Diversionary Tactics
When real life becomes just too oppressive, you look for diversions. Here are a few that worked for me. And a couple that didn’t.
Review time! with ‘Soviet Daughter: A Graphic Revolution’
Soviet Daughter is a memoir and an autobiography. Can you handle both?!?!?
Favorite Comic Book Logos!
A good logo can help define a book’s personality, and a GREAT logo can really set a comic book apart on the shelves, bringing in new readers. John runs down a few of his favorite classic comic logos from over the years.
Super Bowl Sunday and the Inverse of Interest
It’s Super Bowl Sunday but Travis is busy reading other people’s comics and watching that Melissa McCarthy sketch on SNL. Also, Lady Gaga!
House to Astonish Episode 152
We’re back with another regular episode of the House to Astonish podcast, with tons of of comics news from the past couple of weeks.
Gorillas I Have Loved
Tuesday was, as we all know, National Gorilla Suit Day. A brief synopsis for the latecomers: Back in the 1960s, MAD Cartoonist Don Martin told a tale in which benighted protagonist Fester Bestertester rails against a fake holiday invented by the gorilla suit manufacturers’ cabal in order to sell their product, and is hilariously punished for this affront in a myriad of ways. He named January 31 is National Gorilla Suit Day.
