It's painful picking up the Los Angeles Times every morning and notice it's getting lighter every week. While they're doing this, however, their Chicago pendejo overseers are spending mucho millions on how to attract more readers. Their supposed salvation: Mexicans.
If so, why in God's green earth would they axe La Cucaracha, the pinche funny comic strip drawn by legendary pocho Lalo Alcaraz??? It's one of the precious few comic strips in Latino USA drawn by Latinos and that deal with Latino is
Well that sucks. Los Angeles Times pop culture reporter Geoff Bouche was covering the con when he got jumped on a sidewalk in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter. He writes:
"In the 15 years I have been writing for The Times, I have covered wildfires, riots, gang murders and plenty of other mayhem. I never got hurt. This weekend I covered a comic book convention in San Diego and I'm going home with staples in my head."
Yipes! Read the rest here.
Via LA Observed.
We talked about this a bit yesterday, but here's some more info for y'all--Comic Universe in Fountain Valley is closing its doors soon, another victim of our depressingly dire economic times. Tonight at Avalon in Costa Mesa is a benefit for the store, with both the hopes of helping the owner pay off debt so the store can get comics to customers before closing for good, and also because there are plans from management to perhaps re-open the store as a hybrid comics/music/art place, which sounds p
We've talked before here about the struggles of Comic Universe in Fountain Valley, but now it's official: the store is closing its doors as of tonight.But at least it's going out the right way: music from Okashii, the Flying Saucers and DJ Oldboy, along with (as you can see from the flier), "music, food, beverages and free comics." Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday, in which comic book stores across the country will give out books that comic book publishers have specifically produced t
Grand Central Art CenterThere's an exhibit going on at the moment that may be of some interest to comic strip fans. It's the "R. Crumb's Underground" exhibit, at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana. It contains a mixture of 100 drawings, collaborations, sketches, and published pieces of Robert Crumb--pen name R. Crumb-- an underground comic book artist whose art is characterized by its critique of mainstream society.
Though I would happily consider myself an artistic aficionado, I have
LA-based comic book writer Geoff Johns has been pretty much one of the biggest names in comic books these past few years, making himself a hero to DC Comics fanatics through beloved stints on The Flash, Action Comics, Teen Titans, JSA, Green Lantern and a bunch of other titles the company publishes that would be completely meaningless to most people who read this blog (he hasn't done much Batman, though. Hopefully one day!). He also has a really entertaining Twitter account, where he details his
