Comic-Con Programming for Saturday is up
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIt’s here! Some highlights below: 10:00-11:00 Spotlight on Carla Speed McNeil— Comic-Con special guest Carla Speed McNeil is best known for her creator-owned title Finder. A few years back, Carla took new stories of Finder to the Internet, and the result was an Eisner Award for best Webcomic of 2008 and a [...]
Continue ReadingWeekend Reading: The Moon Prince
Kevin Mutch's story is just getting going, but thing around the orphans Max and Molly are sure getting strange.
Continue ReadingCully Hamner will be on the RED panel
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAs the SD10 schedule drifts out, the big movie panels are shaping up, and one of the biggest comic book movies at this year’s show is surely RED, based on the Warren Ellis/Cully Hamner miniseries. Dame Helen Mirren, Bruce Willis, Mary Louise Parker, and Karl Urban will all be on [...]
Continue Reading86 year old man draws comic strip, changes world
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We don’t often have occasion to link to the comic strip musings at The Comics Curmudgeon but it happened to come up in our feed, and just as in various religions once a year a day of spiritual contemplation and cleansing is observed, so those of us who worship at the [...]
Continue ReadingMore links than you know what to do with
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § Congrats to Dean Haspiel, who got an Emmy nomination for his work on the titles to the HBO series Bored to Death. Emmy nominations for Outstanding Main Title Design Bored To Death • HBO • Dakota Pictures, 3 Arts Entertainment /Fair Harbor Productions in association with HBO Entertainment Tom Barham, Designer/Director Marci Ichimura, [...]
Continue ReadingPreview: STREET ANGEL trailer
Did you know there is an award-=winning short film based on Jim Rugg and Brian Maruca's awesome STREET ANGEL comic? Short version: what if Hit Girl was Kick-Ass? The film will be screened on Thursday at this year's Comic-Con, as part of the indie film festival. The film already won Best International Film, Best Director and Best Actress at the Phoenix Comic-Con and was made in Australia.
Continue ReadingPeople with Blogs: JASON!!!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The tall, taciturn Norwegian comics giant Jason has a blog, which, characteristically, is mostly sketches.
Continue ReadingNice Art: Jeffrey Catherine Jones
If you're not friends with artist Jeffrey Catherine Jones on Facebook, you are missing out on lots of art, like this gorgeous sketch which Jones gave us permission to post here in honor of Cat Blogging Friday.
Continue ReadingSan Diego FRIDAY Programming: Star Wars Day
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIt’s up! Quick highlights:  10:00-11:00 Publishing Comics— Four publishers—Matt Gagnon (BOOM!), Gary Groth (Fantagraphics), Dallas Middaugh (Del Rey Manga), and Mark Siegel (First Second Books) — each from a different part of the comics industry, discuss what’s involved in running a publishing company and in creating and fostering a unique comics ideology. Moderated [...]
Continue ReadingTop 10 and market share for June
Diamond has released the Top Ten and market share information for June. Here's the periodical and GN lists. Marvel and DC split the periodicals while DC, as usual, dominated the GN list.
Continue ReadingTokyopop joins Hulu
Have you ever wanted to see the seldom-screened VAN VON HUNTER movie? Soon you can watch it and other Toykopop-produced material such as their Manga Motion comics on their new Hulu site. Currently showing, Spring and Chaos (Kenji no Haru) is the animated biography of poet Kenji Miyazawa.
Continue ReadingDynamite teases Kirby project
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Along with the image, we’re told: Kirby: Genesis is coming! Dynamite presents Alex Ross, and he’s bringing a friend! Stay tuned for full announcement coming soon!
Continue ReadingImage news: CHEW Poyo variant and more Firsts
A scary chicken graces the cover of a CHEW variant edition available at Comic-Con.
Continue ReadingWho is the biggest villain in comics today?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe recently revamped by Matt Fraction MANDARIN? The revitalized under Paul Cornell LEX LUTHOR? Or … this guy?
Continue Reading“The Brain” to co-host Eisners
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via PR, the Eisners this year will have two hosts — returning in the Alec Baldwin role, we have Bill Morrison. And portraying Steve Martin will be newcomer Maurice LaMarche, a voice actor best known for playing “The Brain” in Pinky and the Brain. Our big question–will he mention “crumb-crisp [...]
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