The Cyanide and Happiness book was a 2023 Kickstarter, while the Kolchak book was an add-on to the 2024 Kolchak Meets the Classic Monsters Kickstarter, the primary reward of which hasn’t been sent out yet.
Posts Tagged ‘comics’
Library Additions: Two Kickstarter Hardbacks
Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025Library Additions: Two Gift Books
Thursday, August 17th, 2023These two books were received as gifts from friends:
Library Additions: Three Signed Joe R. Lansdale Books
Thursday, August 23rd, 2018The first batch of the books I bought at Armadillocon a few weeks ago:
All obtained for swaps/trade credit.
Berkeley Breathed Wins April Fools
Friday, April 1st, 2016With Calvin and Hobbes 2016:
Bill Watterson Draws Pearls Before Swine
Saturday, June 7th, 2014Basically, Stephan Pastis, the man behind the Pearls Before Swine comic strip, managed to strike up an email conversation with the Bill Waterston, the famously reclusive creator of Calvin & Hobbes.
The end result was that Watterson secretly drew panels in Pearls Before Swine strips.
Start here and keep scrolling forward through today.
(Hat tip both Michael Swanwick and Ted Cruz, who each shared it on Facebook…)
2013 Comikaze Cosplay Expo Video
Saturday, November 9th, 2013Putting this up because I’m sure that John DeNardo will want to know about it for SF Signal, and in no way because it has lots of attractive, scantly clad women in it…
Silly me. I didn’t even know the U.S. had a cosplay expo.
Also: Oh my…
A Better Time
Friday, May 24th, 2013The XKCD comic, that is:
The miniature trebuchet was a nice touch.
“I don’t understand what the sea is doing.”
You had me at “Scarlett Johansson Tied Up Half Naked”
Monday, April 30th, 2012I would say that Marvel has a good idea exactly what audience it’s trying to draw to The Avengers:
(Actually, I always thought her Ghost World co-star Thora Birch was hotter.)
Since Howard and I will be reviewing The Avengers this weekend, I will forbear pointing out how underpowered Black Widow and Arrow Guy are compared to the rest of the team…
The Wisdom of Calvin and Hobbes
Monday, March 26th, 2012Not Going to the Austin Comic Con
Thursday, November 11th, 2010As I’m going to be busy watching Skyline (another movie Howard and I are reviewing) and they didn’t have any literary SF guests, I won’t be going to The Austin Comic Con (though I have friends who are going). But they do seem to have rounded up a surprisingly large number of 70s TV stars (plus Chewbacca, Darth Maul, Billy Dee Williams and, err, the cast of The Film I Refuse to Name). (And I’ve already met Lee Majors, for certain values of “met” that include “have your hand touched briefly as you walk past in a line with 10,000 other kids and their parents at a Toys”R”Us opening in the 1970s.” Also “met” William Shatner that way. I wonder when Toys”R”Us stopped hiring TV celebrities for store openings?)
But I must admit I’m a little bit tempted to go just to meet Oscar Goldman.
Oh, and here’s a hint for the Austin Comic Con Webmaster: if you’re going to copy text out of a Wikipedia entry, it’s usually best to take out the “[citation needed]” bit…