The blogosphere had some fun with this little gaffe recently, and well they should have:

I don’t agree with the overreactions I’ve seen here and there in (naturally) the comment threads calling for heads to roll; children shouldn’t be deprived of food or a place to live just because Mom or Dad didn’t catch a typo [...]

I was never a huge fan of the late Frank Frazetta’s work – his most famous stuff always screamed, “Hey, Fanboy, grab a handful of this!” a little too shrilly for me to get into the spirit – but there’s no disputing that a lot of my memories of early adolescence are littered with his [...]

(This is the conclusion of an article that originally appeared as the introduction to Li’l Abner Volume 23, in 1996. Latecomers can find Part One here and Part Two here.
(Part Three picks up where the piece began, with a funny-papers feud between Al Capp’s in-your-face satirical strip Li’l Abner and that pillar of [...]

(Part one of this 1996 article offered a look at a pair of feuds involving Li’l Abner cartoonist Al Capp – his long-running real-life rivalry with Joe Palooka creator Ham Fisher, and a headline-grabbing exchange of mock insults between Abner and Mary Worth. This time around, we’ll check out some curious not-quite-feuds from Capp’s career [...]

(Save a couple of minor edits and a handful of lines inserted for clarity, this piece originally appeared as an introduction to Volume 23 of Kitchen Sink Press’ Li’l Abner in 1996. In deference to internet attention spans, I’ll break it into three separate posts.)
The Des Moines Tribune was in a snit, and that [...]

(Yes, it’s been months since I wrote the previous installment of my memories of the ‘90s Tekno Comix train wreck. Moving house and urgent deadlines will do that to you. Those generations who have been born since I last posted on the topic will be able to catch up by clicking here, here, here and [...]

…or at least what passes for same among the online community.
When last we met, I announced that I was taking a break from blogging until I’d completed the script for On the Ropes, the sequel to Kings in Disguise. Thanks to some unexpected and picturesque family health emergencies, among other timesapping detours – and, yeah, [...]

Nothing on the Net has made me smile as much lately as my discovery that the wonderful cartoonist Howard Cruse has a website and blog up and running.

It was mid-August 2008, just a little over a year ago, that W.W. Norton sent me a copy of David Small’s Stitches for editing, and I’ve looked forward to seeing it in print ever since.

Between the crazy-quilt tinkering behind the scenes of Mr. Hero # 1 and the spineless treachery that turned Primortals into juvenile crap, it had become clear that the Tekno Comix business model had a lot less to do with professional publishing than with Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. Editors with some experience in the field were [...]