Lulu Award Nominations and Voting Extended to Non-Members
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThis year’s Friends of Lulu Award voting process has been opened to the general public, and we urge everyone to vote. The deadline is May 7th, next Monday and we’ll try to profile a few potential nominees in the next few days. In an effort to reach out to and recognize an [...]
Continue ReadingThe wit and wisdom of Vinnie Colletta
Share this link on Facebook!TweetVinnie Colletta is a legendary name in comic book circles — legendary because he could be one of the worst inkers in the biz, but kept getting work becuase he was fast and reliable and had some powerful friends — including one time Marvel E-I-C- Jm Shooter. When Shooter left Marvel, [...]
Continue ReadingReal Classic Marvel
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We found this press release to be of some interest: more info on Marvel’s new line of “Classic Comics.” including The Last of the Mohicans, Treasure Island and The Man in the Iron Mask. Marvel has been beefing up their bookstore offering with stuff like pacting with Stephen King, Neil [...]
Continue ReadingNews and notes
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ The LA Times looks at the rising sales for novels based on manga. Already a huge category in Japan, the novels are catching on the US as well. The practice of adapting stories from manga and animation to prose has been growing in Japan. As Roland Kelts, the author of “Japanamerica: [...]
Continue ReadingNew Zealand responds to library issues
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe missed this story last week about complaints in a New Zealand library over shelving CHOBITS (as identified by Dirk) in the kids section, but it appears things are being worked out with a plan to relocate the teen and graphic novel sections to a different art of the Wanganui [...]
Continue ReadingMorning Briefing: Downey, WHITEOUT, etc
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § The first images of Robert Downey as Tony Stark were released last week and according to director Jon Favreau, the oft-troubled star fits the role to a T: “We didn’t want to just go with a safe choice,” Favreau says from the set of the film, due in theaters May 2, [...]
Continue ReadingWhere's…Frank MIller: "An enigma"
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The LA Times catches up with Frank Miller in a lengthy profile by Geoff Boucher. It seems since the 300 premiere, Miller has been out in Hollywood doing the rounds: Miller, who is 50, was given a hero’s welcome at the premiere of “300″ in early March and arrived at the glitzy [...]
Continue ReadingWhere's…Bruce Campbell?
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s been a while since we checked in on The One True Bruce, but with his cameo in this week’s SPIDER-MAN 3 looming, we thought it was time for an update. The above photo was stolen wholesale from The Bruce Campbell Blog, a very useful resource that we should have [...]
Continue ReadingScooby Death note
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A young artist imagines a manga-ized version of Scooby, but not quite the one you’re thinking of. Maybe the time has come for this? [Thanks to Hector for the link]
Continue ReadingGuest Review: Brandon on TEKKON KINKREET
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet[TEKKON KINKREET made news both as the adaptation of a respected manga, AND the first Japanese anime film to be written and directed by Americans. It's currently on a very limited release in the US. Guest reviewer IVAN BRANDON (NYC Mech, 24seven) sent us this review.] I’ve always said that there are [...]
Continue ReadingSunday Reading: Tate comics article
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Tate Britain, currently has a show up on William Hogarth, who is widely claimed by us comical types to have been one of the earliest cartoonists (and one of the greatest ever.) Reader Rob Cave writes to say that the Tate’s magazine has a cover story on comics and their [...]
Continue ReadingSunday Watching: Nathan Fox
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Illustrator Nath Fox is interviewed at Pulp Secret and his work on DMZ #18 for Vertigo is discussed. We’ve been fans of Fox’s visceral illos for some time and it’s great to see him dipping a toe into comics. Attached, page from DNZ and a self-portrait.
Continue ReadingSunday Reading: Comics Comics #2
Share this link on Facebook!TweetComics Comics #2, the most excellent alt.comix zine by Dan Nadel and T. Hodler is now sold out…but you can download it from their blog: So if you missed out on getting your own copy (and unfortunately, this one really does work best in its oversize paper form), you can now finally [...]
Continue ReadingSunday Listenings: Buenaventura and HIgnite
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Continue ReadingSunday Reading: Cereal Blogs
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Beat Street Irregular Maclaine Diemer sends us some links to cool blogs including the illustrators collarborative Sugar Frosted Goodness which includes this Roadside Attraction map by Linzie Hunter and much comics related content. Maclaine also tipped us off to the Mr Toast site, which includes archives of cereal box concept artwork and [...]
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