“Worst Comic Ever”… I Think Not
Friday, in a piece for the Wall Street Journal, Tim Marchman wrote an article examining the recent release of Leaping Tall Buildings: The Origin of American Comics. From this he extracts a scathing...
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This article is in response to “The Cultural Cost of Comics Failure.” I don’t think the blame for kids not being as in to comics as we would hope lies entirely with their attention spans and the other...
View ArticleSUNDAY SERMON: Comic Book Shops and the Art of Community-Building
What makes a community? Keith Davidson wrote in Bleeding Cool’s FCBD magazine that “a comic shop is like a good community,” but I think he has it backwards. A good comic shop is a community. I’ve lived...
View ArticleSUNDAY SERMON: Mainstream VS Indie: Where’s the Beef?
Several months ago when I started Capeless Crusader, I decided to approach comics from a very specific angle. I wanted to find those books that either directly or tangentially addressed important...
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