Presidential Cartoons

Since Election Night is coming up and our two presidential candidates invest heavily in their biographies – John McCain as the wounded warrior who is a political maverick and Barack Obama as Luke Skywalker who will bring change, two comic books are produced that will deal with both their biographies since both the presidential candidates [...]

Cartoon Skeletons

All museums have interesting things, but some are more interesting than others.  In the natural history museum of Basel, Switzerland there was an exhibit called Animatus of skeletons of cartoon characters (It ran until August 31 so I guess its somewhere else now).   So if you walked in you would see Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Tom and [...]

Digital Disease

It’s possible to get sick in a video game and for outbreaks to happen too. I may be a little late writing about this considering it happened a few years ago, but I didn’t know about it until not too long ago. I don’t play either The Sims or World of Warcraft so [...]

Sarah Palin or Angela Petrelli (from Heroes)?

Funny Christian/Sasuke pic

I found this awesome pic of Christian/Sasuke and I think it’s awesome so I decided to share it with everyone. Doesn’t Christian’s head fit so well on Sasuke? Christian’s hair looks so much like Sasuke and his face does too. Christian’s such an anime character. There are lots more out there though. [...]

New York Times talks about Heroes

This is of course tangentially related to our blog but the television series Heroes encompasses so much of our graphic novel fantasies that a review about it, especially by the New York Times, is a exciting topic for discussion. As par the course for the New York Times, the piece veers between pity and [...]

Tired of the tragic hero archtype

Is the world a fundamentally just place? This question has been under the driving pulse of many graphic novels, all featuring the tragic hero. But does the main character (hero/heroine) always have to be so tragic? Can he not be dastardly, cruel, vicious, cold and the utter rarity – comic.
I have not seen a truly [...]

The Last Unicorn

One day not too long ago I was looking around this awesome used bookstore called the Mermaid bookstore that is is the basement of another store that is now a ham shop. I found an old copy of the book The Last Unicorn by Peter Beagle which was an animated film that had been [...]

Amanda Hugginkiss

Hey everyone,
Imagine if you were named a really horrible name at birth by your parents. Like maybe they had been watching too much of The Simpsons and took advice from Bart Simpson’s prank calls to Moe’s Tavern. It happens to real people as with the case of Al Caholic
and Amanda Hugginkiss. How about [...]

International Journal of Comic Art

As I was cruisin through the net, I came across this interesting site. Apparently, the study of comics is actually a scholarly endeavor, which is interesting since we are trying to start a comics magazine. Here is the url:
http://www.ijoca.com/

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