A rich remembrance of Stumptown 2008 as presented by Shannon O’Leary.

I’ve finally achieved one of my New Years resolutions: not being hung over on a Monday. While this meant I crammed a weekend’s worth of binge drinking into Friday night, it paid off, as I’m now in ship-shape and Bristol fashion, looking forward to a field trip to OK Comics in Leeds.
Due to a [...]

A few blocks south of here, 3rd Ave. surrenders to the Bowery, that once farm-spotted lane that snakes its way toward the depths of lower Manhattan, ultimately petering out around Canal St., where the sites and sounds and smells of Little Italy and Chinatown forever mingle. This was the island’s long-standing bohemia holdout, a forced [...]

Someone at The Daily Cross Hatch has taken leave of their senses and asked me to write a column on the scene over here in the UK and Europe–just in the nick of time as well. Just as I finish The Watchmen for the first time. You may scoff, but I just [...]

Sparacino’s Bakery: Italian French Sicilian Bread and Comic Booklets. In their own way, the sly words amended to the end of the sun-faded sign adorning the top of the storefront at 540 Metropolitan Ave. are a perfect match for the store’s grand opening, ushered in with little more fanfare than the turn of a [...]

Sure as a member of the sketch troupe Elephant Larry and the creative director of the People’s Improv Theater, Alexander Zalben is a funny guy, but as a great listener, he’s also the place where members of the comic book world turn, when we have issue. And as you can imagine, we have plenty.

[Gilbert Gottfried, Jerry Stiller, Larry Storch.]
This one’s for Seymour Eisner.
Perhaps I’m just covering the wrong subject matter, but rarely, if ever—in fact, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say never—has a post ever lent itself so perfectly to a dedication for my grandfather. This is not reflection on him, [...]

Having launched The Daily Cross Hatch last February, I don’t feel especially confident making any sort of overarching statement comparing the comics of 2007 to years past. While I’ve been reviewing the medium for years, they have, without a doubt, become a far more significant aspect of my life this past calendar year than I [...]

Of his numerous works in the comics medium, Tom Hart is, without question, best known for his creation, Hutch Owen, the rambling, shaggy idealist who serves as the titular protagonist of Hart’s daily newspaper strip. However, any discussion of Hart’s work is hardly complete without mention of the artist’s other job, serving as a profession [...]

All good visiting professorships, it seems, must come to an end. And seeing as how we forgot to sell ads this month, and therefore can’t offer Professor Brunetti anything in the way of tenure, beyond good vibes, high fives, and the satisfaction of a job well done, we’ll have to bid adieu to the good [...]