Remember our interview with Michael Poe and Hilary Hatch, the brain-trust and covert-op behind Errant Story? No? Do you remember my reviews of Errant Story Volumes One and Two?
Geez… I think the internet has the attention span of a hyperactive guppy living in a 5% sugar solution and the memory of lemur who alternates between […]

From: Matt
To: Bob
RE: AWA
Well since I didn’t get a phone call asking me to pick you up at the airport, I’m guessing you’re not making it down to ATL for Anime Weekend Atlanta. It works out OK, I guess, since it seems we were left off the press pass list anyway — or at least […]

Prologue: This event is now 3 weeks past. In fact I wrote my field report the same weekend, but never posted it. After doing the writeup and going back to edit, well, nothing here seemed news-worthy. In fact, it sounds a little whiny, lacks a lot of details and facts, and is really just an […]

I was one of a handful that attended the newly-christened Great American Bargain Book Show on Friday morning (they’ve been doing business as Name That Show this year, while a moniker was being selected) and while bargain books are in fact one of the departments I supervise at my big box, I wasn’t necessarily there […]

UPDATE 23 February 2008:
In the year or so since I last exchanged emails with Hilary and Poe, a few things have changed over at Caffeine Angel Studios. It was a fairly hectic time for those two, and some of the items that came up in our conversation were forward-looking statements about plans they had […]

In today’s installment of Cool Japan 07 recaps, we look at the screening of Afro Samurai and the discussion with the manga-ka - Okazaki Takashi. Afro Samurai was a concept that Okazaki-san came up with as a student.  He remarked that because of this, giving a talk at Harvard on his creation was unbelievable […]

And we’re picking up where we left off yesterday.
The Cool Japan panels were much more interesting and informative than I had even hoped. The presenters were knowledgeable, interesting, and personable. It also helped (in terms of this site) that their topics touched more on manga and anime than I expected that they […]

We’re dropping the I ♥ Comics this week in lieu of a series of Field Reports from Cool Japan 2007. I’m not totally sneaking out of my responsibility, because some of what was covered in the conference pertains to some of the tongue-in-cheek squabbling Matt and I were doing here a month or two […]

I went to New York to hang out at the New York Comic Con on Saturday. Overall, it was a good experience, and I’d go again, but it’s still not quite what it could be, and most of that rests on the shoulders of Reed Exhibitions.
It was my first BIG convention. I’ve been to […]

Scott McCloud is just now clearing the first third (maybe five-twelveths, to be more precise) of his 50 State tour in support of Making Comics.
Last night, he happened to be here in Atlanta, talking and signing at the Georgia Tech College Bookstore, and I happened to be in the audience. Let me just say that […]