ComicMix Columns & Features for the Week Ending September 28, 2008
Between sleeping away the morning and watching the last Mets game at Shea Stadium in the afternoon (okay, after the umpteenth IFC airing of A Hard Day’s Night was over), I almost plumb forgot to remind y’all of what our regular columnists have brought you this past week:
- Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo: I’ve Done Paul McCartney Wrong
- Dennis O’Neil – The Four-Color Answer: Power
- Me – It’s All Good: When Sums Don’t Add Up
- Chuck Rozakis – Webcomics ou Should Be Reading: Something*Positive
- John Ostrander – Tales From The O-zone: Mickey Mouse: Soldier of Satan
- Michael Davis – Straight, No Chaser: You Must Be Kidding Me
- Andrew Wheeler – Manga Friday: The Old In-Out In-Out
- Martha Thomases – Brilliant Disguise: Maverick Is Their Name
- Chuck Rozakis – The Theory of Webcomics: How Webcomics Make Money
Newly added to our list of regular features are Chuck Rozakis’ two webcomics columns. Hope the folks down in Baltimore see this in time, and I hope I can catch up with all my other stuff before the new year!
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For the last few weeks, most ComicMix columnists have been writing about politics. I can understand how you, Constant Reader, who came here to read about comics and movies and games, might think this is self-indulgently off-topic. Most of us have an intense interest in politics, and we think this is the most important election in a long time. People’s lives are at stake. But I can understand you frustration.
The media narrative for the last week has been about “small town values.” According to several speeches made during and after the Republican convention, they are the party of these values, and Democrats are not.
John McCain, in what is assumed to be an attempt to woo feminist Hillary Clinton supporters, nominated an inexperienced first-term governor of Alaska as his running mate. In state-wide office less than two years, Sarah Palin includes in her resume a term as mayor of a small town, and a stint on her local PTA.
This column is unusual in that I’m starting to write it in the doctor’s office. There’s no emergency – it’s just time for my annual mammogram and breast sonogram, and the doctors are running late.
