Neil Gaiman to direct DEATH movie with LaBeouf?
Share this link on Facebook!Tweetfilm ick has scoop: Later this year – if all goes well – Neil Gaiman will be directing his first feature film. It’s an adaptation of his Death: The High Cost of Living mini-series, and – of course – he’s scripted it. This was the film he was discussing with Guillermo del Toro [...]
Continue ReadingComics show runner spotlighted
Share this link on Facebook!TweetGeorge Gene Gustines examines the concepts from TV which are now being used in comics , like “Show runners’ and “seasons.” ¶In “Countdown,” a new weekly series from DC Comics that began this month, Paul Dini, who worked on ABC’s “Lost,” is serving as head writer. ¶The new “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” series [...]
Continue ReadingThings to click on
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Early manga champion Frederik Schodt profile § LA Times looks at Minx line § Video of Frank Miller talking about the Spirit at Cannes. § Milo George tracks the political donations of your favorite cartoon types.
Continue ReadingThe Spurge Guide to San Diego
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Comics Reporter has posted the Annual Guide to San Diego Comic-Con, which is as definitive as it gets. His list of lodgings ranked by desirability has 22 categories, and in our 20+ years of con going, we’ve known someone to utilize all 22! Even jail. The guide contains many shockers, [...]
Continue ReadingEarly O'Malley
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Jeff Lester tracks down an early work by Bryan Lee O’Malley: Spider-Man: Doctors, an early reader for kids. O’Malley ‘fesses up: Yeah, it was one of the first things I did in comics, way back in 2001. Go ahead and run images if you want. Christopher Butcher actually helped me colour it, which [...]
Continue ReadingStill on holiday
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Just visiting old friends. [Photo by Elim Mak.]
Continue ReadingHelp Fantagraphics with Pogo
Share this link on Facebook!TweetGary Groth is paging all Pogo fans to help with FBI’s upcoming Pogo reprints: We are requesting the help of Pogo collectors who may have original art or high quality reproductions of Walt Kelly’s Pogo strip. We are currently assembling Walt Kelly’s POGO: The Complete Daily & Sunday Strips. We are looking for [...]
Continue ReadingPERSEPOLIS shares Jury Prize at Cannes
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The animated PERSEPOLIS, co-directed by Marjana Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud has shared the Jury Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film tells of Satrapi’s girlhood in post-Revolution Iran. The film will be released this fall in America by Sony Classics. It shared the prize with Stellet Licht, a [...]
Continue ReadingAmend wins top Reuben
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Bill Amend won the Cartoonist of the Year Reuben award in a ceremont mast night, according to Editor & Publisher. Amend ended the daily run of the strip last year, but continues it as on Sunday’s only. Other winners from the article: – Best comic strip cartoonist: Stephan Pastis (“Pearls Before Swine”/United [...]
Continue Reading"Captain, she kinna hold any more!"
Share this link on Facebook!TweetLooks like WP crashed for about 12 hours. It’s been acting a bit unstable lately — hence all the double postings. I’m hoping we can get it stabilized next wee. In the meantime, if anyone has any suggestions on what to do with WP, feel free to leave them. I’m [...]
Continue ReadingJoe Q speaks on HEROES FOR HIRE cover
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAt least one authority figure has spoken out, and the message is “Subtext? What subtext?”: On the MJ: Statue: JQ: Not really. When fans saw the statue was exactly the same time I was made aware of it, I have no involvement in that stuff and haven’t kept up with the brouhaha. It [...]
Continue ReadingIt was 30 years ago today…
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet …and nothing would ever be the same.
Continue ReadingOttaviani's LEVITATION and WIRE MOTHERS
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Even though we’re taking the day off, we couldn’t ignore a bunch of press for LEVITATION and WIRE MOTHERS by Jim Ottaviani and illustrated by Dylan Meconis and Janine Johnston, respectively. Newsarama raps with Ottaviani about both books. We’re especially interested in WIRE MOTHERS which recounts the background of Harry Harlow’s [...]
Continue ReadingUh oh
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We’re going to be frightfully busy today so very very little posting. In the meantime…PIRATES!
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