* Kiel Phegley interviews Mike Mignola at length about Hellboy, B.P.R.D, and the whole Mignola-verse of titles. Best of all, it’s just part one of an ongoing series! I was pleased to see Kiel ask a question of mine, and equally pleased to see a sneak preview of the next issue of B.P.R.D.: King of Fear, aka “the book where all the chickens come home to roost.”
* Recently on Robot 6:
* The promising-looking but unfortunately-on-newsprint anthology pood is set to debut at MoCCA;
* Salon drops Tom the Dancing Bug;
* Is Mark Millar racist and sexist?;
* and Kurt Busiek is on Twitter.
* At this point I could read nothing but Zak Smith’s alphabetical rundown of D&D monsters and still come away from the Internet a happy man. Here’s E (as in Eye, Floating) and here’s F (as in Flail Snail).
* My favorite part of Frank Santoro’s lengthy review of Gipi’s excellent Garage Band is right at the beginning, where he notes that the book’s casual, anecdotal (lack of) narrative is a feature, not a bug. (Personal to Matthew P.: Garage Band is another good “You liked Scott Pilgrim–now what?” book.)
* Art galore–I know you wanna click the links for the full-sized versions, don’t you?:
* Closed Caption Comics has posted a trio of previews of its eponymous anthology’s ninth volume. Mr. Freibert’s back cover Pete Frazon’s front cover is really blowing my mind.
* Joe Kolitsky draws the Wolverine/Conan throw-down of your memories!
* Tom Neely draws the Glenn Danzig/Henry Rollins romance comic of your dreams!
* Rob Bricken draws the Captain Caveman portrait of your nightmares!
* Calling all bears: Ben Morse salutes Comics’ Finest Beards!
* I stayed away from this for a while because it’s so meme-y, but I finally relented, and it’s every bit as delightful as everyone’s saying: It’s a video of a bunch of Lost cast members saying “Mmmm…cake.” Is there a way to loop the Elizabeth Mitchell/Yunjin Kim portion? (Explanation via Todd VanDerWerff.)
That Captain Caveman picture cracked me up when I read the caption explaining what it was (‘of your nightmares’ was a nice touch). When I first saw it I thought it might be Osama Bin Laden with cat whiskers.