A Few Good Links

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on December 22, 2011

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Since it was so deep in a grown-tiresome thread, you probably missed this, but I loved loved loved Steve D’s post here.   Tom Spurgeon is back with another fabulous round of Holiday interviews, and while I don’t know how many people go here without going thee every day, I wanted to really point out the interview with The Beguiling’s Peter Birkemoe. It’s super rare to see in depth interviews with retailers, and I wish we had more such interviews and profiles. I used to (when it was still a monthly magazine) beg The Comics Journal to do a few interviews with pioneering retailers before it was too late and we lost that history to second hand stories. There are…  Read More…

Lester Alert!

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on November 1, 2011

Categories: Retailing/Industry

I don’t know if you remember about three years ago when Jeff Lester was plugging his story in Cthulhu Tales #10? Well, that story (and many others) are now in a sturdy TP collection entitled CTHULHU TALES OMNIBUS: MADNESS.  This has a Diamond order code of AUG110894, and an ISBN of 978-1-60886-075-3, if you wanted to ask your local library to stock it. (hint hint) Other than seeing ol’ Jeff staying in print, I’m excited by the back cover text that says “Featuring comic book superstars Steve Niles…Jeff Lester (SAM & MAX ONLINE)…and Roger Langridge.” Yes, Jeff Lester ranks higher than Roger Langridge! The blurb then goes on to say “Follow the Old Ones of myth from ancient times and…  Read More…

Why am I starting to feel old?

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 16, 2011

Categories: Site News

Internet time is compressed and strange, and it is a whole lot of new all of the time, and so when things last it feels a little weird, doesn’t it?   It was ten years ago today that I started posting openly to the web using the Savage Critic name — that was on comixexperience.com, and something broke that I hadn’t noticed until a week ago, and I don’t know how to fix it and anyway, that site will be revamped (and hopefully properly restored) sometime in June-ish, so sorry you can’t go back and look at Public post #1 at this very second.   I had posts on Doug Pratt’s long-gone Comics & Animation Forum on CompuServe (Wheeee, dial-up…  Read More…

SELF-PROMOTION from ABHAY

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Posted by: Abhay Khosla on December 2, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Self-promotion warning.  For those of you not interested in self-promotion, and don’t want to spend their free time consuming advertising, this is fair warning, and I’ll hide my infomercial for myself behind a jump.  I apologize in advance to anyone who thinks this doesn’t belong here– in my defense, I got Brian’s okay, plus Brian reminded me that Jeff had already done the whole self-promotion thing so… Please send all angry e-mail to Jeff Lester.  Also: please send photos of yourself but just from the waist down to Jeff Lester. Pants tolerated.

Spurgeon interviews Hibbs

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on May 7, 2010

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Over at The Comics Reporter. Tom pitched it to me as “Stump the Hibbs”, though he veered away from that pretty fast once we were talking. I wish the first question hadn’t been The First question, because, upon reflection, I would have questioned the very basis of a Vertigo/Art comics split — selling comics to adults is selling comics to adults, and there’s a point where you have to Let The Market Decide. Still, it was The First question, and you’re still feeling each other out at that point… I truly don’t understand why one would want to categorize things that tightly — and I don’t think those kinds of divisions make a lick of sense in 2010 (if they…  Read More…

Comic Book Geek Speak podcast with Hibbs

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on February 5, 2010

Categories: Podcasts , Retailing/Industry

I should have mentioned this earlier in the week, but I Forgot. The gents at Comic Book Geek Speak have be back yet again, and I get all pontificatey in episode #777, which you can listen to here: http://www.comicgeekspeak.com/episodes/comic_geek_speak-999.php Enjoy! -B

Savage Critics on the Reporter!

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 5, 2010

Categories: Site News

It is a Savage Critic Four-fer (is that a word?) as Tom Spurgeon interviews Jog on Death Note, Douglas on Invincible Iron Man, Tucker on Ganges, and Sean on Blankets! All of them (as well as all of the non-Savage Critic interviews as well!) are definitely must-read pieces! Spurge initially asked me to do an interview, as well, but then he suddenly decided to do this one-critic-one-book series, and he asked if we could do our general survey of the business of comics later in 2010. I’m certainly looking forward to the chances of doing that sometime in the next month or two, I hope! -B

Go Look: Awesome interview with Abhay

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on January 2, 2009

Categories: Site News

Tom Spurgeon interviews Abhay as part of his ridiculously good Holiday Interview series. Go read it here. -B

The Debut Switcheroo: Jeff Advocates Cthulhu Tales #10 for Entirely Self-Serving Reasons

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on December 4, 2008

Categories: Retailing/Industry

Um. So, I wanted to talk about last week’s Previews. More specifically, page 225: CTHULHU TALES #12 by William Messner-Loebs, Jeff Lester, Jeremy Rock & Chee Jeff Lester pens “Reunion Tour,” what is probably our favorite Cthulhu Tale to date, a story melding rock and roll, age-old partnerships, unnameable beasts from the dimensions beyond time and space, and flight attendants! Also, William Messner-Loebs returns to Cthulhu Tales with a short story of chilling horror! Honestly, as solicitation text for my comic book debut go, I couldn’t be more fortunate…except for one tiny, nagging detail: my story isn’t in Cthulhu Tales #12. It’s been moved up to Cthulhu Tales #10. And so, rather than an extended, perfectly planned and executed series…  Read More…

Savage San Diego: A Quick List of Who’s Where & When

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on July 24, 2008

Categories: Site News

I don’t know which one of the thousands of exhibitors brought the ray that speeds up time, but they’ve got it cranked to eleven down here in San Diego: I had enough time to walk one-tenth of the giant exhibition floor last night, said hi to no more than three or four people (but they were awesome people, I assure you) before joining the nerd diaspora and staggering through the streets of San Diego in search of a place to rest my feet and a liquid that cost less than a dollar an ounce. So I’m posting this early Thursday morning instead of Wednesday, and I apologize for that. Nonetheless, if you’re immune to the effects of the Speed-Up-Ray and…  Read More…

Two Sunday links

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Posted by: Douglas Wolk on February 17, 2008

Categories: Site News

Go read: Tom Spurgeon’s interview with Douglas Wolk. Go look: the new Indiana Jones Trailer! Looks better than I would have hoped! (lets try the embed thing, to see if it works) -B

Here Comes Everyone: A Quick Bit of (Kinda) Self-Promotion.

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Posted by: admin on January 11, 2008

Categories: Site News

Yeah, “kinda,” because is it really self-promotion if you’re promoting the people that you work with on this here blog. (Answer: Duh, of course it is!) First, in case you missed it, essays from both Abhay and Jog were mentioned(repeatedly) in Chris Mautner’s excellent round-up of the best comics criticism of 2007 over at Blog@. Then, Johanna’s fine blog, comicsworthreading.com, got name-checked by Newsweek magazine in its article on Wonder Woman (which, unfortunately, has one of the stupidest titles I’ve ever read). Finally, there’s a blissfully long interview with Graeme conducted by Tom Spurgeon over at The Comics Reporter. (And The Comics Reporter has been exceptional lately, I think: even before it’s accidental holiday hiatus, it was bursting with amaazing…  Read More…

When is Self-Promotion Not Self-Promotion? Jeff and the Second Season of Sam & Max.

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Posted by: admin on October 22, 2007

Categories: Uncategorized

I am appallingly bad at self-promotion–saying something that sounds even remotely boastful makes me feel like an utter a-hole.  Accordingly, I suppose I should feel grateful for the circumstances surrounding the first episode of Sam & Max’s second season, Ice Station Santa, premiering on Gametap just a few weeks from now: I worked on the dialogues for the first episode (along with the talented and terrifyingly young Ian Dallas) but can’t honestly tell you how much of my material made it in. Telltale has released three gameplay videos, excerpts of scenes for which I did the early drafts, and the percentage of the material I recognize as mine runs anywhere from 30% to 80%. For a panoply of reasons, this…  Read More…