SXSW Day Three: Don’t Call It A Comeback
Energy is waning. We’ve realized that there are way too many things that we’ll never be able to do (either because the lines are too big, or it’s on the other side of town, or we...
SXSW Interactive Day 2: Swag for the Homeless, and the best and worst of SXSW all at once
Andrew: Despite drinking what probably amounts to a gallon of alcohol at this point, we continue on our SXSW travels. Yesterday we focused mainly on the SXSW Comedy where we saw the first recording of...
SXSW Interactive 2014 Day 2: Getting Upstaged by Grumpy Cat and A Soulless Award Show
Andrew: Yesterday, Shaun and I were able to visit the Mashable House, a party at the EFF, and two panels: Remember When the Internet Was Free? and Fearlessly Funny: The Women Changing Digital Humor. So...
SXSW Interactive 2014 Day 1: In Search of Rainbow Road
Shaun: Let's talk about how disappointing the "Mario Kart Reimagined" event was.Andrew: We went to a couple panels but what we thought would be the highlight of our day was the...
Review: Gene Luen Yang’s 'Boxers & Saints' is an incredibly special exploration of Chinese history
Boxers & SaintsWe were getting ready to visit my grandfather for the first time in nearly half a decade when I was warned not to bring up the Cultural Revolution. I was told that it was his equivalent...
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Review: Tune: Vanishing Point
I'm pretty sure I graduated in the worst possible year of the 2000s. It was 2008 and I had earned a degree in journalism, a field where professors warned us the chances of working in the field would be...
Comics You Can Dance To #21: APE Special with Derek Kirk Kim, Several Hernandezzes and One Aragones
Comics You Can Dance To is Comics Bulletin's official podcast!Hosted by Nathaniel MacDonald and Danny Djeljosevic (that's me) and supported by various jokers and guests, Comics You Can Dance To is...
Top 10 School Comics
Some people think back on their school years as the best years of their lives, while for others, every day was a struggle against great odds. Regardless, for many of us, our time in school provided a...
Top 10 Treatments of Race in Comics
10. Truth: Red, White and Black by Robert Morales and Kyle Baker Lest you get too patriotic, American readers, remember that the Good Ol' U.S. of A committed some serious atrocities on its own people --...
APE 2011 Panel Reports: Daniel Clowes, Adrian Tomine, Kate Beaton and Craig Thompson
While San Francisco lost WonderCon to Anaheim earlier this year, the city held Alternative Press Expo this past weekend at Concourse Exhibition Center. Nerds, Steampunks, Girls in Yarn Hats and People Who Like...
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Optic Nerve #12
Adrian Tomine didn't expect any of this. More than a month ago, I made a visit to my local comic shop to ask about Tomine's latest output. Knowing Optic Nerve #12 was due any day I asked if it was too...