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Comic Riffs: January 30, 2011 - February 5, 2011
DAN SNYDER featured in tomorrow's 'Jerk' comic (*Is it time for 'Everybody Draw Dan Snyder Day'?)
(This blogpost has been updated Friday at 10 a.m. ET) Tomorrow, in The Post and elsewhere, a cartoon will depict Redskins owner Dan Snyder trying to quash the flow of news and information to his fellow citizens of Washington. The...
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Michael Cavna
| February 4, 2011; 10:00 AM ET |
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General, The Comic Strip
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Bill Hinds, Dan Snyder, Jeff Millar, Tank McNamara
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Take the 'Ultimate' Challenge: Draw upon the TACO BELL & MARVEL alliance
The good folks over at Comic Book Resources' Robot 6 have a swell feature they call "Food or Comics?," wherein they bandy about what Wednesday comics they'd buy on a budget. Well this week, thanks to the marketing smarts...
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Michael Cavna
| February 2, 2011; 2:00 PM ET |
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General
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Marvel Comics, Taco Bell
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THE DAILY CARTOONIST site to shut down Comments section [UPDATED]
As one of the more popular blogs for comics pros, Alan Gardner's The Daily Cartoonist bills itself as "the source for industry news for the professional cartoonist." What Gardner does not want his blog to be is the source...
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Michael Cavna
| February 1, 2011; 2:30 PM ET |
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General
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Alan Gardner, Drew Litton, Steve Benson, Ted Rall, The Daily Cartoonist, Tom Richmond
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ART SPIEGELMAN reacts to winning grand prize at Angoulême
Art Spiegelman in his Manhattan studio. (Helayne Seidman for The Washington Post)Enlarge Image In a year jam-packed with projects, promises and deadlines, Art Spiegelman didn't think his 2011 workload could get any heavier. Then he got the call: Bonjour,...
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Michael Cavna
| January 31, 2011; 1:01 PM ET |
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General, The Graphic Novel
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Angoulême, Art Spiegelman, Bill Griffith, Francoise Mouly, Maus, R. Crumb, Will Eisner
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New 'SUPERMAN' is cast: 'Tudors' ' Henry Cavill is your big-screen Man of Steel
(Image: Warner Bros.) The tights have been cast. And your new Superman, despite the fan campaigning, won't be SuperHamm. British actor Henry Cavill, 27, perhaps best known in the States for playing Charles Brandon in Showtime's "The Tudors," has...
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Michael Cavna
| January 30, 2011; 2:05 PM ET |
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Geek Buzz, Superheroes
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Brandon Routh, Christopher Nolan, Henry Cavill, Superman, Zack Snyder
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