Jet City Comic Show hits Seattle Sept. 25th.
We've just posted the info on the upcoming Jet City Comic Show, which takes place September 25th in Seattle at the Seattle Center Exhibition Hall. It's a new one-day show with a nice guest lineup:
Continue ReadingMo’ money, mo’ stats: Comics printing costs
Re the current discussion following the actual creative costs quoted by Glenn Hauman in a recent post ,Todd Allen reminded me of a piece he wrote for PW COmics Week a while ago breaking down printing costs vs profits. Here's an excerpt ( but the whole piece is very long and should be read in its entirety.)
Continue ReadingIs the Betty White comic book the solution to everything?
We declared a moratorium on Bluewater Comics news a while ago due to their awful back-end work for hire contract (and were taken off their PR list as a result) but whatever we think of their business model, we do have to give credit where it is due: they are absolute monsters at PR, and the recently announced Betty White Female Force comic is no exception. It's popped up on our news feed from EW, the LA TImes, the New York Times and everywhere else; a Google search for "Betty White Bluewater" yields 74,000 results. Even the Today Show blog picked up the Reuters story about the comic.
Continue ReadingMoney makes the world go ’round 2: Khepri’s tough times
Khepri Comics is a web-based comics seller that's been around for over a decade, offering a lot of indie books but specializing in work by Brian Wood, Cliff Chiang, Becky Cloonan, and other "new mainstream" creators. Over the years, owner Brian Scot Johnson has built a strong relationship with these creators by promoting their work via special sales and so on. By partnering with Khepri these creators -- who, in addition to their distinctive work, have well-defined fanbases which they maintain via web interaction -- would be able to, say, offer a blog preview of their small press work with a link to Khepri and know that consumers would be able to purchase a copy.
Continue ReadingMoney makes the world go ’round: The bottom line of comics creation
Over Labor Day, Glenn Hauman at ComicMix had a fine post about the actual cost of comics which I'm quoting at length because it's so true: That's about how much it costs for an average page of comic book art, in terms of labor. Figure $100 for the writer, $150 for the penciller, $130 for the inker, $90 for the colorist, and $30 for the letterer. Those numbers go up and down depending on talent and publishers, but that's a nice round number for us to work with.
Continue ReadingTOON Books goes with Candlewick Press
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet TOON Books, Françoise Mouly’s imprint of comics for beginning readers, has announced a partnership with Candlewick Press. Previously a standalone line distributed by Diamond Books, TOON will now have its backlist and future releases distributed by Candlewick and the Random House network. Massachusetts-based Candlewick publishes such popular series as Where’s Waldo? [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 9/8/10
§ Prominent political blogger Kevin Drum faced a decision many of us have been unable to avoid: He wanted to get rid of some old shit comics and found no one wanted them.
Continue ReadingNew RED clip: You wouldn’t like Helen Mirren when she’s bored
A new clip from RED, the Bruce Willis-starring movie loosely based on RED by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, has been released, and to the surprise of no one, it features what is the most eagerly anticipated aspect of the film: Dame Helen Mirren blowing shit up. We're told RED has been tracking very well and may even be the graphic novel base hit that perks up an otherwise painful year.
Continue ReadingTop Cow revives Minotaur Press
Image Comics house Top Cow has confirmed that they are resurrecting their Minotaur Press imprint, which will be a home for "darker, more nuanced stories." A previous version of Minotaur was once home to such books as Obergeist by Tony Harris and Dan Jolley and Felon by Greg Rucka and Matthew Clark. The new version kicks off with Echoes by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Rahsan Ekedal and Last Mortal written by Filip Sablik and John Mahoney with art by Thomas Nachlik. PR below:
Continue ReadingYadro joins Dark Horse
Kari Yadro has joined Dark Horse at the new job of events and community manager, a position which will oversee both convention appearances and events and social networking channels. Yadro was formerly at Barnes & Noble. PR below:
Continue ReadingWant them all: Criterion’s ATP classic film flyers
A few days ago, we linked to Scott Morse's sweet poster for the ATP film festival that's being held this November, and suspected more cool old movie posters by cartoonists were forthcoming. Well, just call us Salander, because earlier today, Morse retweeted a link from Criterion to a huge photo of the whole collection, which includes posters by (squinting hard) Kate Beaton, Scott Campbell, Connor Willumsen, Robert Goodin, Jason Latour, Francesco Francavilla and many more. We're trying to get some images of the rest of the flyer, because they look amazing! The whole giant image is in the second link.
Continue ReadingSuper Cool: New Jack Kirby website and discussion
Looking to get high today? What If Kirby is a new site devoted to new, detailed, mind-blasting scans of Jack Kirby's artwork, and honestly just a few minutes of browsing sent The Beat tripping into new realms. Purchase of a membership in the Jack Kirby Museum & Research Center gives access to the real hard stuff however: even bigger scans.
Continue ReadingNew Spidey Andrew Garfield was to the webbing born
There's a new Spider-Man franchise underway and it stars young Brit actor Andrew Garfield as the webslinger. But who is this man and will he be able to fill the tights and heavy eyewear of Tobey Maguire and Nicholas Hammond before him? Doing the rounds to promote his new film NEVER LET ME GO, he opened up for the first time about playing Peter Parker, and even if it's just his press agent telling him what to say, as is so often the case these days, Garfield has sold it beautifully:
Continue ReadingNice Art: INCOGNITO variant cover by Sean Phillips
Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' INCOGNITO is back, with a new miniseries, INCOGNITO: BAD INFLUENCES, and of course Phillips has provided a stunning cover for the first issue. The book is on sale on October 6.
Continue ReadingYou Must See This: Johnny Canuck
Via Superitch, an example of Canada's WWII comics efforts, in the shape of a complete Johnny Canuck story. We would give a lot to have a larger image of this cover, but alas, the internet has failed us. THAT'S how special Johnny Canuck is.
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