A month of previews: Lone Pine
Day Two of Preview month features is the Xeric Grant-winning Lone Pine by Jed McGowan, which looks like your typical duo-tone indie comic but turns into a mystery set in the deep, dark woods.
Continue ReadingFrank Miller’s Krypto-fascist
In the spirit of Election Day 2010, Frank Miller has some "fun."
Continue ReadingMarvel gets accessible with their “Point 1″ initiative
Marvel held a press conference today with Senior Vice-President of Sales & Circulation David Gabriel, and VP-Executive Editors Axel Alonso and Tom Brevoort to talk about their newly announced "Point 1" initiative. Starting in February, 11 titles will have special ".1" issues that will serve as jumping on points for new readers. (See the end of the story for the complete list.) These issues will all feature standalone stories that will still lay the groundwork for the next year's plotlines. The initiative is definitely aimed at getting new readers on board, with a $2.99 cover price -– but subsequent issues, which will all ship the same month, will go back to the $3.99 price point.
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Logo Study with Rian Hughes
Via The Source a study of the Great Rian Hughes's various logos for Batman and Robin. All so similar in the strong shape (derived from the 60 year old original) and yet differing in tiny details in the readability of the lettering and even Batman's eyes.
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Celebrate the Day of the Dead!
Or, how some of us will be feeling tomorrow morning after the election. Thus ends our Halloween celebration. Until next year, my lovelies.
Continue ReadingA Month of Previews: The Return of the Dapper Men
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet This is an experiment that will either get some good comics some good exposure…or melt our bandwidth! Every day it seems we get a preview of a comic that is worthy of some attention and exposure. So for the next 30 days we’re going to try to post one a day. [...]
Continue ReadingSalesBeat: The long tail of comics; Marvel clarifies
A couple of developments in the ongoing pamphletpocalypse/sales adjustment. § At long last John Jackson Miller has appeared with comforting words to explain why September's sales figures weren't cause to jump out the window. This may be just our interpretation, but it appears that the plunge isn't so much that all periodical sales are shrinking as top periodical sales are slipping. Miller explains that the tail-end of the long tail is actually HEALTHIER than ever.
Continue ReadingA week of Image teasers: Day 1: The Shape of the Universe
Image is rolling out a series of teaser images for...something. And for now we're going to play along. Call it an eye-opening session. This time out we have a Kandinsky-colored she-male. Nice.
Continue ReadingWalking Dead was a hit!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The Walking Dead premiere last night was the highest rated cable series premiere of 2010, and its highest rating EVER on AMC for an original series, Deadline reports. The premiere drew 5.3 million total viewers, and the second showing increased the total audience to 8.1 million. “It’s a good day to [...]
Continue ReadingSDCC Ticket sales: UPDATE #2: Technical glitch sinks sales
As you may recall, four=day and single day passes for the 2011 San Diego Comic-Con went on sale today, and while the Comic-Con site was a bit sluggish immediately after the 9 am PDT on sale time, now you can get through and so far...plenty of tickets!
Continue ReadingFirst Look: Tintin in the Uncanny Valley
While there may be some perception that comic book movie fever is cooling off, at least one super-epic-mega film that will change the world is in the works -- the Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson Tintin 3D-mocap-CGI epic. Spielberg is directing while Jackson produces The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, which comes out 12/23/11. The cast includes Jamie Bell, Daniel Craig, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones, Mackenzie Crook, Carey Elwes and Daniel Mays, most of whom did mocap or supplied vocal talents.
Continue ReadingHappy All Saints Day!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet And also a reminder….no one does horror like the Japanese!
Continue ReadingWalking Dead Recap: Good morning, America, how are you?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSeason 1/Episode 1: The Walking Dead/Days Gone By What’s your day after Halloween take on the TV Zombiepocalypse? I’m pretty satisfied with the balance of gore and subtlety last night’s highly anticipated (and heavily promoted) pilot episode of The Walking Dead achieved. I may be more satisfied in some ways than others, [...]
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