THAT'S IT!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Okay we’re outtie. NO MORE PRESS RELEASES AND BOOTH SCHEDULES. We’re done. We leave the Beat in the hands of trusted operative Mark Coale, and a new operative, S. Stahl, who has taken on the job of Beat COPYEDITOR. Thank this wonderful person — he’s a demon for commas, which we [...]
Continue ReadingSD08: Hero Initiative — #907
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAs usual, The Hero Initiative will have a spectacular lineup of events and guests at the big show, inlcuding the Marvel vs DC softball game. Much more below the cut. BOOTH SCHEDULE WED., 23 JUL (con hours 6:00-9:00) 6:30-7:30: Scott Koblish THUR, 24 JUL (con hours 9:30-7:00) 12:00-1:00: Gordon Purcell 1:00-2:00: Whilce Portacio 2:00-3:00: Marv Wolfman
Continue ReadingSD08: Royal Flush
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via PR: Comics Fans Meet ROYAL FLUSH MAGAZINE - an exquisitely-produced jammed-with-comics Rock / PopCulture magazine… + Patton Oswalt feature interview + Patton cover by Drew Friedman + Meet Royal Flush @ Comic-Con and get filmed for Toyota’s HEYA social network You can meet ROYAL FLUSH Publisher / Editor in Chief Josh Bernstein @ San DiegoComic-Con [...]
Continue ReadingSD08: Red 5 – L03
Share this link on Facebook!TweetVia PR: If you’re going to be in San Diego this week for Comic-Con International 2008, be sure to stop by the Red 5 Comics booth — L03 in the small press section at the back of the hall through entrance “C”. We’d love to chat with you to thank you for your [...]
Continue ReadingSD08: The Beguiling – #1529
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via Chris Butcher: Thanks to their friends at Drawn + Quarterly, The Beguiling Books & Art will be exhibiting at booth #1529 at this week’s Comic Con International: San Diego, in its role as a sales representative for original art. D+Q’s generous donation of exhibition space will allow The Beguiling to present [...]
Continue ReadingSD08: Marvel Comics — #2429
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA lot is going on. Hey True Believers, do you know where you want to spend Comic-Con International? At the Marvel Booth (#2429) of course! We’ve got more programming at our booth than ever before, featuring trailers, celebrity appearances, Q&A with your favorite creators and more! Who else would bring you a [...]
Continue ReadingSD08: Kiss Attack Party
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBeat pal Marz Richards sent us info on this wild sounding party, which includes a performance by his band, RENFIELD. C Batts Fly and Adam & Eve are releasing the revolutionary sex fantasy KISS ATTACK on DVD, directed by Carlos Batts and featuring Sasha Grey, April Flores, La Cholita, Claire Adams and [...]
Continue ReadingRIP Creig Flessel
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMark Evanier reports the death of comics pioneer Creig Flessel at age 96, following a stroke. Flessel worked in comics from the dawn of the golden age on through Playboy and beyond. Tom Spurgeon has a lengthy obit with much information: Flessel was born on Long Island, New York in the town of [...]
Continue ReadingFraction strikes twice in Hollywoodland
Share this link on Facebook!TweetEW has word of a couple of movie deals for Matt Fraction: He’s just inked a deal with producer Rick Alexander (MGM’s Adventures in the Land of Zametherea) and manager-producer Jeff Krelitz to turn two of his co-creations, Casanova and Last of the Independents, into movies. A major A-list actor is [...]
Continue ReadingWatch WATCHMEN on iTunes
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBack blogging at Newsarama, Paul Levitz runs down DC’s digital strategy, “Motion Comics” — which takes comics art and animates it. First up: WATCHMEN. Last summer, I traveled to London with Warner Premiere President Diane Nelson to show Dave Gibbons a first test of a new digital format. Diane’s team and [...]
Continue ReadingSD08: Comic-Con Party
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Not exactly sure where this is being thrown, but it’s a cute poster:
Continue ReadingNY Times link #2: Neil Young’s Greendale
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Times also catches up with Greendale, Neil Young’s 2003 concept album, which is now being developed into many media formats, including a graphic novel drawn by Cliff Chiang. That was just the beginning: Mr. Young went on to make “Greendale” into a concert tour, live recordings and an original film inspired [...]
Continue ReadingNY Times link #1: Frank Miller's SPIRIT
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Times talks to Miller about the movie: Early trailers may have given the impression that “The Spirit” is akin to “Sin City,” but Mr. Miller said the two “are fundamentally different.” “The only ways they resemble each other are the ways that I learned from Will Eisner: the use of black and [...]
Continue ReadingMore on Vanguard/Frazetta
Share this link on Facebook!TweetYou’ll recall that last week it was announced that Frank Frazetta was suing Vanguard Productions for $2 million, claiming the upcoming Frazetta retrospective, FRAZETTA THE DEFINITE REFERENCE, was unauthorized. Vanguard sent out an email saying they were too busy to respond publicly at the moment, but directed readers to this blog [...]
Continue ReadingSD08: Ted McKeever — #4405
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Art agent Kasra Ghanbari writes: Ted McKeever and my company, VEI Studios, will be set up at booth #4405 in the Illustrator’s section from Thursday through Sunday. We’ll have original art by Ted available to purchase, as well as Ted’s first-ever sketchbook, a 28-page full color book that Ted will sign and [...]
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