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Share this link on Facebook!TweetSteve Wacker SPEAKS OUT! First of all, thanks to Matt Brady for letting me TENURE this little essay. I’ll try and continue to be as unprofessional as possible. Second, don’t be fooled by his nerd-knowledge. Waid’s a scrapper. Third, how did this MAJOR story drop to 8th on the Newsarama front page!! Could [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Kevin Huizenga posts pictures from The Golden Encyclopedia, and we are stupefied with jealousy.
Continue ReadingFantagraphics opening reports — update
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet [Photo by Ron Hogan] We attended the Fantagraphics art opening last night at the Society of Illustrators, as did our colleague Ron Hogan at GalleyCat: “Most museums don’t like to show works that are unfinished,” Terrence Brown explained as he introduced me to the exhibition of artwork from Fantagraphics Books’ first 30 years [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!TweetKurt at Groovy age of Horror, the blog that discovered the TOMB OF DRACULA censorship issue, is back with a very long post on all kinds of censorship issues, including links to the material that conservative watchdog groups use as primers to pressure the removal of such things as magazine [...]
Continue ReadingPlatinum breaks down the walls to financing
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSpurge had a link to an otherwise little-noted pr from Tuesday about Platinum getting some equity investment. Coming on the heels of the NY Times piece revealing Platinum’s plan to publish on the Web, the pieces are all coming together. Several people have wondered in comments if Platinum has ever published anything, [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!TweetGannett News has a fairly comprehensive look at the new religious comics publishers: LifeWay’s “Spirit Warriors” follows the adventures of six rebellious teens mysteriously orphaned as children who have uncommon God-given strengths. They unleash their “holy fury” to protect a local church when an evil villain “sucks the righteousness right out” of [...]
Continue ReadingRecovering actor signs on as recovering superhero
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Rumors were flying fast and furious yesterday and IT’S TRUE. Oscar® Nominee and recovering lawbreaker Robert Downey Jr. has signed to play IRON MAN. Jon Favreau is directing the movie, which will be distributed by Paramount Pictures. Downey will portray Tony Stark, a billionaire industrialist and genius inventor who is kidnapped and forced [...]
Continue ReadingNigerian scam hits mini comics!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet car credit loan delaware bad Experiments have shown that short duration exposure to very high levels of RF radiation can cause cataracts in rabbits. officer loan in europe It is also called officer loan in europe of the Mass Media (with Print, Recordings, Cinema, Radio, TV and Internet the first six). software loan [...]
Continue ReadingMiller to be feted at Scream Awards
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Comic Book Resources has the press release from Spike’s Scream Awards, “which celebrates Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Comic books.” The event will be taped on October 7th and then doubtless air endlessly between episodes of CSI. Rosario Dawson, Marley Shelton and Rose McGowan will appear, My Chemical Romance will perform, [...]
Continue ReadingTO DO 9/30: Berkeley, CA– Stagger Lee signing
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet STAGGER LEE the GN creators Derek McCulloch and Shepherd Hendrix appear at Comic Relief with prizes for hat wearing. âStagâ? Lee Shelton shot Billy Lyons dead during an argument over a Stetson Hat. It happened in a St. Louis saloon on Christmas Night, 1895. More than 100 years and as many song [...]
Continue ReadingBissette draws!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetCartooner Steve Bissette (TYRANT, TABOO, SWAMP THING) has pretty much left the page behind, although he can blog up a storm, but an 8-page comic by Bissettewill be apppearing as a prop in an indie horror film: When George Walker, the protagonist of the new horror film “Head Trauma,” finds a religious [...]
Continue ReadingAn erection lasting more than four hours
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Continue ReadingWhere will you be when the robots arrive?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThis link has been making thr rounds, but it definitely qualifies as MUST-READING: MIT’s Henry Jenkins interviews Todd Allen about micropayments. Now we admit, micropayments aren’t a very sexy topic, and Allen can get a little technical on you, but he has been following the developments in developing revenue streams for [...]
Continue ReadingEditorial shuffle
Share this link on Facebook!TweetNewsarama reports that C.B. Cebulski has gone back on staff at Marvel, even while pointing out that he never really left. Cebulski will be helping out with the X-office, whipping up some international licensing deals and helping with talent management. Oh, and BLOGGING. Meanwhile, also at Newsarama, the news that editor Steve [...]
Continue ReadingSVA grads present CRITICAL CITADEL
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Oh those SVA kids. Their recent ranks have included everyone from Becky Cloonan to James Jean to probably the greatest cartoonist of tomorrow. Now they are at it again! Grad Matthew Bernier writes to tell us “at the end of last year many of SVA’s best senior cartoonists, and also me, got [...]
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