Tech Victory and Comics Journalism 1 of 2

Just got my laptop back and while I’m integrating all the wonderful new bells and whistles to get this thing running the way I want it to, I figured I’d take a second to post.
Today is a two part comic book journalism day.  First up is an interview I did with Mark Sable weeks ago [...]

Jonathan Hickman: Year One

About a week ago, I had a wonderful discussion with Jonathan Hickman. We discussed the possibility of a Nightly News movie, and analogies for his new work. As I previously said in my best of list from last year The Nightly News was my favorite mini-series of 2007. It revolved around a group of [...]

Comic Writers Chime In On the Writer Strike

I wrote this article for Broken Frontier at the beginning of December so forgive me if its a little outdated but I just totally realized it was uploaded.
The past few weeks Hollywood has been in turmoil over the Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike which started over contract negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture [...]

FraBendAker

Tuesday night I had a barrel, a bushel even, of fun at the Comic Book Club’s one year anniversary event. Which sported such fantastic comic (of the laugh out loud and the sequential art kind) luminaries in the form of Bill Hader and Seth Meyers (Superbad, Saturday Night Live) and Marvel writers [...]

Filthy Shill time: Ultimates Recap articles

Another two-parter, because I’m apparently a wordy motherfucker. Didn’t used to be.
This time, to catch readers up on what happened in Ultimates past after the newest issue released last Wednesday, I did this expansive recap that originally drafted out to be over five pages long, so it had to be broken up. [...]

Wizard: Comic Book News or Eye Candy?

Part two of my two-part article on Wizard Magazine is now up on Broken Frontier. 
Have an excerpt:
In Broken Frontier’s second article examining Wizard Magazine and their place in the comic book journalism world, we analyze the recent reaction to Wizard declaring itself the Number One Men’s Pop Culture Magazine, and the charge that Wizard is turning [...]

Happy Thanksgiving!

I’m currently sitting at my makeshift office at home in the den in front of the big screen. I’m watching NFL on Fox where a lady Marine just introduced herself as being from Lake Placid and I don’t recognize her which is quite strange. She asked some question about Green Bay, but I was [...]

The Future of Wizard: Online?

Good morning, Sinners:
 
 
It is a good morning, for I am now a staff writer for Broken Frontier.
 
 
Now for the Oscar speech: I want to first say thanks to Frederik Hautain, the Editor in Chief, for giving me this great opportunity to write for them. Broken Frontier has always been a favorite of mine with [...]