* Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon talks to Sean Howe, author of the recent Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, an imperfect but perfectly entertaining trek through the history of the publisher. Among other topics, Howe shares his perspective on key moments and personnel in Marvel history.
* I can remember a conversation I once had with Barry Windsor-Smith in which he referred to Comic Book Galaxy as "CBG" and then commented in shock (a bit gobsmacked, one might say) at how those initials had already been taken. It never really bothered me, and I've always enjoyed the cheekiness of sharing those initials with what was one one of the biggest publications in the industry. Well, apparently I no longer have to share, as the other CBG is no more. The cheese stands alone.
* I won't say I'll miss The Comics Buyer's Guide (I'm old enough to remember the pre-Krause days when everyone called it "TBG," short for "The Buyer's Guide," its original name), as it outlived its usefulness once the internet took off, but it was at one time home to some of my all-time favourite writers about comics, from cat yronwode and Tony Isabella to Peter David and many others, and its passing certainly is indicative of the great, sweeping changes in comics and publishing in the past twenty years or so. There was a time when a great weekend for me largely consisted of having new issues of TBG/CBG and The Comics Journal to browse at my leisure, and I certainly feel a nostalgic tug for that era of discovery and shared experience, never mind hunting for bargains in the terribly-pasted-up ads of the early TBG. There's nothing like that now, at all, and that's too bad, a part of me thinks.
* Mark Evanier thinks so too.
* Comics Buyer's Guide stalwart Tony Isabella has posted the first part of his 2012 retrospective.
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