New JLA cartoon mashup not as funny as old one
Last night on Jimmy Kimmel, they attempted alchemy by taking sound from Jersey Shore and playing it over the JLA cartoon. The results were eh. But it does reference this early internet classic "Superfriends Whassup" which came out more than a decade ago, before YouTube, even:
Continue ReadingDude spends his free time making beautiful images of Kandor
Everyone needs a hobby. Artist Mike Kelley has a doozy. He's been devoting the last ten years to making glass imaged of Kandor, the lost Kryptonian "City in a bottle." It seems that before Superman's home planet was blown to smithereens, Brainiac stole the capital city of Kandor, shrank it down, and put it in a bottle, as we might save a ship or a guppy. Superman recovered the city in ACTION COMICS #242, and decided to keep it in the Fortress of Solitude, because nothing breaks up a lonely day like a tiny bottled city full of Kryptonians.
Continue ReadingBobbie Chase and Pat McCallum join DC Editorial
With a bunch of editorial types going off to California to join Geoff Johns' secret avengers team, there have been a few openings in DC editorial of late, and at least two have been filled.
Continue ReadingChew picked up at Showtime
CHEW, the cibopathic comedy smash comic by John Layman and Rob Guillory has been picked up for development at Showtime, and a script by Terri Hughes Burton and Ron Milbauer has been purchased. It's being planned as a half-hour comedy; Stephen Hopkins will direct as well as executive produce.
Continue ReadingMarvel unveils WonderCon exclusive
Speaking of WonderCon, although Marvel was a proud participant in the 1987 show, they haven't been an exhibitor at WonderCon in many a year-- a string that will be broken in 2011 -- presumably to promote their movie slate. To mark the occasion, they are releasing a show variant cover by Giuseppe Camuncoli:
Continue ReadingOld WonderCon video reveals primitive comics prehistory
Joe Field, inventor of Free Comic Book Day and owner of Flying Colors in Concord, has passed along a video called WonderCon 1988 Review, created as a promo tool to get more exhibitors and publishers to attend the '89 show -- then called the Wonderful World of Comics Convention. With next week's show being the 25th anniversary of the Bay Area confab, he's been posting several historical videos to his YouTube account, and this one will blow your mind with its vivid depiction of the primitive conditions our comics forefathers labored under. In addition to a younger version of Joe himself playing Anderson Cooper, you see younger Stan Lee, young Fabian Nicieza, young Tom De Falco, and several other young un's in local TV coverage of the 1987 event. Several interesting factoids emerge from the coverage.
Continue ReadingTo do: R. Crumb at the Society of Illustrators
Tonight is the opening for a, R. Crumb show that has several associated events. Info inside!
Continue ReadingTo do tonight: Elephantmen signing w/ Richard Starkings
Richard Starkings is the creator of Image Comics' hit series Elephantmen. Born and raised in England, Starkings worked for five years at Marvel UK's London offices as editor, designer and occasional writer of Zoids, The Real Ghostbusters, Transformers and the Doctor Who comic strips featuring the Seventh Doctor. Although he lettered Batman: The Killing Joke with a pen, Richard is perhaps best known for his digital lettering work on Battle Chasers, Danger Girl, Batman: The Long Halloween and Generation X with his award-winning COMICRAFT design studio, which he founded in 1992. Starkings also co-authored the best-selling books Comic Book Lettering The Comicraft Way and Tim Sale: Black And White.
Continue ReadingS.P.A.C.E. 2011: The Jam Show
by Brady Russell S.P.A.C.E. is the Midwest's answer to the Small Press Expo, founded twelve years ago by Bob Corby, as a show that comics creators without a huge following could afford to go to. I've known about it for a long time and always wanted to go. After attending SPX myself for the first time in 1999, I came home and started Googling creators I had met, and I think it was searching for Suzanne Baumann that I found out about S.P.A.C.E. for the first time. The photos made the show look much smaller, much simpler than SPX, which even ten years ago, at the original location, was a pretty crowded scene.
Continue ReadingRare panty variant cover of Grimm Fairy Tales is a hit on eBay
Zenescope is one of those publishers that hangs around the middle of the pack; they've been a it for a while, and if they don't sell giant numbers or have household name hits, they are still at it, occasionally pacting with Discovery or putting out a kids line or doing something else to expand their line. But the bread and butter that keeps Zenescope afloat is cheesecake -- especially of the variant we like to call "loincloth comics." It's like the '90s "Bad Girl" era never went away for GRIMM FAIRY TALES, their flagship title which features skimpily clad girls thrusting their body parts at various fairy tale based characters on the covers. Sometimes tacky, but harmless.
Continue ReadingChart of the day: Top Diamond reorders for the week
Every once in a while, Diamond releases a chart...and every once in a while, The Beat runs it. This is the list of the top-selling reorder and advance reorder products for the week of 3/14/2011-3/20/2011. By itself, it's nothing but a bunch of factoids, but it does give some idea of "sell-through" and what retailers anticipate will sell -- the fact that Daniel Clowes' 11'year-old DAVID BORING tops it is probably because a new book is coming out (MR. WONDERFUL) or perhaps because it had been out of print and became available.
Continue ReadingNew CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER trailer
Intensive lab scene accompanied by anxious music? Check. Unsubtle reference to Avengers franchise in title? Check. The line "You don't know when to quit, do you?" Check.
Continue ReadingSXSWi 2011: New Schools of Art, Comics and Creation (Hint: the interwebs)
Much to my surprise there was a comics meet up but further research proved there was an anime AND a furry meet up but I only had time for one. Noah Kuttler, local creator, moderated between aspiring cartoonists, publishers and one sassy-ass reader.
Continue ReadingWhat does Avatar’s partnership with BOOM! mean?
Now this is kind of interesting. Avatar, publisher of some of the greatest writers in comics, like Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis and so on, is switching distributors from Diamond to...BOOM!? Wait, BOOM! is a distributor? Not really, but they have their own distributor deal with Simon & Schuster for the US and HarperCollins for Canada. Avatar will be tagging along on BOOM!'s truck route for a unique partnership. We had the chance to chat informally with several Avatar personnel about this move at C2E2 -- and it's definitely a good one for them. Moore and (to a lesser extent) Ellis are perennial bookstore bestsellers, so being able to hop on that bandwagon should definitely help their trade program. Although not noted by anyone, really, Avatar significantly slowed their trade collection release schedule over the last few months; this deal enables them to get it going again.
Continue ReadingBest press release of the day: Wizard does something
In a world of empty PR speak the follow pr from Wizard about a new Chairman of the Board reads like it chugged a couple of Rockstars then doused itself with FourLoko before shooting up some crank. Look at these action verbs: excited, accelerate, momentum, increase, velocity -- just in ONE SENTENCE. That is really impressive. Whatever it is that Michael Mathews is going to do it is going to be WILD. And DIGITAL.
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