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The Thomas Nast Award is part of the Overseas Press Club of America OPC Award Winners, where the individual awards all have names like the rooms in a really old rich person's house. The Thomas Nast Award has been part of the OPC Awards since 1968; past winners include Don Wright and Jim Morin. * cartooning free agent and former Commercial COLLOQUY - COMICS REPORTER Colloquy 1 Spring 2006 This past winter and spring have brought a profusion of opportunities for profes-sional development for our young scientists. As part of President Summers’ focus on BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP, DEAD AT 87 A Unit of The Hearst Corporation • 888 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019 • FAX: 212-455-4305 • www.kingfeatures.com BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP,COMICS REPORTER
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Created Date: 8/16/2007 11:10:31 AM MICHAEL ANGST IS AN ACTIVE INVESTOR IN PRIVATELY-HELDWEB VIEW Michael Angst. Michael Angst is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of E-Line Ventures, a ‘double bottom line’ early-stage venture fund focused on empowering individuals, small businesses, and disenfranchised communities through innovative uses of personal fabrication, digital DEAR GIL THORP FAN,WEB VIEW Title: Dear Gil Thorp fan, Author: Matt Shaughnessy Last modified by: Valued Sony Customer Created Date: 9/2/2005 4:38:00 AM Company:Refractec, Inc.
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The Thomas Nast Award is part of the Overseas Press Club of America OPC Award Winners, where the individual awards all have names like the rooms in a really old rich person's house. The Thomas Nast Award has been part of the OPC Awards since 1968; past winners include Don Wright and Jim Morin. * cartooning free agent and former Commercial COLLOQUY - COMICS REPORTER Colloquy 1 Spring 2006 This past winter and spring have brought a profusion of opportunities for profes-sional development for our young scientists. As part of President Summers’ focus on BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP, DEAD AT 87 A Unit of The Hearst Corporation • 888 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019 • FAX: 212-455-4305 • www.kingfeatures.com BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP,COMICS REPORTER
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Created Date: 8/16/2007 11:10:31 AM MICHAEL ANGST IS AN ACTIVE INVESTOR IN PRIVATELY-HELDWEB VIEW Michael Angst. Michael Angst is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of E-Line Ventures, a ‘double bottom line’ early-stage venture fund focused on empowering individuals, small businesses, and disenfranchised communities through innovative uses of personal fabrication, digital DEAR GIL THORP FAN,WEB VIEW Title: Dear Gil Thorp fan, Author: Matt Shaughnessy Last modified by: Valued Sony Customer Created Date: 9/2/2005 4:38:00 AM Company:Refractec, Inc.
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•Michael Grabowski On Laundry Land As A Habit-Changer For Alt-Comics Consumers • Jim Salicrup On Russ Heath’s Last Comics Works • Brad Bartkus On People Having Beefs With The Lenticular Process • Mike Catron On TCJ’s Long Ago Coverage Of Wally Wood’s Passing • Ivan Brunetti On His Informal Lecture In Chicago, March 28 • VIEW ARCHIVES Send e-mail to tom@comicsreporter.comTHE COMICS REPORTER
Home > Collective Memories TCJ Covers, Contents and Mastheads posted November 16, 2009 This is where I'm stuffing various covers, mastheads and contents pages from The Comics Journal so I can have them as a resource. You are welcome to use it, too.THE COMICS REPORTER
Comics I Read In Series Form In The 1980s: Dalgoda Dalgoda was probably the first Fantagraphics comic book series I followed; it was certainly the first Fantagraphics series I saw in the comic book stores on a regular basis. It featured writing by former Warren and DC writer Jan Strnad and art by Dennis Fujitake, an illustrator who had contributed to Gary Groth-related publications since theyTHE COMICS REPORTER
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On Friday, CR readers were asked to "Name Five Underground Comix Stories You Like." This is how they responded. John Vest. 1. Doc Destiny by Kim Deitch. 2. Greg Irons' Corporate Cancer. 3. Hitler'sCocaine.
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posted August 15, 2005. Creator: Kyohiko Azuma. Publishing Information: ADV Manga, $9.99, 232 pages. Ordering Numbers: 1413903177 (ISBN) Kyohiko Azuma's Yotsuba&! manga reads like a love letter to the way kids can be at the age of 2-5, when they are in most ways functioning human beings but function in a world that's impossiblyhuge and easy to
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COLLOQUY - THE COMICS REPORTER Colloquy 1 Spring 2006 This past winter and spring have brought a profusion of opportunities for profes-sional development for our young scientists. As part of President Summers’ focus on BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP, DEAD AT 87 A Unit of The Hearst Corporation • 888 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019 • FAX: 212-455-4305 • www.kingfeatures.com BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP,COMICS REPORTER
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ANNOUNCING THE CREATION OF THE SMALL PRESS EXPO COLLECTIONWEB VIEW For Immediate Release: Contact: Warren Bernard Phone: 301-537-4615. E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com Bethesda, Maryland; August 30, 2011 - The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce the establishment of the Small Press Expo Collection at The Library of Congress.COMICSREPORTER.COM
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•Michael Grabowski On Laundry Land As A Habit-Changer For Alt-Comics Consumers • Jim Salicrup On Russ Heath’s Last Comics Works • Brad Bartkus On People Having Beefs With The Lenticular Process • Mike Catron On TCJ’s Long Ago Coverage Of Wally Wood’s Passing • Ivan Brunetti On His Informal Lecture In Chicago, March 28 • VIEW ARCHIVES Send e-mail to tom@comicsreporter.comTHE COMICS REPORTER
Illustrator Steven Hughes, a progenitor of the "bad girl" school of comic book art and one of the most successful African-American artists in American comics history, died February 18, according to an announcement from publisher Chaos! Comics. The cause of death was believed to be complications from a long-term cancer-related illness.THE COMICS REPORTER
Euro-Comics Special: Jen Vaughn In Angouleme 03 By Jen Vaughn Nouveau Monde * did the rounds at the Noveau Monde/indie tent where I heard -- from a majority of Americans mostly -- that it was the only tent to see.Less kids running around, for one. Found the new Jason book, Pop!, full of his mashup drawings from his European publisher.I remember emailing him when he was rolling them out askingTHE COMICS REPORTER
The Thomas Nast Award is part of the Overseas Press Club of America OPC Award Winners, where the individual awards all have names like the rooms in a really old rich person's house. The Thomas Nast Award has been part of the OPC Awards since 1968; past winners include Don Wright and Jim Morin. * cartooning free agent and former CommercialTHE COMICS REPORTER
Random Comics News Story Round-Up * John Seven on Walking Uphill and Rose: A Double Life.Rachel Cooke on Maggy Garrison.Some love for Bad Gateway. * former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels writes about editorial cartooning generally, and his relationship with Gary Varvel specifically. * a bit of not-comics with an analysis of how much longer newspaper have to bleed out their remainingTHE COMICS REPORTER
posted May 30, 2000. Alfredo P. Alcala, the Filipino-born illustrator, newspaper strip and comic book artist, died in California on Saturday, April 8 following a long battle with cancer. He was 74 years old. Alcala was born August 23, 1925 in Talisay, Occidental Negros, in the Philippines. He dropped out of school as a teenager to pursue hisTHE COMICS REPORTER
Home > News Story and Obituary Archive News: Ignatz Awards 2000 posted September 30, 2000 The Ignatz Awards continued their long march towards wider respectablity and comics awards-show prominence with a virtually controversy-free year 2000 awards program, held on September 16 at the conclusion of Bethesda Maryland's Small Press Expo.THE COMICS REPORTER
An annual Doug Wright style award for American comics, with a nice award ceremony and only three categories (best book, emerging talent, hall of fame). 3. A press devoted to publishing old comic strips that are not commercially viable: i.e., the complete Bungle Family, the THE COMICS REPORTEROCTOBER 11, 2004COMICS WITH HIS OWN LIFEINTERVIEWSHOLIDAY SHOPPING GUIDES Tom Spurgeon, 1968-2019 By Douglas Wolk Tom Spurgeon, the writer and editor of The Comics Reporter, died November 13, at the age of 50.For the second half of his life, he was an extraordinary presence in American comics, as a chronicler of the medium and the industry around it, a critic, a convention organizer, and a nexus point for the comicscommunity.
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He was privileged to write for Dan Wright's King Features Syndicate strip Wildwood from 1999 to 2002. Tom is happy to answer any and all questions he can about comic books, comic strips, or any of the related cartooning fields. Tom can be reached via e-mail at comicsreporter@gmail.com . His phone is 575-654-4391. E-Mail ispreferred.
COLLOQUY - THE COMICS REPORTER Colloquy 1 Spring 2006 This past winter and spring have brought a profusion of opportunities for profes-sional development for our young scientists. As part of President Summers’ focus on BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP, DEAD AT 87 A Unit of The Hearst Corporation • 888 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019 • FAX: 212-455-4305 • www.kingfeatures.com BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP, ANNOUNCING THE CREATION OF THE SMALL PRESS EXPO COLLECTIONWEB VIEW For Immediate Release: Contact: Warren Bernard Phone: 301-537-4615. E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com Bethesda, Maryland; August 30, 2011 - The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce the establishment of the Small Press Expo Collection at The Library of Congress.COMICSREPORTER.COM
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He was privileged to write for Dan Wright's King Features Syndicate strip Wildwood from 1999 to 2002. Tom is happy to answer any and all questions he can about comic books, comic strips, or any of the related cartooning fields. Tom can be reached via e-mail at comicsreporter@gmail.com . His phone is 575-654-4391. E-Mail ispreferred.
COLLOQUY - THE COMICS REPORTER Colloquy 1 Spring 2006 This past winter and spring have brought a profusion of opportunities for profes-sional development for our young scientists. As part of President Summers’ focus on BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP, DEAD AT 87 A Unit of The Hearst Corporation • 888 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019 • FAX: 212-455-4305 • www.kingfeatures.com BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP, ANNOUNCING THE CREATION OF THE SMALL PRESS EXPO COLLECTIONWEB VIEW For Immediate Release: Contact: Warren Bernard Phone: 301-537-4615. E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com Bethesda, Maryland; August 30, 2011 - The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce the establishment of the Small Press Expo Collection at The Library of Congress.COMICSREPORTER.COM
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Created Date: 8/16/2007 11:10:31 AM SPARKPLUG2015PRESSRELEASE Title: sparkplug2015pressrelease.pdf Created Date: 2/9/2015 9:23:18 PM MICHAEL ANGST IS AN ACTIVE INVESTOR IN PRIVATELY-HELDWEB VIEW Michael Angst. Michael Angst is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of E-Line Ventures, a ‘double bottom line’ early-stage venture fund focused on empowering individuals, small businesses, and disenfranchised communities through innovative uses of personal fabrication, digitalTHE COMICS REPORTER
•Michael Grabowski On Laundry Land As A Habit-Changer For Alt-Comics Consumers • Jim Salicrup On Russ Heath’s Last Comics Works • Brad Bartkus On People Having Beefs With The Lenticular Process • Mike Catron On TCJ’s Long Ago Coverage Of Wally Wood’s Passing • Ivan Brunetti On His Informal Lecture In Chicago, March 28 • VIEW ARCHIVES Send e-mail to tom@comicsreporter.comTHE COMICS REPORTER
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Comics I Read In Series Form In The 1980s: Dalgoda Dalgoda was probably the first Fantagraphics comic book series I followed; it was certainly the first Fantagraphics series I saw in the comic book stores on a regular basis. It featured writing by former Warren and DC writer Jan Strnad and art by Dennis Fujitake, an illustrator who had contributed to Gary Groth-related publications since theyTHE COMICS REPORTER
The Thomas Nast Award is part of the Overseas Press Club of America OPC Award Winners, where the individual awards all have names like the rooms in a really old rich person's house. The Thomas Nast Award has been part of the OPC Awards since 1968; past winners include Don Wright and Jim Morin. * cartooning free agent and former CommercialTHE COMICS REPORTER
Euro-Comics Special: Jen Vaughn In Angouleme 03 By Jen Vaughn Nouveau Monde * did the rounds at the Noveau Monde/indie tent where I heard -- from a majority of Americans mostly -- that it was the only tent to see.Less kids running around, for one. Found the new Jason book, Pop!, full of his mashup drawings from his European publisher.I remember emailing him when he was rolling them out askingTHE COMICS REPORTER
Home > News Story and Obituary Archive Obituary: Herb Gardner 1934-2003 posted October 30, 2003 Herbert George (Herb) Gardner, the creator of The Nebbishes cartoons and syndicated comic strip who went on to a long and distinguished career as a playwright, director and screenplay writer, died September 24 in his Manhattan home of complications due to lung disease.THE COMICS REPORTER
John Collins, 1917-2007 John Alton Collins, one of Canada's leading editorial cartoonist who provided the Montreal Gazette with over 15,000 cartoons during a span that lasted four decades, died on September 13 after an extended, two-year illness that gradually weakened him. He was 89 years old. Collins was born in Washington, DC.THE COMICS REPORTER
posted August 15, 2005. Creator: Kyohiko Azuma. Publishing Information: ADV Manga, $9.99, 232 pages. Ordering Numbers: 1413903177 (ISBN) Kyohiko Azuma's Yotsuba&! manga reads like a love letter to the way kids can be at the age of 2-5, when they are in most ways functioning human beings but function in a world that's impossiblyhuge and easy to
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Publishing Information: Rand & Palmieri, mini-comic, 56 pages, Winter 2011, $9. Ordering Numbers: 1532-138X (ISSN); Web Site Here. I'm no longer able to review the comics magazine Mineshaft. I just sort of stare at it now, a big, dopey look on my face that likely encompasses admiration for what I'm guessing is an arduous assembly process and aTHE COMICS REPORTER
Home > Bart Beaty's Conversational Euro-Comics Conversational Euro-Comics: Bart Beaty On Jean-Christophe Menu Leaving L’Association posted May 23, 2011 By Bart Beaty Last week the web site supporting the formerly striking L'Association employees posted a sunny message indicating that all was now well with the publisher, and that things were moving forward in a positive direction. THE COMICS REPORTEROCTOBER 11, 2004COMICS WITH HIS OWN LIFEINTERVIEWSHOLIDAY SHOPPING GUIDES Tom Spurgeon, 1968-2019 By Douglas Wolk Tom Spurgeon, the writer and editor of The Comics Reporter, died November 13, at the age of 50.For the second half of his life, he was an extraordinary presence in American comics, as a chronicler of the medium and the industry around it, a critic, a convention organizer, and a nexus point for the comicscommunity.
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He was privileged to write for Dan Wright's King Features Syndicate strip Wildwood from 1999 to 2002. Tom is happy to answer any and all questions he can about comic books, comic strips, or any of the related cartooning fields. Tom can be reached via e-mail at comicsreporter@gmail.com . His phone is 575-654-4391. E-Mail ispreferred.
COLLOQUY - THE COMICS REPORTER Colloquy 1 Spring 2006 This past winter and spring have brought a profusion of opportunities for profes-sional development for our young scientists. As part of President Summers’ focus on BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP, DEAD AT 87 A Unit of The Hearst Corporation • 888 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019 • FAX: 212-455-4305 • www.kingfeatures.com BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP, ANNOUNCING THE CREATION OF THE SMALL PRESS EXPO COLLECTIONWEB VIEW For Immediate Release: Contact: Warren Bernard Phone: 301-537-4615. E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com Bethesda, Maryland; August 30, 2011 - The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce the establishment of the Small Press Expo Collection at The Library of Congress.COMICSREPORTER.COM
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Created Date: 8/16/2007 11:10:31 AM SPARKPLUG2015PRESSRELEASE Title: sparkplug2015pressrelease.pdf Created Date: 2/9/2015 9:23:18 PM MICHAEL ANGST IS AN ACTIVE INVESTOR IN PRIVATELY-HELDWEB VIEW Michael Angst. Michael Angst is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of E-Line Ventures, a ‘double bottom line’ early-stage venture fund focused on empowering individuals, small businesses, and disenfranchised communities through innovative uses of personal fabrication, digital THE COMICS REPORTEROCTOBER 11, 2004COMICS WITH HIS OWN LIFEINTERVIEWSHOLIDAY SHOPPING GUIDES Tom Spurgeon, 1968-2019 By Douglas Wolk Tom Spurgeon, the writer and editor of The Comics Reporter, died November 13, at the age of 50.For the second half of his life, he was an extraordinary presence in American comics, as a chronicler of the medium and the industry around it, a critic, a convention organizer, and a nexus point for the comicscommunity.
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He was privileged to write for Dan Wright's King Features Syndicate strip Wildwood from 1999 to 2002. Tom is happy to answer any and all questions he can about comic books, comic strips, or any of the related cartooning fields. Tom can be reached via e-mail at comicsreporter@gmail.com . His phone is 575-654-4391. E-Mail ispreferred.
COLLOQUY - THE COMICS REPORTER Colloquy 1 Spring 2006 This past winter and spring have brought a profusion of opportunities for profes-sional development for our young scientists. As part of President Summers’ focus on BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP, DEAD AT 87 A Unit of The Hearst Corporation • 888 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019 • FAX: 212-455-4305 • www.kingfeatures.com BUD BLAKE , CREATOR OF “TIGER” COMIC STRIP, ANNOUNCING THE CREATION OF THE SMALL PRESS EXPO COLLECTIONWEB VIEW For Immediate Release: Contact: Warren Bernard Phone: 301-537-4615. E-Mail: warren@spxpo.com Bethesda, Maryland; August 30, 2011 - The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels, and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce the establishment of the Small Press Expo Collection at The Library of Congress.COMICSREPORTER.COM
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posted August 15, 2005. Creator: Kyohiko Azuma. Publishing Information: ADV Manga, $9.99, 232 pages. Ordering Numbers: 1413903177 (ISBN) Kyohiko Azuma's Yotsuba&! manga reads like a love letter to the way kids can be at the age of 2-5, when they are in most ways functioning human beings but function in a world that's impossiblyhuge and easy to
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The Thomas Nast Award is part of the Overseas Press Club of America OPC Award Winners, where the individual awards all have names like the rooms in a really old rich person's house. The Thomas Nast Award has been part of the OPC Awards since 1968; past winners include Don Wright and Jim Morin. * cartooning free agent and former CommercialTHE COMICS REPORTER
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posted August 15, 2005. Creator: Kyohiko Azuma. Publishing Information: ADV Manga, $9.99, 232 pages. Ordering Numbers: 1413903177 (ISBN) Kyohiko Azuma's Yotsuba&! manga reads like a love letter to the way kids can be at the age of 2-5, when they are in most ways functioning human beings but function in a world that's impossiblyhuge and easy to
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Tom Spurgeon, 1968-2019BY DOUGLAS WOLK
Tom Spurgeon, the writer and editor of _The Comics Reporter_, died November 13, at the age of 50. For the second half of his life, he was an extraordinary presence in American comics, as a chronicler of the medium and the industry around it, a critic, a convention organizer, and a nexus point for the comics community. Born December 16, 1968, Spurgeon grew up in a media-immersed household in Muncie, Indiana: his father was a newspaper editor and reporter, and his mother ran a public-relations business. In high school, Spurgeon was his class president; in college, at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, he was a lineman on the football team. According to the cartoonist Dan Wright, his friend for over 40 years, Spurgeon initially planned to go to law school after he graduated, but decided to attend Illinois' Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary instead. He never went into the ministry, but the pastoral impulsestayed with him.
After several years at seminary and a brief stint working for QVC in Pennsylvania, Spurgeon moved to Seattle, Washington, in 1994, to become the managing editor (and later executive editor) of _The Comics Journal_. Eric Reynolds, then the magazine's news editor and now the associate publisher of Fantagraphics Books, says he and Spurgeon bonded quickly, and remained close ever after: "He was probably my best friend in the comic book business. He was a really good conceptual thinker, and had a really good eye for hiring talent for the Journal, but he was also a procrastinator. I was the reporter, and more detail-oriented than he was. But we complemented each otherreally well."
The _Journal_ won four consecutive Eisner Awards for Best Comics-Related Periodical, from 1996 through 1999, and Spurgeon quickly gained a reputation in the comics community as a mensch and a wit. ("He pretty much won Halloween every year," Reynolds recalls. "One year, he was Big Boy, from Bob's Big Boy--he somehow made an actual giant hamburger that he took to a party.") Spurgeon could be difficult, and liked to argue, but seems to have rarely fallen out with anyone for good. If he challenged you, it probably meant he trusted you to rise to the challenge. In that spirit, he convinced a number of his friends to make creative and professional leaps. As Dan Wright was approaching 30 and working as a graphic designer, he says, "I told Tom that I wanted to do something beyond a provincial approach to art. Tom said, 'you know, Dan, you should think about syndicated cartooning. You might have to learn how to write, but you've got the chops to do it.'" After Spurgeon mailed Wright books of classic comic strips to study, Wright developed a Christian-themed funny animal strip, initially titled _Bobo's Progress_ and later _Wildwood_, and brought Spurgeon in to write it with him. It was syndicated by King Features from 1999, the year Spurgeon left the _Journal_, to 2002. Spurgeon collaborated on the 2003 biography _Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book_ with Jordan Raphael, who had met him as a summer intern at _The Comics Journal_ in 1995. Once the book was published, Raphael built this web site as a vehicle for Spurgeon's writing, funded by advertising. _The Comics Reporter_ launched October11, 2004
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with Spurgeon's thoughts on a recent bestseller chart, an annotated pointer to a news announcement, an obituary for Christopher Reeve, and some slyly worded links to stories elsewhere ("Edmonton Paper Celebrates Four-Page Graphic Novel; Dave Sim Develops Face Tic"). _The Comics Reporter_ is where Spurgeon really made his mark, and he continued to post here almost every day for the rest of his life: news items, reviews, commentary, provocations, announcements of comics shows, and birthday congratulations to seemingly everyone associated with the medium. Some of his best writing here was personal writing, about the intersection of comics with his own life.
In his interviews
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he asked tough, complicated questions that almost invariably drew out long and thoughtful answers. Even his service journalism (holidayshopping guides
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tips for enjoying Comic-Con International)
was often a delight to read. Spurgeon had strong opinions--his writing could flicker from withering dismissal to infectious awe in a few lines--and open eyes. He had a bottomless reserve of knowledge about and enthusiasm for every kind of comics he could get his hands on, including newspaper strips and editorial cartoons. When he mentioned creators on _The Comics Reporter_, or linked to their work, they felt seen and championed. In particular, he made a habit of advocating for promising cartoonists who were just starting out, connecting them with gigs and raising their profile. He reserved some of his most stinging comments for his assessments of his own work, including _The Comics Reporter_; nonetheless, it won Eisner Awards for Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism in 2010, 2012 and 2013. While _The Comics Reporter_ was running, Spurgeon continued to write elsewhere, sometimes about comics and sometimes not. (For a while, he wrote business articles for a pharmaceutical trade magazine edited by his friend Gil Roth.) Spurgeon began work on an oral history of Fantagraphics Books, _We Told You So: Comics as Art_, in the mid-2000s; it spent around a decade in limbo before it finally appeared in 2016, co-credited to Michael Dean. ("That book was a great testament to our friendship," Eric Reynolds says, "because I think it would have ruined a lot of less strong friendships.") He also wrote the text for the 2011 art book _The Romita Legacy_, about the artists John Romita, Sr., and John Romita, Jr., but noted in 2013 that he'd "never seen a copy of that Romita Legacy book--long story, all myfault."
For most of the early years of _The Comics Reporter_, Spurgeon was living in Silver City, New Mexico, relatively physically isolated but a prolific correspondent. "Tom kept in touch with everyone--people from kindergarten and seminary and his college fraternity, and all the different lives that he'd lived," says Caitlin McGurk, Associate Curator and Assistant Professor at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum. McGurk also credits her own career path to Spurgeon's encouragement: "Tom took me seriously, and the fact that he took me seriously meant that other people took me seriously." In 2011, Spurgeon had a near-fatal medical crisis, about which he wrote a remarkable essayon this
site. His friends observe that his brush with death had a profound effect on him, and that after he recuperated, he became more serious about what he wanted to accomplish with his life. He moved to Columbus, Ohio, in March 2015, to take a job as executive director of the annual convention Cartoon Crossroads Columbus; he had friends waiting there to help him unload his U-Haul truck full of longboxes. Almost immediately, Spurgeon became a fixture of the city's comics community. "Showing up was important to him," McGurk says. "Tom showed up to everything. If there was an obscure Turkish comics scholar giving a brown-bag lunch talk on a Tuesday, Tom would show up. At parties, he would find his place to sit for the evening, and he wouldjust hold court."
Spurgeon had a broad range of enthusiasms he could discuss with the same robust, informed intelligence he brought to comics--history, movies, basketball, theater, horse-racing--but he was most interested in the people he was talking to. "No matter what the conversation was," McGurk says, "he would interrupt at some point and say 'how are you doing, though?' Emphasis on the you. He wanted to know about people's lives, even if he didn't know them very well." In the Columbus years, Spurgeon wrote somewhat less for _The Comics Reporter_; often, it was mostly links and images. One feature he took care to update, though, was "Comics By Request," in which he catalogued and commented on projects and creators in need of money. And, even more than before, he devoted his gifts to watching out for comics creators' health and well-being. An unrealized goal he often brought up with friends was starting a union for cartoonists. Back in 2012, Tom asked me if I would write a short obituary for him if he were to die while _The Comics Reporter_ was still running ("like if I got eaten by a shark on my way to San Diego Con 2015," he wrote). It's strange to have words that aren't Tom's as the first ones readers encounter at a site whose voice was so completely and extensively his. It was a relief, though, to learn that _The Comics Reporter_ will be preserved by several different online archives. You may be reading this a few weeks after Tom Spurgeon's death, or years later, or long after everyone who knew him is gone. If you're coming to this site for the first time, I urge you to explore it, so you can see for yourself why we have reason to envy each other. You have our future, but we hadTom.
_Photo Credit: Photo by Tony Amat Copyright 2013 SDCC_ _posted 5:00 am PST_ | Permalink -------------------------NOVEMBER 13, 2019
The Never-Ending, Four-Color Festival: Shows And EventsBY TOM SPURGEON
_posted 3:25 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- If I Were In NYC, I’d Go To This _posted 3:20 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Happy 61st Birthday, Edd Vick! _posted 3:00 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Happy 46th Birthday, Anders Nilsen! _posted 3:00 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Happy 36th Birthday, Jen Vaughn! _posted 3:00 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Happy 51st Birthday, Brad Mackay! _posted 3:00 pm PST_ | Permalink -------------------------NOVEMBER 12, 2019
If I Were In Seattle, I’d Go To This _posted 3:20 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Random Comics News Story Round-Up * for no particular reason, to the left is a panel from the old Claremont/Byrne/Austin run on late 1970s/early 1970s X-Men comics, with Wolverine in his all-encompassing Fonz phase. Those were frequently effective comics. _posted 3:05 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Happy 72nd Birthday, Doug Murray! _posted 3:00 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Happy 48th Birthday, Sara Ryan! _posted 3:00 pm PST_ | Permalink -------------------------NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Bundled, Tossed, Untied, Stacked: Publishing News _posted 3:25 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- If I Were In Berkeley, I’d Go To This _posted 3:20 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Random Comics News Story Round-Up * here's an interview with that nice man and skilled comic-book writer Brian Michael Bendis about the current attempt to reboot _Legion Of Super-Heroes_. That's one of DC's broadly appealing and easy to grasp concepts, and should be something the company does well in the same way that the X-Men books should be a strength for Marvel. I am a spectacularly bad customer for its standard mix of nostalgic reverie for traditional square-jaw super-heroics and kids-culture values of the broadest sort, but I sured like reading optimistic super-kid stories when I was a young man and would imagine a lot of kids could make use of something like that now that the future has become conceivably shorter and potentially more depressing. * finally: it's hard for me to figure out the benefit of making stand-alone creative effortsinto their
own "universe" of stories. I know some people believe these companies shouldn't be precious about this kind of thing, but it always seems to dissipate some of the energy those wider storylines bring to the table. Seems like sloppy resource management. _posted 3:05 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Happy 67th Birthday, Carl Potts! _posted 3:00 pm PST_ | Permalink -------------------------NOVEMBER 10, 2019
Comics By Request: People, Places In Need Of FundingBY TOM SPURGEON
* names you may have heard of, at varying levels of initial success:Brian Pulido
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Chuck Dixon
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Michael Jantze
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* here's another cartoonist of repute: Ted Rall.
* two long-running campaign followed by this site feature Larry Shelland Jim Wheelock
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* finally: people continue to donate to Gahan Wilson's care.
_posted 3:25 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Go, Look: Children’s Rights At Cartoon Movement _posted 3:20 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Go, Look: Why It’s Got To Be Bernie _posted 3:10 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Random Comics News Story Round-Up * this Gretchen Felker-Martin essay about the appeal of the Marvel movies coming from elements of their creation that are less than exemplary has received a great deal of attention and has something to say about that enormously successful series of films. They inform the _perception_ of the comics, at the very least. It's interesting to read analysis tht makes a strong distinction about elements unique to the film because I think the comics have a completely different set of virtues. * here's an excerpt from _Daybreak_,
Brian Ralph's graphic novel that inspired a TV show of the same now. I don't know anyone that recognizes the comic in the TV show, but I know a lot of people that Ralph makes as much money as possible from theshow.
* J. Caleb Mozzocco on _War Bears _. Eddie Campbell on _Screwball! The Cartoonists Who Made The Funnies Funny_.
Leonard Pierce on _This Is What Democracy Looks Like_. Noah
Berlatsky on _Wonder Woman Volume One: The Just War_.
* finally: Bill Leak's son Johnnes will fill the cartoonist positionat _The Australian_
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_posted 3:05 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Happy 39th Birthday, Will Dinski! _posted 3:00 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Happy 42nd Birthday, Derek M. Ballard! _posted 3:00 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Happy 43rd Birthday, Steve Ekstrom! _posted 3:00 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- Happy 50th Birthday, James Owen! _posted 3:00 pm PST_ | Permalink -------------------------NOVEMBER 9, 2019
Go, Look: Bill Sienkiewicz Imagery _posted 3:30 pm PST_ | Permalink ------------------------- If I Were In Seattle, I’d Go To This _posted 3:20 pm PST_ | Permalink -------------------------DAILY BLOG ARCHIVES
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