The Lego Printer
I know this is "not comics" but William Gibson and Douglas Coupland both tweeted it, and I am weak-minded.
Continue ReadingHeritage sets yet more records with Miller and Crumb sales
Via a press release, and speaking of Frank Miller, Heritage Auctions set a record by selling a page of Miller art from Daredevil #188 for $101,575. According to Todd Hignite, who is Consignment Director for Original Comic and Illustration Art for Heritage, it's a record for original art from the 80s, and "one of the handful of highest prices that Heritage has ever seen paid for a piece of comic art, period. It’s in very rarefied company.”
Continue ReadingFrank Miller is back
Geoff Boucher catches up with Frank Miller in a long and comprehensive piece covering his recent and current activities. The big news is that his 300 prequel Xerxes is underway, and like the Spartans, it isn't going to take prisoners:
Continue ReadingScary Azaria Gargamel
Hank Azaria was surreptitiously filmed in his role as Gargamel in the upcoming Smurfs movie, and as you can see, it is a chilling portrayal of ultimate evil that will scar our nightmares. Actually, it is quite terrifying.
Continue ReadingHistory on the Internet #3: San Diego 1974
Can you help identify these pioneers? At first we were amazed at the number of girls there but then remembered it was the 70s and everyone has long hair. Also, maybe it's just those 70s fashions, but nerds of the 70s would totally be Williamsburg hotties today. Finally, notice how slim they are, in a world where high fructose corn syrup didn't exist.
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Joe Quesada promoted to Chief Creative Officer, Marvel Entertainment
Joe Quesada, whose been serving up his Cup o' Joe as Marvel Publishing's E-i-C- and CCO for a decade, has taken a larger role at Marvel Entertainment as Chief Creative Officer where he'll work alongside Alan Fine to provide creative input on Marvel's continuing expansion into all media. Although Quesada has said in the past that the job of editor in chief "comes with a shelf life," his success at guiding Marvel's iconic characters through the digital era and into acquisition by Disney has led him to an even more important role at the company. PR below:
Continue ReadingBye Bye Bye
Yesterday was the final moving day at the old Publishers Weekly office. One last day to shovel everything into a box. Every move comes with a purge purge purge mandate, and since we're moving to a smaller office, the need to travel light was particularly urgent.
Continue ReadingWhere we’ve been, where we’ll be
A preview Heroes Con preview; a smashing comic book wedding; is a comic book really worth $3.99? Not when you have to get rid of hundreds of them; and my final thoughts on BEA.
Continue ReadingKids Read Comics Convention coming up
Via PR, Green Brain Comics is organizing the Kids Read Comics event June 12 and 13th to promote comics for younger readers with two days of workshops and presentations at the local library.
Continue ReadingTHE RUINED CAST teaser trailer
Dash Shaw and Frank Santoro have been working on this teaser for THE RUINED CAST, a new Shaw animation project which includes the Shavian staple of a family in crisis near a body of water, and looks very mind trippy. The final product will be a full length animated feature to be directed by Shaw and produced by Howard Gertler and John Cameron Mitchell. Warning: NSFW if your W does not like male frontal.
Continue ReadingSecond SCOTT PILGRIM trailer debuts
You know, we've been expecting that this thing will be awesome, and this just confirms it, but seeing it all laid out like that makes us wonder if the movie going audience -- which has recently shown itself to be pretty reactionary and unadventurous -- will really except a teenaged romance comedy with lots of fighting. Either the girls will love the romance and the guys will love the fighting...or the girls will hate the fighting and the guys will hate the romance like they usually do. More to the point, can Hollywood successfully MARKET a movie that has crossover appeal?
Continue ReadingAustralians set record for costumed freaks
Can you imagine how long the line for the restroom was?
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits: June 1, 2010
Why are superheroes cool? More discussion of race in superhero comics. What Jonah Hex means to Warners' movie plans. Where to go to the bathroom in San Diego. What happened at the Phoenix Comicon? Today in Kibbles 'n' bits!
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