Interview: Rantz Hoseley on the LongBox Launch at Emerald City
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet[It's been a long march for LongBox, the ambitious downloadable comics application for multiple platforms that is ready to go public this weekend. Even as downloadable comics and e-publishing are establishing themselves as a new foundation of comics publishing, LongBox CEO Rantz Hoseley took a moment to peek under the [...]
Continue ReadingTo do: MegaCon 2010
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet While the west coast hosts Emerald City this weekend, down in Florida, over 20,000 folks will be hitting MegaCon 2010 starting today, a full-scale media extravaganza. We hear this show has developed into a huge cosplay/media/comics show, and if you are headed there, you probably don’t need us t tell [...]
Continue ReadingDistribution notes: Apple’s GN store, Diamond’s big Omniboo-boo headache
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Kevin Melrose catches that Apples iPad bookstore will include Comics & Graphic Novels as it’s own category Citing findings by the Busted Loop mobile media research firm, the website states that Apple’s iBookstore will designate about 20 main categories, including “Fiction & Literature,” “Reference” and “Cookbooks.” Below those will be more [...]
Continue ReadingTatsumi in COLOR
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Black Blizzard, the gekiga master’s early genre manga, is coming from D&Q. WOOT.
Continue ReadingStudio coffee run: Cap casting, more
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § Now where were we… a new LOSERS poster, above. § Christopher Nolan confirms he’s helming BATMAN 3 and SUPERMAN Whatever-you-want-to-number-it. They will be completely unrelated films, however. So no World’s Finest movie from Nolan. Lots more juicy stuff in the link. § First John Krasinski was the front runner for [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 3-12-10
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Trina Robbins notes the passing of Valerie Barclay, a Golden Age artist and inker. § Jason Miles interviews Dylan WIlliams and provides a nice counterpoint to the Keiron Gillen interview in that Williams embraces the poverty and suffering that comes with comics — call it the Porgy Outlook. I still get [...]
Continue ReadingTo do: Emerald City Comicon
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Tomorrow the Emerald City Comicon kicks off at the Washington State Convention Center, and it looks to be the awesome sauce. We’re going for the VERY FIRST TIME, and it’s also our first big convention get together of the year, so we hope to kick things off in style. The guest [...]
Continue ReadingGraphic Details: A Career Unexpected
I intend to use this as a way to chronicle my experiences in the industry and to discuss the growth of graphic novels over the past dozen years, including examining where they’re headed in today’s market. I’ll map out the journey, the struggle, and the ups and downs of how some very dedicated (and often unsung) people worked their asses off to expand the reach of this medium and get it to where it is today. I will have a lot to say.
Continue ReadingComics and GNs slightly down in February
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIcv2’s monthly sales estimates are up, and comics and graphic novels were down a bit in February, which, given that last February was the depths of the Great Recession, is not so great: Comic sales in comic stores were down slightly in February, with a 3% decline vs. the year ago [...]
Continue ReadingPride and Prejudice and Zombies comic previewed
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Over at Pop Candy, Whitney Matheson has a preview of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel by Tony Lee and Cliff Richards. Del Rey will be publishing the latest entry in the tea cups and terror genre in May.
Continue ReadingFAQ: What’s with -dome?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA few of you have asked why The Beat attempted to call the whole Amazon Omnibus thing Omnibus Dome. This is a reaction to the over use of -gate as the suffix of choice for scandal or controversy. Prior to Watergate — so named because it involved employees of the Republican [...]
Continue ReadingTrailer for TO TEACH
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBefore he was a polarizing figure in the 2008 US presidential election. Professor William Ayers was also a respected educational figure with many books to his credit. Now he’s bringing his thoughts on the teaching life to comics with a graphic novel adaptation of TO TEACH: THE JOURNEY, IN COMICS, illustrated [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 3/11/10
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § Jeet Heer looks at Alex Toth’s handling of phallic symbols and does not even mention the fact that this guys cigarette holder is drooping, which symbolizes erectile anxieties. A 1950s romance comic, one that features a stereotypically weepy woman crying over her love life, is normally not where you would expect [...]
Continue ReadingMore on the DBD/Amazon freeze
Share this link on Facebook!TweetCalvin Reid has a story up on PW with more insider comments on what’s going on, and it looks like it may take a little while to get everything fixed: A source knowledgeable about the situation told PW that Amazon has been forced to temporarily take down buy buttons for all titles [...]
Continue ReadingAl Davison’s Gaimanda
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAl Davison is a British comics artist and comic shop owner best known for his searing autobiographical work, THE SPIRAL CAGE, and for his martial arts prowess, despite being born with spina bifida. Anyway, on his blog, Davison recounts having a dream about the recently engaged Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer, [...]
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