Do you still read comic strip comics from the newspaper? Do you read them online?  Or do you even bother anymore? When I was a kid, I used to read the Saturday newspaper comics religiously. Okay, I know they are usually called the Sunday comics, but none of the newspapers my parents had a...

So this past weekend I drove down to the Pittsburgh Comicon, because the two comic conventions in Toronto in the last month weren’t enough for this fanboy. So my co-pilot Ian, and I set out to steel-town USA, to see how the show had progressed (regressed?) from years past. (We had gone...

So I received an email this morning from the Pittsburgh Comicon Community that the Rob Granito story continues to get better. The website Comics Cube posted an article this morning about how they received a letter from an “Alison” stating that she was Rob Granito’s wife. The...

In case you haven’t seen it yet, Warner Bros released an extended trailer for Green Lantern at WonderCon over the weekend. You can check it out in HD...

So I have been following the stories that have been unravelling around Rob Granito. Don’t know him? Well.. You’re not alone. And that’s part of the problem. (But if you want to get a little caught up, check out the post earlier this week). After attending dozens of...

Comic collecting draws all kinds of different collectors. When I first started collecting, I was very young, and was really only interested in Richie Rich comics. Well, that’s not entirely true. I liked all the Harvey comics. Sad Sack, Hot Stuff, and of course Casper the Friendly Ghost were...

So after our podcast this week, a listener wrote to me talking about how he was thinking about why the Iron Man comic hasn’t really translated into huge sales, given the enormous success of the movies. Ian Warren writes: The comic itself was further ostracizing. The movie “Iron Man”...

Boo. Scared yet? Well you should be. Halloween is drawing closer and of course the nights of monsters and creepy things will once again be upon us. Bwah ha ha ha. Sorry, I get a little carried away with the thought of Halloween because I start to think of horror comics, which always gets me a...

I was reading the Overstreet Price Guide the other day.  I know what you’re thinking… nerd.. but hey, isn’t that why we are all here?.  I starting thinking about the various “eras” in comic history. Overstreet has definitions now that talk of the “Pioneer Age” which references...

Last week I talked a little bit about the advent of how the Comics Code Authority came into being. It was a really quick review. If you are interested in finding out more history on the subject, I highly recommend reading The Ten Cent Plague by David Hadju. He reconstructs a time when comics...

One of the topics I generally like to talk to my students about sequential art and thus comics are how they are really just another way of telling a story. Not unlike prose, visual art, dance, poetry, etc, sequential art is just a medium. The problem with this medium, is that it was massively...

ARRRGH!!! That was my first thought when I decided to I wanted to write about comics on a regular basis. “ARRRGH!!!”. Why? Because I have too much to talk about and too many topics. Artists? Collecting? Comics in the classroom? Moral implications of having scantily clad women...