Graphic.ly raises $3 million for digital comics company
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet As more folks start off their year with funding announcements, Graphicly has just announced that they have received $3 million in VC via various entities. According to the PR, the funding will lead to the addition of all sorts of multimedia capabilities — video and audio and so on — to [...]
Continue ReadingAfternoon reading: Sean Murphy’s Off Road – update
Before there was JOE THE BARBARIAN, there was Sean Murphy's OFF ROAD, the story of some guys on a weekend trip that becomes, by turns, confessional and dangerous. Kind of like the Breakfast Club in a jeep. IDW has released a new edition today -- the original was published by Oni. More proof that when you OWN YOUR WORK you can keep making money off it.
Continue ReadingRemake of ANNIE on the way from Will Smith
Variety confirms that everyone's favorite orphan is getting a reboot courtesy if Will Smith's production company, with daughter Willow Smith set to star. Smith's production company is teaming with Jay-Z to form a new movie-making joint venture and ANNIE is on the list.
Continue ReadingWhat’s the deal with: Top Cow’s consolidation
2011 is going to be a tumultuous year for comics. Heck, it's already tumultuous. There's going to be consolidation and retrenchment. So over the next few weeks we'll be checking in at a few companies to see what's going on -- some of it's great and some of it is not so great. We will start with Top Cow which announced last week that they were consolidating many of their functions at Image Central, including production, marketing and sales efforts.
Continue ReadingFantastic Three Death watch
Okay, so a member of the Fantastic Four died in FF #587 -- a comic which would normally be on sale tomorrow, Wednesday, like usual, but went on sale early at selected retailers. At the same time, a story hit the wires, NPR and just about every other media outlet with a "DEATH IN THE FAMILY" type story, effectively spoiling what had been a pretty well kept secret until then. Twitter was fluttering from the moment the stories hit. Whether you were outraged or shrugged your shoulders at the spoilage it was yet another example of a Big Two publisher planting a major media story and having no good option for timing. This also happened, famously, with the death of Captain America, the death of Batman, and surely many others stories we are too jaded to remember.
Continue ReadingFight: Gabrielle Bell vs bedbugs
Gabrielle Bell is cartooning about her experiences with bedbugs in a strip called "Nocturnal Guests" and it's funny and creepy. Here in NYC, the herpes of furniture is an ever present threat hanging over the heads of even decent folks. For a packrat like us, bedbugs would be the end of life itself. It's getting so you just cross the street when you see a mattress on the sidewalk.
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 1/26/11
Interviews, book battles, Caotain Canuck -- what can it all mean???
Continue ReadingCameron Stewart’s finished Suicide Girls cover
When we ran yesterday's news about a new Suicide Girls comic from IDW, the PR included a rough version of the cover by Cameron Stewart. Stewart tweeted the finished version and it's a lot nicer. And for a comic based on a website featuring nude models, it is totally classy.
Continue ReadingIDW launches Suicide Girls comic
Actress Brea Grant, artist David Hahn and cover artist Cameron Stewart are not a creative team to be taken lightly. The Suicide Girls are an early adapter in the "tattoo'd Goth Girls are sexy" derby, and for a subscription you can look at naked but kind of artful photos of lots of them, and the individual models have more of an empowered air about them than most naked girl sites. Anyway, a comic book.
Continue ReadingWhat’s next for what’s left of Wizard?
Join us for a spin around the internet and dig into SEC filings that explain what Wizard's business plan is now.
Continue ReadingCartoonist Shaun Tan nominated for an Oscar®
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Although this morning’s Oscar nominations revealed a paucity of comics-themed movies — IRON MAN 2’s SPX nom being the only one for Team Comics Movies — Australian cartoonist Shaun Tan was nominated in the Short Film (Animated) category. There’s a site for the film, THE LOST THING, which Tan directed, here. [...]
Continue Reading2 down, 48 other Cartoonist Laureates to go
In light of yesterday's announcement of James Kochalka being appointed "country's first ever" Cartoonist Laureate in Vermont, it appears that one other state has previously named a cartoonist laureate, Chad Carpenter. And what state would that be? Alaska. That's right, the 50th state in terms of population density per square mile named a Cartoonist Laureate before states like Oregon, Washington, California, New York and the ever-burgeoning Vermont. These states are pregnant with cartoonists, illustrators, animators and graphic novelists. When asked about the erroneous credit The Center For Cartoon Studies co-founder, James Sturm, stated, "I should have known. Alaska is the only state in the country that has a longer cartooning season than Vermont." For those down south, cartooning season lasts as long as there is snow on the ground and whiskey in your mug.
Continue ReadingMeanwhile, GeekChicDaily raises $1.5 million
While the timing, abutting yesterday's Wizard announcements, would seem to be connected, there's no mention of Gareb Shamus in today's news of $1.5 million in capital being raised for GeekChicDaily. Shamus launched the daily newsletter last year along with Peter Levin and $1 million in seed money from producer Peter Guber.
Continue ReadingHillenburg-created SpongeBob comics due from Bongo
Talk about an undersea no-brainer: SpongeBob SquarePants creator Steve Hillenburg will be creating the first ever standalone US SpongeBob comic, to be distributed by Bongo. Former Nickelodeon Magazine comics editor Chris Duffy, who edited the SpongeBob comics in that magazine, will edit the series.
Continue Reading4th Annual International Manga Award Winners Annonced
Share this link on Facebook!TweetLast week the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the winners of the 4th Annual International Manga Award. The International Manga Award – the “Nobel Prize of manga” was created by Former Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso to recognize the efforts of non-Japanese manga influenced artists worldwide. Here’s the full list of [...]
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