Three things overheard at WonderCon on Friday
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet• The Beat: What are you standing in line for? Standee: It might be DC Comics….or it might just be comic books. • “Blackest Night was the most toyetic comic book of all time.” — Unnamed industry observer. • “While I am definitely not [industry superstar's] SMALLEST fan…” — Unnamed industry observer. [...]
Continue ReadingThe view from WonderCon
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As you may have gathered, after our travel day yesterday, we’re currently in San Francisco for the annual WonderCon Convention which kicked off about 45 minutes ago. This was a last minute trip arranged as a sort of junket by the convention itself. In all the hubbub over whether San Diego [...]
Continue ReadingDoctorow’s iPad dissent
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhile most people are counting the seconds to getting their hands on an iPad the way Peter Griffin counts the seconds to his next beer, SF author and Boing Boing blogger Cory Doctorow fires a shot across the bows with Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, [...]
Continue ReadingDay before iPad news roundup
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAs the Future of All Media approaches tomorrow with the launch of the iPad, it’s becoming clear that plenty of comics apps will be at the railing waving back to the mainland as the ship sets sail. Here’s what we’ve seen so far. (Click for larger versions of screenshots so you [...]
Continue ReadingIndie Month-to-Month Sales: February 2010
Share this link on Facebook!TweetBy Matthew Murray The big news this month is that IDW have become a premier publisher. I would include the percentages of the market various companies have, except there’s a fairly big error in the chart this month. Other than massive errors, Buffy sees a small rise thanks to Brad Meltzer coming on [...]
Continue ReadingWonderCon additions
Share this link on Facebook!TweetA few people we didn’t link to the first time who are here at WonderCon taht you should check out: • Man of Action: all four members of Man of Action – Joe Casey, Stephen T. Seagle, Duncan Rouleau, and Joe Kelly – at Image Comics booth #407 and announcing their new [...]
Continue ReadingOfficial Neal Adams on BATMAN: ODYSSEY
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The DCU Source blog is confirming that Neal Adams is returning to the character that he helped define nearly 40 years ago with BATMAN: ODYSSEY, a 12 issue series to be published in July. The story involves Batman facing challenges, fighting villains and going up against a “dark and mysterious matrix [...]
Continue ReadingCARTOON COLLEGE documentary trailer
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet CARTOON COLLEGE is a documentary by Tara Wray and Josh Melrod about the Centre for Cartoon Studies. They’ve just released a new trailer, and while the film’s not finished yet, it is looking good. There aren’t any titles or names in the trailer, so how many cartoonists can you recognize?
Continue ReadingPlease pay for this man to get a Bat Symbol shaved into his hair
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Thirty hours to go to raise $2500 so Cartoon Art Museum Curator Andrew Farago will get a Bat Symbol shaved into his hair at the Cartoon Art Museum party on Friday night. Please, think of the children. And the cartoonists. And the hair. It’s for a good cause! We’ve got about 30 [...]
Continue ReadingWelcome to the future: Marvel jumps on iPad launch
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Andy Ihnatko gets a review iPad (lucky bastard) and discovers comiXology’s Marvel iPad app ready and waiting to change the world. If you’re a purist who needs to see the whole page at once, you can hold the iPad in portrait mode and flip through the story as you would with a [...]
Continue ReadingDC Month-to-Month Sales: February 2010
Share this link on Facebook!Tweetby Marc-Oliver Frisch February was a black month for two of DC’s major imprints. Average direct-market sales for both Vertigo and WildStorm comic books hit their lowest levels in history, with 9,256 and 5,692 units, respectively, and dollar sales to match. In Vertigo’s case, there’s a pretty good excuse, at least, because Fables [...]
Continue ReadingChris Sims did this awesome April Fools joke so I didn’t have to do one
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Top Shelf Announces League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: 1988.
Continue ReadingWonderCon news and notes – updated
Share this link on Facebook!TweetPublishers: Image Comics, featuring Jonathan Ross! The Hero Initiative willl have a party and a print benefitting Ed Hannigan. Info in the link. BOOM! Studios Dark Horse Top Cow Flesk Publications, which is bringing Mark Schultz, Manual Auad, and proverbial others. Bernard Chang and Sean Chen will be there, but we don’t know the booth [...]
Continue ReadingWonderCon party poop
Well, there is a LOT going on,and if we've missed anything, let us know. Last Gasp, Comix Experience, Isotope, Jonah Hex....it's gonna be a busy weekend.
Continue ReadingDash Shaw on tour and in conversation
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via Comics Comics, Shaw is touring to promote BODYWORLD, which, if you haven’t seen the printed copies, is absolutely gorgeous. April 10th and 11th MoCCA Festival, New York Saturday 12:45 to 1:30 pm, panel with Frank Santoro and Bill Kartalopoulos. Tuesday, April 13th The Strand 828 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 7pm event [...]
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