this from David
Seidman at blogs.com
(thanks, blogs.com.)
David
Seidman has been in the
graphic-novel and comic-book business since the early 1990s.
Among other things, he's been a graphic novel and
comic book writer, an
editor
of comics and graphic novels, an essayist on the
graphic-novel industry for the book-industry Bible
Publishers Weekly and
other publications. He's also been a
teacher
of writing comics and graphic novels, and a
publicist
for NBM Publishing,
Papercutz,
and other graphic-novel houses. (F.Y.I., NBM is starting
its own blog, by the
company's writers and artists!) And finally, he's been the host
of a monthly networking
dinner for Los Angeles' comic-book and graphic-novel
industry. His take on this list: "These comics-related blogs are
fun to read and strikingly informative. Check them often, and
you'll be as well-informed as almost any comics insider."
By Andrew Smith, offering the only regularly syndicated newspaper column about comic books and graphic novels.
By various contributors who concentrate on the business side of the graphic-novel business.
By Rich Johnston, who gets news and gossip from deep inside the American graphic-novel industry even though he’s in England.
By Brigid Alverson, who roams all over the fast-growing map of Asian comics and Asian-inspired comics
By Heidi MacDonald of Publishers Weekly, one of the most well-informed and well-connected journalists covering
By Tom Spurgeon and friends, delivering some of the most in-depth coverage of the paneled world.
By comics retailer Brian Hibbs, who offers a hard-nosed bookseller’s perspective on the field.
By various contributors linking to the world of female comics characters and creators.
By Dirk Deppey of The Comics Journal, who accumulates links and pipes up with his own opinions over a wide field of comics-related topics.
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