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Share this link on Facebook!TweetAlive and more or less in one piece. We had a Black Plague relapse which prevented us from doing much at the con yesterday. We’ll have fuller comments later on, but the major log line is no big disasters, a few smaller ones, and everyone pretty much happy. Attendance guestimates we [...]
Continue ReadingUPDATE from the floor 1:45
Share this link on Facebook!TweetReporting live from the press room at New York Comic-Con. The line this morning was long, but everyone seems to have gotten in. There are traffic jams near Marvel and DC as there would be at any convention, but osmosis has created a fairly consistent density of people throughout the rest [...]
Continue ReadingNYCC: What happened Friday
Share this link on Facebook!TweetNot much time to blog this morning. Still at home, but just got a call from someone on the scene who says the line to get in stretches to 40th Street and the West Side Highway. From yesterday, so far no disasters. People were lined up at 7 am to get in, [...]
Continue ReadingFrank Miller update
Share this link on Facebook!TweetYou’ll notice Frank Miller hasn’t been making many of the 300 festivities around the world — that’s because he’s at home recuperating from serious hip and leg injuries, according to EW. Miller did talk to Steve Daly about the Spirit movie a little: “I’ve written a first draft of the screenplay. I’m [...]
Continue ReadingNYCC: CAN YOU GET IN SATURDAY???
Share this link on Facebook!TweetNew York Comic-con may well be the first convention in history to sell out before a single fan has been let in. The Saturday of the show is SOLD OUT, as in there are no more advance tickets available. We heard that tickets for Saturday were selling for $75 on eBay [...]
Continue ReadingNYCC Pix Day 0
Share this link on Facebook!TweetJust a few to whet your appetite. Calvin Reid (Publishers Weekly), Larry Gonick (Cartoon History of the Universe), Marisa Acocella Marchetto (Cancer Vixen), Thomas LeBien (Hill + Wang) and George O’Connor (Journey into Mohawk Country) at the non fiction panel. We got the chance to meet Gonick afterwards and he is quite [...]
Continue ReadingICv2 Graphic Novel Conference Report
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe whirlwind of New York Comic-Con kicked off yesterday with the ICv2 graphic novel conference. Attendance was up from last year, according to organizer Milton Griepp, with a mix of cartoonists, publishers, librarians, retailers, agents, buyers, and other folks from Graphic Novel World. While there were a few people from what [...]
Continue ReadingTALES FROM THE CRYPT rises at Papercutz
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe classic EC title is being resurrected as a titles from the kid-friendly Papercutz line — ironic, eh? Good Lord! *Choke!* The greatest horror comic is back! After more than 50 years, EC Comics’ legendary flagship title returns with all-new TALES FROM THE CRYPT, narrated by the original Crypt-Keeper, Old Witch, and [...]
Continue ReadingNYCC: what's really important
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFinally, we’ve blogged the hell out of New York Comicon, just so you know what is going on. but as we sit back in wheezy, queasy exhaustion, perspective begins to rear its ugly head, and we remember that what is really important about this show is the basics: getting jiggy. For instance, [...]
Continue ReadingBiggest NYCC post ever!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetEvan Dorkin Brian K. Vaughan: Steve Niles Colleen Doran Joanna Estep Cecil Castellucci Act-i-vate Tania Del Rio Rivkah
Continue ReadingCountdown to excitement
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Wizard and the solicitations broke the story on COUNTDOWN Monday, with Newsarama adding more to the mix yesterday. We didn’t have time to blog the big news, but in case you missed it: yes, DC is launching another line-spanning weekly comic, one with Paul Dini as head writer. What’s interesting about [...]
Continue ReadingMeanwhile back at the Civil War…
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet CIVIL WAR wrapped up this week, and of course we haven’t had time to go find a copy, online or in a store, but we haven’t had time to read ANY issues of CIVIL WAR yet. We’re “waiting for the trade”, as they say on the inside. or people who like [...]
Continue ReadingTo Do: Saturday 2/24: Beasts hits New York
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDo you want to know where ELSE the cool kids will be? They will be at GIANT ROBOT! GIANT ROBOT NY and FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKS PRESENT: BEASTS! With artists signing the new hardcover collection of nearly 100 illustrators depicting mythological and folkloric creatures. WHAT: BEASTS! book release signing WHO: Jesse LeDoux, Katy Horan, Keith [...]
Continue ReadingTo Do: Saturday, 2/24 – Picturebox party at Rocketship
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Do you want to know where the cool kids will be? This is it. Alex Cox explains in his own way: In these cold and troubled winter months, the cruel North wind oft brings a chilling despair, settling deep in your hearts and bones. There is but one remedy for the cruel, [...]
Continue ReadingPodcast update: Ventures and Veitch
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Sound of Young America interviews VENTURE BROTHERS creator Jackson Publick for this podcast. (Thanks to Ian Brill for the link.) Speaking of The Venture Bros, this weekend on Saturday at 4:30 at the NYCC (that AGAIN?) there will be a Venture Bros. spotlight with Jackson Publick, Doc Hammer, James Urbaniak (Rusty [...]
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