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Friday Runaround – From Russia, With Comics

RussiaWatch: St Petersburg is hosting the fifth annual comic book festival, Boomfest, across the city, inspired by Moscow's convention now in its tenth year. Guest artists include Julie Doucet, Stefano Ricci, T Edward Bak and Miguel Gallardo.

StripWatch: Writers argue over just how bad the cartoons strips are.

This is not an aberration. A very unscientific survey of the 20 strips in the Journal reveals that the average strip age is 36.6 years. That's 14 strips — 70 percent — over the quarter-century mark. Six are a half-century plus. "Blondie" started in the Hoover administration. "Dennis the Menace" is credited to an author who is, worryingly, dead.

This isn't to say that young equals good. The two strips from this millennium, "Red and Rover" (2000) and "The Pajama Diaries" (2006) have managed to suck intensely enough to make up for lost time. Regardless, when 70 percent of strips have lived through the original "A-Team", there's clearly a problem. Specifically, everything is terrible.

And a reposte

Why should younger generations cry out against the inexplicable longevity of Hagar the Horrible when, with a few keystrokes, they can access modern gems like Dinosaur Comics, Achewood, A Softer World, Diesel Sweeties and other short- and long-form comics on the Internet? The webcomics industry is by no means glamorous, exciting or always financially rewarding, but unlike the rigid world of print newspaper comics, it does not suffer from the problem of having "no room for new guys to squeeze in," and even stodgy old professors are now hanging xkcd clippings in their offices.

GenderWatch: Lest we forget… Marvel seem to have issues with their relaunch as well.

DateWatch: If you're wondering where your weekly Panel Borders podcast is, it's moved from Thursdays to 8pm Sunday evenings…
This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.

They say I am a work in progress. The fools.

It's 1969, ok? Pádraig talks with Kevin O'Neill | The Forbidden Planet International Blog Log

I'd say it's fuelled more of my artwork than I probably give it credit for. When me and Pat get together we credit it for quite a bit of inspiration, the Catholic background, the very old-fashioned way we were taught. The nuns were brutal, I just remember, they were really brutal.

Even More Photos From The Avengers! | Superhero Hype

now we've got four more scans of photos that are featured in the magazine article.

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