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Monday Runaround: Year Of The Spider

Published Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:38:25 -0600

Last updated Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:36:56 -0600

AnnualWatch: Garfield Spider-Man on the cover of the Comic-Con annual, available tomorrow.

ManWatch: Stan Lee will be joining the cast of Star Trek Next Gen at Calgary Comic Expo in April…

Then you guys are definitely not the audience. You're the kind of fans it's no use trying to please. Better to ignore people who are just going to be pre-upset.

On the other hand you'll all read it anyway, so win-win. I suspect Marvel will be okay.

VarsityWatch: Michigan State University has hosted another Comics Forum.

Diana Busby jump-started her career creating comic books with the knowledge and experience she gained in a course she took during the summer.

The studio art and media arts and technology senior said although she developed an interest in comics at a young age, she would not have been able to turn her passion into something more without the help of Ryan Claytor, a professor in the Department of Art & Art History.

"I saw (Claytor's) comics course and said, 'That's for me,' and signed up for it," Busby said. "I don't know if I would have started making comics if I hadn't taken (Claytor's) class."

StripWatch: A Golden Pencil? Really? Nice…

The political cartoon Dry Bones and its creator, Yaakov Kirschen, will receive the Israeli Museum of Caricature and Comics' "Golden Pencil" award next week. The prize is awarded annually as a lifetime achievement award and a prize designed to encourage creative young artists and students.

This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.

They say I am a work in progress. The fools.

2000AD Front covers to end of 2011 (fast) – YouTube

This is the front cover of every issue of 2000AD Weekly comic up to December 2011 (Prog 1763) – 7.5 covers per second (4 frames each, 30 frames per sec)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vozSEVieIwg[/youtube]

Catron Returns To Fantagraphics

Catron's hire is intriguing on several levels. One is historical. Catron was there at the company's start and well into its establishment and initial publishing years, leaving in 1985.

The Danger Of Saying "Lighten Up! It's Only…" | Fast Company

As I've written about before, DC Comics' Paul Levitz has written about the difference between "sincere" and "insincere" mistakes. For Levitz, there is a clear distinction between little errors in continuity that are perhaps inevitable in a story that has evolved over decades and a blatant disregard for history and continuity that comes from someone not perceived to have respect for all the time and energy fans have invested in following and learning about a story world.

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