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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Jewish Week examines how Batman embodies Jewish values as explained by Rabbi Cary Freidman: Friedman argues that Batman instills in his audience some of Judaismâs most important moral values, using supporting examples from Torah, Talmud and other rabbinic commentary, and offers insight on how to incorporate those same values into their [...]
Continue ReadingProject Rooftop's costume contest
Share this link on Facebook!TweetProject Rooftop is a site run by Dean Trippe and Chris Arrant which is given over to exploring superhero fashion and costume design — not a bad topic. They just announced a photographic Halloween costume contest whose results should be quite entertaining. I guess it was only a matter of time before [...]
Continue ReadingMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: September 2006
Share this link on Facebook!Tweetby Paul O’Brien The CIVIL WAR crossover continued to sprawl across Marvel’s line in September. However, the delays are starting to take their toll. PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL was supposed to launch last month as a tie-in series. But the main CIVIL WAR series isn’t ready yet, so the series [...]
Continue ReadingMoon Knight readies for eventual download on iTunes
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMoon Knight, the superhero with more secret identities than ties created by Doug Moench and Don Perlin, is being developed for a TV series. The pr refers to him as a “cult favorite,” but execs assured everyone the TV show would be “compelling and long-lasting.” Plus, with the success o [...]
Continue ReadingMarjane Satrapi has a blog
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A production blog for the PERSEPOLIS movie. Posting sparse thus far, but a report on the first crew screening of the film is entertaining: The last scene before the end, my heart started beating so badly (thanks god everybody applauded!) thinking about the first time the movie is REALLY going to be [...]
Continue ReadingSnyder takes on Bode
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Director Zack Snyder just can’t get enough comics book movies to direct! his upcoming film of 300 is generating huge buzz, he’s supposed to be next in line to direct WATCHMEN, and now he’s signed on for a film based on Vaughn Bode’s COBALT 60: Taking place in a postapocalyptic world [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Charles Schulz trails Kurt Cobain and Elvis as the highest crossing dead celebrity: Angst-ridden grunge rocker Kurt Cobain has pushed Elvis into second place in a list of highest-earning dead celebrities, with the late Nirvana frontman raking in 50 million dollars in the past year. The Forbes.com website ranks 13 celebrities pushing [...]
Continue ReadingBreaking: Dinosaurs had worms
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFossil evidence shows beloved ancient saurians had “little friends”: Gut contents from the fossil of a plant-eating dinosaur living 75 million years ago reveal what could be the first evidence of parasitic stomach worms, scientists said this week. The evidence was found in a well preserved duck-billed dinosaur, dubbed Leonardo, unearthed in the [...]
Continue ReadingBroke down…
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet…and bought a scanner. We’re raiding the vaults. And we’re totally scanning in pages of old comics just like other bloggers…once we learn how to do it!
Continue ReadingHappy Birthday, Peter McFarland
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet From the family vaults. ["Harvest" ©2003 Peter McFarland]
Continue ReadingTo do: October 24-27
Share this link on Facebook!TweetHarvey Pekar, Stumptown, Bryan Lee O’Malley — this week has it ALL! TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24 NEW YORK, NY — 8 pm: Best American Comics signing at Galapagos, 70 N 6th Street, Williamsburg Brooklyn, $2. Booksigning with editors Harvey Pekar and Anne Elizabeth Moore – plus slideshow with local artists [...]
Continue ReadingWomen Webcomicker Grant NAN: Recipients Announced
Share this link on Facebook!TweetVia Lea Hernandez, the winners of four year long accounts on Webcomicsnation.com: WOMEN WEBCOMICKER GRANT NAN: 2006 Recipients Blue Canary, Kit White Chasing Daylight, Ann Kennedy Circuit of Heaven, Julia Claire Begley (URL forthcoming) Primary, Rachel Dukes Before September 6th, for me to say I understood the reach of the Internet would mean that I knew [...]
Continue ReadingFor stylish lunching
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Eric Shanower is once again offering his Wizard of Oz Lunch Box Only $16.95. Seriously, how could you not want this? PS: we recently received a copy of Eric’s ADVENTURES IN OZ compendium, published by IDW, and it is stunning and lovely.
Continue ReadingTwo ways of looking at a library
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Kansas City Star looks at the recent controversy over FUN HOME and BLANKETS: But the books are notable because they’re also graphic novels, stories told primarily with drawings instead of words. They resemble comic books, but graphic novels typically run hundreds of pages and often tackle mature subject matter. And [...]
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