End Times: Gilligan’s Island, The Movie
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet If you were going into the end of the world in 2012, with a cold, empty feeling because Gilligan’s Island had not yet been turned into a feature film, rest easy: you will not be cast into the void unfulfilled. Co-producer Charles Roven previously worked on the GET SMART movie, [...]
Continue ReadingSo which Marvel character has ‘FALLEN’ this time?
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet PREVIEWS has the exclusive unredacted cover and copy for Marvel’s upcoming FALLEN mini-series, and it seems someone has photoshopped out that shocking death that ends Siege and begins “The Heroic Age.” The SIEGE has ended and taken its toll on both sides of the battle field. The event seven years in the [...]
Continue ReadingSimmons responds: Plagiarism or creativity in the age of borrowing?
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Cartoonist/reality star Nick Simmons issued a statement yesterday regarding being caught redhanded lifting images from Bleach and other very well known manga: “Like most artists I am inspired by work I admire. There are certain similarities between some of my work and the work of others. This was simply meant as an [...]
Continue Reading‘Stan’s Back!’ at BOOM! for the first time
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Hero Complex confirms that the Stan’s Back viral campaign people have been buzzing about is indeed affiliated with BOOM! Studios. The Marvel legend will lend his name to a new line of three superhero comics, with one to be written by Mark Waid. The deal was done through Pow! [...]
Continue ReadingVideo Parade: Samsung, Matt Thurber, Lego Runner
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Johanna Draper Carlson points us to this Samsung ad for a phone that enables a moody cartoonist who looks more like a magician to draw comics. The art looks a bit like Lee Bermejo? A trailer for 1-800-MICE that will set the day off nicely, we believe. And via Topless [...]
Continue ReadingLost, Simpsons style
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Meet our new wallpaper! The core Lost cast Simpsonized right down to the rubble. Found via Vulture, but the source is Springfield Punx, a site which Simpsonizes characters and people from all over the place. Now all we need is a Lego version of a Simpsonized Lost character and you’d have [...]
Continue ReadingThis ‘n’ That, 3-2-10
Share this link on Facebook!TweetStuff that is so totally random we dare not even call it Kibbles or Bits. § New York’s Strand Bookstore is holding a Tote Bag Design Contest, sponsored by Fantagraphics, D&Q and Toon Books, with judges Art Spiegelman, Adrian Tomine, R. Sikoryak, AND Françoise Mouly and Steven Heller. The winner gets $1000 [...]
Continue ReadingPoll: Help us rank what is cool!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Since moving this blog, we’ve gotten a lot more, well, random information and pr coming in, and it’s becoming harder and harder to figure out what’s cool and what isn’t. There is so much amazing stuff happening every minute, and luckily we have Twitter, Facebook, SquareSpace and LinkedIn to tell us [...]
Continue ReadingPOLL: Help us rank what is cool!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSince moving this blog, we’ve gotten a lot more, well, random information and pr coming in, and it’s becoming harder and harder to figure out what’s cool and what isn’t. There is so much amazing stuff happening every minute, and luckily we have Twitter, Facebook, SquareSpace and LinkedIn to tell us [...]
Continue ReadingTop Shelf debuts new website, new books
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThis morning, indie publisher Top Shelf unveiled a new, more user-friendly website, but they’ve also announced a slew of new books for 2011 and beyond listed below — among the highlights, a two-volume BACCHUS omnibus by Eddie Campbell, the return of Petey and Pussy, and promising work by Jess Fink [...]
Continue Reading2010 MoCCA programming announced
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA panel with Al Jaffee, Jules Feiffer, Arnold Roth and Gahan Wilson may be the highlight — not just of MoCCA but the YEAR — but the rest of the MoCCA Festival’s programming has just been announced at The Daily Crosshatch. In addition to the panels, David Mazzucchelli will [...]
Continue ReadingDC lawyering up for Siegel case
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Over at Blog@ Jeff Trexler decodes some court filings which suggest that DC/Warners MAY expect the Superman case to go to trial. They’ve let go of their previous attorneys (who worked on the Edgar Winter case, among others) and replaced them with Daniel Petrocelli, a very high powered IP [...]
Continue ReadingEvan Dorkin’s monsters
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A Flickr set of monsters , drawn by Evan Dorkin for his daughter Emily. Above, Mr. Bascomb.
Continue ReadingPhoto Parade: Oni, Hannigan, Templesmith, etc., etc., etc.
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet[We welcome links for this feature -- please send your photo links to comicsbeat at gmail.com. Thank you!] •Anders Nilsen went to Rothenburg’s Kriminalmuseum and Munich’s Altes Pinakothekand took pictures. Jamie S. Rich and Diana Schutz spoke to Brian M. Bendis’s comics class. Charlie Chu (recently relocated to Portland as an Oni [...]
Continue ReadingIs “Lost Island” attraction on its way at Disneyland?
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Some Lost personnel were just at the Paleyfest yakking about their continuing anxiety over upcoming fan reaction to the final season, and they also let this thrilling news drop: Since few fans really expected major secrets to creep off the island during this friendly panel, the most exciting bit of news for [...]
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