"Hamlet Covered in Snot"

The Alan Moore BBC radio 4 interview can be heard online here. It's about half an hour long and contains many wonderful quotables, such as: "If I'm going to react, I may as well overreact."



(link via Fanboy Rampage.)

Help a Marvel Zombie

Over at his new blog Hey Grown Ups - Comics!, Phil Parr is looking for suggestions for indy comics that he might enjoy:

...my retailer doesn't carry independent titles and I don't have the dough to spend blindly out of Previews.



I so remember the joys of small press books. Please... save me! Tell me what I should be reading that doesn't come from the top five or six. More importantly... tell me why.

So how about it, comics blog-o-sphere--save Phil from Marvel Zombiedom!

The Five Manga Meme

From Sean (via Johanna, among others) all the cool kids are doing it: Here are my Top Five currently published manga in translation:



1. Planetes

2. Imadoki!

3. Blue Inferior

4. Hikaru-no Go

5. Negima



And as a bonus, because it's a completely different list, here are my Top Five all-time manga in translation:



1. Lone Wolf & Cub

2. Nausicaa

3. 2001 Nights

4. Maison Ikkoku

5. Sanctuary



(with honorable mention to Akira, Eagle, Uzumaki, Gon, Mai, and Paradise Kiss.)