More ’90s comics videos: 1990 retailer roundtable
If you didn't get enough of '90s style hairdos in yesterday video epic, via Very Fine / Near Mint, another classic '90s video of a retailer roundtable on the cable access show The Chronic Rift. Three NYC-area retailers discuss advance reorders and the impending marriage of Superman. Of the stores mentioned, only Hanley's of Staten Island is still around.
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — May 10, 2011
Chester Brown Week! Monkey in the Bra! Howard Stringer's contrition. Thor! Epic Con! More.
Continue ReadingDark Horse makes FCBD comics available for free download
Now this is smart! After FCBD, Dark Horse is making its free comics available for free download for a limited amount of time. Downloads will be available starting Wednesday, May 11, and run through the end of the month. Criminal Macabre/Baltimore and Avatar: The Last Airbender/Star Wars: The Clone Wars will both be available via computer, Mac iOS device on the Digital.DarkHorse.com, or via the Dark Horse Comics bookshelf app.
Continue ReadingFree Comic Book Day 2011 news roundup
By all accounts, it was one of the biggest Free Comic Book Days yet, with most stores reporting "sell-outs" early on and crowds and -- importantly -- SALES that rivaled their biggest days ever. It was also a media event as over 200 news stories show.
Continue ReadingThor soars at box office, setting up many a Marvel movie
To no one's surprise, THOR scored a hit at the weekend box office topping the domestic till with $66 million, adding up to a worldwide gross of $242 mil. The thunder "god" lagged only IRON MAN and SPIDER-MAN's debuts, making the third biggest first appearance for a Marvel character. (But NOTE the others didn't have the benefit of inflated 3D ticket prices. It was also proof that a film can make a big debut despite two weeks of piracy: THOR opened two weeks ago overseas to take advantage of various local holidays and the Royal Wedding 3-day weekend in Britain. Although THOR also handily blasted the Mel Gibson come-back vehicle, THE BEAVER, it was not all good news:
Continue ReadingFlashback: Hugh Hewitt vs Frank Miller in 1994
What was the world of comics like in 1994? This edition of the KCET nightly news show LIFE AND TIMES will give you the answer: much like today except there was a lot more hair and a lot less respect.
Continue ReadingTCAF reports: Awesome
Judging by the joyful tweets that flowed out over the weekend, this year's Toronto Comic Arts Festival was a big success. There were many reports of books selling out, and general rapture. TPSycho Duck has a typical blog post:
Continue ReadingBLACK EYE and YOUNG LIONS seized at Canadian border
Canadians seem like a peaceful, tolerant folk, but they have a record of seizing a lot of material at the border, including, this week, several copies of the comics anthology BLACK EYE. Editor Ryan Standfest has a complete account in the link. Basically cartoonist Tom Neely was carrying five copies of the book across the border, when the books were seized. Neely writes:
Continue ReadingNice art: Dan Hipp’s Tintin covers
Dan Hipp has drawn many things -- GYAKUSHU, THE AMAZING JOY BUZZARDS, BEN 10, and many, many more comics, and his MisterHipp blog is a dragon's lair of fun art. However these posters imagining STAR WARS, TRON and ALIEN as Tintin books are must-sees.
Continue ReadingRIP: Carlos Trillo
Prolific Argentinean comics writer Carlos Trillo has passed away at age 68. According to reports, he was traveling in London with his wife when he began to feel unwell and was taken to the hospital where he died.
Continue ReadingWhat Am I Bid?: Heritage Auction’s 2011 May New York Signature Vintage Comics & Comic Art Auction #7033
As you've probably heard elsewhere, Heritage Auction recently sold a piece of original comics artwork for...
Continue Reading2011 Doug Wright Award Winners
Awards honoring the best in Canadian comics were presented last night as part of the TCAF festivities. And they are:
Continue ReadingTonight to do LA: Pop Sequentialism opening at La Luz de Jesus
La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles is having quite an opening show tonight: Pop-Sequentialism: Comic Art of the Modern Age, with original comics art by Steve Dillon, Brendan McCarthy, Frank Quitely and many more. Above, a page of PUNISHER art from the Garth Ennis run by Tim Bradstreet. All the art previewed in the link. Below, a page from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillip's CRIMINAL.
Continue ReadingTCAF unfolds this weekend with stellar lineup
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival kicks off tonight and runs tomorrow and Sunday at the Toronto Reference Library. Admission is free. For that priceless amount you get access to perhaps the greatest pound for pound assemblage of cartoonists in the history of the world. Mattotti! Brown! Seth! Ware! Ono! Brecht Evens! You can see the guest list here, and everyone exhibiting here. Truly stupendous.
Continue ReadingWhere will YOU be on Free Comic Book Day?
Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, May 7th, 2011! And there are very likely some comics-related festivities happening in your area, or at the very least some free comic books. There are way too many happenings to cover here. Diamond has a master list of events, including interviews by Darwyn Cooke and Humberto Ramos and the FCBD site has a monster list of signings organized alphabetically by state!
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