RIP Mike Esposito
Silver Age inking manstay Mike Esposito has passed away at the age of 83, according to numerous online sources. Esposito was best known for his collaboration with penciller Ross Andru on Superman, Wonder Woman, Spider-Man and hundreds of other books.
Continue ReadingIt’s Wonder Woman Day
In Portland, OR and Flemington, NJ.. Celebrate the season and please give to help stop domestic violence.
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween: Dave Roman
Dave Roman is the writer of AGNES QUILL and TEEN BOAT, the manga X-Men, LAST AIRBENDER comics, the cartoonist behind ASTRONAUT ELEMENTARY and obviously a big Halloween fan. He's swell.
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As you may recall, I lost my camera at this year's SPX. Soon after, Jen Vaughn, bless her heart, started a fund raising drive to buy me a new camera, and -- mostly I'm sure because of Jen's enthusiasm -- folks had donated about enough for a more than decent digital camera.
Continue Reading31 days of Halloween: DC Comics
Even the Justice League is getting into the spirit of Halloween with this year's DCU Halloween Special, now on sale. Contents include stories by Billy Tucci, Lee Garbett, Bryan Q. Miller and Joe Harris. More in link.
Continue ReadingAnother culprit for declining comics sales….too much internet buzz?
Over at iFanboy, Josh Flanagan continues this week's succession of toilet metaphors for the monthly sales figures with "Q3 Comic Book Sales Are in the Crapper". We don't agree with Flanagan's overall distress -- there is no need to "cross fingers" that comics will get through this rough patch. Let's get one things straight in all this mishegoss: comics will continue on in some format either like or unlike the one we have today. Period. People have been proclaiming the death of comics for over 50 years and something new always comes along. The particular aspect of the present day comics industry that you or I are involved with may not make the jump but something else will. Them's the breaks.That aside, the article is interesting for the comments section, which doesn't go for the knee-jerk complaint that big events are killing comics.
Continue ReadingThe secret history of Wonder Woman
A letter of early costume design notes is found. Found via Comics Alliance, where it is pointed out that artist H.G. Peter was 61 years old when tasked with designing this iconic character.
Continue ReadingThe Dan Clowes Show and multimedia
Should comics panels be written about or recorded for all to hear? This panel report from APE of Dan Nadel interviewing Daniel Clowes has been linked everywhere, probably because it's such a thorough write-up. There's lots of dish on other cartoonists, and anecdotes from the history of alt.comix:
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Nice Art: 1909
Ming Doyle has posted her art school college thesis 1909, a steampunk girl's own adventure.
Continue ReadingLo, there shall come a Bombur
We haven't been covering the Hobbit movie drama because it was just too....dramatic. Despite everyone being a total wanker and trying to prevent a Hobbit movie from actually being made, it seems that Peter Jackson & Co. are set to start filming two films back to back in February... Somewhere. A dispute involving the New Zealand acting union was quickly resolved when Jackson threatened to move the production -- however, the studio was so pissed off that they might still move the two Hobbit films to a more hospitable location. Common sense would say "You've already GOT Hobbiton and Rivendell in New Zealand" but...we shall see. Meanwhile casting is moving right along! Lets see who we have here.
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween: John Cebollero
Artist John Cebollero is one of our pals, we'll admit, but we'll come right out and say it: he should be way better known than he is. With a style based on the organic, EC-influenced art of 70s undergrounds, Cebollero has a creepy, darkly funny look that's all his own.
Continue ReadingNice Art: GREEN LANTERN Concept Art
Bits and pieces of scrimshaw from the Green Lantern movie are leaking out, and here are a few nice pieces of concept art, as seen at Splash Page.
Continue ReadingThe Missing KRAMERS caper
There seems to have been a recent rash of comics show crimes, what with a daring theft at NYCC. Alvin Buenaventura reports that two copies of the rare and valuable KRAMERS ERGOT were stolen from his booth at APE. Let's call this one a brazen heist.
Continue ReadingMarvel Month-to-Month Sales: August 2010
Overall, direct market sales for August were substantially down, prompting a bit of handwringing online. And it's true that no title even came close to reaching the 100,000 mark (for only the third time since Diamond achieved their monopoly of the direct market). It's not so much that sales on individual titles suddenly lurched down in August. They've been dropping for a while, and the comparisons with one or two years ago make fairly grim reading at the moment (though bear in mind they don't show books being cancelled and replaced by higher-selling new launches). Rather, it's a month without any really big releases from either company. Marvel's major launch was a new NAMOR series, which lands just outside the top 40, while the biggest story events were the X-Men/vampires affair and the Daredevil-centred SHADOWLAND. As usual, Marvel had the largest share of the direct market, leading DC by 45% to 32% in terms of units, and 41% to 28% in dollars.
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