Breaking: Jim Woodring’s giant pen is hard to use
In an interview that would be notable enough just for talking about his new Frank graphic novel CONGRESS OF THE ANIMALS, Jim Woodring drops even more bombshells, revealing that the giant steel nib pen -- which the world watched created with bated breath -- is not very easy to ink with.
Continue ReadingGreen Lantern heating up…in unexpected ways
We all know Green Lantern is HOT. The comic, the movie, Ryan Reynolds. Blackest Night set the DCU on a whole new course, and the GL family of books under the guidance of Geoff Johns, has continued to lead the sales charts. But in Green Lantern hot enough to start a small electrical fire? Yes.
Continue ReadingTeenage Satan, new webcomic from Buscema and Cookes
Announced at last weekend's Boston Comic Com, TEENAGE SATAN is an upcoming webcomic by Stephanie Buscema, Candis Cooke, and Marsha Cooke. (The Cookes are the niece and wife, respectively, of artist Darwyn Cooke.) It involves, well, Teenage Satan coming to Earth and going to high school while surrounded by awesome mid-century lettering.
Continue ReadingPreview: Colin Upton’s DIABETES FUNNIES
Vancouver-based Colin Upton is something of a Canadian comics legend. He's been producing rough-hewn, Rabelaisian mini comics since the 80s that deal in equal parts with autobiography and history. A few years ago he was diagnosed with diabates, which prompted a massive lifestyle change, resulting is so much weight loss that when I saw a picture of the new Colin I didn't even recognize him.
Continue ReadingThe few looks of cosplay Black Widow
While we were poking around UGO we came upon this surprisingly lengthy gallery of Hot Black Widow Cosplay. Well maybe not to surprising -- all you need is a black catsuit, some wrist thingies, a red wig and a good figure and you too can fight for SHIELD.
Continue ReadingDoes anyone care if there are comics at a comic-con?
While we were checking out our ego Google alert, we found a response to our brief critique of a piece on the Anaheim Comic-Con that didn't mention a single comics type person. The writer of the piece, one Matt Patches, says he was right to stay mute on comics, because everyone expects to find comics and cartoonists at a comic-con so it is not noteworthy enough to report:
Continue ReadingBrian Bendis’s THOR red carpet report
THOR had its big Hollywood premiere last night and Brian Bendis was there to report on all the doings via Twitter. But first he had a tantalizingly busy day:
Continue ReadingNice art: Jaume Plensa
After things here yesterday got a little too real, I'd like to get back to just talking about cool and wonderful things. Like Jaume Plensa's new installation at Madison Square Park, entitled "Echo." The 44-foot high fiberglass resin sculpture depicts the head of a 9-year-old girl caught in a meditative state. Set among the fresh green of early Spring, it gladdens my heart every time I see it.
Continue ReadingMike Cotton leaves Wizard
In the many many reports of layoff at Wizard over the years, there was one name which never came up: Mike Cotton. Cotton had been at Wizard for 11 years as one of their most essential writers/editors, and it was commonly said that when Cotton left the Wizard ship, it would be nothing but an empty hulk drifting the seas. Well that day has come -- or it did on last Friday, according to a press release that Cotton sent out to several outlets.
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Duncan the Wonder Dog wins LA Times Book Prize
The LA TImes Book Prizes were announced on Friday and Adam Hines' DUNCAN THE WONDER DOG won the award for best Graphic Novel. The mind stretching tale of a world where animals are sentient, the book has already won wide acclaim and the Lynd Ward Prize for Graphic Fiction. Despite the acclaim from outside prizes, DUNCAN was blanked at the Eisner Award nominations -- well, different strokes.
Continue ReadingRise of Arsenal and Greek Street nab PRISM Awards
Via The Source word that THE RISE OR ARSENAL by J.T. Krul, Geraldo Borges and Marlo Alquiza and GREEK STREET's Ajax storyline by Peter Milligan and Werther Dell’Edera, have won PRISM awards which recogonize the "accurate depiction of substance abuse and mental illness: prevention, treatment and recovery in film, television, interactive, music, DVD, and comic book entertainment."
Continue ReadingOn the Scene: SPACE 1026’s Charles Schulz exhibit
by BRADY RUSSELL -- Philadelphia recently hosted an exhibition called "This is a Love Letter," of notes and drawings by Charles Schulz to a mistress in Philadelphia. The show was held at SPACE 1026, an artist space and gallery connected in its own way to comics history. Founded by young artists from Providence, SPACE 1026 was founded to be Philadelphia's own Fort Thunder. The gallery and workspace at 10th and Arch Street has been going more than 10 years. SPACE 1026 is one of the most interesting forces in Philadelphia's art scene.
Continue ReadingSecrets of the comics: What the nib-holding industry doesn’t want you to know
Via Matt Madden, Hillary Allison reveals a money saving technique for ink-slingers who favor the nib. Bonus: Elite Beat Intern Maggie Siegel-Berele stars as the ink-slinger in question.
Continue ReadingA day to remember
I realize as I'm trying to assemble today's comic news that my mind wasn't really on it for some reason. Although 9/11/01 is the day that changed the world in sad and horrible ways, it was also a sad and horrible time for me, my friends, my family and my home. The sense of closure I feel today following the death of bin Laden is a powerful one, but it also brought back so many memories of that time.
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