First Action

Sat 27 Jul 200201:51 PM

King Kirby

Sun 14 Jul 200208:48 PM

Hella Good

Mon 8 Jul 200210:28 PM

I’m a big fan of the comic book artist Mike Mignola, who brings a noirish sense of design to his Jack Kirby-esque compositions. His Hellboy series is destined for the silver screen sometime next year — with the help of Guillermo Del Toro — and I can’t wait.

Comic Geniuses

Wed 12 Jun 200207:24 PM

As it nears its first birthday, The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is holding an Art Festival on Sun 23 Jun in New York. The list of featured attendees is long and diverse, and headlined by the legendary Jules Feiffer.

Great Responsibility

Sat 11 May 200202:23 AM

I’m not mentioning Spider-Man here because of the movie’s killer box office returns or its disappointingly heavy-handed second half. Rather, I thought I should note that long-time “Spider-Man” comic book artist John Romita, Jr. is continuously sketching Spider-Man right now in Times Square for fans, going for a record of 48 straight hours. That may sound kind of stupid, but he’s selling each sketch for US$25, with the goal of raising money for his niece’s chemotherapy treatment. Pretty remarkable.

Comics as Literature

Tue 23 Apr 200207:31 PM

Right now I’m halfway through Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” which is the first fiction I’ve read in about a year. A friend gave it to me as a gift two years ago, but I only picked it up recently. It’s a good read and ambitious in scope, if a little over-rated. What makes it so entertaining is the very grown-up eye it turns to the comic book world, a kind of validation of the wide-eyed passion of geeky, power-starved, adolescent boys everywhere.