A year and some change ago I was in a heated on line exchange with some knucklehead broadcasting how Milestone stole its business plan from Big City Comics publishers of...
I’ve been working at a popular culture website for the better part of the past decade, www.comicmix.com. That’s way past my usual sell-by date, but I’ve stayed around for a...
What with the wars and the droughts and the new television season announcements, you might have missed this little nugget of news: Blue jeans are no longer the sine qua...
Yesterday, I was having a conversation with a group of people, as one does. We were talking about the weird stuff that’s been happening — drought in California, earthquakes in...
The last eight years have been ugly in terms of our political discourse. Rabid right-wing extremists think they are being witty when they use racial stereotypes to criticize the President...
David Rhoades is a writer and artist from Los Angeles. He’s worked with Michael Davis since he was in high school, and he has spent too much time thinking about...
It is such a cliché to quote George Orwell’s 1984. It’s been done to death. “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” Yeah, we get it. But our...
Later this year, Trevor Noah will replace Jon Stewart as host of Comedy Central’s hit, The Daily Show. Stewart made a show that was influential far beyond its ratings, making...
Meaningful creation of any kind is a long-term ordeal. Writing a novel, creating a comics series, filming a movie, or designing a fresco are not the sort of thing that...
It would be swell if I could like Mike Huckabee. The guy is just so damn affable. He’s funny, self-effacing, pleasant to watch on teevee, and for a politician he’s...
Dispatch from the class war: Apparently, the effects of income inequality are worse than we thought. In a new commercial for Wendy’s, our spokesmodel says, “Married to the idea that...
