Here it is, out for the world to see: 11:00 pm Tuesday March 02, 2010.
WALT IS THE "WALLACE" MENTIONED AT 108 OF JACOB'S LIGHTHOUSE WHEEL.
Thus endeth the lesson.
Today at AiT/Planet Lar
March 02, 2010
permalink
permalink
February 25, 2010
permalink
permalink
I've been doing some LOST commentary on my separate pop culture blog Spectacularry.com. I've pretty much figured it all out, so you can tell Jeff Jensen to go back to writing graphic novel intros. Nice try, Jeff.
January 18, 2010
permalink
permalink
Mike: Hao! Dai ye! We won again! This is good, but what is best in life?
The rest of YMB: There's no best-in-life! Michael Bay sucks; Brett Ratner sucks. Everyone who's ever directed a movie sucks! I keep going to movies, even though they suck! I keep buying comics, even though they suck! Megan Fox not wanting to play Wonder Woman sucks! That spider motivational poster thing sucks! Everything sucks.
Mike: Wrong! Larry! What is best in life?
Larry: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women... as you buy a ticket to another CONAN MOVIE! YAYYY! FUCK YEAH!
Mike: That is good! That is good.
The rest of YMB: There's no best-in-life! Michael Bay sucks; Brett Ratner sucks. Everyone who's ever directed a movie sucks! I keep going to movies, even though they suck! I keep buying comics, even though they suck! Megan Fox not wanting to play Wonder Woman sucks! That spider motivational poster thing sucks! Everything sucks.
Mike: Wrong! Larry! What is best in life?
Larry: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women... as you buy a ticket to another CONAN MOVIE! YAYYY! FUCK YEAH!
Mike: That is good! That is good.
January 01, 2010
permalink
permalink
December 17, 2009
permalink
permalink
My good pal Stephenny Godfrey has outdone herself, with the production of Panorama, a written-and-illustrated, hand-assembled rumination that is all the things I like about comics in one place. While her true-life tale of a young woman's journey from Perth to Utah has no narrative overlap whatsoever with the last thoughts of a dying spaceman in the first Astronauts in Trouble minicomic, all the love of the form (from words to pictures to printing to trimming to binding) comes through loud and clear.
I particularly liked her listing of materials: "hand-cut two-sided matte photo supreme paper, linen tape, pencil, bristol, ink, computer, scanner and listened to the lady in the water dvd until i could not anymore and had to switch to signs"
Here's a link-to-purchase on etsy...
...and here's a link to the creator's work on her own website.
I particularly liked her listing of materials: "hand-cut two-sided matte photo supreme paper, linen tape, pencil, bristol, ink, computer, scanner and listened to the lady in the water dvd until i could not anymore and had to switch to signs"
Here's a link-to-purchase on etsy...
...and here's a link to the creator's work on her own website.
December 02, 2009
permalink
permalink
Very pleased that Adam Beechen and Manny Bello's Hench made Tony Isabella's 1000 Comic Books You Must Read list, but the icing on the cake is that Harlan Ellison said of Hench: "I have read and slamdunk recommend unequivocally" the book which fills me with a parental pride. The sort of pride a parent might feel when one of his children does good and the grandfather gives his nod. Like that.
+++++
Super comics retailer/editor/journalist Matt Price, upon occasion of Matt Fraction's birthday, weaves a bit of song-and-dance in praise of Last of the Independents: "While Fraction's a big-shot Marvel writer these days, my favorite work of his is the heist drama Last of the Independents from AiT/Planet Lar." Price named LOTI his top graphic novel from 2003, and the scuttlebutt of the time was that it'd have been Eisner-nominated if not for Melony Crawford Chadwick, so turn your brickbats thusly. Click the link to see Price's Top Ten Fraction works, of which LOTI and The Annotated Mantooth are Numbers 1 and 3, respectively.
+++++
Super comics retailer/editor/journalist Matt Price, upon occasion of Matt Fraction's birthday, weaves a bit of song-and-dance in praise of Last of the Independents: "While Fraction's a big-shot Marvel writer these days, my favorite work of his is the heist drama Last of the Independents from AiT/Planet Lar." Price named LOTI his top graphic novel from 2003, and the scuttlebutt of the time was that it'd have been Eisner-nominated if not for Melony Crawford Chadwick, so turn your brickbats thusly. Click the link to see Price's Top Ten Fraction works, of which LOTI and The Annotated Mantooth are Numbers 1 and 3, respectively.
December 01, 2009
permalink
permalink
The always erudite Greg Burgas continues his unbroken string of good taste by directing your attentions to Necessary Monsters: "...Daniel Merlin Goodbrey's latest graphic novel. I saw a bit of this a few years ago, and it looks really, really cool. It's a horror comic, and Goodbrey has a twisted sensibility that will probably work well in making it something different." Those of you ordering through your local shops may like to know the order code is DEC09 0641.
+++++
Savage Critics' Jog the Blog makes me feels old with this mention in an article about manga: "Here in 2009, in North America, manga functions as a full-blown alternative mainstream of comics; not the 'real mainstream' Oni Press or AiT/Planet Lar pondered earlier this decade -- i.e. something akin to entertainments or artworks popular outside of the comics sphere -- but a 'pure comics' mainstream positioned apart from the English-language way of things, with its own set of values and tropes and genres; a setup where foreignness can be a virtue."
Earlier this decade. Makes a man feel old.
+++++
Savage Critics' Jog the Blog makes me feels old with this mention in an article about manga: "Here in 2009, in North America, manga functions as a full-blown alternative mainstream of comics; not the 'real mainstream' Oni Press or AiT/Planet Lar pondered earlier this decade -- i.e. something akin to entertainments or artworks popular outside of the comics sphere -- but a 'pure comics' mainstream positioned apart from the English-language way of things, with its own set of values and tropes and genres; a setup where foreignness can be a virtue."
Earlier this decade. Makes a man feel old.
28 December 2003 | 04 January 2004 | 11 January 2004 | 18 January 2004 | 25 January 2004 | 01 February 2004 | 08 February 2004 | 15 February 2004 | 22 February 2004 | 29 February 2004 | 07 March 2004 | 14 March 2004 | 21 March 2004 | 28 March 2004 | 04 April 2004 | 11 April 2004 | 18 April 2004 | 25 April 2004 | 02 May 2004 | 09 May 2004 | 16 May 2004 | 23 May 2004 | 30 May 2004 | 06 June 2004 | 13 June 2004 | 20 June 2004 | 27 June 2004 | 04 July 2004 | 11 July 2004 | 18 July 2004 | 25 July 2004 | 01 August 2004 | 08 August 2004 | 15 August 2004 | 22 August 2004 | 29 August 2004 | 05 September 2004 | 12 September 2004 | 19 September 2004 | 26 September 2004 | 10 October 2004 | 17 October 2004 | 24 October 2004 | 31 October 2004 | 07 November 2004 | 14 November 2004 | 21 November 2004 | 28 November 2004 | 05 December 2004 | 12 December 2004 | 19 December 2004 | 26 December 2004 | 02 January 2005 | 09 January 2005 | 16 January 2005 | 23 January 2005 | 30 January 2005 | 06 February 2005 | 13 February 2005 | 20 February 2005 | 27 February 2005 | 06 March 2005 | 13 March 2005 | 20 March 2005 | 27 March 2005 | 03 April 2005 | 10 April 2005 | 17 April 2005 | 24 April 2005 | 01 May 2005 | 08 May 2005 | 15 May 2005 | 22 May 2005 | 29 May 2005 | 05 June 2005 | 19 June 2005 | 26 June 2005 | 03 July 2005 | 10 July 2005 | 17 July 2005 | 24 July 2005 | 31 July 2005 | 07 August 2005 | 14 August 2005 | 21 August 2005 | 28 August 2005 | 04 September 2005 | 11 September 2005 | 18 September 2005 | 25 September 2005 | 02 October 2005 | 09 October 2005 | 16 October 2005 | 23 October 2005 | 30 October 2005 | 06 November 2005 | 13 November 2005 | 20 November 2005 | 27 November 2005 | 04 December 2005 | 11 December 2005 | 18 December 2005 | 25 December 2005 | 01 January 2006 | 08 January 2006 | 15 January 2006 | 22 January 2006 | 29 January 2006 | 05 February 2006 | 12 February 2006 | 19 February 2006 | 26 February 2006 | 05 March 2006 | 12 March 2006 | 19 March 2006 | 26 March 2006 | 02 April 2006 | 09 April 2006 | 16 April 2006 | 23 April 2006 | 30 April 2006 | 07 May 2006 | 14 May 2006 | 21 May 2006 | 28 May 2006 | 04 June 2006 | 11 June 2006 | 18 June 2006 | 25 June 2006 | 02 July 2006 | 09 July 2006 | 23 July 2006 | 30 July 2006 | 06 August 2006 | 13 August 2006 | 20 August 2006 | 27 August 2006 | 03 September 2006 | 10 September 2006 | 17 September 2006 | 24 September 2006 | 22 October 2006 | 29 October 2006 | 05 November 2006 | 12 November 2006 | 19 November 2006 | 26 November 2006 | 03 December 2006 | 10 December 2006 | 17 December 2006 | 24 December 2006 | 31 December 2006 | 07 January 2007 | 14 January 2007 | 21 January 2007 | 28 January 2007 | 04 February 2007 | 11 February 2007 | 18 February 2007 | 25 February 2007 | 04 March 2007 | 11 March 2007 | 18 March 2007 | 25 March 2007 | 01 April 2007 | 08 April 2007 | 15 April 2007 | 22 April 2007 | 29 April 2007 | 06 May 2007 | 13 May 2007 | 20 May 2007 | 27 May 2007 | 03 June 2007 | 10 June 2007 | 17 June 2007 | 24 June 2007 | 01 July 2007 | 08 July 2007 | 15 July 2007 | 22 July 2007 | 05 August 2007 | 12 August 2007 | 19 August 2007 | 26 August 2007 | 02 September 2007 | 09 September 2007 | 16 September 2007 | 23 September 2007 | 30 September 2007 | 07 October 2007 | 14 October 2007 | 21 October 2007 | 28 October 2007 | 04 November 2007 | 11 November 2007 | 18 November 2007 | 25 November 2007 | 02 December 2007 | 09 December 2007 | 16 December 2007 | 23 December 2007 | 30 December 2007 | 06 January 2008 | 13 January 2008 | 20 January 2008 | 27 January 2008 | 03 February 2008 | 10 February 2008 | 17 February 2008 | 24 February 2008 | 02 March 2008 | 16 March 2008 | 23 March 2008 | 30 March 2008 | 06 April 2008 | 13 April 2008 | 20 April 2008 | 27 April 2008 | 04 May 2008 | 11 May 2008 | 18 May 2008 | 25 May 2008 | 01 June 2008 | 08 June 2008 | 15 June 2008 | 22 June 2008 | 29 June 2008 | 06 July 2008 | 13 July 2008 | 20 July 2008 | 27 July 2008 | 03 August 2008 | 10 August 2008 | 17 August 2008 | 24 August 2008 | 31 August 2008 | 07 September 2008 | 14 September 2008 | 21 September 2008 | 28 September 2008 | 05 October 2008 | 12 October 2008 | 19 October 2008 | 26 October 2008 | 02 November 2008 | 09 November 2008 | 23 November 2008 | 30 November 2008 | 14 December 2008 | 21 December 2008 | 04 January 2009 | 11 January 2009 | 18 January 2009 | 25 January 2009 | 01 February 2009 | 08 February 2009 | 15 February 2009 | 01 March 2009 | 15 March 2009 | 22 March 2009 | 29 March 2009 | 19 April 2009 | 03 May 2009 | 10 May 2009 | 17 May 2009 | 24 May 2009 | 31 May 2009 | 21 June 2009 | 12 July 2009 | 19 July 2009 | 26 July 2009 | 02 August 2009 | 23 August 2009 | 13 September 2009 | 20 September 2009 | 27 September 2009 | 04 October 2009 | 11 October 2009 | 18 October 2009 | 25 October 2009 | 15 November 2009 | 29 November 2009 | 13 December 2009 | 27 December 2009 | 17 January 2010 | 21 February 2010 | 28 February 2010 |
Find any AiT/Planet Lar publication at your nearest comic store.
Can't find it at your local retailer? Get it online at Khepri.com
