Iranian cartoonist wins Serbian award
Share this link on Facebook!TweetComics bring the world together: An Iranian cartoonist won the second award of the Belgrade “Golden Smile” Cartoon competition in Serbia. The Iranian cartoonist, Shahrokh Heydari stood second in the 5th biannual cartoon exhibition of Serbia held in the Progress Gallery of Belgrade. Great and eminent satirists, comedians, actors, directors, authors, clowns and scenes [...]
Continue ReadingLonely Sunday Night
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Continue ReadingWonder Woman Day this weekend
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA cool charity event in Portland this weekend organized by Andy Mangels spotlights Wonder Woman and raises money for a women and children’s shelter. Could any hero do more? Anne Timmons, Terry Dodson and Matthew Clark will appear, there will be asilent auction with work by Adam Hughes and others, a [...]
Continue ReadingPekar and Moore tour for BEST AMERICAN COMICS
Share this link on Facebook!TweetHE’S a curmugeonly filing clark from Cleveland. SHE went to grad school for Art History. But they’re on tour together to promote the BEST AMERICAN COMICS anthology! And they’re bringing their friends, and it’s going on TONIGHT! 2006 Tour for Harvey Pekar and Anne Elizabeth Moore San Francisco: Cody’s 4th St, Berkeley, panel, [...]
Continue ReadingAdHouse store goes live
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet AdHouse Books publishers of such fine works as Project: Romantic, Process Recess, Salamader Dream, Mort Grim, and many many more, has opened a virtual storewhere you can shop with PayPal. get thee over there for some sure to sell out soon Paul Pope limited editions!
Continue ReadingFantagraphics response to Ellison posted
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe response to the complaint in Harlan Ellison’s lawsuit against Fantagraphics has been posted iver at the Comics Journal site. It’s a denial of all of Ellison’s claims based on 32 defenses, including various First Amendment protections. The response ends with a request to dismiss the case and have Ellison [...]
Continue ReadingThe greatest comic book ever for today
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’ve been spending an INORDINATE amount of time over at the TCJ.com board this week, but it must have been because we were subconsciously waiting for the news we have been anxiously awaiting each and every day as we perambulated on the widow’s walk here at Stately Beat Manor. It seems [...]
Continue ReadingThe smartest guy in the room?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe haven’t been linking to Neil Kleid’s fine week of guest blogging over at Blog@NEwsarama, but we should have. He’s had fine interviewers with K. Thor Jenson, Chip Zdarsky, Josh Fialkov, Andrew Dabb, and an informative anthology roundtable. But these are all trumped by an interview with Slave Labor’s Dan Vado, [...]
Continue ReadingMore on Fantagraphics storefront
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe surprise announcement of the new Fantagraphics store in Seattle drew some interesting internet chatter. With well-founded fears of anxiety from traditional comics retail stores, Eric Reynolds was in an explaining mood over at The Engine. I believe this store can only be a good thing for the health of the comics [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!TweetThere’s been some behind the scenes soap opera in the comics of world of late, which we are not going to get into, and anyone who does will be deleted. But it has opened up a bit of a worm can about some fairly well known swipings. The main culprit is [...]
Continue ReadingWould you like to make your own BLADE tv show?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetHow do you really, truly make sure a vampire is dead dead dead? Why, auction off his sets and props: BLADE – THE SERIES, SET DEC AUCTION. ONE DAY ONLY, EVERYTHING WILL BE SOLD WITH NO MINIMUM PRICE. PLEASE NOTE THE NEW TIME CHANGE! Able Auctions supports the CKNW Orphans’ Fund. Auction Details Everything under the Sun [...]
Continue ReadingMad Max for media congloms?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWebcomics Nation’s Joey Manley points us to Publishing 2.0 media pundit Scott Karp’s musings on how the media giants of the future won’t be as big as the media giants of the past: There is now macroeconomic data to support the theory that Media 2.0 wonât be as profitable as Media 1.0 [...]
Continue ReadingHALO movie on "pause"
Share this link on Facebook!TweetUniversal and Fox can’t pull the trigger on spiraling costs, and 27-year-old first time director was under suspicion: It’s game over for Universal’s and Fox’s participation in the feature adaptation of Microsoft’s “Halo.” Both of the studios that agreed to co-finance the screen adaptation of the popular Microsoft game have abruptly backed out [...]
Continue ReadingArea woman graduates from sitting behind table to writing comics
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThere are way too many comics themed news story in the non comics media to link to these days, but once in a while, you come across one which puts it all in perspective. Meet Stacie Jordan, whose job scripting the Dabel Bros. Laurell K. Hamilton adaptations has rocketed her [...]
Continue ReadingGreatest Blog Ever
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOur attention has finally been drawn to the greatest blog in the ever growing comics blogosphere, Super Underwear Perverts, which shows that men really CAN be objectified, but it takes a gay man to do it the right way: Proprietor Ray has a great eye for photos that show us what superheroes [...]
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