Mystery Hoard

March 15 is International Shakespeare in the Comics Day!

Walter Trier (1890-1951) Trier was born in Prague but moved to Munich in 1909. He contributed to the German humour a...

As various bloggers are reporting, a new report says there were over 3,300 graphic novels published in the U.S. and Canada in 2007. That...

This is a fascinating article about a mystery hoard of old paper found in the walls of an building in Grand Bend, Ontario. As the boards a...

The Scapegoats of Tomorrow Pity we poor comics canon-builders. Given the raw materials of some Donald Duck comics, political cartoons...

Blogger Dick Hyacinth has finally posted his list of 100 comics and graphic novels from the myriad end-of-year "best of" lists, b...

Comics fans have long known that Superman's extraordinary vitality and youthfulness are due in part to the fact that he celebrates a bir...

Marvel Comics Editor-in-Chief Joe Quesada is scheduled to appear on the Colbert Report tonight, ostensibly to plug the return of Captain Ame...

Beastie Boys fail to ask the musical question, who's more fascistic, Superman or Lex Luthor?

Kevin Smith's Mallrats: sort of funny as a movie, genius as a Superfriends episode.

I, Otaku by Jiro Suzuki Seven Seas 200 pages $9.99 US/$11.00 Can ISBN 978-1-933164-76-2 review by BK Munn I was irresistibly drawn...

The Complete Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (1904-1913) by Winsor McCay Compiled, edited, and published by Ulrich Merkl 464 pages (139 in c...

Canadian Classics Ted McCall was a writer notable for creating two early adventure comic strips that ran in Canadian newspapers. In 1933, h...

Snow in Charles Schulz's Peanuts Part 3 of 3 by BK Munn I'm sure that Robert Short tackled this in his Gospel According to Pe...

Evel Knievel, 1938-2007 Evel Knievel, the daredevil motorcycle stuntman and marketing genius, died yesterday. Born Robert Craig Knievel in ...

Mystery Hoard is more of a winter blog, really. To kick things off again, a simple link to Kevin Church's blog and a new entry in the C...

The Doug Wright Awards are coming and ther's gonna be a shootout! The 2007 Wright Awards take place in Toronto on Friday, August 17 at ...

The Doug Wright Awards for Canadian cartooning are just 3 days away --this Friday at 6:30 pm in Toronto! Aren't you just so excited abo...