EXCLUSIVE: Updated COMPLETE New York Comic Con programming
Here it is!. A ton of comics, manga, anime and TV programming. UPDATE: We've been provided with a text file so you can see who and what is on each panel. Over 300 panels, and surely the most extensive anime/manga program ever in NYC...and the comics aren't bad either. A lot to look at but we've already marked this one down:
Continue ReadingDC Daily News
A lot of think pieces are beginning to come out about the DC upheaval -- it's beginning to be clear that the initial feelings of relief after the first press release were about as accurate as the "We dodged that one!" feelings right after Katrina passed through. As expected, Tom Spurgeon lays out Twelve Initial Questions I Have About DC's Publishing Moves Announcements and it's very thorough. Tom writes from the distinct perspective of someone who isn't immersed in day-to-day DC Kremlinology and yet comes to many of the same conclusions.
Continue Reading80 DC employees to move or be laid off
When a company spokesman suggested that the LA Times story stating that 20 percent of DC's 250 or 50 employees would be laid off, was incorrect, he was perhaps half right. Bloomberg News uncovered a NY State Dept. of Labor WARN filing (Worker Adjustment and Retraining) which says that 80 employees will be laid off or relocate. Layoffs will begin on 12/27/2010 and continue through 8/27/2011, according to filer June Martin, SVP Human Resources. A DC spokesman told Bloomberg:
Continue ReadingNice Art: Ivan Brunetti, Skottie Young
This Strange Tale II cover by Ivan Brunetti -- revealed in Marvel's December solicitations -- has been justly lauded from coast to coast -- just look at the expression on Dr. Strange's face if you don't believe us. But we also like this Ozma of Oz cover by Skottie Young. We've seen a lot of Oz art in our day, and this takes it in a whole new direction that genuinely exciting.
Continue ReadingNice Art: Four Color Process
Art blog Four Color Process - adventures deep inside the comic book blows up comics panels and finds the truth about life in benday dots. And it's a whole lotta truth.
Continue ReadingChloe Moretz joins goth squad as Emily the Strange
Young Chloe Moretz is adding to her geek cred by starring as yet another cartoon character, Emily the Strange, Deadline reports. Originally created as a clothing line mascot by Rob Reger, Emily is a cat-loving goth girl (like there is any other kind) who had expanded into print and graphic novels. An Emily comic is published by Dark Horse, and DH head Mike Richardson will be one of the producers.
Continue ReadingMatt Furie designs Return of the Quack
Matt Furie, creator of the much loved indie comic BOY'S CLUB, has supplied the art for a web-video game called Return of the Quack. And it's excellent. It's Friday! At 2 pm the workweek ends, and you may commence playing this game.
Continue ReadingHousekeeping
Please note, if I catch anyone spoofing a comics professional or another poster, the spoofer will be BANNED. The spoofing does not include ISPs, so you will be caught very quickly.
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Share this link on Facebook!TweetYes, the Beat RSS feed has been hacked. Technicians are on it as we speak.
Continue ReadingROBOT: The Bollywood/Robot Extravaganza that has everyone tweeting!
This is what it was like when the internet was cool.
Continue ReadingDC moves only part of bigger WB shake-up
As we head into Day 3 of the Bi-Coastal Era of DC Comics, even bigger organizational changes were announced at Warner Bros. Short version: Time Warner head Jeff Bewkes announced that Warner Bros Chairman/CEO Barry Meyer would be staying on for two years (he had been rumored to be retiring before that) but studio head Alan Horn will be moving along in April 2011. Three men will fill a three-headed president role to replace Horn: Jeff Robinov, the movie guy, Bruce Rosenblum, the TV guy, and Kevin Tsujihara the multimedia/home entertainment guy. Although this all seems far distant from the traditional comics business, it is all tied in, of course.
Continue ReadingThe way forward with webcomics tech
The other day comics/tech guru Scott McCloud posted examples of two webcomics using current navigation techniques to give advanced motion and storytelling effects. One, Turbo Defiant Kimecan (top) uses Flash to allow readers to time the appearance of panels and balloons. Never Mind the Bullets (bottom) uses HTML 5 to gives kind of "motion comics-y" floating animation. As McCloud points out, both are just examples, not role models -- Never Mind the Bullets suggested we download IE9, which was an immediate fail. The comments are unkind:
Continue ReadingSighted: Isaac Perlmutter, sort of
Forbes has published its list of the 400 richest Americans and Marvel CEO Isaac Perlmutter clocks in at #250 with $1.65 billion, much of it from the $4 billion sale of Marvel to Disney last year. The piece also contains a real oddity: a photograph of Perlmutter.
Continue ReadingSeparated at birth: Blacksad and Gay French CGI cat Orangina commercial
Also: Why no BLACKSAD movie yet? Alexandre Aja was rumored to be involved.
Continue ReadingThe WildStorm Legacy
With the announcement of the closure of WildStorm imprint at DC and the retiring of the WildStorm name, it isn't just another in a long list of comics imprints that have ended over the years. In its 18 year run WildStorm has been a vital part of several revolutions in commercial comics, and changed the game in many ways -- Rob Liefeld's post below gives a succinet run down of some of the highlights. Founded by Jim Lee as one of the original six Image Studios (along with Marc Sillvestri's Top Cow, Todd McFarlane's McFarlane Productions, Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios, Jim Valentino's ShadowLine and Erik Larsen's Highbrow Entertainment), WildStorm immediately established itself as one of the most commercial, with huge sellers like WildCATS and Gen 13. A series of developing fan favorite artists, including of course Lee himself, but also J. Scott Campbell, Joe Madureira and Humberto Ramos, kept popularity up, while the creator owned Homage imprint delivered such strong properties as Astro City and Leave it To Chance. Although known first for their art, by the end of the decade, WildStorm was really becoming known for some of the most daring mainstream writing of the period, with genre-defining work by Warren Ellis and Mark Millar, strong adventure material by Jimmy Palmiotti and Ed Brubaker, as well as daring experiments like Automatic Kafka, a book by Joe Casey and Ashley Wood that people are still figuring out. And then there was America's Best Comics, an new line of comics written by Alan Moore that would introduce the world to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Tom Strong, Promethea and Top Ten, the superhero police procedural. And our favorite, Jack B. Quick, the boy inventor who solved science's greatest non problems. Of course, there are dark parts to the legacy as well, all of which will be trotted out and discussed at length, we're sure. But for now, we asked creators and staff for some of their good memories, and this is what they came back with.
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