CCI: SD announced 2011 Film Festival lineup
The Comic-Con film festival has become an increasingly important part of the show, with a variety of premieres in the fiction and non-fictin categories. Of note are screenings of comics-related documentaries Superheroes, Comic Books Go to War, My Comic Shop DocumentARy, and To Romero With Love. Complete list follows:
Continue ReadingWho is the JLA’s mystery tumbler woman?
The DC reveals continue apace. Over the weekend, a beverage glass manufacturer Facebooked an image of their San Diego exclusive: a JLA tumbler that seems to reveal all 15 members of the nü JLA Identified thus far: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Aquaman, Cyborg, Deadman, Atom, Element Woman, Firestorm, Green Arrow, Hawkman, and Mera. Element Woman is a new Jim Lee designed character from Flashpoint. However, the identity of the 15th character, a seemingly blonde woman on the right, remains a mystery.
Continue ReadingRemembering Gene Colan
Over the weekend, remembrances, and tributes continued to flow for Gene "The Dean" Colan, who died on Thursday. The most complete obituary we have is Tom Field's at TCJ, which cover his entire career, the triumphs, the problems with editors, and the artist's early embrace of the internet. While beloved of some writers and editors, Colan's style was not a natural for Marvel:
Continue ReadingGreen Lantern may still get a sequel
In for a penny in for a pound: Despite bad reviews, and a 66 percent decline at the box office this weekend, Warner Bros. is still planning a sequel to Green Lantern, THR reports. A WB spokesman admits that the studio was "somewhat disappointed” with the box office, but they still believe in it as a franchise.
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 6/27/11
This is practically all kibbles and legal bits, but that seems to be where things are going.
Continue ReadingThe week in preview
It's been a furious few weeks of action here at Stately Beat Manor and around the comics intertubes as everyone scrambles to cover the DC Relaunch and What It Means. I've been as obsessed as anyone, although some of the fruits of my labor have yet to be posted. And of course, San Diego Comic-Con is just around the corner (less than four weeks) so things are about to get even busier and even crazier is such a thing is possible. And it is.
Continue ReadingBook-Con!: American Library Association Annual Conference 2011
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet. Twice a year, once in January someplace cold, once in June somewhere sweltering, the membership of the American Library Association gathers to network, workshop, and celebrate all things librarian! Where once that mostly dealt with bound volumes of dusty tomes and the occasional bestseller, nowadays librarians have morphed into purveyors of [...]
Continue ReadingThe Legal View: The Once and Future Superman
DC has cited its changes and additions to the Super-verse as grounds for reducing the Siegel heirs’s share of Superman material produced since 1999. A recent Variety article takes this even further, reporting thatNeil Gaiman’s success in winning co-ownership of Medieval Spawn provides legal precedent for giving DC complete ownership of the contemporary Superman, limiting the Siegels’ interest to the far less lucrative 1938 version of the character. Does DC have strong legal grounds for splitting Superman between The Man of Tomorrow and The Man of Yesterday? Click below to see if Gaiman v. McFarlane is legal kryptonite for creators' rights--or whether that's just another misconceived retcon.
Continue ReadingCBLDF takes on new case: American traveler arrested in Canada for computer contents
Imagine traveling to another country and having your comic books and electronic devices seized. Then, you're arrested because of the books you read. This may seem like a horror story, but for one comics reader, it's come true.-- Thus begins the story of one traveler. We make a lot of jokes about the US/Canadian border but as tales of the comics that were seized on the way to TCAF make clear, Canadaisn take their ideological border security seriously.
Continue ReadingEditorial cartoonist Brian McFadden moves to the New York Times
In a change of policy, the New York Times' venerable Week in Review section will go from running a round-up of editorial cartoons on the topics of the week to specially commissioned work. Among those tapped, Brian McFadden, creator of Big Fat Whale. McFadden is 27 and lives in Massachusetts, giving the section a younger perspective, to say the least.
Continue ReadingMore finger-pointing emerges in Green Lantern fail
Comics-savvy (aren't they all?) movie beat reporter Borys Kit has a succinct wrap-up, of lessons to be learned from the GREEN LANTERN experience. And they are many; a sequel -- already in the writing stages -- was supposed to have been greenlit if the film did over $60 million, but the $53 million opening and bad word of mouth may have stopped that. Kit suggests that comic book movies based on a singular vision tend to do better -- something GL did not have:
Continue ReadingDC Entertainment gets shiny new Burbank offices
DC Entertainment is an important part of the Warners Stable, and although they won't be headquartered on the lot, they are getting offices in a swanky new building just up the street, THR reports. An unnamed number of employees will be moving into the second floor of The Pointe, at 2900 Alameda Ave., conveniently located between the Warners lot and the Disney lot and catty-corner to NBC.
Continue Reading1500 more chances to go to Comic-Con
While badges are long sold out, there are still a few chances to get into this year's San Diego Comic-Con; about 1500 badges have been refunded and will go on sale via an announcement on Twitter, Facebook and RSS. In addition, a pricing change has been made to make buying tickets more equitable:
Continue ReadingKingstone Media makes another run at faith-based comics
Religious bookstores remain one of the pillars of the independent bookstore world, but companies trying to target them with comics have had varying levels of success -- or failure. PW reports on Kingstone Media which has jumped into the category with funding and a wide ranging line of books:
Continue ReadingStudio Coffee Run 6/24/11: Captain America X 2 already, Powers casting updates, Wonder Woman casting rumors, etc.
The weekly round-up of nerd world media news has Cap II already, a hot Wonder Woman and more!
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