AS VETERAN AFFAIRS Secretary Eric Shinseki pleads to save his job, if not his current department, the calls for his swift ouster are reaching a fever pitch. Oh, we’re not talking about from lawmakers, lieutenants or the White House. No, we refer to the pitchforks and torches being hoisted by some of the nation’s cartoonists. […]
IS THE WORLD a safer place if its heroes are punching a time clock? That’s a question at the heart of C.O.W.L. — short for Chicago Organized Workers League — a new creator-owned series from Kyle Higgins, Alec Siegel and Rod Reis and published by Image Comics. Higgins had been playing with the idea […]
THANK YOU, Dr. Angelou, for turning your life into literature, and your literature into shared legacy. Rest in Peace.
HERE IN MARYLAND, it is impossible to travel too far in any direction without seeing something that celebrates the legacy of author and environmentalist Rachel Carson. There is a greenway trail and a conservation park named for her here, an alma mater university and a Rachel Carson grade school there — and, of course, […]
MAX BROOKS says he hasn’t told this full story before, but it is one that informed his early interest in writing about race. In 1964, Max’s mom, the Oscar-winning actress Anne Bancroft, presented an Academy Award for Best Actor to Sidney Poitier, for his performance in “Lilies of the Field” — the first black […]
“X-Men: Day of Future Past” was plenty magnetic enough to draw Memorial weekend audiences. The fifth “X-Men” film grossed $90.7-million in its domestic debut over the three-day weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Final holiday-weekend numbers are expected Tuesday. “Days of Future Past” was only the second-biggest domestic opening in the 14-year history of […]
ON SATURDAY NIGHT in San Diego, “Non Sequitur” creator Wiley Miller won what he calls “a once-in-a-lifetime award.” Miller means that both wryly — because a cartoonist can win this honor only once ever — but also sincerely, because he appreciates the prize’s rich past. The quirky statue that Miller hoisted was for the National Cartoonists Society’s […]
TONIGHT IN SAN DIEGO, scores of cartoonists will don cummerbund and gown to salute each other at the National Cartoonists Society‘s Reuben Awards — considered to be one of the tops honors in comics. The Reubens — which date back to the World War II era and have strong roots in print media — have […]
FROM THE Phoenix Saga to the movie-inspiring Days of Future Past, women have played major roles in some of the greatest moments in the history of the X-Men universe. So it should come as no surprise that an all-female team would be assembled for another X-Men comic book. “X-Men” — not uncanny, not all-new, […]
THERE ARE NO woefully misguided creative mutations this time around. The X-Men franchise is back at full cinematic force. With “X-Men: Days of Future Past” open this weekend, Fox is back to rivaling Marvel Studios at how to deftly adapt iconic comic-book characters for the big screen. Not only is “DOFP” one of the top superhero […]
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