LOST SQUAD finds Rogue
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAgainst all odds, the rights to a comic book have been acquired by a movie company and they might just make a movie out of it! It’s true! Variety reports that Rogue Pictures has acquired LOST SQUAD, a WW II soldiers vs supernatural Nazi elements tale by Chris Kirby and Alan [...]
Continue ReadingThe 9/11 Report sales soar on Amazon
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThere’s been a lot of kvetching in various venues over THE 9/11 REPORT: A GRAPHIC ADAPTATION by Sid Jacobsen and Ernie Colon — it’s simplistic, it’s inappropriate, blah blah. This review at TomPaine.com sums up many of the objections even while sheepishly admitting that the book makes the story easy to [...]
Continue ReadingImmonens launch own webcomic site
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Artist Stuart Immonen (NEXT WAVE) writes to say that he has relaunched his webcomic NEVER AS BAD AS YOU THINK, by him and wife Kathryn, at his own site. The strip was formerly located on Modern Tales, but they have decided to leave behind the subscription model, and now have an [...]
Continue ReadingFantagraphics December books
Share this link on Facebook!TweetHey remember when we figured out how to post the solicitations? We figured out how to do it again and here’s the December books from Fantagraphics, including Sala, Herriman, Medley, Hernandez, etc etc etc. THE GRAVE ROBBERâS DAUGHTER by Richard Sala 96-page B&W 6â? x 8â? paperback  $9.95; more in Canada ISBN-10: 1-56097-773-6 [...]
Continue ReadingIt's MAGIC! at Dragon*Con with Misty Lee
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDragon*Con is definitely the most…unusual stop on the convention circuit. Held in Atlanta every Labor Day Weekend, it has the reputation as a show where fantasy reigns supreme and costumed con-goers parade down Main St. before engaging in con hijinks of every kind. This year’s show will include magical feats by none [...]
Continue ReadingPackrat leaves a fortune in comics
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA 75-year-old New York man who never threw anything out left an unexpected windfall for his grieving kin: a collection of vintage comics worth $2.5 million . David Crippen started collecting comics when he was a kid and never let up, leaving behind some 11,000 comics in near mint condition [...]
Continue ReadingCartoonist defends downgraded planet
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe proposed reclassification of our solar system, with Pluto, the dogged ninth planet about to be reduced to a “pluton”, captured the attention of the internerd in recent days. If ever old geezers needed proof tat the universe was indeed spinning madly out on control and intothe shape of something [...]
Continue ReadingNew baby!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’re waiting for out new Intel iMac to be delivered today. Much excitement at SBM, needless to say.
Continue Reading2006 Quill Awards nominees up – UPDATED
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe nominees for the 2006 Quills Awards are up, and the nominees in the graphic novel category are: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic Alison Bechdel/Houghton Mifflin Company Maximum Fantastic Four: A Visual Exegesis of Fantastic Four #1 Stan Lee/Marvel Enterprises, Incorporated Mom’s Cancer Brian Fies/Harry N. Abrams , Incorporated Naruto Masashi Kishimoto/Viz Media Hellsing Kohta Hirano / Dark Horse Comics Hm, developing. [...]
Continue ReadingTower Files for Bankruptcy
Share this link on Facebook!TweetTower Records has filed a Chapter 11 for the 2nd time in 2 year, Publishers Weekly reports: The beleaguered music and video chain, which launched an online bookstore as recently as last March, went into bankruptcy in 2004 for just over a month. This time around, Tower is hoping for a buyer; [...]
Continue ReadingAnnual Levitz interview
Share this link on Facebook!TweetICv2 has its annual interveiw with Paul Levitz up in four parts, including his thougths on weekly comics, manga and more, with a few bonus comments from vp Stephanie Fierman. A few callouts: On the changing audience: It smells to me like the number of human beings who are regularly reading graphic novel [...]
Continue ReadingCold Cut's new policy
Share this link on Facebook!TweetYesterday, Cold Cut Distribution announced that they were instituting an across the board discount for retailers, as opposed to a tiered system base on how the size of the order. MacGuffin explains why it’s important: Business wise, this seems to be incredibly smart move from the outside looking in. First, it likely [...]
Continue ReadingButter Superman in all its glory!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIowa blogger/journo Joe Lawler recently informed us of the all-butter statue of Brandon Routh as Superman that was one of the highlights of this year’s Iowa State Fair but was surprised at its crude detailing. But now it seems that a finalized version of the dairy delight has been fashioned and [...]
Continue ReadingTurner censors smoking toons
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIn today’s depressing news, Turner Broadcasting is tinkering with its old toons again, after a complaint about an appearance of smoking in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. As far as we can tell — and we really hope we’re right — the ban applies only in the UK: “We are going through [...]
Continue Reading9/11 in the news!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSlate Magazine is excerpting Sid Jacobsen and Ernie Colón’s The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation. Meanwhile, USATODAY.com profiles the creators: Last week, its writer, Sid Jacobson, and illustrator, Ernie Colo´n, both veterans of the comic book industry, visited what had been the World Trade Center, now a massive construction site ringed by [...]
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