Christmas Covers - December 17

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version.

Art Baltazar draws today's Christmas cover for the 2000 Patrick The Wolf Boy Christmas Special!

(It's a balmy 50 degrees here today--nice, but hard to get into the Christmas Spirit! How do those of you in the South do it?)

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 8 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2005: A Patty Cake Christmas)
(2004: Superman #165)

(Polite Dissent's 2006 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Two newcomers this year: ShadZ and Brendan McKillip)

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Christmas Covers - December 16

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version.

It's Christmas in the Caribbean on the cover of Katy Keene #33!

(It's a balmy 50 degrees here today--nice, but hard to get into the Christmas Spirit! How do those of you in the South do it?)

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 9 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2005: Bone Holiday Special)
(2004: Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #76)

(Polite Dissent's 2006 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Two newcomers this year: ShadZ and Brendan McKillip)

(Looking for a little Christmas cheer of your own? Tune in to free Yet Another Music Radio for our Holiday Music 2006 mix with over six and a half hours of seasonal songs.)

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Friday Miscellany

ITEM! Over on TV Squad, Jay Black has a nice mini-essay: "In Defense of: Obsessive internet fanboys." Being a television blog he obviously focuses on television-related things, but it applies just as much to comics too I think.

ITEM! Somewhat related: Dave Snider dropped me an email about his new comic book-focused social encyclopedia: Comic Vine.

ITEM! Also related: my ongoing wiki obsessions: Comic Series Wiki, TVIV, TeeVeePedia.

ITEM! Since the Comics Weblogs Update-a-tron seems to have gone fallow--due to what would appear to be Yahoo!'s negligence in keeping blo.gs operating, I've switched over to using Google Reader to keep up with my comics blog reading. As with many things that Google does, it tends to hit the mark more often than it misses (at least imho).

ITEM! Don't forget the Third Annual YACB CBLDF Fund Drive. I'm matching your $25 donation!

Christmas Covers - December 15

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version.

It's Judge Dredd vs. Giant Robot Santa on the cover of 2000 A.D. #763!

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 10 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2005: Incredible Hulk #378)
(2004: Batman #45)

(Polite Dissent's 2006 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Two newcomers this year: ShadZ and Brendan McKillip)

(Looking for a little Christmas cheer of your own? Tune in to free Yet Another Music Radio for our Holiday Music 2006 mix with over six and a half hours of seasonal songs.)

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Christmas Covers - December 14

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version.

Today's selection is Sheldon Mayer's Sugar & Spike #38. Hey DC: For next Christmas, I want a Showcase Presents: Sugar & Spike volume, okay?

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 11 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2005: Sugar & Spike #26)
(2004: Sugar and Spike #32)

(Polite Dissent's 2006 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Two newcomers this year: ShadZ and Brendan McKillip)

(Looking for a little Christmas cheer of your own? Tune in to free Yet Another Music Radio for our Holiday Music 2006 mix with over six and a half hours of seasonal songs.)

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Christmas Covers - December 13

For each day of December until Christmas I'm featuring a Comic Cover Advent Calendar. Just move your mouse over the image to reveal today's special Holiday comic cover. Click on the image to get a larger version.

John Stewart celebrates Christmas on the Mosaic world on Cully Hamner's cover to Green Lantern: Mosaic #9.

Come back tomorrow, and every day this month, for a new Christmas cover.


Just 12 more 'get-ups' until Santa!


(2005: Jonah Hex #34)
(2004: Starman #27)

(Polite Dissent's 2006 Comic Book Cover Advent Calendar)
(Two newcomers this year: ShadZ and Brendan McKillip)

(Looking for a little Christmas cheer of your own? Tune in to free Yet Another Music Radio for our Holiday Music 2006 mix with over six and a half hours of seasonal songs.)

(Please support our Third Annual CBLDF fund drive!)
 

New Library Comics: Week of December 4, 2006

Here are the comics we added to our library collection last week:


An anthology of graphic fiction, cartoons, & true stories /New Haven : Yale University Press, c2006.

Attitude 2 : the new subversive alternative cartoonists /New York : Nantier, Beall, Minoustchine, c2004.

Brown, Jeffrey (Jeffrey David), 1975- Fuck you : all-new comics! /[15] p., chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.

Cartoon America : comic art in the Library of Congress /New York : Abrams, 2006.

De Villeneuve, Daisy, 1975- He said, she said /San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 2004.

Monster engine. /Huntsville, Tex. : Little Engine Studios, c2004.

Moore, Alan, 1953- From hell : being a melodrama in sixteen parts /Marietta, GA : Top Shelf Productions, 2006, c1989.

Rall, Ted. Silk road to ruin : is Central Asia the new Middle East? /New York : NBM, c2006.

Satrapi, Marjane, 1969- Chicken with plums /New York : Pantheon Books, c2006.

Stall, Vincent. Robot investigator /Minneapolis : Vincent Stall, [2002], c2001.

Tarsis, Brian. City of dreams : a tale of erotic fantasy /Seattle, WA : Eros Comix, 2003.

Vaughan, Brian K. Pride of Baghdad /New York : DC Comics, c2006.