* Recently on Robot 6: Disney goes Juxtapoz, Chip Zdarsky tells us how to get to Sesame Street, Iron Man 2‘s trailer makes the movie look like a lot of fun, and long may Tom Brevoort reign.
* Tom Spurgeon’s Books of the ’00s holiday interview series continues with Frank Santoro on Mat Brinkman’s Multiforce. His earlier post on the book is worth a revisit too; I like how he differentiated the ways Brinkman and Brian Chippendale depict contiguous space, and how he shares my appreciation for Brinkman’s facility with scale.
* Speaking of Frank–Go, read: “Motorway from Roswell” by Frank Santoro and Bill Boichel. Tell me you don’t want to ride in that car.
* Dig on The Cool Kids Table’s “Our Comics Decade” series, in which Ben, RIckey Purdin, and Kiel Phegley discuss the comics that hit them hardest year by year.
* Here’s a fine Jeet Heer post on fine comics anthologies.
* Noel Freibert link #1: In the comment thread for my review of Freibert’s My Best Pet, he and I hash out the issue of animal cruelty in art.
* Noel Freibert link #2: “Even Death May Die”…Freibert and “the ghost of Howard Phillips Lovecraft” collaborate on a very cool text-comic hybrid.
* Noel Freibert link #3: In the comments for this already awesome Monster Brains post about the great ’80s toy/puppet line Boglins, Freibert notes that both the Boglins and the decade’s other great toy/puppet/monster hybrid, the Sectaurs, were created by the same person, Tim Clarke. I can think of a couple people reading this blog who’ll flip out about this.
Is it me? Because I’m FREAKING OUT!!!
You, Zach, and maybe TJ and/or Deep Dickin’ Bob Bricken.
OMG OMG. I got a Boglin when I was at Wizard for my desk, and after 20 years they start to decompose and are sticky all the time. Like grandma.