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Archives for 04/28/2010 6:26 pm

Clowes on tour!

04/28/2010 6:26 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Clowes on tour!

Dan Clowes is on tour this week, D&Q tells u, starting today in Washington DC. In each city, Dan will be talking with a special guest moderator complete with slide show. (and it’s a great slide show) And in Boston you get to see Ghost World after the event, with an introduction by Dan himself. […]

Filed Under: Drawn & Quarterly Tagged With: Great Cartoonists, Wilson

Iwaoka's SATURN APARTMENTS debuts

04/28/2010 6:25 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Iwaoka's SATURN APARTMENTS debuts

Another intriguing looking Viz Signature manga is coming via their partnership with IKKI Magazine, Hisae Iwaoka’s SATURN APARTMENTS. According to the blurb: Far in the future, humankind has evacuated Earth in order to preserve it. Humans now reside in a gigantic structure that forms a ring around the earth, 35,000 kilometers up in the sky. […]

Filed Under: Literary Comics, Viz

San Diego sweetens the pot for Con by a cool half mil $$$

04/28/2010 5:32 pm by Heidi MacDonald

San Diego sweetens the pot for Con by a cool half mil $$$

Oh, San Diego, how you have changed your tune. Increasingly serious about keeping what they now admit is tens of millions of dollars in revenue to local businesses, and the glamor and publicity that hosting the world’s biggest entertainment marketing event brings, local businesses are throwing in $500,000 to help pay for hotel shuttles to […]

Filed Under: Con Wars!, SDCC '10

More Shuster Award nominees announced

04/28/2010 4:04 pm by Heidi MacDonald

More Shuster Award nominees announced

Additional nominees in the 2010 Joe Shuster Awards have been announced in the Outstanding Canadian Publisher category,as well as the Finalists for the Harry Kremer Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Retailer Award and the Comics for Kids Award. Winners will be announced at a free admission public ceremony in Toronto on the evening of Saturday, June […]

Filed Under: Awards, World Comics

Actual comic book person meets Obama

04/28/2010 2:30 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Actual comic book person meets Obama

While guest appearances in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN and SAVAGE DRAGON, among many other comics, helped President Obama become as sure-fire a sales enhancement as a variant cover by Jim Lee, an actual comic book publisher has done them all one better by getting a real life shout-out from el presidente: Dr. Naif al-Mutawa, founder of Teshkeel […]

Filed Under: Politics, World Comics Tagged With: Obama, Teshkeel

Kibbles 'n' Bits — 4/28/10

04/28/2010 8:16 am by Heidi MacDonald

Kibbles 'n' Bits — 4/28/10

§ LINK OF THE DAY MUST READ! Over at Trouble with Comics Guest Reviewer Month Andrew Farago uncovers the secret history of the Sanford & Son Saga

Winter 1993: Ratings skyrocket during the controversial “Death of Fred Sanford” story arc that spans the entire CBS Thursday night lineup for seven weeks.

Spring 1993: Fred Sanford returns during the controversial “Death of Bubba” story arc. Ratings continue to rise.


Filed Under: Kibbles 'n' Bits Tagged With: Dan Clowes, Sanford & Son, Wilson

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