TUF5 Episode 4: The Way of the Weeping Warrior
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We’re proud to introduce a new feature to our ULTIMATE FIGHTER recaps: expert commentary from Rafael Kayanan. Rafael is a cartoonist of long standing, (check out his work on Conan #39 written by Kurt Busiek, now in stores and his art blog here.) but he is also a technical [...]
Continue ReadingI will never let this book out of my sight again
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Just got a galley of this manga reference guide by Jason Thompson and it instantly vaulted to our must-own, must-have list. It’s an alphabetical listing of over 900 manga titles published in the US, with bibliographical info, commentary and ratings. Plus sidebars on various genres and topics AND guides to yaoi [...]
Continue ReadingWe're living in NARUTO NATION
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA common topic amongst comics pundits is how Marvel and DC flood racks with tie-ins and sequels and prequels and so on. Well, it seems Viz is taking a page from that playbook, but this time with the #1 comic around the world, the mighty, unstoppable Naruto. Viz will be releasing [...]
Continue ReadingJack Kirby to the rescue
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Wired Magazine has the incredible comics tie-in story of the week one that defies an any link summary. But we’ll try. It seems that back in 1979 when Iran took personnel at the American embassy hostage, six of them escaped to hide out in Tehran. The CIA launched an effort to [...]
Continue ReadingMedia revolution
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSpeaking of magazine and blogs and whatnot, everyone has linked to this piece n cartoonist Daryl Cagle’s weblog wher ehe lays out the challenges facing old media (print, newwspapers) very succinctly, Short version: there is no magic solution. Newspapers continue to pin their hopes on their Web sites in the belief that [...]
Continue ReadingNew comics mole at New York Mag
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We hear this blogging thing is BIG, and so has New York Magazine, apparently. We also hear COMICS are big, and so has NY mag. They’ve launched Vulture an entertainment blog that covers everything the urbane New Yorker would be interested in, like Alec Baldwin* and the death of Jack Valenti. [...]
Continue ReadingSTOP THE PRESSES: Marvel staff eats meat
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWow, we’ve already received a few emails telling us a LOT is going on! Holy hand grenade, true believer, there’s a MIGHTY MARVEL SUMMIT going on this week! And there are spies there who are giving us super deep cover intel at the Marvel Blog! Does Ike know about this? Heads [...]
Continue ReadingGoyer attached to MAGNETO
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIt seems that David Goyer, the man with a finger in many a comic book movie pie, has been signed to direct the upcoming MAGNETO movie: After the first three “X-Men” films grossed more than $1 billion worldwide, Fox and Marvel hatched the spinoff program. “Magneto” will be the second such movie [...]
Continue ReadingNews and Notes: Tomasi, FLIGHT Jr. etc
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Bestselling author Jodi Picoult’s run on Wonder Woman continues to get press, including this piece at CNN.com: “My kids looked at me and they were like, ‘Mom, you totally have to write ‘Wonder Woman!’ ” she told USA Today. (Gallery: Wonder Woman and Picoult) So Picoult rearranged elements of her hectic work [...]
Continue ReadingSecret Robert Rodriguez/Chris Ware connection!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDid you know they were cartooning classmates? Neither did we. Wonder what they talked about — if they ever did. There was a handful of artists and we had a really big comics page for a college paper because it’s the second biggest college in the country and they have a great [...]
Continue ReadingSpotlite on…COSPLAY!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA couple of stories that illuminate this sometimes confounding activity. In Hawaii, the deck sums it up: Passive fun isn’t for hard-core anime fans who toil to dress the part and the story digs in: About an hour and a half later, Sasaki says in her gentle voice, “So, anyone want to start on [...]
Continue ReadingNick Bertozzi profiled
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOne of our fave cartoonists is having a two-fer with both THE SALON and HOUDIDNI coming out this month. The Washington Post Express blog profiles him: NICK BERTOZZI IS not a graphic novel machine. But editors and publishers might mistake him for one as the award-winning artist watches two works roll into [...]
Continue ReadingNot in the mood
Share this link on Facebook!TweetNot too much posting today. Not much going on. We will have our TUF recap tomorrow with a new feature which we think everyone will like!
Continue ReadingDC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: March 2007
Share this link on Facebook!Tweetby Marc-Oliver Frisch The recovery of DC Comics average sales in the direct market continued in March, but that didn’t prevent the publisher from losing more market share — largely thanks, of course, to two surprise sales juggernauts from other publishers, Marvel Comics’ Captain America #25 and Dark Horse Comics’ Buffy the [...]
Continue ReadingTo Do NYC TONIGHT 4/26: Salon/CBLDF bash
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This should be an awesome bash, and despite everything else going on tonight we’ll be there. This Thursday, April 26, The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is proud to present a benefit book launch party for Nick Bertozzi’s controversial graphic novel THE SALON. Bertozzi’s graphic novel about the birth of Cubism is [...]
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