DC Month-to-Month Sales December 2007
Share this link on Facebook!Tweetby Marc-Oliver Frisch DC Comics’ successful “Sinestro Corps War” and “Resurrection of Ra’s al Ghul” crossovers both concluded in December, and with Green Lantern #25 and Justice League of America #15, two bestselling stragglers from November helped to touch up the performance. The big new launch in December was the weekly Countdown: [...]
Continue ReadingCold Cut's mystery future
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFor months, the LJ of Cold Cut Distribution employee Matt High has been spotlighting his spectacular vacation photos. Of late it started talking about packing up and moving. A post yesterday spelled it out Still no official news on Cold Cut to announce, since the paperwork is not signed yet. But the [...]
Continue ReadingDenmark to archive Muhammad cartoons
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe 12 cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad which led to violent protesting throughout the Muslim world and continues to cause deaths, turmoil and misunderstanding around the world, will be archived by Denmark’s National Library: Despite objections from some Muslim leaders, the library in the Danish capital will preserve the 12 cartoons for [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles 'n' Bits
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Y assault continues unabated: CBR visits Pia Guerra’s studio. Zack Smith interviews Guerra. BKV in WSJ.. LA City Beat has a story on the Y The Last Party benefit for the CBLDF. Whew. § In other major media comics news, the AP story on the New Cap hits everywhere. § [...]
Continue ReadingTomine on Fresh Air
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIs there no end to the cartoonists invading the airwaves this week? Now Adrian Tomine will be appearing on NPR’s Fresh Air today. D&Q’s Peggy Burns also reminds us that Tomine is going on a mini tour at the end of this month: 2/26 — D+Q Librairie, Montreal 2/28 — Brattle Theater, [...]
Continue ReadingThe one with a lot of comments
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFound via the V, the website Superheroines Demise which is totally, completely and utterly NOT SAFE FOR WORK. We had downloaded a few photos with the intent to post with really bad parts blanked out, but they are all so yucky that we decided not to. Let’s just say that people [...]
Continue ReadingDave Sim posts on the internet
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIt is happening: Okay this is going to take some getting used to. Please bear with me. I’m going to be repeating a lot of stuff since the idea is to get the word out about glamourpuss. Particularly at this point, what I’m hoping to do is to persuade people to go [...]
Continue ReadingBilBOlbul International Comics festival
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We received a lengthy press release from Italy regarding the second annual BilBOlBul comics festival to be held 5-9 March in Bologna. This year’s fest includes spotlights on Gianni De Luca and Cristolphe Blain, sections devoted to Anders Nilsen, Kevin Huizenga and Paul Hornschemeier from America and Hok Tak Yeung and [...]
Continue ReadingAnother Wood rights reversion
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Brian Wood sent out a PR yesterday announcing that rights to another one of his books originally published by AIT/PlanetLar have reverted to him, namely Public Domain, a design sketch book of sorts for Channel Zero. This follows the move of Demo from AIT to Vertigo, which will publish a new [...]
Continue ReadingDel Toro on Hobbitses movies?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA few people have written to ask us about the Guillermo Del Toro directing the Hobbit thing. We’ll let First Showing explain: Before we get any further, numerous sources confirm that New Line Cinema won’t be officially announcing a director until the writers strike is settled. So until then, all of this [...]
Continue ReadingLOST is found
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet UPDATE: You can see a cache of Marvel/Lost crossovers here. LOST is back in full force this week with the premiere of what everyone hopes won’t be a severely strike-shortened 8-episode long Season 4. Long dormant Lost blogs are firing up to hunt new Easter eggs, and one of them reveals that [...]
Continue ReadingEarly GLAMOURPUSS review — UPDATED
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Adam Prosser reviews an advance copy of GLAMOURPUSS, Dave Sim’s new comic. In many ways, it’s not really a comic book; Sim even acknowledges as much. His only real goal here, he says, was to refine his art by producing ultra-detailed ink drawings of (for the most part) pretty girls in fashionable [...]
Continue ReadingEustace Tilley competition ends
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The New Yorker’s Flickr competition to design a new Eustace Tilley is over. Click link for all entries. Above, the incomparable Ape Lad.
Continue ReadingMarvel Month-to-Month Sales — December 2007
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBy Paul O’Brien The big new launch for December was ULTIMATES 3, returning after a seven month hiatus with the new creative team of Jeph Loeb and Joe Madureira. And thanks to the magic of delays, December, also saw AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #545, the concluding part of “One More Day.” Otherwise, [...]
Continue ReadingY, the last issue
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Update: For a change, here’s Brian K. Vaughan on CNN. In big comics media events this week, Bucky-is-Cap is definitely getting a run for its money from the appearance today of issue #60 of Y the Last Man by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra. (And don’t forget inker [...]
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