Jeff Smith’s RASL in development with Wigram
Deadline reports that Jeff Smith's RASL is being developed by SHERLOCK HOLMES roducer Lionel Wigram. The series, the follow-up to Smith's million-selling fantasy Bone, concerns an art thief who jump to different universes to steal priceless works of art, but at a great personal cost.
Continue ReadingImage continues to sell out with THE INTREPIDS and CARBON GREY
Another email PR this afternoon from Image Comics, announcing more sellouts and second printings, this time for THE INTREPIDS by Kurtis Wiebe and Scott Kowalchuk and Hoang Nguyen's CARBON GREY. While such press releases have a strong component of sheer hype, and don't necessarily indicate ginormous sales, it's worth noting that we get as many of them from Image these days as from Marvel (DC no longer sends out press releases). Given the recent strengthening of the mid-list, even as the top of the charts shrinks, this could be seen as another example of the increasing democratization of comics sales. We'd also note that both comics sport a a fresher, non-house style look. Maybe there is an audience for something new after all.
Continue ReadingFriday afternoon links
We apologize to linking to these at a time when no one reads the internet, but sometimes that's how the cookie crumbles. § Two -- TWO -- competing takes on the greatest events in comics. One by Matt Wilson at Topless Robot and another by Alex Zalben at MTV Geek:
Continue ReadingBeating around SXSW Interactive
Austin's South By South West has long been hailed THE place to play your new Renaissance-powered noise band or screen your documentary on the failings of mankind. As a former Austinite myself, I know the activity of the town pulses as if the city itself is running a marathon. The University of Texas students are off on Spring Break allowing for a different sort of tourist to take their spaces at the taco carts, oddly-named bars (hello, Mooseknuckle) and marvel at the bats of Congress Bridge.
Continue ReadingMarvel announces Thor & Loki for download
Continuing Thor's conquest of all media, Marvel is releasing a new animated Thor & Loki: Blood Brothers series, based on the Robert Rodi and Esad Ribic mini, that explains why they don't get along. The series will be available for download on iTunes, XBox and PlayStation starting 3/28 for $2.99 in HiDef and $1.99 in standard. The trailer debuted on Wired and producer Ruwan Jayatilleke talked about the story:
Continue ReadingTo do Saturday: Lorenzo Mattotti & Dave McKean in conversation
Dave McKean and Italian comics artist Lorenzo Mattotti will be in London this weekend and will be hold a discussion concerning Celluloid (McKean's upcoming graphic novel), Stigmata (Mattotti's recent graphic novel from Fantagraphics), and who knows what else.
Continue ReadingStan Lee speaks out on genitals?
This Vanity Fairinterview with Stan Lee is FULL of awesomeness, and shows that Lee can still turn a quip like a young man of 70. But the bit that is getting the most excitement this day is the part where Stan answers the question he dodged in MALLRATS all those years ago -- the one about whether the Thing's junk was made of orange rock. Only they didn't call it junk back then--they called it a dork!
Continue ReadingOdelay: Batwoman #1 delay comes as a surprise to many
According to DC's March 8th retailer email, BATWOMAN #1 by JH Williams III, W. Haden Blackman, and Amy Reeder has been delayed again. The book had been delayed from an earlier launch, although Williams said it was always a bit nebulous:
Continue ReadingOdelay: Roger Langridge’s Muppets aborted once again
History repeats itself as one more Roger Langridge's Muppet comics have been put in the vault by a business move. Fans of his near-universally acclaimed run on Boom's Muppet franchise may recall that his run on the beloved puppets began as a strip for Disney Adventures magazine, which was cancelled before the strips could run. Langridge made a few mini comics which he furtively handed out at cobs and the legend of the strips greatness grew. Result: when Boom got the license a call went out.
Continue ReadingTo do Saturday: London Comic & Small Press Expo
This Saturday marks the first occurance of a new comics event claiming to be "The Capital's Bohemian Comic Show" and seemingly replacing the now defunct UK Web & Minicomix Thing UK Web & Minicomix Thing .
Continue ReadingWard Sutton’s Spidey Super Theater Stories
Oh, PS, until they make that Spider-Man: The Musical opera, here's Ward Sutton's more humorous take.
Continue ReadingThe Spider-Man show must go on without Taymor
Someday, we predict, someone will write an opera about the Spider-Man musical, which will be all about immensely talented egos, wasted money and mythic archetypes; it will be the Nixon in China for those days. Seriously, how could you have predicted the scene when fucking BONO would have to step out in front of a theatrical group and take the reins as creative leader, saying they had to move forward without the director he himself had chosen?
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Chunks — 3/10/11
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhew, a lot to catch up on, so here’s a major link-dump. § Dept. of Tokyopop: More background has been coming out about how the Borders situation impacted the latest downsizing at the manga publisher. Calvin Reid has an in-depth “Rise and Fall of Tokyopop” piece that includes a long conversation [...]
Continue ReadingUlises Farinas creates new Marvel/DC Amalgam universe
The fine folks at Comics Alliance did a very sensible thing and hired artist Ulises Farinas -- whose previous Marvel art efforts have been widely admired -- to create a massive Marvel vs DC Where's Waldo type illustration. Your mission: find the Invisible Woman and dozens of other people and objects. We've reproduced only a tiny portion of the whole here -- to see the whole thing at once would overwhelm your senses!
Continue ReadingThis Inn is out: San Diego Comic-Con housing closes until March 22
Well this time it took about 5 hours. About the same as the passes. Since noon, people have been reserving hotels for this year's San Diego Comic-Con. While the process itself was painless -- a quick entry to a website where the diligent who had planned their hotel picks could easily choose up to 20 and get out -- the waiting game has begun. Or as Crazy4ComicCon aptly put it on Twitter: "nerd rage has given way to nerd angst."
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