It’s Geoff Johns Day on CNN
In honor of the debut of FLASHPOINT, CNN had a story on Geoff Johns which made it all the way to the front page. The story speaks with various sources who discuss the fact that Johns is The Man of Comics 2011:
Continue ReadingNice art: Omar Angulo’s HURRICANE WILMA at Act-i-vate
Webcomics anthology Act-i-vate presents a one-shot today,HURRICANE WILMA by Miami-based artist Omar Angulo.
Continue ReadingPilot season update: Wonder Woman lives, Locke & Key and the Human Target don’t
Networks are announcing their fall pick-ups and spring cancellations, and comics properties are very much in play. Fox has canceled Human Target, now in its second season. It was never much more than a ratings outlier and doesn't fit in with Fox's newly announced focus on female-audience-friendly shows.
Continue ReadingJim Woodring homage enlightens the children on Adventure Time
James Kochalka alertly spotted a tribute/homage/rip-off of Jim Woodring's peculiar iconography on the cartoon ADVENTURE TIME, which generally features lots of art-comix references and tributes. The essential education of America's youth proceeds apace.
Continue ReadingMy Little Pony/Watchmen mash-up surprisingly watchable
YouTube user BronyVids has been sharpening his/her Final Cut skills on My Little Pony Mash-ups, and it is WATCHMEN's turn. We had no idea My Little Pony looked so good and we totally want to watch it now.
Continue ReadingRIP: Bill Gallo
When you think of sports cartoons -- if you ever do -- you probably think of something by Bill Gallo -- he was the best known -- and probably one of the last -- practitioners of the art. The legendary NY Daily News sports cartoonist passed away yesterday in White Plains at the age of 88 after a 70 year career at the Newss.
Continue ReadingFLASHPOINT is DC’s latest game changer
DC has released am image (click for larger) to mark the release of FLASHPOINT #1 today. You need to be a bit more versed in DC lore to know how entirely shocking this image is, but there is a monkey, and that's always good. There are also different versions of Batman, Wonder Woman, and so on. Alternate universe, ho! What we do know: FLASHPOINT, written by Geoff Johns and drawn by Andy Kubert, kicks off tomorrow, featuring the Flash and ushers in a slightly ..."Different" world for DC. Which we've seen before but you know...it always works for a new generation. Retailer Larry Doherty of Larry's Comics in Lowell, Mass, himself no stranger to attention, went on yesterday's "#comicmarket" retailing discussion to say that FLASHPOINT will be the book of the summer. Selected tweets:
Continue ReadingRevealed: Who really got Osama
Click for the larger version. Also notice how they ran out of time on some of the photoshopping. Via Dave G.
Continue ReadingCartoonist Justiniano charged with possession of child pornography
Some stories you just don't want to write up. Connecticut-based cartoonist Josue Rivera, who works under the pen name Justiniano, has been arrested and charged with first degree possession of child pornography after a thumb drive he supplied to a funeral home was found to have images of child porn on it.
Continue ReadingGrant Morrison to write ALIENS VS DINOSAURS
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Hollywood is a tough place. Grant Morrison may be a god of comics — the most inventive superhero idea smith since Kirby, even — and his new book about superheroes called SUPERGODS just got a starred review in Publishers Weekly. He’s been out in Hollywood for a few years, working [...]
Continue ReadingCartoonists go goo-goo for Gaga
NY Magazine recently commissioned a bunch of designers to reimagine the mistress of all the surveys, Lady Gaga, just in time for her new album's release. While it's hard to out-weird someone who wears a meat dress and goes to a Mets game in her underwear, several cartoonists gave it a shot, including Ariel Shrag, David Reese, Tim Hensley and Mike Keefe.
Continue ReadingDid the Spider-Man musical humble Bono?
A newly family-friendly and sense-making version of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark opens on Broadway tomorrow, and its faithful Boswell, Patrick Healy, has the new storyline for the creators. The new version of of the show, as rejiggered by director Philip William McKinley and writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa includes MORE Green Goblin, MORE Mary Jane, Uncle Ben and Aunt May, FIVE MORE flying sequences, MORE songs, and LESS Arachne. The experience seems to have been an unusually humbling one for the normally egotistic Bono, who co-wrote the songs and shared the blame when it went far off the rails.
Continue ReadingKupperman’s next book to be about Mark Twain
Fan of the curious antics of Michael Kupperman have been enjoying his "Mark Twain meets Einstein" adventures on his blog for a while, but it turns out that it's turned into a book, Mark Twain’s Autobiography, 1910-2010 which will be published in August from Fantagraphics. The cover hasn't been released yet but a few preview images have.
Continue ReadingLots of TCAF audio and photos now available
Jamie Coville has his usual massive photo dumb for TCAF, with over 250 photos of all the great people there. That's organizer Chris Butcher and Usamaru Furuya above. Coville also recorded several panels and here they are!
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