"Sorry. Writing is self-taught."

art by Neal Adams

Read Dennis O'Neil's inaugrual "How To Write Comics And Graphic Novels" column here.

A Monkey-Girl-A-Day

Barth Maunoury, a British animator/illustrator/terminator, posts a daily Monkey Girl drawing on his blog, Year in Merde.

Yoshito Usui (1958-2009)

Yoshito Usui, creator of Crayon Shin-chan, died in climbing accident. He had been missing since Sept. 11.

More info here.

Ellis on Kirby

Warren Ellis retells Jack Kirby's move to DC in a way only Warren Ellis can.
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Royal Boiler finds

Brandon Graham always has the coolest things on his blog.

Check this out-

Geoff Darrow and Moebius collaboration! More here.

The work of Guillaume Singelin was highlighted recently, too.

His stuff reminds of Guy Davis meets Gipi with a Taiyō Matsumoto influence.

"The End Is Near" video by Ian Cinco

Music Video made for the Soundcheck Video Contest. Fiery Furnaces song "The End Is Near." iancinco@gmail.com

Shhh!

Check out more here.

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House of Mouse eats House of Ideas

Disney buys Marvel in a $4 billion deal!

The King's Birthday

Happy birthday, Jack! Here's a video from last year's tribute panel at New York Comic Con:

Why Kirby Will Always Be The King
Bully's 24 hours with Jack Kirby tribute

More Morrison inspiration?

The above panel has been cited by Grant Morrison as an inspiration for his take on the current Batman-

"I can certainly see the Dick Grayson Batman digging this day on a more regular basis!"

Perhaps, the Dick Grayson Batman and Damian Wayne Robin were inspired by this:

Also, I think Bruce needs to look up the definition of the word "ironic."

Batman and Robin #3 hits comic stores today.

Check out a video discussion between Morrison and Clive Barker here.