For the first time in eight years, I won’t be working at Comic-Con. I’ll be there, though, experiencing the convention on the other side of the table. (And not appearing in the background of pictures people take of other people at the booth.) The hotel and flights are booked, and Brian and I are figuring [...]
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My latest Life in Comics column for Publishers Weekly is up. It’s called “Life and Death and Life Again in Comics,” taking a look at the dead-and-resurrected god archetype in supherhero comics. Tweet Vera Wang, apparently. She designed the fantastic all-black costumes that Evan Lysacek work in his gold-medal-winning routines last week. (Last season, his costume designer was the late Alexander McQueen.) The short program costume featured a high collar, black feathers at the cuffs, black gloves, irregularly criss-crossed strips of black sequines, and, I don’t know, some [...] My latest Publishers Weekly Life in Comics column is up — and of course it has to do with the baby. It’s fascinating to me how the little creature has managed to wrap my whole existence — for now — around his little tiny pinkie finger. It’s necessary, of course, the result of ample oxytocin [...] When Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was published, I bought it on my Kindle and found it pretty amusing. It seemed a spontaneous uniting of two elements I like — Jane Austen and zombie survival stories — more of an homage than a high-concept gimmick. Then the publisher, Quirk Books, announced Sense and Sensibility and [...] |
My Opium Den
After some thinking, I realized why I didn't finish this book (even as I racked up late fees from the library): I found the subject matter, the history of the region of England called Sunderland, interesting, but there was nothing about the...
Lovely art by Camilla D'Errico (who should be listed as a co-author) provide mood and texture for this story of a troubled young girl whose fantasy life becomes a bit too real when she visits a website called Make5wishes.com. The authors ar...
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