I was talking to Titan Books' US rep about their new Watchmen books (the Dave Gibbons' Watching the Watchmen is out already and is v...

It's not as scintillating as some posts here, but there's a list of the book reviews coming up in the Spring issue in this new blog ...

"A Cut Above: 'Afro Samurai: Resurrection'," by Express contributor Roxana Hadadi, Express February 3, 2009.

Marc, who teaches at Howard U here in town, has decided to stop blogging, after a really nice piece on the problem of DC and Grant Morrison...

Paul Morton, in 'An Interview with Brian Michael Bendis,' Bookslut February 2009 concludes with "Special thanks to Big Planet ...

I saw it yesterday, but didn't get to grab a copy until this morning at the Vienna Metro station on the way into work (the kiosks downto...

A friend of mine has written in asking, "I am posting to ask if anyone can give me any information on the artist/illustrator Oscar Howa...

My buddy Robert Montgomery and I have been buying comics in DC since 1989 when we started working together and fell back into the hobby hard...

The Big Planet owner's picks at Bennett's Best for the week of January 18 , By Greg Bennett, Zadzooks Blog January 25 2009 and a col...

Sure, they left DC, but I can be a big man about this: CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The 14th Annual International Comic Arts Forum: ICAF 2009 October...

QUICK REVIEWS FOR COMICS DUE 02-04-09 By John Judy 30 DAYS OF NIGHT: TIL DEATH #3 written and drawn by David Lapham. Will Rufus the vampir...

More PR over the e-transom based on previous posts. Cinebook publishes good stuff and is worth checking out... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Cinebo...

This came over the e-transom today, presumably due to that bibliography of comics and film that I'm selling over there on the right. PR...

To help further humanities research, I note that on the comix-scholars list there was... (the following is quoting Dr. Reinhard) discussion ...

Curator Tony Chavarria sent me a note yesterday regarding the Comic Art Indigene exhibit that had been out west: During its production, we ...

NPR has a good story about it too. Leave Me Alone!, a Jazz Opera by Harvey Pekar and Dan Plonsey, to Premiere at the Oberlin Conservatory O...

My friend Dean's got an interview in tomorrow's New York Times February 1, 2009 - "The Voice: Beyond ‘Peanuts’," By GEOR...

Virginian comics historian Ron Evry wrote in today to highlight his podcast of readings of copyright-free fiction: Today I posted the THIRD ...

Feb. 13 is the deadline for receiving Swann Fellowship applications here at the Library. The Swann Foundation awards up to $15,000 annually ...

More shameless shilling as I repost this from last week: I got a letter a month or so ago from someone at Washingtonpost.com inviting blogge...