ARRRGH!! | Newspaper Comics
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…
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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ARRRGH! | Pittsburgh Comicon
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…
ARRRGH | Granito or Sheen?
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…
ARRRGH | Green Lantern Wondercon Trailer
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 here.
Arrrgh! | The Rob Granito Swipe File
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…
ARRRGH|The Different Types of Collectors
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…
ARRRGH | Do Movies Effect Comic Book Sales?
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…
ARRRGH! | Little (comic) Shop of Horrors
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…
ARRRGH!! | The Overstreet Price Guide
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…
ARRRGH!!!!! | More Thoughts on The Comic Code
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…
Arrrgh | #2: A Brief History of Comics Censorship
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…
ARRRGH!!!! | Meet The Man Himself
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?…