Stuck in the Middle Launch Party Photos!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet And now just to cleanse everyone’s palette, here are pictures from the book party for Ariel Schrag’s Stuck in the Middle Friday at Rocketship. The place was ABSOLUTELY packed, and here’s a nice picture of Gabrielle Bell and Ariel.
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Share this link on Facebook!TweetI know everyone is hot and bothered, but the server is very busy, so please don’t keep hitting send when you post! We are getting tons of double posts! PATIENCE.
Continue ReadingChip Zdarsky launches advice site
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Writing in his real life guise as Steve Murray, Steve/Chip has a new advice feature at the National Post and it is rife with sensibleness: STEP TWO: Armed with this knowledge, you now need to stew. Close your curtains and sit in the dark for a weekend. Now think about what [...]
Continue ReadingDash Shaw does Marvel
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Apparently Marvel has a “Coober Skeeber” type anthology of indie type artists handling their characters underway, and Dash Shaw is the first to show off part of his effort on the Meathaus Blog. . Maybe they will finally publish that Peter Bagge Hulk story in here?
Continue ReadingSin City video game on the way
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Red Mile Entertainment, Inc. (OTCBB: RDML), a worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software, today announced it has entered into a multi-year, worldwide license agreement to develop and to publish video games based on the Sin City series of graphic novels by writer/artist and film director Frank Miller. Financial terms [...]
Continue ReadingMore on the matter of the day
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet No time to write anything ourselves but the interesting links keep coming. Lea Hernandez has launched a MANSTREAM site, with such things as the MANSTREAM AWARDS: Award: STRATEGIC PHALLUS AWARD (HALL OF FAME)Winner: Cannon God ExxaxionPublisher: Dark HorseArtist: Keiichi Sonada Sometimes a space bike is just a space bike- even when it’s poking a [...]
Continue ReadingCanadian ladies love the yaoi
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA Toronto Gay lifetysle website runs an interesting preview of the Anime North convention by looking at yaoi fans through a gay perspective: But Kat Williams, a Toronto-based anime artist and author who organized queer panels at the convention for several years beginning in 2000, says she’s dismayed by the lack [...]
Continue ReadingMore on "Online Graphic Novel"
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe creator of that Jonas Moore thing has more to say about GNs that go direct to the sponsor. This story wouldn’t be so noteworthy if this kind of “advertorial” weren’t becoming more and more common. To finance “The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore,” Webster decided to eschew the traditional routes of [...]
Continue ReadingYaoi magazine launches
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOkay, will someone PLEASE publish COMIC FOUNDRY? Iris Print, publisher of the Lambda Literary Award finalist novel “A Strong and Sudden Thaw”, announced today its plans to publish the first North American boys’ love magazine, BL Twist. The bimonthly print magazine will feature articles, reviews, and news related to the boys’ love genre [...]
Continue ReadingWomen of Comics spotlights Kiss Machine
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Women of Comics II (WOC II) is a two-day event, taking place on Saturday, June 9th and Sunday June 10th as part of the 2007 Paradise Toronto Comicon. Sponsored by All New Comics Inc., WOC II is designed to showcase female talent and creativity in what has traditionally been a male-dominated [...]
Continue ReadingPERSEPOLIS movie reviews
Share this link on Facebook!TweetCinematical LOVE Watching Persepolis — an animated adaptation of Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling graphic novel memoir — I didn’t just feel excited intellectually and artistically; I actually felt emotionally engaged, wrung-out, exhilarated, saddened and touched by Satrapi’s story of life as a young woman coming of age in pre-revolutionary Iran and after. Persepolis [...]
Continue ReadingLinkage for the day
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ CNN looks at Marvel’s balance sheet, and Spider-Man has not been the cash cow you might expect. Spider-Man, as any comic book fan knows, isn’t the most powerful superhero. He can’t push planets around like DC Comics’ Superman (owned by Time Warner (Charts, Fortune 500), parent of Fortune and CNNMoney.com). He’s [...]
Continue ReadingAnd what have we Lost?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetI am not kidding…I am too busy to spend much time on this women in comics thing today or tomorrow. And with Fleet Week beginning…my week just got crazier. In the meantime, a few people wrote to get my thoughts on last night’s LOST finale, and here are some brief observations. SPOILER! [...]
Continue ReadingRadical new comic book publisher
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWow! Radical! And Blatant! And it’s another one of those Hollywood Studio development deals. Some very familiar names and faces involved however. Fresh out of a first look deal with Dark Horse Comics, producer and renowned rock photographer Barry Levine has joined forces with Intandem Films who are raising a $100m film [...]
Continue ReadingIs there anything better than Eddie Campbell?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Artist responds to my Stan Sakai posting yesterday and obliquely comments on much that we have been discussing. It reminds me of my con-sketch anecdote. A guy asks for a sketch and I say ‘Only if you’re buying a book.’ he says, ‘Okay, what’s the cheapest book you have?’.“I’m selling the [...]
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