Just before Christmas, the news came through on Journalista that Dirk Deppey, one of the best industry bloggers, certainly the best at tying everything together and making sure we all knew what was going on, was let go from Fantagraphics, his employers for more than ten years. Deppey’s Journalista blog was one of those essential [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, December 25, 2010
I hope you are all having a happy indulgent Christmas and at some point I imagine, like me, you’ll nip away from the festivities and catch up with a few of your favourite internet sites – at least those updating over the holidays. I hope that many of you come to our blog regularly – [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 21, 2010
I’m pretty sure most of you who regularly read this blog will also follow Dirk Deppey’s Journalista blog from Fantagraphics. Well, sadly, we wont be able to any more. From Dirk’s Twitter yesterday: “I’ve been laid off from Fantagraphics. Wednesday will be my last day as The Comics Journal’s newsblogger.” This is frankly bloody awful [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, November 22, 2009
This week issue 300 of the Comics Journal, the last regular edition before a relaunch as a larger bi-annual magazine, was online for free. For a day. Then it got unceremoniously yanked from the net. Joe covered it here when it went online and here when it went AWOL. Well, now that Dirk’s had a [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 4, 2009
I imagine many of you will have Dirk Deppey’s !Journalista! blog as one of the must read daily blogs (Tom Spurgeon’s Comic Reporter would be another, and hopefully the FPI blog!), so I imagine Dirk Deppey interviewed by Tucker Stone at Comixology will be of interest. Especially when it’s full of the sort of snark [...]
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