Dick Briefer's FRANKENSTEIN
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Recently, Tom Spurgeon pointed to the existence of a recent collection of Dick Briefer’s Frankenstein comics. We confess to owning no Briefer comics ourselves, but the bits of his work we’ve seen over the years — most recently in ART OUT OF TIME — have always been very enjoyable. The strip [...]
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Continue ReadingTo arms! Wired disses comics!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetTony Long, copy chief at WIRED, comes right out and says it: comics aren’t good enough to get nominated for the National Book Award: Gene Luen Yang is a teacher in the San Francisco Bay Area who also happens to be a fine illustrator. He produced a graphic novel (or “comic book,” [...]
Continue ReadingMaid in cafe molested
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet “Maid cafes” have become a popular fad in the otaku district known as the Akihabara in Tokyo. Here, pretty young women dressed in frilly lolicon costumes wait on male geek customers hand and foot, giving them some idea what it would be like to have a real subservient girlfriend. Just to [...]
Continue ReadingAnderson turns to toon Fox
Share this link on Facebook!TweetQuirky Wes Anderson is the favored director named Anderson at Stately Beat Manor — we thought THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU was one of the finest adventure/comedy/documantaries of recent years. Now it seems, he’s taking a crack at the cartoons with an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s FANTASTIC MR. FOX>: The 20th [...]
Continue ReadingHappy Birthday, Suzu
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Yes, it’s my mother’s birthday. She tells me she’s working on a brand new comic for MoCCA next year. In the meantime, the first chapter of Soho Snake has wrapped up.
Continue ReadingDC Month-to-Month sales: September 2006
Share this link on Facebook!Tweetby Marc-Oliver Frisch September was a relatively quiet month for DC Comics. The publisher’s big direct market push for September occurred at the WildStorm imprint, where Jim Lee and company begun to relaunch some of their longest-running properties. Unfortunately, Wildcats, the new line’s supposed flagship title, missed its shipping date, [...]
Continue ReadingMarvel Stamps
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Due out this year. Just think, now you can mail your electric bill with Elektra! That is dope!
Continue ReadingUnderpants banned at school
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Best headline ever, right? Well, it turns out that it refers to a high school where girls dressed as CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS were banned by the mean old principal: But in reality, principal Nicholas Restivo is simply an administrator who, on Superhero Day, had a problem with the way the three [...]
Continue ReadingDC's early 2007 collected editions line-up
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDC just sent out a listing of the trades and GNs for early 2007 (Jan and Feb.) The list is long — we’re happy to see a collection for THE AMERICAN WAY, John Ridley’s very well received mini-series from Wildstorm, and collections of Batman books by Paul Pope and Sam Kieth. January instore: BATMAN: [...]
Continue ReadingFilipino comics in the news
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Continuing our trip through the vaults, we found this picture of the late Alfredo Alcala, Phil Yeh and The Beat at a 1994 signing for our book SECRET TEACHINGS OF A COMIC BOOK MASTER. During the research of the book I spent many hours interviewing Alfredo and learning about the history [...]
Continue ReadingWired's Very Short Stories
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWIRED mag, still the purveyor of futurist culture after all these years, invited 33 writers to write stories in 6 words. You can see the results here. Comics-type participants include Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller, Mark Millar, Howard Chaykin, etc, along with David Brin, Margaret Atwood and more. Many people [...]
Continue ReadingHELLBOY animated this weekend!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Matt Wayne writes to remind us that the first animated Hellboy movies, HELLBOY: THE SWORD OF STORMS airs this Saturday 10/28 at 9:30 on the Cartoon Network. Wayne talks about writing the film at Toon Zone. Director Tad Stones has been blogging all about it here. If you’re out partying, [...]
Continue ReadingKyle Baker talks Davis and Aragones
Share this link on Facebook!TweetKyle Baker blogs about the CAPS banquet honoring Jack David and Sergio Aragones : Sergio and Jack told funny stories about their travels around the world. My favorite was the story about their trip to Mexico, and how Jack Davis held an umbrella over Sergio’s mother in the rain while she cooked [...]
Continue ReadingTop Shelf settles with Great Ormond
Share this link on Facebook!TweetChris Staros writes to tell us that the copyright dispute over LOST GIRLS with the London children’s hospital to whom J.M. Barrie bequeathed rights to the play PETER PAN has been settled very amicably: Following very amicable discussions between the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (owners of the copyright to J [...]
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