Read This Craigslist Ad to Get What It's Like to Talk to Someone on Coke
“Hi, I am a reality show producer looking for an assistant for a Real Superman Show.” Simple, yes? No. This is “high concept” metaphysical stuff, and you, potential assistant, need to grasp the tenuous connection between phenomenal celebreality and literary fiction, so please bear with this producer for 5,500 words.
Best Dad Ever Sells Amazing Spider-Man #1 To Fund Daughter's Wedding
This is love. An Ohio man remembered he might have a copy of the first Spider-Man comic ever in a box in his attic, found it, and sold it to help pay for his daughter's wedding.
Inspirational Bill Watterson Speech Turned Into Watterson-Style Comic
For the last year or so, freelance cartoonist Gavin Aung Than has been using his talents to turn inspirational quotes from some of the world's greatest thinkers into inspirational comic strips.
Kim Thompson, co-publisher of beloved graphic-novel and literary-comics imprint Fantagraphics Books, died this morning. He was 57.
Kate Upton and Ryan Gosling Explain the Sequester
Did you know that the federal government is on track to enact massive, across-the-board spending cuts one week from today—cuts that that could affect important government services, cost hundreds of thousands of people their jobs and greatly slow the growth of the economy? No? You didn't? It's okay: it's an incredibly…
The Oatmeal Sucks, Even if Buzzfeed Was Wrong
The "rule number one of the web," according to Mashable, is "don't mess with the Oatmeal." Last week, Buzzfeed messed with the Oatmeal. Jack Stuef wrote a long post about the webcomic site, its creator Matt Inman, his background in shady SEO marketing, and his use of those same tactics in his comic business. In…
Which Beloved Comedian Likes to Force Female Comics to Watch Him Jerk Off?
Male comedians are weird. They jerk off all the time, and then go on stage and talk about jerking off all the time, for money and laughs. But our nation's most hilarious stand-up comic and critically cherished sitcom auteur adds a thrilling twist to his onanistic escapades: He traps unsuspecting women in his hotel…
Gay Archie Character to Get Gay Married, Gayly
Kevin Keller, the popular new gay character in the Archie Comics universe, will soon be returning from war and getting married to a man in an offshoot series that envisions the Riverdale teens later in life. Will anyone object??
Archie Comics' Gay Character Gets Full Series
When Archie Comics, beloved manufacturers of American easiness, first introduced Kevin Keller, their first openly gay character, he was only supposed to be there for a short time. But now he's been called up to the big leagues!
An Early Peek at the Steve Jobs Comic Book
From the people that brought you the Mark Zuckerberg comic book comes the boringly named (yet still enticing!) Steve Jobs: The Co-Founder of Apple, a pulp biography in pictures. [Gizmodo]
Support Anti-Circumcision Bill With Anti-Semitic Hero 'Foreskin Man'
What better way to show your support for the San Francisco circumcision-ban ballot measure than by picking up a copy of "Foreskin Man No. 2," in which the suspiciously Aryan "intactivist" superhero battles "Monster Mohel"?
Stan Lee on Which Superhero Has the Best Penis
Stan Lee finally got around to answering the most urgent question in the Marvel fanboy canon, in a Q&A with Vanity Fair:
How to Review a Book Without Reading It
The Onion's A.V. Club has forthrightly apologized after discovering that one of their writers wrote a review of a book without reading it. Because it hadn't been published yet. How'd the writer manage to fool his editors? Watch and learn.
Don't Worry, Howard Stern's Still Making a Ludicrous Amount of Money
In your sunny Thursday media column: Howard Stern returns to Sirius, the NYT social media editor disappears, Brenda Starr dies, errors galore, and more!

