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Because I’m feeling distinctly puerile today … So, a kilo-bugger; that must be, what, equivalent to a thousand ordinary buggers? Panel From ...

I’m not remotely competent to weigh in to the argument about BookScan sales figures begun by Brian Hibbs in this “Tilting at Windmills” colu...

A few weeks ago, Chris Mautner started an attempt to define what might constitute a canon of comics. Timothy Callahan followed up with a ...

Last month saw the anniversaries of the first appearances of two major characters from twentieth-century pop culture: 100 years of Billy Bun...

It would seem from Jo Chen’s cover to Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 issue 16 (found via Blog@Newsarama ) that Joss Whedon is planning ...

Supposedly (though it fits suspiciously well into English idiom), Confucius once said, “A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a...

It’s Mothering Sunday today here in the UK (now more commonly called “Mother’s Day”, under the influence of the celebration held in the US a...

As a random purchase this week, I picked up a copy of the current issue of The Dandy (no 3439, 31 January - 15 February 2008, D C Thomson),...

Steve Gerber has died, aged only 60. His was one of the most distinctive voices in comics, and he did more than most to expand the range of...

Crater on Mars, photograph reproduced from The Daily Telegraph web-site, 2008: Crater on Mars, panels reproduced from Watchmen by Alan Moo...

Hhrmmhm! Oh, sorry, I must have dozed off. Now, where was I? Oh, yes, Judy Drood, girl detective. (panel from Mad Night by Richard Sala, ...

“We found that clowns are universally disliked by children. Some found them quite frightening and unknowable,” said Dr Penny Curtis from the...