Sotomayor’s Dirty Dozen: Reilly Brown
By Chris Sotomayor -- I’ve been a fan of Reilly’s since I first noticed his work on Cable & Deadpool, a few years back. One of the great things about following an artist from the beginning of his career, is that you can see glimmers of greatness, and Reilly is no exception. Reilly is a student of storytelling, and he gets straight A’s every time, always adding a new layer with every project. Plus, he’s just such a personable and easy-going guy.
Continue ReadingICv2 plans Comics, Media, and Digital Conference for Comic-Con
If you've been wondering when we'll see this year's "White Paper" from Milton Griepp, with year-over-year statistics and trends, it will be presented at the ICv2 Comics, Media, and Digital Conference 2011 which will be held on the Wednesday before the San Diego Comic-Con. Griepp holds similar events at various shows around the calendar. Here's some PR; these one-day events are traditionally an information packed professional day.
Continue ReadingKicking and screaming
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Continue ReadingNice art: Dewey Guyen (Duy Thang Nguyen)
Guyen is a 19-year old Cambodian/Vietnamese/Chinese/American artist living in Montreal, CA. More here.
Continue ReadingSeparated at birth: Wolff & Byrd and the Beastie Boys?
We're stretching it this time, but just stick with us.
Continue ReadingRIP: Bill Blackbeard
Comic strip historian and pioneer Bill Blackbeard has died at age 84, it has been reported. Blackbeard had been in a nursing home for some years, and passed away on March 10th. As the outpourings of appreciations have shown, Blackbeard was, perhaps more than any other individual, responsible for the emergence of comic strips and (by extension) comic books as a legitimate source of art to be treasured and preserved on an institutional level.
Continue ReadingHero Initiative and Marvel team to help Josh Medors
Artist Josh Medors has been battling a rare form of spinal column cancer for several years. The Hero Initiative has been helping him for some time, and now they are teaming up with Marvel for a special Spider-Man print to benefit Medors. PR below:
Continue ReadingCaptain America reshoots involve New York, Nick Fury — SPOILERS
Chris Evans and Sam Jackson were doing something this weekend in Times Square. It is believed to involve Joe Johnstone, director of the Cap movie, although um, duh Cap and Fury, that could also equal the Avengers movie, which just went into production. So....since this is set in the modern day, you can kind of add it all up....and figure it out.
Continue ReadingNews ‘n’ Notes: Dark Horse layoff numbers
More on recent changes at Dark Horse with publisher Mike Richardson.
Continue ReadingIrving joins Hermes Press as publicity director
Boutique classic comics publisher Hermes Press puts out a number of collections, like Brenda Starr, Dark Shadows, and so on, but we generally hear little about them. Well, that has changed starting now, since they just hired a publicity director, namely chris Irving, best known for his interviews at Graphic NYC. Irving has already set up the above-linked Tumblr blog and sent out a press release about his hire -- we'd say it's working already.
Continue ReadingRucka and Burchett team on steampunk/pirate/western LADY SABRE and AMERICAN SOLDIER
Greg Rucka and Rick Burchett are teaming on a new steampunk/pirates/western comic called LADY SABRE AND THE PIRATES OF THE INEFFABLE ETHER, as revealed in the Stumptown podcast at about the 41:28 mark. It will appear initially as a webcomic this July.
Continue ReadingLinks and bits, 4/25/11
What's left after Borders? Does someone actually have a sketchbook whose theme is superheroes throwing up? Read on for the answers.
Continue ReadingRogert Ebert finally wins the New Yorker Cartoon Contest after 107 tries
After 107 entries, writer/tweeter Roger Ebert ha finally won The New Yorker's cartoon caption contest, Robert Mankoff reports. He also notes that it akes practice to make perfect:
Continue Reading2011 Hugo Award nominations announced
The Hugo Award nominations for SF have been announced, and they include not only the traditional Graphic Novel category, but a few comic-centric nominations in other categories, notably, SCOTT PILGRIM Vs. THE WORLD in the Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form category. The compleet list below.
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