm... yes. Well, this is a little embarrassing. Remember when I said, back on Day Six, that I'd be doing a couple of these comparisons of frequently-homaged covers during the course of the blog's run?...
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Day Ninety-Three: Red Right Hand
There's a problem in comics, particularly superhero comics, with pretention and pomposity. While it's true that, say, Lee and Kirby's Thor comics were great yarns with smashing (literally) action...
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Day Ninety-Four: Not So Innocent
I promised a history lesson a few days back, so I hope you're sitting comfortably. Unlike a lot of history lessons that I had at school, though, this one's actually interesting, and it involves...
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Day Ninety-Five: The Fisher King
Okay, one last artist I want to cover in this blog before we hit the end (and, excitingly, I know what each day between now and the end is going to be now, which is more than I've done before)....
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Day Ninety-Six: The Free Amigos
One of the nice things about having this little bully pulpit is that I get to recommend comics which are made by people whom I'm friends with. I've already plugged Jim Massey's great comedy Maintenance...
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Day Ninety-Seven: Hello, Good-Bye
In 2000, I moved from Scotland to France, where I was to spend the next year. I got a copy of Good-Bye, Chunky Rice, a graphic novel by writer/artist Craig Thompson, and read it while I was there. I...
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Day Ninety-Eight: The Greatest Stories Never Told
When you look back at how much comics used to cost, it's frightening just how big the increases in price have been. In the late 1970s, you wouldn't expect to pay more than 25 cents for a regular-sized...
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Day Ninety-Nine: Bulletproof/Monk
One last thing I need to talk about. Tomorrow's going to be a wrap-up, but there's one topic which I haven't raised yet, but which I mentioned back on Day One. I've talked a lot about my favourite...
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Day One Hundred: Days Of Comics
Do you know something? I honestly didn't believe I would ever write this post. I do generally have quite strong self-discipline, but even I didn't think that I'd write anything between 800-1600 words...
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