Manga: Aurora launches
Share this link on Facebook!TweetCatrching up on the manga news of the week, a new publisher made their intentions known, Aurora, a subsidiary of Japanese publisher Ohzora which specializes in josei — women’s manga. Josei manga is the long-lost “missing link” between “Harlequin romance comics” and “Sex in the CIty comics” for women. Understandably, the [...]
Continue ReadingGirlamatic's Fourth!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet GirlAmatic is celebrating their fourth anniversary with some good natured fooling around: With our tongues in our cheeks and our eyes on the stars, GirlAMatic is proud to announce its fourth anniversary! This year’s April foolish extravaganza will be as BIFF! BAM! SOCK-O! as any dyed-in-the-wool (or rather, spandex) [...]
Continue ReadingPirate garb "Disruptive"
Share this link on Facebook!TweetShiver me timbers! A high school student in North Buncombe, NC has been suspended for a day for dressing like a pirate and coming to school wearing an eyebpatch and brandishing an inflatable cutlass: The sophomore spent Wednesday at home after an administrator took issue with his accessories. Buncombe County Schools says the [...]
Continue ReadingTo Do BKNY 3/31: Tomine at Rocketship!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s the kind of thing that only happens a few times in every generation…the release of a new issue of OPTIC NERVE, and EVERYONE, and we mean EVERYONE will be celebrating at Rocketship (after they go to the Punk Indie Showcase of course). You know you will be there!
Continue ReadingTo Do NYC 3/31: Punk Indy Showcase
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Oh my there is a lot going on this week! Tomorrow at Jim Hanley’s there’s the GINDHOUSE signing, and later that very same day the Punk Indy Creator Showcase: SATURDAY, MARCH 31 6:00 to 8:00 PM Punk Indy Creator Showcase # J.D. GLASS (Punk Like Me)# K. THOR JENSEN (Red Eye, Black Eye)# MISS [...]
Continue ReadingEmerald CIty Con this weekend!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Emerald City Con kicks off this weekend in Seattle, and by all accounts, the show is growing into a very pleasant, comics centric weekend. The Seattle Times has a brief preview with attendance expected to be around 8000. Guests include Adam Hughes, Mark Bagley, Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Golden, Mike Oeming, [...]
Continue ReadingFight! Dirk vs Heidi, Round two
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA deadline-pressured Dirk takes up his entire post today with the title “Drama Queen Bickering” to respond to my comments yesterday. While my comments are assigned such classic TCJ buzzwords as “gobbledegook”, a “screed”, “bloviations” etc etc, to be honest, I couldn’t even figure out what Dirk was arguing, although we [...]
Continue ReadingMullaney on Eclipse
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSince we’re revisiting 80s comics history today, this interview with Dean Mullaney from Blake Bell’s weblog is well worth quoting. For those who came in late, Mullaney was the publisher of Eclipse Comics, a very influential and — for a time — successful independent comics publishing company that gave the [...]
Continue ReadingSpeaking of TMNT
Share this link on Facebook!TweetICv2 had this little bit yesterday reporting that Kevin Eastman had had some success with an eBay auction: Kevin Eastman has sold the original art for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 on eBay for a winning bid of $250,099. The auction, which ended on March 25th, provides some idea of the [...]
Continue ReadingEllison/Groth explained
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Seattle Weekly looks at the long running Harlan Ellison/Gary Groth fued in an article we couldn’t have titled any better ourselves: News: From Hell’s Heart, I Litigate at Thee!. The article looks at the strengths and weakness of both sides, and reveals what we all new: it’s an adolescent pissing [...]
Continue ReadingAdolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters return
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOkay, we knew EVERYTHING was coming back in the current comics boom, but Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters? Created by Don Chin, and published by Eclips as a take off on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which was a take off on Daredevil and Ronin, ARBBH was the most successful of [...]
Continue Reading¡Hola!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetStill catching up on sleep and Desktop Tower Defense around here. In the News section, it looks like we’ll be attending next month’s Saló International del Cómic de Barcelona in, as if you couldn’t figure it out, Barcelona, Spain. We are extremely excited not only to be going to one [...]
Continue ReadingMarvel Month-to-Month sales February 2007
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBy Paul O’Brien After months of hype and a midnight launch, DARK TOWER is finally in the stores, and on the charts. But it’s far from being a one-book month. February saw the final issue of CIVIL WAR, complete with a few more crossover issues – though even by the end of [...]
Continue ReadingCivilians in comics shops
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMacGuffin looks at the products that are brining civilians into comics shops at an all time record pace: Buffy Season 8, Stephen King’s The Gunslinger, and Captain America #25: Over the long term, I suspect that the most important of these will be Dark Horse’s new Buffy the Vampire Slayer series. The [...]
Continue ReadingHyeondo Park's website
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet There are some lovely watercolors up at hanaroda.net, the website of artist Hyeondo Park. Park is working on some top secret graphic novel projects right now and you’re sure to see much more of his name around.
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