Successfully scratched itches, part 5: Comix
After well over forty years, I finally got around to reading one of the earliest serious histories of American comic books.
Author: Edo Bosnar
The not-quite Saga of Man-Wolf
The new book, Man-Wolf: The Complete Collection, chronicles what was almost a complete saga for this character in the 1970s
Successfully scratched itches, part 4: The Cat/Tigra
Greer Nelson’s early appearances as the Cat and Tigra are finally collected in a fantastic trade paperback, making it possible to finally scratch a forty-year itch.
Some TV shows I’ve recently watched
Like many others, the pandemic and sheltering in place has left me with more than the usual amount of spare time. So I took the opportunity to watch a few of the many, much-hyped, new(ish) TV series.
Octavia Butler’s Parables for a Troubled Time
Recently I revisited books by the late, great Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, which are rather apposite reading material for our troubled times
A web comic everyone should be reading: COVID Chronicles
This past summer, AWA’s Upshot Studios, in collaboration with NBC News, launched a web-comic series called COVID Chronicles, about the worldwide toll being taken by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Writer Ethan Sacks and artist Dalibor Talajić spoke to us about the project.
Successfully scratched itches, part 3: Star Hawks
This used to be one of the most tantalizing itches that I wasn’t able to scratch for the longest time. I knew about the Star Hawks newspaper strip for decades, but only managed to read it once I got a hold of the gigantic complete collection book.