There are many here among us
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOnce again, I’m on Watchtower duty here at Stately Beat Manor on Friday night. A tremendous thunderstorm rages around me, and I wonder, “Is this turret grounded?” Heidi continues to report from the front lines, embedded with the various tribes attending Comic-Con International: San Diego. It’s Raining On Prom Night Entertainment Tonight reports that [...]
Continue ReadingSome thoughts on the Eisner Awards
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet(National Cartoonist Society, Reuben Dinner, 1969) Earlier, Heidi lamented that the Eisner Awards were not given more notice by the general public. But there are ways. Why aren’t the Eisners a bigger deal? EVERYONE, it seems, has planned their party opposite the Eisners, and it’s understandable when the ceremony has evolved into such [...]
Continue ReadingSD10: Big Two Saturday
Marvel At the Saturday Cup o' Joe panel, Marvel teased fans with the hint that they would be doing something to do with Crossgen in 2011. After Crossgen entered bankruptcy, Disney bought up its creative properties. Now that Disney owns and operates Marvel Comics, it is seems natural for them to take advantage of the fact.
Continue ReadingSD10: Indie Comics Saturday
Dark Horse Given that pretty much all of the Spartans died at the Battle of Thermopylae - which was sort of the point - people have been speculating for years about how Frank Miller would wring a sequel out of his hit Dark Horse graphic novel and movie 300. Today, at Comic-Con, the answer came out. The sequel, XERXES, will actually take place at exactly the same time on another battlefield of the same war.
Continue ReadingSD10: Stabbing in Hall H
Share this link on Facebook!TweetTwitter has been flooded with news of a stabbing prior to the Marvel Studios panel in Hall H. According to Andy Khouri: “Hearing conflicting details but it sounds like a dude was stabbed in the face with a pen before the Marvel Studios panel for seat squatting.” Some people on Twitter claim [...]
Continue ReadingIDW announces more Alex Raymond
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIDW’s Library of American Comics expands with more Alex Raymond as Jungle Jim and Flash Gordon, two stylish, definitive strips will be reprinted in a deluxe volume in 2011. PR below: IDW Publishing, a premier publisher of graphic novels and books, today announced the Ultimate Alex Raymond Collection: The Definitive Flash Gordon [...]
Continue ReadingTwo from Mizuki at D&Q
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Drawn & Quarterly expands its gekiga offerings with the announcement of two new books from manga-ka Shigeru Mizuki, one of the most famed cartoonists in Japanese history. (Above image from Drawn, not from either announced project.) Shigeru is known as the master of the macabre yōkai tradition, but the two [...]
Continue ReadingSD10: All the Top Cow news we are now allowed to print
Embargoed until the Top Cow panel happening right about now, we can now share all the latest Top Cow news. Top Cow is reviving Minotaur Press as an imprint for its more "independent-styled series". Upcoming Minotaur projects are ECHOES by Joshua Hale Fialkov and artist Rahsan Ekedal
Continue ReadingBriefs & Boxers! 07/25/10
This week: Some Dopey Prequels and Sequels to WATCHMEN probably in the pipeline; Vertigo not really about to give up the ghost; veteran comics creator gets by on two hours of sleep and a handful of nuts; and more.
Continue ReadingA CONTRACT WITH GOD to come to the screen
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via pr: Legendary comic book master Will Eisner’s groundbreaking graphic novel “A Contract with God” is being adapted into a live action feature film, it was announced this evening at Comic- Con International 2010 by the film’s producers. In what is considered by many to be one of the most influential graphic [...]
Continue ReadingLive Blogging the 2010 Eisner Awards
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe’re back! And we have had no dinner and nothing to eat, so this may be very, very rocky. The evening gala starts with the introduction of host Bill Morrison, who lets on that “Somewhere there is a very small area that sells comics; look for it, search it out, and find [...]
Continue ReadingSD10: Friday — The Big Two
Marvel For those who love GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (and who doesn't), Rocket Raccoon and Groot are getting their own four-issue miniseries this January entitled (wait for it)... ROCKET RACCOON & GROOT.
Continue ReadingDay 1 notes: Hobbits vs healthers
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet • From what we’ve seen, this year’s show is running very, very smoothly. The improved security has led to a slightly more mellow mood, or at least not increased the misery factor. This year’s crowd, from the bit we’ve seen of it, seems to be composed mostly of professional freebie scoopers, [...]
Continue ReadingSD10: Digital comics now!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet by special Beat correspondent Bruce Lidl Late Thursday afternoon, as Comic-Con began to really hit its stride, as the shift from panel and show floor to party mode started to occur, the second annual “Digital Comics Now!” panel, hosted by Chip Mosher of BOOM! Studios got underway. In some ways the panel [...]
Continue ReadingSD10: Dark Horse Presents returns! And more
Dark Horse's much beloved anthology DARK HORSE PRESENTS returns in a brand new print incarnation in March 2011 with all new work from Carla Speed McNeil, Harlan Ellison, Howard Chaykin, and Mike Mignola, among others. Axe Cop, the off the wall webcomic about an axe-wielding cop, written by five year old Malachai Nicolle and illustrated by his adult brother Ethan Nicolle, is coming to Dark Horse in a collected edition this December. It will be followed by a three-part full-color miniseries in the spring of 2011.
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