KC COLUMN: I SAW VIOLET KISSING SANTA CLAUS
Peanuts Every Sunday Vol. 1
KC Carlson looks at his personal connection between Peanuts and Christmas.
KC Carlson looks at his personal connection between Peanuts and Christmas.
Fantagraphics announces Peanuts Every Sunday: full color comics by Schulz
Peanuts Every Sunday
Fantagraphics announces Peanuts Every Sunday, full-color collections of Schulz’s Sunday strips, for the Fall of 2013.
A Bunch of Things That Really Confuse Me About November ’11 Comics: “Ye Gads!”
DC Comics Presents: Elseworlds 80-Page Giant #1
KC Carlson looks at product in the new Diamond Previews including TwoMorrow’s Stan Lee & Jack Kirby: The Wonder Years, Image’s Guns and Dinos, and DC’s DC Comics Presents: Elseworlds 80-Page Giant.
KC Column: Better Place
by KC Carlson
“There’s a place where I can go…”
These are the opening lyrics to the Beach Boys’ In My Room. Gary Usher wrote those words and Brian Wilson wrote the music in 1963, and it quickly became an anthem for the sensitive and introspective. Brian always claims it was just about the bedroom that he and his brothers shared — and where the Beach Boys’ harmony “sound” was first forged. But raise your hands if you think the song is actually about more than that.
Oddly, a few months before, John Lennon wrote a song called “There’s a Place”, which appeared on the first U.K. Beatles album Please Please Me. On the surface, it appears to be a Motown-influenced song about romance (The Beatles’ stock-in-trade at this point), but as with most things Lennon, if you peel the onion back, you discover that the place the singer (Lennon) wants to go when he feels low and blue is actually in his own mind.
10 Things I Like About July ’10 Comics (and a couple I’m not so crazy about)
by KC Carlson
1. CLASSIC CREATORS RETURN TO CLASSIC CHARACTERS: Neal Adams writes and illustrates Batman: Odyssey, a new six-part miniseries from DC Comics. For those of us reading comics in the late 1960s and 70s, Adams was THE Batman artist, so his return to write and draw a brand-new Batman tale (featuring a bunch of classic friends and foes) is pretty big news.
Too Much Cool Stuff – Not Enough $$$ – January ‘10
by KC Carlson
There are a number of new Marvel projects this month falling under the banner of “Women of Marvel” – spotlighting not only Marvel’s fascinating female characters, but also the creators who wield the pencils and brushes and tap those keyboards. First up is Girl Comics, a three-issue anthology series featuring work by women only. (The book will probably be printed by men, though.) The first issue sports a great She-Hulk vs. Iron Man cover by the amazing Amanda Conner – and it’s not the battle you’d normally expect. I’m looking forward to seeing the work of Ann Nocenti, Devin Grayson, and Trina Robbins, all of whom haven’t done much superhero comic work of late, as well as current faves including Colleen Coover and Stephanie Buscema.