* Recently at Robot 6: Frank Miller drew new Sin City covers, Bendis and John Romita Jr. on Avengers, Picasso-style superheroes, and the Shamus/Wizard cons spread to Cincinnati.
* Child-porn conviction in Australia for dirty drawings of The Simpsons, The Powerpuff Girls, and The Incredibles. That’s a bad bad precedent. A real, serious crime involving imaginary depictions of imaginary people.
* Craig Thompson answers questions in a short interview someone’s doing for a school project. Aww!
* Kevin Melrose has a pretty fascinating interview up with Rafael Grampa of Mesmo Delivery. Check out the influences he rattles off–this guy’s the real deal. Interesting stuff in there about the move from AdHouse to Dark Horse, design as storytelling, and more.
* Red Lantern Gary Groth better thank his lucky stars there’s no Black Lantern Carol Kalish.
* TWIN PEAKS SPOILER ALERT IF YOU CLICK THIS LINK: Believe it or not it took me more than a day to mentally picture Star Sapphire Audrey Horne. I will take credit, however, for pointing out that Twin Peaks already had a power ring.
* Sam Gaskin sings the praises of Aapo Rapi, one of the highlights of Kramers Ergot 7.
* This is going on two years old now, but Phoebe Gloeckner took a photo of Ann Perry, the British mystery author whom fans of Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures might better know for other reasons.
SPOILERS
No violet Annie? Hrmh.
And was Sinestro a pawn of Nekron? Windom Earle seems to be a pawn (or at least at the mercy of Bob) so I might quibble with the otherwise unarguable choice.
The boys at Secret Headquarters turned me on to Mesmo Delivery – awesome stuff. Also, his name is Grampa; I wish my last name was Grampa…
ANNIE? there’s no color ring for “bland”…
Sigh. As much as Rickey talks about this Blackest Night craziness and as many toys and things as he brings home, I still have no idea what any of the color-coded lanterns mean so I keep missing out on these fun match-ups. I’ll have to make him teach me again.