Monday, December 31st, 2007
2008?!
Another one under our belts…
A belated thank-you to Martha Thomases for her recent post “The Sweetest Gift†on the ComicMix site. A clever piece that listed the comics and graphic novels which the current legion of presidential candidates ought to read, Martha’s article gave Kings in Disguise a nice plug and recommended it to John Edwards for its New [...]
Yes, I missed “The Ballad of Sweeney Todd†too, but the omission of all that haunting chorus work didn’t diminish my enjoyment of what Tim Burton’s done with Stephen Sondheim’s musical nearly as much as I thought it would.
What I did miss, even while I was admiring Johnny Depp’s first-class acting job, was a Canadian [...]
So it was a little over two weeks ago that this blog suddenly went blooey, wiping out every post I’d entered since we opened the doors back in May.
My intrepid webmaster managed to get enough of it back online for me to enter my thoughts on the late John Garcia, but before any other repairs [...]
Like everyone else who’s reported on this, John Garcia’s death came as a complete surprise to me.
I worked with John only once, on the two chapters of our canceled 1990 series Owlhoots, and I never met him face to face. A few months after wrapping up Kings in Disguise, I’d convinced Kitchen Sink Press to [...]