Eisner doc premieres tonight
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Jon Cooke reminds us that WILL EISNER: PORTRAIT OF A SEQUENTIAL ARTIST has its premiere tonight as part of the Tribeca Film Festival. While tickets for the Saturday night showing are officially sold-out, some tix are still available for tonight night’s 7:30 p.m. screening at AMC Village VII — Theatre 2, at [...]
Continue ReadingNew Jhonen Vazquez book!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSuperstar cartoonist Jhonen Vazquez (JOHNNY THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC) returns to comics with JELLYFIST, a new collaboration from SLG. PR: SLG announced the impending July 2007 release of Jellyfist, a new work of collaborative nonsense by Jhonen Vasquez (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) and J.R. Goldberg, a comic that is quite possibly like nothing [...]
Continue Reading21 trailer from Fantagraphics
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet And now, in more traditional comics marketing parlance, here’s the “trailer” for a new Robert Clementa GN bio, courtesy of Flog: One of the books I’m most looking forward to in the next year is 21: The Roberto Clemente Story, a graphic novel biography of the great Puerto Rican slugger by Wilfred [...]
Continue ReadingJonas Moore: what are these VISUAL NOVELS???
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAs part of the imminent cell phone/iPod revolution many large corporations are sinking money into creating comics that can easily be morphed into cartoons or movies, or hybrids of the same. The flipside is animating existing comics into something more flashy, and we’ve had several people showing us their special [...]
Continue ReadingNews and notes 4/25
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § Jim Lee has posted the pencils for the covers to the next three ALL-STAR BATMAN AND ROBIN THE BOY WONDER covers. This qualifies as newsworthy since the book has been rather titanically late for a while, but now it looks like some issues will be out this summer. Good news! § [...]
Continue ReadingGame news: Marvel, Bone
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSega and Marvel have signed a big pact (although Marvel has been working closely with Activision recently) and GameDaily BIZ talks to Sega about the deal: BIZ: Did you have to compete with other publishers to get the rights to these other Marvel characters? Obviously Activision has produced a number of games [...]
Continue ReadingMovie briefs: Shia the Last Man, etc.
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDistrubia’s Shia LaBeouf is the hottest guy in showbiz this week, with a #1 movie and and upcoming co-starring role in INDY 4. And as befits every hot star, he also has his dream comics role in mind: …does he have enough clout to survive as the last dude on the planet? An [...]
Continue ReadingJessica Alba is flexible!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet as these new FF posters show. . But see Tim’s commentary here. Meanwhile, for the other team, as Johanna points out, Mr. Fantastic has got some serious Citizen Steel action going on in his tights. BTW, is it just us, or does the FF look as lively as a Puppetoon in all of [...]
Continue ReadingI'm the Scrapple King, I can do anything
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThere was apparently a display of sculpture made from Scrapple at the Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia yesterday, but try as we might we couldn’t find any online pictures of the momentous event. In case you’ve forgotten, scrapple is a vaguely-sausage-like substance made from simmering cornmeal, flour and spices with [...]
Continue ReadingAnimated Burns, McGuire, Mattotti
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Did we get your attention? They all did animated shorts for the upcoming French film Fear(s) of the dark and now you can see the trailer at the above link. Overseen by Etienne Robial, the films includes contributions by Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre di Sciullo, Jerry Kramsky, Lorenzo Mattotti, [...]
Continue ReadingBoy on a Stick and Slither goes to Comics.com
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As the line between comic strips and webcomics continues to blur, more of Ted Rall’s handiwork is visible at United Media, as Steven L. Cloud’s webcomic BOY ON A STICK AND SLITHER has just joined the line-up at Comics.Com. Cloud explains how it happened in his LJ: basically, i was recruited by [...]
Continue ReadingIs the mini-pamphlet dead?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetJennifer DeGuzman’s APE report notices the decline of the mini-pamphet; if the web hasn’t killed regular floppies, it has certainly become the go-to place for the kind of independent spirits who used to create “mail art.” While there were a few people self-publishing their comics, there were fewer of them than in [...]
Continue ReadingSpidey's expensive secret
Share this link on Facebook!TweetRadar Online, which purports to be the Spy of its time, except that now it has to go online, has an article by Kim Masters about the behind-the-scenes on SPIDER-MAN 3, which is now believed to be the most expensive movie ever made. Masters’ reportage on Hollywood is always top-grade, so [...]
Continue ReadingMore bad news for "Captain America"
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Smoking Gun has extensive coverage of yesterday’s Captain-America-with-a-burrito-in-his-pants ruckus, including the mug shot. This is bringing grim ‘n’ gritty to a new low.
Continue ReadingManga reacts to Eisners
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDavis Welsh talks to all kinds of manga related folks to get the reaction to this year’s increased manga presence in the Eisner nominations. There are many good quotes and observations, but one that stoods out for us is the recognition for what might be called the “OGM/OEL Generation”: This year’s slate [...]
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