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Rude words in classic comic strips 11 Mar 2008 | 08:05 am
Because I’m feeling distinctly puerile today … So, a kilo-bugger; that must be, what, equivalent to a thousand ordinary buggers? Panel From Winsor McCay Dream of the Rarebit Fiend: The Saturdays (Ch...
Fun with numbers 6 Mar 2008 | 07:32 pm
I’m not remotely competent to weigh in to the argument about BookScan sales figures begun by Brian Hibbs in this “Tilting at Windmills” column. But one sentence switched my mental points on to another...
Not adding to the stockpile of puns on the word “canon” 6 Mar 2008 | 09:25 am
A few weeks ago, Chris Mautner started an attempt to define what might constitute a canon of comics. Timothy Callahan followed up with a longer list. Chris returned to the subject here, and there have...
Stars of page and screen 5 Mar 2008 | 07:28 am
Last month saw the anniversaries of the first appearances of two major characters from twentieth-century pop culture: 100 years of Billy Bunter, and 75 years of Doc Savage. There is sometimes a sharp...
Frayed ends Buffed up 3 Mar 2008 | 08:32 pm
It would seem from Jo Chen’s cover to Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 issue 16 (found via Blog@Newsarama) that Joss Whedon is planning a crossover with his series Fray, which, you will recall, dealt...
A wise fool 3 Mar 2008 | 06:35 am
Supposedly (though it fits suspiciously well into English idiom), Confucius once said, “A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a fool speaks because he has to say something.” It would see...
Mother’s Dog 3 Mar 2008 | 06:07 am
It’s Mothering Sunday today here in the UK (now more commonly called “Mother’s Day”, under the influence of the celebration held in the US and elsewhere in May). My own mother passed away many years ...
Dandy surprise 14 Feb 2008 | 08:48 am
As a random purchase this week, I picked up a copy of the current issue of The Dandy (no 3439, 31 January - 15 February 2008, D C Thomson), and was pleasantly surprised to find that it was almost enti...
Gone from a world he never made 13 Feb 2008 | 08:46 am
Steve Gerber has died, aged only 60. His was one of the most distinctive voices in comics, and he did more than most to expand the range of what letterpress, mass retail comics could cover in the days...
Manhattan on Mars 5 Feb 2008 | 09:59 am
Crater on Mars, photograph reproduced from The Daily Telegraph web-site, 2008: Crater on Mars, panels reproduced from Watchmen by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons and John Higgins, 1987: It’s either a coinc...
