Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival announces exhibitor applications available
Exhibitor applications for this year's Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival are now available; although the show is curated, all submissions will be reviewed, according to a letter from co-director Gabe Fowler. This year's show will be held December 3rd at the Mt. Carmel Church in Williamsburg.
Continue ReadingTCAF ‘11 drew 15,000. ‘12 dates announced
Toronto Comics Art Festival Director Chris Butcher has a big round-up, thank you post that reveals that this years events drew a total of 15,000 people to the various venues. He also reveals that next year's show will be held May 5-6:
Continue ReadingMichael DeForge’s diary wraps up
Elsewhere on the internets, Michael DeForge's cartoonist diarywrapped up at the Comics Journal with Risographs and such.
Continue ReadingTHE LEGAL VIEW: The DCU Relaunch and the Superman Copyright
By Jeff Trexler-- The September relaunch of the DC universe has raised a number of questions about the future of current continuity and the comic marketplace. But does it have legal implications as well?
Continue ReadingCan you guess the 52nd title in Flashboot?
Here you go people, all that is known of The 52. With the Superman, Superboy and Sueprgirl titles conjectural but likely, only ONE OF THE 52 remains unknown. Will it be ACTION COMICS? Or something even more startling? WHO WHO WHO? Who are you looking forward to the most? Who are you least looking forward to? Let's all play the game!
Continue ReadingDCNü Scorecard 6.5: Two more Edge titles Blue Beetle and Suicide Squad
Newsarama and CBR got their own Flashboot exclusives! SUICIDE SQUAD and BLUE BEETLE! Only four titles to go!
Continue ReadingApple’s new iTunes bookstore snubs graphic novels category
Is Apple dissing the emerging comics/GN category? Although its thought that the mysterious brain trust in Cupertino sees comics/GNs as an important part of their iPad and iPhone strategy, the new bookstore that just was announced for iTunes avoids comics big time: they don't even have their own category.
Continue ReadingBendis and Neal Adams on NEW AVENGERS Point One title
Oh mama! Everything classic is new again as Brian Michael Bendis and timeless legend Neal Adams are teaming on a jumping on Point One issue for The New Avengers!
Continue ReadingSuperman, Superboy, and Supergirl #1 covers discovered on DC’s server
We've been enjoying the morning ritual of getting DC's news released, and with only 6 titles to go, will be sad to see it all end. Tomorrow's release is expected to be the Super books, and indeed, that's the only family of books that hasn't been announced.
Continue ReadingBode and O’Barr remember Jeffrey Catherine Jones with a mural
Yesterday, artists Mark Bode and James O’Barr painted a memorial mural to the late Jeffrey Catherine Jones in Clarion Alley, SF, based on one of her paintings. The mural took about six hours to complete, using spray paint and acrylics. The event is expected to appear in the Jones documentary currently underway.
Continue ReadingPierce and Simons join new Valiant
The new Valiant Comics has announced its publisher and executive editor: the former is Fred Pierce who has been involved with the venture for some time and was integral to Valiant's first run. He also served as a key man in the glory years of Wizard magazine. The editor is Warren Simons, who had a respected 7 year run as an editor at Marvel on such books as Iron Man, Spider-Man, Thor, Daredevil, and The Immortal Iron Fist.
Continue ReadingUNCANNY X-MEN canceled, longest running comic is now HELLBLAZER
Not to be outdone in the major media covering comics publishing sweepstakes, Marvel turned to the Washington Post to announce that UNCANNY X-MEN is ending its run with #544 due to events in the current SCHISM mini-series. The man charged with execution is -- as unlikely as it sounds, Kieron Gillen. It seems that the events of SCHISM are so cataclysmic the the X-men can only react by going their separate ways and renumbering their main book.
Continue ReadingDCNü Scorecard 6: “The Edge” — War, Westerns, Wildstorm announced – UPDATED
The war books, western book and a few more Wildstorm characters round out today's news. No sign of the major-media interview companion piece yet -- and Superman is saved for tomorrow.
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HeroesCon recap
We've been behind in our HeroesCon recapping, but Let's Be Friends Again explains everything.
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