For a few years now I’ve been a fan of Dan Nadel without even knowing it. Not only is Dan the Editor of PictureBox but he is also one of the founders of Comics Comics – a magazine and blog that you should be reading. I’ve been picking up Comics Comics since I first heard about it on though my friends at 11 O’Clock Comics. It’s up to issue 4 right now and you can even get the first three issues as a free download. Dan is also an accomplished author and has just published Art in Time Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980 (Abrams) which is a follow up to his 2008 book Art Out of Time Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969. I never put the author of the blog and author the books together until recently. I couldn’t be more happy that the two are the same. Dan has just posted a wonderful audio panel of himself along with Jeet Heer, Seth and Evan Dorkin from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Readers of the CCL will love and appreciate the conversation on the ins and outs of editing/designing/publishing/consuming comics history with a great candid focus on talk on Collected Editions. It is a must listen to show. I hope to have Dan on the CCL Podcast soon. Keep and eye on the blog for more info.
Now on to a few links:
- The Motor City Comic Con starts today and runs through Sunday. If you go, please support the real industry professionals in Artists Alley and say hello to Guy Davis and ask if he has any copies of his Modern Masters book from TwoMorrows. I should be there on Sunday.
- Nest week, for one day only Saturday May 22 is the Summit City Con in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. As it stands right now I won’t be able to make it.
- DC’s Wildstorm Blog has announced that it will be publishing WildCATS 3.0: Year One which is a double sized trade paperback collecting the first two long out of print trades (Brand Building #1-6 and Full Disclosure #7-12). A second book will follow shortly thereafter, but with so much disparity with the title after Volume 3 it’s hard to speculate just what it will collect.
- DC’s Vertigo Blog, on the other hand, has announced a full slate of title coming out in Spring 2011. It’s nice to know these books are coming, but can we just all slow down?
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