Comic World News | Chicks and Romance

April 22, 2008:
CWN and the Grand Finale! -

February 4, 2008:
In Conclusion - David ends his CWN run with Tezuka's MW from Vertical

February 2, 2008:
Acting Like You Have Nothing to Prove -

February 2, 2008:
The Shoegazer Returns - A New Year Begins, And Our Narrator Makes A Pledge

January 30, 2008:
Tim's Reviews -

September 13, 2007:
Wizard World Chicago Loot, Part One - Stykman, Empty Chamber, the Ztarian Saga, and yes, Little Bunny Foo Foo

February 15, 2007:
I Come Not to Bury Nick Cage... - But to mourn the death of my punchline

November 20, 2006:
The End - Rich's last Chicks & Romance

November 8, 2006:
Joann Sfar's Klezmer - And a Front Racks Hiatus

October 4, 2006:
This Month's Guest: Dave Gibbons - From the pages of Elephantmen!

September 18, 2006:
Back in Berlin - or How I spent my summer

July 29, 2006:
KICKING UP A STORM - An interview with David Lloyd

June 19, 2006:
You Ain't Never Had A Friend Like Me. - Graeme looks at Spidey's "genies"

December 18, 2005:
Disappointed - Sad news for fans of Busiek's CONAN, Stephen King, and others

December 13, 2004:
JUSTICE UNPLUGGED 2 at last !!! - By Fabrice Sapolsky & Xavier Fournier

December 2, 2004:
THE TWELFTH AND FINAL STEP - Say it ain't so, Dan.

November 23, 2004:
The importance of editing -

September 29, 2004:
Mystery and Conundrum indeed! - Where in the world is Jason Pomerantz?

September 13, 2004:
Hello and Goodbye and Hello Again - Change is in the air at CWN and it smells sweet.

August 12, 2004:
The Rise of the Web Toon - New Business Model or Dumb Luck?

July 30, 2004:
The Name Says it All... - Spin Doctors revamp Boomerang.

July 27, 2004:
Bigger Isn't Always Better -

June 8, 2004:
Pre-emptive Strike: MoCCA Arts Festival - Looking forward to the con, rather than looking back at it

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Thursday, September 2, 2010

The End

Rich's last Chicks & Romance

Six years. If you had told me back in 2000 that I would have lasted this long as a comics �journalist,� there�s no way I would�ve believed it. But here I am. Two columns and six different websites later, I�ve attempted to write about the comics world as I see it, good and bad. But there comes a time when one has to evolve or die, and I believe I�ve reached that point now� which is why this is my final column here at CWN.

Over the past year and a half, I�ve told you about my side project, the black comics blog Glyphs. It started more as a desperate attempt to grab some attention for myself � attention that I hadn�t been getting with Chicks & Romance no matter how good my columns were � more than anything else. I did honestly believe, though, that I was trying to fill a long-under-developed niche in the industry; a cause I could get behind. I know now that I�m not the only one working towards this goal, but along the way I found that somehow, I was getting more attention than I could�ve imagined. Whether it had been deserved or not, well, I�ll leave that for others to decide. All I know is that as a result of maintaining the blog, I got offered a second column, I was able to move the blog to a better location, I got to participate in a Marvel press conference call for the first time in my life, I got invited to join the Newsarama blog (which, I know, I haven�t made much use of lately, but that will change), and will soon help launch a new project in 2007 that will hopefully expand on what I�m doing with Glyphs. (Watch the skies!)

And of course, the biggest by-product has been the �Glyph Comics Awards.� There�s still a whole lot about it that I�m doing by the seat of my pants, and I haven�t come close to perfecting it yet, but I�ve been blessed with a network of supporters, including (but not limited to) Maurice Waters, Omar Bilal, Stephanie Brandford, Johanna Draper Carlson, and Pam Noles, who have lent me guidance, advice, and the occasional shoulder to cry on when I needed it. I expect the 2007 Awards ceremony at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention to be bigger and better than last year�s, and from what I�ve seen of the many black-themed comics I�ve read this year, the competition should be even fiercer.

This is all in the way of saying that the blog is where it�s at for me right now, at this point in time, and this column is not. Not any longer. As proud as I am of the work I�ve done with C&R � and The Cheap Seats before that � after six years I�m still just another online schmuck with more opinions than sense. With Glyphs, though, I feel as if I could become something more. I don�t know for sure � but after seeing the reaction to it, and seeing what it means to people, I think Fate is trying to tell me something� and I think maybe I should listen.

For those of you who have been reading C&R, and Cheap Seats before that, thank you. It means a great deal to me. Thanks also, to my colleagues here at CWN � in particular Shawn Hoke, Michael May and Ed Cunard, for giving me the opportunity to let my voice be heard. One stage of my comics career may be ending� but another is only beginning.