FLUKE!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Another one of those annual local small press comics fests approacheth, this time Athens, GA’s FLUKE! Details below. This year’s FLUKE Mini-Comics Festival , sponsored by Bizarro Wuxtry, Flagpole Magazine, Inch-High Button Guy, Top Shelf Productions and Wide Awake Press, will take place on Saturday, April 12 at Tasty World on 312 [...]
Continue ReadingCool Stuf: GUTSVILLE #!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Newsarama has the complete issues of GUTSVILLE #1 up for you to read — and you should. The demented offspring of creators Simon Spurrier and Frazer Irving, it’s the wild tale of a community that lives inside a giant whale. Issue #3 just hit the stands.
Continue ReadingSuperior Showcase #3 announced
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet AdHouse announces Superior Showcase #3, an anthology of three damned fine cartoonists, and THE RETURN OF STREET ANGEL!!! This issue explodes with the uber-talents of team STREET ANGEL aka Bodacious Brian Maruca & Jazzy Jim Rugg. (This is the first STREET ANGEL story in years!) Debuting the work of Dandy Dustin Harbin. And last but [...]
Continue ReadingD&Q: Breakin
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet free creator ringtone The approval by EASA has finally put to rest that GSM phones on certified aircraft types are safe. ringtones firefighter There are over five hundred million active ringtones firefighter accounts in China, as of 2007, but ringtones firefighter penetration rate there still stands below 50%. islamic ringtones Trains, particularly [...]
Continue ReadingBin Laden doesn't like cartoons
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet On the fifth anniversary of the start of America’s dumbest war ever, Public Enemy #1 Osama bin Laden reportedly dissed the Mohammed cartoons in one of those messages he periodically releases. In the message, addressed to the ‘intelligent ones’ in the European Union, bin Laden said that publishing the ‘insulting drawings’ was [...]
Continue ReadingLinkie winkins 3/20
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMany many things which we had stored up or emailed to us which we have been meaning to tell you about. § Douglas Wolk has a new link blog. We’re already stealing from it. § We were talking about con fatigue the other day and unbeknownst to us, Shaenon K. Garrity had already [...]
Continue ReadingCartoon is appointed ambassador for Japan
Share this link on Facebook!TweetLovable toon robot cat DORAEMON has been appointed Japan’s cartoon ambassador! Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura appointed the cat an “anime ambassador,” handing a human-sized Doraemon doll an official certificate at an inauguration ceremony, along with dozens of “dorayaki” red bean pancakes — his favorite dessert — piled on a huge plate. Komura told [...]
Continue ReadingFrench toon movie news
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet • The English language version of the PERSEPOLIS animated film will be released on April 11. This version features the voices of Chiara Mastroianni as Marjane; Sean Penn as Marjane’s father, Ebi; Catherine Deneuve as Marjane’s mother, Tadji; Gena Rowlands as Marjane’s grandmother; Iggy Pop as Uncle Anouche; and Amethyste Frezignac as [...]
Continue ReadingWe made it again
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet How is it possible? The heroine emerges from the underworld every time, no matter what the odds. Hail, Persephone. Note: Persephone not actually shown above. Results may vary.
Continue ReadingBEA spotlights Graphic Novels with day of panels
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBack in the neolithic times when The Beat first started working at Publishers Weekly, there was usually one graphic novel panel at the yearly Book Expo America. This year, they are having a whole programming track devoted to the form. Truly, 2008 is THE YEAR OF THE SYMPOSIUM. PR: BEA’s Graphic Novel [...]
Continue ReadingCan't we all just get along?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhat have things come to, when even the precocious and eternally cute Hello Kitty is willing to settle a grudge by stepping into the squared circle? The presser: Pro Wrestling Guerrilla, in conjunction with Gente California and SANRIO Co., LTD., will present the first ever professional wrestling match for the Kitty World Order [...]
Continue ReadingPictureBox opens store
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Following in the footsteps of Fantagraphics and Drawn & Quarterly, Picturebox, the Brooklyn-based art comix publisher, is opening a store in Gowanus, Brooklyn! First, we are opening a retail store in Brooklyn’s sunny and breezy Gowanus, Brooklyn. The PictureBox Departmental Store will carry the full range of PictureBox publications as well as [...]
Continue ReadingThe damage is irreversible
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Baltimore City Paper reviews Scrooged a show of Carl Barks art at the Geppi Entertainment museum. And you will cry: And “Yukon” is not an example of Barks’ best work, coming as it does from very late in his career, when his art had atrophied into generic Disneyness, unlike his more [...]
Continue ReadingFebruary sales slump
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe ICv2 charts same out yesterday, and for the second month in a row, things were down: Comic and graphic novel dollar sales to comic stores dipped in February vs. the year ago period, the second time in just four months that such a drop has occurred. The 4% drop followed [...]
Continue ReadingTOO MUCH COFFEE MAN THE OPERA…sequel!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As if writing and helping produce ONE opera wasn’t enough, crazy Shannon Wheeler has gone to the Black & Decker auto-drip one more time for a SEQUEL to his well-received Too Much Coffe Man Opera. PR in the jump, production info below: Too Much Coffee Man Opera the Refill What: [...]
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