Breaking news: Comics are expen$ive!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetNewsarama adds up the costs of this year’s big crossover events and finds they do not come cheaply. For SECRET INVASION, after toting up all the tie-ins and spin-offs and whatnot, comes to this conclusion: November Subtotal: $6.98 The Whole Shebang: $316.98, or just about airfare from Chicago to San Diego and [...]
Continue ReadingRUNAWAYS movie in the works with Vaughan
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Hollywood Reporter reports that a movie based on RUNAWAYS may be coming: Brian K. Vaughan, who co-created the series with artist Adrian Alphona, is writing the adaptation, for which Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige will act as producer. Vaughan is also a co-producer and writer on ABC’s “Lost.” As opposed to other [...]
Continue ReadingBEA preview
Share this link on Facebook!TweetLance Fensterman is a very busy guy. He’s the showrunner for not just New York Comic-Con, but also the new York Anime Fest AND the BEA (Book Expo America), the annual schmoozefest for everything book related. This year’s BEA is being held next week in LA, where they buy more books [...]
Continue ReadingFighting back!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The long national nightmare is almost over in our household! Almost. We’ve been so busy we forgot entirely about Fleet Week.
Continue ReadingHero Initiative and Marvel team up for Gene Colan
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Some really nice news for a change: Artist Gene Colan has been one of comics’ favorites for a staggering seven decades. Now, as Gene is suffering illness, some of the characters Gene worked on are coming to save the day. The Hero Initiative in conjunction with Marvel Comics is launching a series of [...]
Continue ReadingEVENT: POST BANG
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Year of the Symposium continues with a one-day FREE seminar put together by the New York Institute for the Humanities featuring Lynda Barry, Art Spiegelman, Gary Panter, David Hajdu and Hope Larson among others. Jeez, twist our arm some more, will ya? It takes place in NYC the day [...]
Continue ReadingKiel Phegley exits Wizard
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet News quickly rocketed around last evening that Kiel Phegley has been dismissed from his position at Wizard Magazine. Phegley has been co-writing the Indie Jones column for Wizard.com and spearheaded much of their convention coverage, and was a familiar face on the circuit so it comes as a bit of a [...]
Continue ReadingIndy IV review
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull should just be called Indiana Matlock. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. It was a lot of fun and very enjoyable. We liked the fake, Frazetta-esque backgrounds during the “Jungle Chase” sequence. We also liked Harrison Ford just fine, and loved [...]
Continue ReadingCharles Burns' PERMAGEL
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Charles Burns has a new art book coming out from French publisher “United Dead Artists”entitled PERMAGEL. It will be 32 pages in a huge 30×40 cm format, printed in double black impression on Rives paper. Stephane Blanquet is the editor. More information and images.
Continue ReadingJohn R. Neil's OZ
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Golden Age Comic Book Stories reprints some of the mind-bending work of John R. Neil illustrating the sixth book of the Oz series, Emerald City of OZ. Chapter 2, Chapter 3, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, Chapter 6, Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapter 9, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Chapter 12, Chapter 13 [...]
Continue ReadingThe "Spread Leg" motif
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet PRINT Magazine dissects a classic lurid cover theme. We esp. like this yaoi version! Via Boing Boing.
Continue ReadingMet DC Statue update
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet In our report on the Met Fashion Institute’s superhero fashion show, we erroneously wrote that the 12-foot high statues of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman would be on display for a while. Alas, they were only there for the one day, so we count ourselves very fortunate to have seen them [...]
Continue ReadingMore on Rory Root
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Comic Relief, which will continue under long-time manager Todd Martinez, has a “Memories” page up to remember founder Rory Root. § Tom has a fantastic obituary up with many more memorials from comics luminaries whose lives Rory touched. One of Root’s most important endeavors was to cultivate relationships with and facilitate [...]
Continue ReadingOne or two little links
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Douglas Wolk, bless him, is using the brains the good lord gave him for a new Final Crisis Annotations blog. It’s in-depth. Title: It’s worth unpacking this a little. DC is, of course, the publisher of this comic and the corporate owner of its intellectual property; DC stands for DETECTIVE COMICS, [...]
Continue ReadingBizarro Sports Illustrated
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A Mark Bagley illo of Bizarro graces the cover of this weeks Sports Illustrated for a story about “Bizarro Baseball”. CBR interviews Bagley while DC sends out an official press release in the jump. Bagley, who called the sports weekly, “the Newsweek of sports magazines,” said he is well aware of the [...]
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