Comic World News | Headlines

April 22, 2008:
CWN and the Grand Finale! -

February 4, 2008:
In Conclusion - David ends his CWN run with Tezuka's MW from Vertical

February 2, 2008:
Acting Like You Have Nothing to Prove -

February 2, 2008:
The Shoegazer Returns - A New Year Begins, And Our Narrator Makes A Pledge

January 30, 2008:
Tim's Reviews -

September 13, 2007:
Wizard World Chicago Loot, Part One - Stykman, Empty Chamber, the Ztarian Saga, and yes, Little Bunny Foo Foo

February 15, 2007:
I Come Not to Bury Nick Cage... - But to mourn the death of my punchline

November 20, 2006:
The End - Rich's last Chicks & Romance

November 8, 2006:
Joann Sfar's Klezmer - And a Front Racks Hiatus

October 4, 2006:
This Month's Guest: Dave Gibbons - From the pages of Elephantmen!

September 18, 2006:
Back in Berlin - or How I spent my summer

July 29, 2006:
KICKING UP A STORM - An interview with David Lloyd

June 19, 2006:
You Ain't Never Had A Friend Like Me. - Graeme looks at Spidey's "genies"

December 18, 2005:
Disappointed - Sad news for fans of Busiek's CONAN, Stephen King, and others

December 13, 2004:
JUSTICE UNPLUGGED 2 at last !!! - By Fabrice Sapolsky & Xavier Fournier

December 2, 2004:
THE TWELFTH AND FINAL STEP - Say it ain't so, Dan.

November 23, 2004:
The importance of editing -

September 29, 2004:
Mystery and Conundrum indeed! - Where in the world is Jason Pomerantz?

September 13, 2004:
Hello and Goodbye and Hello Again - Change is in the air at CWN and it smells sweet.

August 12, 2004:
The Rise of the Web Toon - New Business Model or Dumb Luck?

July 30, 2004:
The Name Says it All... - Spin Doctors revamp Boomerang.

July 27, 2004:
Bigger Isn't Always Better -

June 8, 2004:
Pre-emptive Strike: MoCCA Arts Festival - Looking forward to the con, rather than looking back at it

The Layer Method
Our top Secret time-saving technique for creating and merging balloons and tails in Illustrator.

Friday, September 3, 2010

The End.

So long. Farewell. Auf Wiedersehen. Good night.

So, this is it. Last post. The final columns are up and it's time to go.

I want to say one last thank you to everyone who's been involved in the site over the years, but I also want to point to where you can find them now. We've had an amazing amount of talent pass this way over the years.

Thanks first of all to Dan Wickline and Caleb Gerard for dreaming up Comic World News in the first place. Dan's column "Twelve Step Program" was a source of inspiration and practical, usable advice to a lot of young writers looking to break into the comics industry. You can find Dan now at his MySpace page and in comics stores everywhere, writing books like Steve Niles' Stange Cases from Image and Zenescope's upcoming 1001 Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad.

Caleb wrote a thought-provoking, occasionally controversial column called "Border Patrol" as well as the werewolfs-on-the-moon graphic novel Full Moon Fever with Joe Casey. Caleb's not on the web so much anymore, but he's doing fine with a beautiful family.

Thanks also to Rich Starkings, JG Roshell, and the rest of Comicraft. They've been amazing hosts and Rich's "Fathers Day" column was always interesting reading. You can still find both of them right where they've always been: providing awesome lettering, creating amazing fonts, producing the excellent Elephantmen, and publishing some great books through Active Images.

And don't worry about the forums. Rich and JG are rolling all those into the Comicraft sites, so they'll still be where you can get to them.

Shawn Hoke, in addition to being a wonderful right-hand man during my time as EiC, also wrote a very cool column called "Past the Front Racks" that introduced readers to a lot of great comics that they wouldn't have otherwise known about. And he's still doing that via his mini-comics blog, Size Matters.

David Welsh raised CWN's IQ by about 800 points when he came aboard with his manga column "Flipped". He continues to write about manga on his Precocious Curmudgeon blog.

Jennifer de Guzman's "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" has been so insightful and fun to read. I'm hoping to see it or something like it show up elsewhere, but in the meantime you can still read Jennifer's thoughts on the SLG blog.

Tim Janson was a recent addition to CWN, but I really valued his thoughtful "Judgment Day" column. You can continue reading Tim's thoughts on comics at Shotgun Reviews, Comic Critique, and as part of Newsarama's Best Shots team. You can also email him at t_janson@yahoo.com.

Benjamin Birdie, writer of "The Draft", continues doing good work on his and Kevin Church's webcomic The Rack.

Robin Etherington told us all about European comics in "Comics Have Never Been So Much Fun". By sheer coincidence* he also happens to create fun, European comics over at Studio Blink Twice.

*Actually not coincidence at all.

Another of our European correspondents, John Freeman, wrote "Comics and Crumpets" for us and he's still reporting on the British comics scene at Down the Tubes.

And I can't forget our first overseas columnists, Fabrice Sapolsky & Xavier Fournier, who wrote "From the Other Side". I don't read French, so I can't tell if they're still involved or not, but their French-language comics magazine Comic Box is still going strong.

Graeme McMillan was famous before he got here and famous after he left, but we were pleased to call him family for a while when he wrote "Grim Tidings". You can currently find Graeme all over the place, but most prolifically at Blog@Newsarama and The Savage Critics.

Matthew Phillon's "Guttermouth" was always a fun read, wasn't it? I'm not sure where Matthew is these days, but I'd love to read more from him.

Rachel Gluckstern's "Quoth the Raiven" was another really entertaining one. Rachel left CWN for DC where she currently edits Bat Lash, Justice League Unlimited, Looney Tunes and the upcoming Super Friends. She also works with Joan Hilty on Flash, Checkmate, Suicide Squad, and Blue Beetle as well as the Cartoon Network anthology books.

Rich Watson from "Chicks and Romance" is doing well over at Pop Culture Shock where he writes the Glyphs blog focusing on Black creators and characters in comics.

Phil Yeh, who traveled the world teaching kids about comics in "Avoiding Extinction" is still fighting the good fight at his website.

Jason Pomerantz's "Mysteries and Conundrums" was one of our most popular columns for a while, especially when he was annotating Neil Gaiman's 1602. You can currently catch up with Jason at Facebook.

Erick Hogan was moderating the makeover of fashion-challenged superheroes in "Spin Doctors" long before the excellent Project: Rooftop started doing it. I'm not sure where Erick is these days, but I miss him.

Dan Taylor, creator of Hero Happy Hour and former IDW editor, also did some writing for us with "Making It Up as I Go". Dan can currently be found providing updates on his latest projects at his blog.

And that brings me to Ed Cunard who served as Columns Editor for a while, then Managing Editor. He also wrote a column for us called "Subsurface Communications" and was responsible for recruiting 90% of the people I mentioned above.

Ed "hired" me to write reviews at CWN back in the day and was my first editor. He was also the little voice in my head for years after he left the site, pushing to make the place better and better. Honestly, the stuff I'm most proud of from my run as EiC came about by my wondering, "What Would Ed Do?" Thanks, Ed. And update your blog.

And thanks again to everyone who contributed and helped make Comic World News one of the coolest places on the Internet. And that includes you too, readers. We had some good times.

As for me, I'm mainly hanging out at the Newsarama blog these days as well as my own blog. Please drop by either place and say hello. I'm still reviewing comics and sharing news, so if you're a creator or publisher and I'm on your mailing list, I hope you'll keep me there.

See you around.