Do you know about a comic called Rex Libris? Put out by Slave Labor Graphics, it's a smart, satirical comic following the adventures of Rex, the world's toughest librarian. Immortal although not precisely indestructable, he will go to the end of the universe to retrieve overdue books and levy fines against book absconders. There's also sly digs at the current comic business and fantastic art, all courtesy of writer/artist James Turner. Issue #9 comes out this Wednesday, and it would be an excell… Continue

Writing is like plunging your own hand inside your chest and ripping your own heart out, then throwing it on a plate and presenting it to complete strangers.

Even when the characters just come to you fully formed, ones you think you can't have anything in common with by any stretch of the imagination - zombies, ghost whores, insurance salesman - there is some thread of commonality, some part of you in there, whether you want to admit it or not. These are your children, and as much as… Continue