– Stephen DeStefano shares a Monarch and Dr. Girlfriend commission .
– The Hugo Awards were announced this past weekend in Denver.
– As were the Doug Wright Awards (though not in Denver).
– Tom Spurgeon talks CCI with David Glanzer.
– Alley Oop turned 75 . I didn’t even know it was still around.
– A Matt Bors’ cartoon makes it all the way to Gitmo and the hands of Salim Hamdan.
– Own an iPhone? Like comics? Bookmark this site .
– It’s not comics, but I liked this MTV story about fan reaction to Diablo III screenshots and the developers explanations as to why they did what they did.
– Arvid Nelson and Jesse Falcon join the Comic Book Club this Tuesday.
– io9 picks the VP candidates . Yes, it’s comics related.
– Cartoons for grown-ups .
– Trent Reznor thought about turning Year Zero into a graphic novel . Instead, he’s talk...
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Blog-@-versary: Looking back at our first yearFrom: blog.newsarama.com
Post Date: 2007-06-08 13:20:18
… or, to put it another way: Civil War creators download American Born Chinese while watching Heroes, New York Times reports
To wrap up anniversary week, I enlisted Chris Mautner to help me recap some of the bigger news topics we’ve covered here at Blog@Newsarama over the past year. So let’s take a look back at some of the stuff we covered in the past 52 weeks …
Red-headed stepchild no more
Comics finally come into their own
–Chris Mautner
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more Just Past the Horizon: One Year AgoFrom: blog.newsarama.com
Post Date: 2007-06-08 13:07:24
Because I didn’t join the team until a while after they moved to this site, I don’t have any “Just Past the Horizon” from one year ago. However, last year about this time was a busy period for Melissa and I at When Fangirls Attack . I would say that last Spring was the time the “Feminist Comics Blogosphere” was fully realized as a community in its own right.
Its really all Mr. Larsen’s fault. Starting with his assertation that the appeal of P...
more Quote, UnquoteFrom: blog.newsarama.com
Post Date: 2008-08-10 22:12:44
So this week, we found out that Lois Lane and abortion were once discussed in a very strange sense. And as much as I’d love to link to esoteric Grant Morrison hero worship (his writing just seems to attract this kind of praise), these are the quotes I chose to reflect the past week.
“You know, because you can compare a corporate franchise like Superman, a creator-owned property like Jesse Custer whose influence is limited to Preacher, and motherfucking ...
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