Thursday Link Party: Alan Moore Knows the Score

I love that Moore will be over in his corner of the world contentedly working on comics and then suddenly he's putting out essentially a local magazine with a hip-hop crew. Oh, to be that creatively spry, not just at his age but shit, at any age.

More Moore every week in TLP during Moore Month at TWC, and if that's not enough GD acronyms for you, I don't know what to tell you.

You've probably already heard about the passing of Shel Dorf, one of the founding fathers of the San Diego Comic-Con. As Mark Evanier said, losing such a friend to comics is a loss for any friend of comics, so rest in peace, Shel.

Sonia Harris at iFanboy has a great reflection on the history of ads in comic books. I've been re-reading some old Justice League International comics and the difference between the kind of ads that ran even twenty years ago and the ones that run today is jarring. I just wish I could still join the Steven Seagal fan club.

Craig Yoe's Super I.T.C.H. is such a goldmine of great comics stuff that the linkblogger in me wants to keep it a precious secret so that I can impress all my geek buddies with my awesome obscure links. But I can't--you must bookmark this site to find such gems as snell's dissection of a Jack Kirby DC hype ad from the seventies and this collection of off-brand bootleg Batman collectibles from the Batcave Trophy Room blog.

I really liked Esther Inglis-Arkell's argument in this piece on whether superheroes should kill. Great dissection and analysis.

I also really enjoyed the close examination of Chris Ware's Halloween New Yorker cover over at Pretty Fakes.

Finally, a shameless plug: My friend Sarah Kuhn, with whom I blog at Alert Nerd and who I have known since we both cut our teeth interviewing Buffy guest stars in the late nineties, just published her first book, One Con Glory, through our Alert Nerd Press indie label. It's funny, it's perceptive about human nature, it's terrific geek lit and it might even be a little romantic; I wouldn't know cause I don't have anything you'd call a "heart." Anyway, read an excerpt here and buy the book here. It's terrific.

NOT COMICS: Concept art and walk-through of the Peter Pan Neverland theme park Michael Jackson wanted to build. Crazy.