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Happy Birthday to Harlan Ellison and Mark Wheatley!
We here at ComicMix would like to wish the happiest of birthdays to two of our favorite people: Harlan Ellison, who despite various attempts directed at him of annihilation, assassination, bloodshed,...
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Only 1,000 Comic Books?
1,000 Comic Books You Must Read By Tony Isabella Krause Publications, 272 pages. $29.99 retail. I want to publicly thank Tony Isabella for taking on a task that is as courageous as it is, well,...
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Clifford Meth: Welcome to Hollywood, Part Deux
Glenn Hauman promised yesterday that I’d deliver a “fuller explanation of what’s been going on” vis-à-vis my piece “Welcome to Hollywood.” So in the interests of keeping this story alive (because you...
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Harlan Ellison releases four new books
Harlan Ellison, once called “the 20th century Lewis Carroll” by the Los Angeles Times, invites you to explore his 56-year career in four new books. These four volumes, designed to bring Ellison’s...
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Charlie Sheen as Batman?
There was a time when Charlie Sheen wasn’t a crazed obsessive with a penchant for terrorizing people around him while avoiding the law, but only acted the part. Perhaps this is why, once upon a time,...
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Sweet Christmas. Sweet White Christmas. One is inevitably reminded of the story Harlan Ellison tells of the movie executive who wanted to remake the movie The Wiz, but recast with all white actors.
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Announcing The SideKick Foundation
The Sidekick Foundation is a new confederacy that seeks to generously aid comics creators in need of financial and medical assistance. Sidekick’s board of directors and advisors consists of...
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MICHAEL DAVIS: Shit And The Comic Book Industry
Please take a moment to look at the graphic that accompanies this article. Chances are you seen it before on the net or right here on ComicMix when Glenn posted it a few days ago. Shit. I’ll admit...
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FLESH RIPPING WEASELS AND MORE MAN PULP COMING THIS SUMMER!
From Newtextureblog.blogspot.com! WEASELS RIPPED MY FLESH! Next From New Texture “We were lucky—until the weasels…” New Texture and MensPulpMags.com manfully present Weasels Ripped My Flesh! A...
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Mindy Newell: Success And Failure, Part 1
I wasn’t sure what to write about this week. Then I read Martha’s column about Neil Gaiman’s commencement speech at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and I watched the video. Then I read...
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Michael Davis: Once You Go Black, Part Four
I got the idea for this series when I received a call and was told a project of mine was turned down because “Black doesn’t sell.” I was told to my face more than once by a certain asshole “when it...
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Mike Gold: Passion and Wonder
Astronaut Neil Armstrong’s death last week at 82 brings to mind… well, an awful lot of stuff. If I were to put it all in one folder, I would name that folder “Passion and Wonder.” Passion is the...
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REVIEW: The Terminator
In 1984, The Terminator was a relatively low budget ($6.5 million) action-adventure film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, hot off Conan and Linda Hamilton pre-Beauty and the Beast. Written by James...
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Mindy Newell: Ahead Warp Factor 6!
Patiently standing in the checkout line at Stop & Shop today (which was mobbed because tomorrow is the first night of Passover) I did what so many of us do – browsed the covers of the tabloids....
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Kickstarter Alert: “Comic Book Babylon: The Real Heroes and Villians of Comics”
If you’ve ever read anything from Clifford Meth, you know he can be a ferocious writer, and ferociously talented. We like that sort of thing here, and that’s why we’ve published his stuff in the past....
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Mindy Newell: The Grandfather Paradox Gives Me A Headache
Is time travel possible? Can history be changed? Imagine you had a time machine and went back into the past. While there you meet and accidentally kill your grandfather before he got married and had...
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Michael Davis: An Open Letter To Paul Levitz
Dear Paul, Paul, Paul, PaulPaulPaul, Paul. I hope this letters finds you well. You and I have had our differences over the years but I still remember when I used to hang out in your office and just...
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Review: “Comic Book Babylon”
Comic book writer, editor, and raconteur Clifford Meth took to Kickstarter to fund the publication of Comic Book Babylon, a collection of essays, stories, and interviews drawn from the almost ten...
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Happy 80th Birthday, Harlan Ellison!
There are those of you who doubted he’d make it. Hah! Hah, we say! Harlan Ellison, writer, raconteur, gadfly, screenwriter, actor, power forward for the Los Angeles Lakers, and a character in The Dark...
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Mindy Newell: EW Does SDCC
My geek overdrive continues to overwhelm me. But I’m not the only one. Less than a week away from this year’s San Diego ComicCon (which opens its doors this Thursday, July 24th, and closes them on...
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Michael Davis: Another Paige
Draft number one of this narrative was written not 24 hours after I met yet another amazing young lady named Paige. This draft is number 15, and at almost six months this is the longest it’s ever...
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Glenn Hauman: Six Words
Got a note from Mike Gold: “Denny remains sick. Would you like to fill for Thursday 8 AM? Got anything to get off your… chest?” Sent a note back: “Sorry to hear he’s under the weather. I hope he’s...
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Ed Catto: These are the Voyages…
Eaglemoss, a UK based fan-facing company, is best known for creating detailed replicas of Batmobiles, miniature starships from various incarnations of Star Trek and figurines from the mythologies of...
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Harlan Ellison: 1934-2018
“For a brief time I was here, and for a brief time, I mattered.” A legend has passed. Harlan Ellison, Grandmaster of the Science Fiction Writers of America and member of the SF Hall of Fame, died in...
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Michael Davis: The Truth About Harlan Ellison And The Lie He Told Us All
Note number 1: I wrote this first part in 2014. What’s below took me two weeks as I’ve been battling depression blah blah blah blah poor me etc. Twenty minutes after I first met Harlan Ellison he...
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