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Archives for 05/13/2011 4:58 pm

Weekend inspiration: Lisa Hanawalt's drawing rules

05/13/2011 4:58 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Weekend inspiration: Lisa Hanawalt's drawing rules

Via Dylan Horrocks.

Filed Under: Meta

DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: March 2011

05/13/2011 2:44 pm by Marc-Oliver Frisch

DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: March 2011

Led by the top-selling Batman: The Dark Knight and Batman, Inc., which were back on the racks after a two-month absence, and a double-shipping Green Lantern, DC Comics’ periodical sales continued a slow recovery in February.

Notably, the February numbers also show modest increases across the rest of DC’s line-up. Maybe the company’s decision to cancel around 25% of its current ongoing titles and stick to a $ 2.99 price point is encouraging retailers, after all.

Filed Under: DC, Marc-Oliver Frisch, Sales Charts Tagged With: Sales Charts

Weekend bestsellers analysis: New York Times edition

05/13/2011 1:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Weekend bestsellers analysis: New York Times edition

It’s been a while since we took a look at The New York Times’ Graphic Novel best sellers lists. Let’s take a peak shall we?

Filed Under: Sales Charts Tagged With: Charts, Sales, Sales Charts

Powernap webcomics collective includes Shadmi, Sohn, Collardey

05/13/2011 12:27 pm by Heidi MacDonald

BTW, a bit more about Powernap, the webcomics collective we mentioned in the previous post. While it’s still in its early stages, members include Koren Shadmi, Raymond Sohn (TRUE CHUBBO, above and VERY NSFW) and Domitille Collardey, who is working on a new webcomic expected to launch in a few months. The site will be […]

Filed Under: Webcomics

Nice art: Koren Shadmi's The Abaddon

05/13/2011 10:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Nice art: Koren Shadmi's The Abaddon

Award-winning illustrator/cartoonist Koren Shadmi’s graphic novel IN THE FLESH was published by Random House in 2009. Now he’s working on a webcomic called THE ABADDON, which he describes as “Jean Paul Sartre meets Three’s Company” with humor and drama meeting existential dilemmas.

Filed Under: Art, Webcomics

Convention Report: Swedish SPX 2011

05/13/2011 7:30 am by Shannon OLeary

Convention Report: Swedish SPX 2011

In spite of the dramatic international intrigue Sparkplug Comic Books and its affiliates faced at the Canadian border on the way to TCAF last weekend, we managed to simultaneously invade a whole other continent at Stockholm Sweden’s 11th Annual SPX Festival. Sparkplug was honored to be invited to the festival for the 3rd year in a row along with many other hella distinguished international guests.

Filed Under: Comics, Conventions, Culture, Literary Comics, World Comics Tagged With: Comics, Conventions

Dan Slott's review of the revamped Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

05/13/2011 7:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Dan Slott's review of the revamped Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN writer Dan Slott attended the premiere of the NEW, revised, less Arachne Spider-Man musical last night, and he tweeted his review!

Filed Under: The Stage

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