The Strand announces STRANDICON comics afternoon
It's billed as the world's largest book store, with 18 MILES of books, but The Strand -- New York City's legendary used book store -- is increasingly comics friendly and on Friday, April 8th, they'll make it official with Strandicon, a full afternoon of talks by such greats as Ben Katchor, Ben Katchor, Brecht Evans, Joe Ollmann, Jillian Tamaki, Pascal Girard, R. Sikoryak, Dash Shaw, capped off by a panel on the past and future of The Comics Journal, which is worth the trip all by itself.
Continue ReadingWonderCon programming announced
If you'd like to go to San Diego without actually going to San Diego, WonderCon is your best bet. You'll get a scaled down version of the big show with tons of great panels, cartoonists, and even movie stars but with plenty of passes, hotel rooms, and room to jump up and click your heels! The programming has just been released, and there's too much good stuff to possibly see it all, but we've pulled some of our favorites in the jump. To avoid stress, you can go here and make your own schedule. There's also an app for that. As previously mentioned, we'll be at the show, but in a more observational capacity. Come up and say hi!
Continue ReadingTo do tonight: Carousel at Parsons
The events surrounding Cartoon Polymaths end with a bang with an outing for the comics slideshow series, Carousel. Someone go and report!
Continue ReadingC2E2 2011 in pictures
We'll have our full report in tomorrow's PW Comics Week, but for now, a few notes: The show was much improved from last year's; rough attendance is about 34,000, according to Lance Fensterman, definitely up from last year. This was a fun, well run show without a lot of bells and whistles. There wasn't any one thing that made it stand out, but it was definitely a good show with all the elements that achieved "con." The crowd was young and energetic and seemed to be having the time they expected out of a comic-con, (a supposition backed up by happy tweets).
Continue ReadingHail Flora, 2011!
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We made it again! Barely, but we’re here. Feeling good! …and with bonus squid!
Continue ReadingC2E2 Day 1: Wandering the halls
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Although The Beat had a sensible evening spent filing stories and getting some sleep, many of the folks gathered in Chicago took advantage of the St. Patrick’s Day holiday and had themselves a good old time last night. There are a lot of dark glasses and questions over what actually happened [...]
Continue ReadingKodansha to bring back Sailor Moon
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s the title that broke manga in the US — no comic has had a bigger influence than SAILOR MOON, the manga/anime that kicked off the shojo manga boom, made it safe for girls to read comics, and introduced the idea of cosplay to America in a big way. Created [...]
Continue ReadingFirst Look: Adrianne Palicki dons Wonder Woman costume
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The pilot for the Wonder Woman revamp just started shooting, and EW has revealed the first still of star Adrianne Palicki (Friday Night LIghts) in the new Wonder Woman costume. The new look seems to be modeled in equal parts on Jim Lee’s revamped design and MAC’s recent Wonder Woman make-up [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2 ready to kick things off
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Day 0 at the second edition of C2E2 found retailers confabbing, and early arrivals checking out the new location for the show. Following last year’s inaugural show in the Lakeside hall set on the banks of Lake Michigan, the convention has moved to a more modern hall that’s laid out on [...]
Continue ReadingDC and comiXology team for Digital Storefront Affiliate
A few months ago, comiXology announced its Digital Storefront Affiliate plan which would allow comics shops to sell digital comics -- the implementation plan is different from Diamond's, but the intent is the same -- to allow storefronts to make money off digital comics. Now, DC and several other publishers (Image Comics (including Shadowline and Top Cow), BOOM! Studios, and Dynamite Entertainment) have anounced they will be joining the initiative. PR below, but more news on this tomorrow live from the Diamond Retail summit.
Continue ReadingSt Paddy’s day SALE: Green Lantern and Green Arrow digital comics on sale
DC is getting into the festive spirit with a green-focused sa
Continue ReadingSt. Paddy’s Day third stop: Gone to Amerikay
And to finish up our little Irish-themed section, Colleen Doran offers a preview of Gone to Amerikay, the graphic novel she's been working on for the last two years. It's written by Eisner nominated author Derek McCulloch, with colors by Jose Villarubia -- the final book will come out sometime in 2012 from Vertigo. Doran writes:
Continue ReadingSt. Paddy’s Day second stop: About A Bull
MK Reed (Americus) writes to alert us to her new webcomic About A Bull which adapts the Tain Bo Cuailnge -- a colorful section of Irish legend revolving around Queen Maeve and her jealousy over the majesty of someone else's bull. Hijinks, battles and feats of amazing derring-do ensue.
Continue ReadingSt. Paddy’s Day first stop: Eclectic Micks
We'll start out our mini-seasonal tribute with, of courseEclectic Micks, the sketch blog by a bunch of Irish artists. Above, Banshee by (this time for real) Declan Shalvey.
Continue Reading15 Love rescued from the dust bin of comics history
2003 wasn't so very long ago but in many ways it was a completely different age for comics. Nü Marvel was all the rage as comics were climbing out of the sales tailspin of the late '90s, and Bill Jemas and Joe Quesada reigned supreme at Marvel. Jemas in particular went off on some strange tangents. The Ultimate line may have been his signature achievement, but there were lots that aren't remembered so fondly, or at all, like Marvell -- a sort of satire of superheroes written by Jemas himself -- and Trouble -- a photo-covered "Gossip Girl" wanna-be that featured teenaged, randy versions of Aunt May and Uncle Ben. Hardly typical Marvel fare.
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