Kibbles ‘n’ Bits — 4/26/10
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ First off, congrats to Ivan Brandon and Kristyn Ferretti, who tied the knot this weekend. Oh, those crazy kids. § Glenn Danzig and Crystar – for the first time, Frank Santoro tells the story of the two, and your world will never be the same. § There were many, many [...]
Continue ReadingA bad week for comic-book movies?
So how's that April 17th working out for you, Mark Millar? You'll recall that the excitable Scottish scribe was waiting for the day AFTER the KICK-ASS opening for his agents to take out his next project, NEMESIS, a move he may regret considering the tepid opening for KICK-ASS, which only managed a sub-$20 million opening AFTER Lionsgate toted up every penny -- thus avoiding being #2 to a four-week-old cartoon about getting your dragon to use a potty chair. Millar seems to have made peace with the opening however, probably because his agents didn't listen to his advice and already sold the hell out of his next few books. Although there's no disputing that KICK-ASS will recoup on home DVD and got a very smart, savvy marketing push to the target audience, it's still being looked at as a case study of internet buzz not equalling actual movie goer buzz. Some are using it as a platform for wider mythbusting:
Continue ReadingPREVIEW: Jim Rugg’s RAMBO 3.5
Jim Rugg writes to tell us he'll be debuting a new mini comic at SPACE tomorrow, and -- as befits one of our most POPULAR categories here on The Beat -- gave us an exclusive peek:
Continue ReadingSPACE fest news and notes
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSuch a busy weekend! The indie comics tour continues in the Midwest with the SPACE Festival, held this year at a new location: Ramada Plaza Hotel & Conference Center4900 Sinclair RoadColumbus, OH 43229 Show hours are 10-6 Saturday and 11-5 Sunday. The festival includes the presentation of the SPACE Prize, given to publications [...]
Continue Reading2010 Stumptown Trophy Award nominees
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhile we were writing up our Stumptown news, we noted the Stumptown Trophy Awards nominees, and since we never ran ‘em here, thought we should redress that! The winners will be announced tomorrow night (Saturday, April 24th) at Cosmic Monkey Comics. Last year, the awards were presented by the shocking tableau [...]
Continue ReadingStumptown news and notes
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Stumptown Comics Fest unfolds this weekend in Portland, one of the premier events on the indie comics circuit, and what with the Mayor declaring it “Comics Month” in PDX, you know this is Comicstown, USA. The show takes place at the Doubletree Portland Lloyd Center. Panels can be viewed here, [...]
Continue ReadingA few summational thoughts on the Chicago branch of the Magical Comical Tour
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Since my Spring convention schedule wrapped up on Monday, I’ve been trying to just sit quietly on the porch with my eyes closed, but I had some links and thoughts and thingies about the just passed C2E2 that I wanted to express for the big wrap-up before I slide into a [...]
Continue ReadingNews, notes, kibbles, bits
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ “Ruben Bolling” writes to us to let us know that his weekly comic strip, “Tom the Dancing Bug”, is now appearing on Boing Boing. Details here. § The HBO series Bored to Death is looking for comics fan extras and you even get paid and all. Comer & Gallucio Casting is [...]
Continue ReadingArchie Comics introduces first openly gay character
Can a gay teen comically get in trouble with Mr. Weatherbee, humorously strive to win a burger eating contest, make horrible puns and have trouble deciding who to date? At Archie Comics, the answer is yes, as they have introduced their first openly gay character, Kevin Keller. In the words of Archie Co-CEO Jon Goldwater, “The introduction of Kevin is just about keeping the world of Archie Comics current and inclusive. Archie’s hometown of Riverdale has always been a safe world for everyone. It just makes sense to have an openly gay character in Archie comic books.”
Continue ReadingPolitical cartoonists vindicated: Day and Fiore
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Although political cartoonists are an endangered species — as are the newspapers that once carried them — two have won a bit of vindication this week: By now, you have probably all heard the saga of Mark Fiore, whose short web-cartoons make him a political animator rather than a political cartoonist, [...]
Continue ReadingTRUE SWAMP is back
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Jon Lewis’s cult comic about a bunch of neurotic critters in the swamp is back as a webcomic. Go forth and bookmark.
Continue ReadingR. Crumb’s Genesis…the band
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As imagined by Ward Sutton: The Band Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb Sutton has mastered the “visible” touch, for sure.
Continue ReadingTucci and McCool team for NEVSKY
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Oh yeah, speaking of the London Book Fair, this little news nugget was buried in Rachel Deahl’s preview of the event for PW: Russia will be the country of honor at the 2011 fair, and Trident has a few projects with ties to the former U.S.S.R. From authors Ben McCool and William [...]
Continue ReadingLondon Book Fair 2010 – Comics news
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Although clouds of volcanic ash kept most Americans away from the London Book Fair this week, the locals battled their way through, and there was even a Comics and Graphic Novel Pavilion, reports the Nuge at Geek Syndicate: It was a pretty small set up, well smaller than I was expecting, although [...]
Continue ReadingChris Ware’s rejected Fortune cover
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As he mentioned on his C2E2 panel, Chris Ware recently finished a cover for Fortune magazine, only to see it killed, perhaps because of all the jokes in the tiny spaces of the cover. This is really what the internet was invented for, don’t you agree? (Click for larger, rejected version.)
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