Comix and match: special “everybody’s talking” edition!

Alan David Doane talks about, and with, cartoonist Paul Hornschemeier, who one hopes will be as alarmingly prolific as his plans would dictate.

Tim O’Neil (and his wife) talk about Phoebe Gloeckner and her photo on the cover of the Comics Journal. (Tim, tell your wife that Phoebe’s an autobiographical cartoonist, so any cover would have a picture of her, photo or no. It has little to do with her gender and lots to do with her work.)

Brian Michael Bendis talks about his panel schedule at WizardWorld Chicago, hinting that big things are in the offing. Aren’t they usually? Man, I am like a hooked fish with this guy.

David Welsh talks about the preview pages for Bendis & David Finch’s Avengers #501, with several quotes-of-the-day all rolled into one post. It seems safe to say David has not been hooked in as has yours truly.

Ed Brubaker talks about the strangely anemic sales of Sleeper Season Two #1. This book really is as good as you’ve heard, by the way.

Marc-Oliver Frisch also talks Sleeper (and Seaguy, and Ex Machina) sales. Interesting analysis.

Mark Millar talks about his Spider-Man run in very ambitious turns. My brief flip-through of issue number four has me intrigued, so we’ll see how the first trade holds up.

NeilAlien briefly talks numbers, pointing out that Robert Kirkman’s zombie book The Walking Dead is selling double the copies of Robert Kirkman’s superhero book Invincible. Does this say something? I think it might say something.

Marc Mason talks about Tom Spurgeon talking about AiT/Planet Lar, and says Tom’s likely the best writer about comics today. Marc’s right.

Jog the Blog talks about Warren Ellis talking about Dan Clowes, and about Jason’s new book, You Can’t Get There From Here. (From the ridiculous to the sublime, then?)

Heidi MacDonald talks about Graeme McMillan (not a permalink, inexcusably) having Luke Cage and Iron Fist talk about Alan David Doane and Chris Allen talking about Geoff Johns (who is also talked about by a solo Alan David Doane). Got all that?