Are you hipster haters ready for Hipster Hitler?
Posted by Jef in comics on 01. Sep, 2010 | 1 Comment
So, here’s the New Thing! An idea so simple, so elegantly obvious and offensive and eventual yet nonetheless surprising and fresh (and awesomely alliterative): Hipster Hitler, a webcomic by JC and APK, whoever they are.
My brain: comics, Penguin Classics, and classic hip-hop albums
Posted by Jef in Art, books, comics on 26. Aug, 2010 | 2 Comments
These are two things that have helped make my week (and both serve as a nice segueway into this weekend’s Fan Expo) — first up, from the Flickr page of Penguin art director Paul Buckley comes some very great comics-inspired Penguin Classics cover designs (The Communist Manifesto, above):
Simon and Jef vs. Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour
Posted by theashcan in comics on 13. Aug, 2010 | 2 Comments
Simon: Did you like it? Jef: I didn’t dislike it! Simon: I feel the same way, haha. I’m settling for this ending!
Mary HK Choi tackles dude-ish superchick Lady Deadpool
Posted by Anupa in comics, Interviews, media on 26. Jul, 2010 | 2 Comments
Deadpool, that churlish, craggy-faced Marvel anti-hero will be hitting the big screen some time in 2012—played by dreamboat Ryan Reynolds, no less—so like me, if you didn’t know, you’ll be hearing the name and bandwagoning very soon. His gender bender counterpart, Lady Deadpool—girly-churl, blonde and babely—demanded a writer who knows that this is funny, hyper-meta [...]
If resting in peace is possible, Harvey Pekar deserves it
Posted by Jef in Art, comics, Obit on 12. Jul, 2010 | 1 Comment
At around 1 a.m. this morning Joyce Brabner found her husband Harvey Pekar dead in their Cleveland Heights home. Pekar, a stalwart of the indie-comics scene whose American Splendor series of slice-of-life graphic novels helped create a sub-genre and were loved by comics fans and outsiders alike, was 70. A Cleveland news report puts it [...]
