Torpedo Comics in fire sale
Hit records and stellar nerdlebirty status aren't always enough to steer a retail ship through the shoals of hard business realities. System of a Down's drummer John Dolmayan apparently learned that the hard way, as this sale for Torpedo Comics shows. The online retailers inventory and even domain name are being auctioned off to pay creditors.
Continue ReadingWard Sutton’s Bat Porn
Cartoonist Ward Suttonlooks at the recent Batman XXX movie via the healing medium of funny drawings.
Continue ReadingRead this complete BEASTS OF BURDEN story!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDark Horse has made the Evan Dorkin/Jill Thompson BEASTS OF BURDEN story from The Dark Horse Book of Hauntings available in its entirety as a preview. The Beasts of Burden collection is on sale this week and it’s amazing. Run, don’t walk!
Continue ReadingFLIGHT 7 preview
A preview of Flight 7 is up. This will be the last volume of the anthology of fantasy comics featuring many animators and illustrators. Editor Kazu Kibuishi had a bit more at his blog:
Continue ReadingPeople doing things: Strand tote contest show; Seth Scriver/Jones/Ahlers
A few event photos from around. Christina Foxley, from The Strand bookstore sent us a few photos of the exhibit of the Strand Tote Bag design contest which was held the other night at SVA. Above, left to right: Toon Books Françoise Mouly, runner up Domitille Collardey, cartoonist and contest judge Art Spiegelman; another judge, R. Sikoryak; runner-up Tim Goldman and winner Zak Foster. We stopped by and ran into many cartoon types, including Sarah Glidden who told us about her next project after the upcoming How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less, another comics-journalism piece, and it sounds pretty interesting. Collardey is what you call "an emerging cartoon star" and she's presently working on a graphic novel to be published in France.
Continue ReadingComic-Con events: LOOK AROUND YOU
Okay we're not going to post EVERY tv PR we find about Comic-Con, but this one struck very near and dear to our hearts -- it seems Robert Popper and Peter Serafinowicz, the stars of LOOK AROUND YOU are coming to comic-con. Yet another one of our favorite BBC cult shows, LOOK AROUND YOU has run on Adult Swim and if you've seen it you know that science has never been the same since these classic experiments, such as the creation of "sulphagne" or driving while asleep.
Continue ReadingComic-Con night at Padres game is not to be
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As reported here and a few other places, the San Diego Padres baseball team’s schedule for July 16th contained an intriguing item called “Comic-Con Night.” Which sounds promising. Sadly, it is just a mistake on the Padres schedule, according to SDCC spokesman David Glanzer. Although the con and the Padres had been [...]
Continue ReadingMidtown goes Downtown
Share this link on Facebook!TweetVia PR, word that Midtown Comics will be opening a downtown branch in the Wall St. area very this fall. With two existing branches — Times Square and Grand Central — already serving the commuter crowd, this looks to cement Midtown’s place as one of the biggest retail accounts for Diamond: Midtown [...]
Continue ReadingBriefs & Boxers! 06/23/10
This week: World Cup drama, comic-book direct-market retail drama, Dan DiDio comedy, a comic so awful that the New York Times reports on it, and a couple of Kurt Busiek books worth your time.
Continue ReadingHumanoids return finds a rocky road
CBR's Alex Dueben talks to Humanoids E-i-C Bob Silva about the French publisher's return to the US market after deals with DC and Devil's Due, but Silva says the retail market has not been kind to their offerings:
Continue ReadingDustin Harbin’s cartoon diary
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet TCAF, karaoke, comics. BTW, renditions of “Living on a Prayer” are why we avoid most karaoke outings! Just sayin’.
Continue ReadingIf the new DC Comics app keeps crashing your device…
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Try downloading the DC Comics via the regular comiXology app. ComiXology’s David Steinberger promises an update via Twitter: we’re updating the app with apple now, we have found a bug with early iPods and iPhones.
Continue ReadingDC Comics launches iPad/iPhone app — with day-and-date — UPDATED
Quietly in the night, with no fanfare, coming in on little cat feet, DC Comics has launched an application for iPhone and iPad. The app was developed by ComiXology, which also launched the Marvel and Boom comics apps, and the DC version has a similar interface. Initial offerings include free comics: several stories from Batman Black & White, including one by Ted McKeever, Bayou from Zuda, and a preview of today's Superman #700. Paid offerings -- priced at the Marvel standard of $1.99 -- include the first issues of Sandman, Unwritten, Fables and The Losers, issues of Fringe, and a bunch DCU issues, including all four issues of Justice League: Generation Lost -- the first three issues are priced at $1.99, while issues 4 -- arriving in stores today -- is priced at cover price of $2.99.
Continue ReadingNeely talks Glenn & Henry Forever!
Four guys walked into a bar and decided to write a comic about Glenn Danzig & Henry Rollins... as lovers. Tom Neely answers a few questions on behalf of Igloo Tornado about Henry & Glenn Forever.
Continue ReadingTime waster: Scott Pilgrim Avatar Creator
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