BLACK FREIGHTER will save DVDs
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWell, it’s not enough that comic book movies have saved the box office, now they are saving the DVD business, which fell 3.2% last year to a mere $15.9 billion. How? Well, using Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, of course. According to the NY Times, Warner is trying a bold new [...]
Continue ReadingThe Venture Bros. Shirt Club announced
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Venture Bros. – The Amazing Shirt of the Week Club: Venture Bros Season 3 arrives JUNE 1! And so does Shirt Club! AT LAST! Technorati Tags: Venture Bros.
Continue ReadingMorning Zen
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Scenes that should have had the Wilhelm Scream.
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RIP Thelma Keane
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Thelma Keane, wife of cartoonist Bil and inspiration for the mom in FAMILY CIRCUS has died at age 82 of Alzheimer’s disease. “She was the inspiration for all of my success,” Bil Keane, 85, told The Associated Press from his home in Paradise Valley on Sunday. “When the cartoon first appeared, [...]
Continue ReadingCheck it out: Women running away from spooky houses
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A gallery of the Gothic novel staple. Via Neil Gaiman.
Continue ReadingKibbles 'n Bits 5/26
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet God, it’s been a while! § Speaking of 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, here’s a Fearnet promo image for the film by Ben Templesmith. § Will GREEN LANTERN be to DC what IRON MAN was to Marvel at the movies? Comics Book Bin sure hopes so: Whether or not a Green Lantern film would [...]
Continue ReadingThe Hobbit 2
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet What will be contents of the TWO Hobbit movies now in the works from producer Peter Jackson and director Guillermo del Toro? There is sure to be an unexpected party, and Smaug and Bard and barrels and all that, but what’s in that second movie? It’s purported to cover the 60 [...]
Continue ReadingWhiteout hits in September
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet In the recent avalanche of comic book movies, one has been MIA for a while — the Kate Beckinsale starrer WHITEOUT, based on the GN by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber. Its been in the can for a while, but appears to have been caught (perhaps — this is our speculation [...]
Continue ReadingBrill goes BOOM!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIan Brill makes the jump from blogger/journo to the man who makes the sausage, joining Boom! as Games Workshop editor. Congrats, Ian! We’ll miss you as a freelancer, and at those whacked-out San Diego PWCW editorial meetings, but we’re proud of you for moving onward and upwards. PR below. BOOM! Studios announced [...]
Continue ReadingThings that bugged me about INDY IV
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet You’ve all seen it, right? Okay spoilers after the jump.
Continue Reading2008 Friend of Lulu Nominees
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The 2008 Friends of Lulu Award Nominations have just been announced. (Above image by Hope Larson.) Kim Yale Award: MARTINA FUGAZZOTTO (senior designer, gURL.com) KIKI JONES (gURL Comix artist) JULIA WERTZ (The Fart Party) Woman of Distinction: SHELLY BOND (group editor, Vertigo; editor, MINX line); CINDY FOURNIER (VP Operations, Diamond Comic Distributors); JANNA MORISHIMA (director, Diamond Kids Group) Women Cartoonists [...]
Continue ReadingAl Jaffee wins Reuben
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAlan Gardner reports that Mad’s Al Jaffee gas this year’s Reuben Award for the Outstanding Cartoonist of the year. Congrats!
Continue ReadingA little Friday afternoon gossip
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet* Just got off the phone with a well-known, award winning cartoonist who was advertised as appearing at an upcoming convention. Apparently he was told this week that he had a flight to the show by convention organizers, but no flight was ever booked and now he’s just sitting there with [...]
Continue ReadingJudge upholds Michael George conviction
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA judge has refused to overturn the conviction of Michael George this morning. The defense had attempted to get the jury’s guilty conviction vacated due to a lack of evidence, but the judge sided with the jury, George faces life in prison without parole after being convicted of the 19 year [...]
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