Parody Will Get You Nowhere

 

Good news, The Sincerest Form of Parody is back in print from Fantagraphics!

I borrowed the heck out of this from the library when it first came out.  If you were a fan of the Russ Cochrane Mad and Panic collections back in the day then you should love this.

 

Whatever Happened To The Adventure Capitalist?

This is a good overview of the long, tortured history of the Disney comics licenses.

Rare Gems

Sekvenskonst has an interesting post called The Gemstone That Never Was.

I miss Gemstone. As much as I love the work that Boom! is doing (especially their efforts to get kids reading Disney Comics again), I appreciated Gemstone's focus on the longtime collector. I collected Gladstones as a kid, and Gemstone recaptured a lot of that magic, in my opinion.