Will Brangelina’s kid star in BATTLING BOY? — UPDATE: no
This is from the Enquirer so salt and all that, but apparently Maddox Pitt-Jolie, adapted son of Angelina and Brad Pitt, is dying to be an action star, so they are grooming him to play the lead in the movie adaptation of Paul Pope's upcoming BATTLING BOY comic -- which PItt's production company has optioned.
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits, 8/12/10
§ A fellow whose girlfriend was interning at Disney two years ago and knew about the Marvel acquisition has been charged with insider trading after he took advantage of his knowledge to buy stocks just before the acquisition was announced -- this kind of thing is illegal unless you use the popular "time travel" method of going back in time to remind yourself to invest in Widget stock or whatever. Toby Scammell, 26, may have just snooped into his GF's Blackberry -- or maybe he just knew. Either way he made a 3000% return on his $5,465 investment.
Continue ReadingRen & Stimpy is 20, and so are Doug and Rugrats!
We missed the actual anniversary, but Cartoon Brew noted that 20 years ago yesterday -- August 11, 1991 marked the debut of the Nicktoons programming block, including Ren & Stimpy, perhaps the most influential cartoon of the last quarter century. Early episodes featured John K's eccentric genius unleashed and ushered in an age of more personal, biting animation -- and for a little while Happy Happy Joy Joy, Muddy Mudskipper and Log were household names, as hipsters called one another "you eediot!" and were urged not to qhiz on the electric fence. We wanted to embed this clip from "Ren's Toothache," the most horrible cartoon ever made, but a still will have to do.
Continue ReadingMarvel surprise: It was FF #600 all along!
Via this morning's teaser it turned out that November FF tease from Marvel was actually FF #600! Color me shocked! The lineup has been given as: However, Hickman earlier tweeted: Heads up: For various reasons, one name has been left off the teasers for FF600. @mingdoyle is also going to be joining us. #stoked! Doyle's name was on a recalled teaser image earlier, as we noted. Good to hear she's actually on board the book. But is that Human Torch flying merrily on the cover a ghostly echo of a departed friend? Or...is he still alive? Worra worra worra
Continue ReadingNice art: Ashcan All-Stars sketch blog
Ashcan All-Stars is a new all-star sketch blog featuring Shawn Crystal, Christopher Mitten, Erik Jones, James Stokoe, Khary Randolph, Moritat, Nathan Fox, Robbi Rodriguez, Ryan Stegman, Sheldon Vella and Tyler Crook. Yikes! They are currently sketching Sin City character, such as Nathan Fox's Miho above. Much more fierce pulchritude in the link.
Continue ReadingOne Piece set record with 2 million sold in 4 days
Eiichiro Oda's ONE PIECE continues to be the fastest selling comic book of all times, with the new Vol. 63 selling at a record breaking clip: Eiichiro Oda’s “One Piece” manga continues its strong sales record with the latest volume 63 passing the 2 million sales mark just within 4 days of its release. This amazing result outshine the performance by Vol 60 & Vol 61 which only managed to pass the 2 million mark after 1 week. A previous volume of ONE PIECE, #60, set another record by selling 3 million copies in an 8-day period.
Continue ReadingComics sales bleh in July
Comics sales remained fairly soft in July, ICv2 reports with sales down a bit in dollars but nearly steady in units:
Continue ReadingWomanthology: $100k may go to help start a new comics imprint — UPDATED
Anytime someone comes into a big sum of money, people will start asking what they're going to do with it, whether it's go to Disneyland or start a publishing company. So when WOMANTHOLOGY, the all-woman anthology started by artist Renae De Liz raised an unprecedented $109,000 on Kickstarter -- the biggest comics project ever and the 25th biggest project ever--it was inevitable that people would be asking a lot of questions. Especially since, as I learned myself, the contributors would not be paid. However, De Liz seems to have already answered most of the questions that have been raised.
Continue ReadingThe Atlantic on 10 Masterpieces of Graphic Nonfiction
Over on the Atlantic website, Kirsten Butler offers a list of 10 non-fiction comics that goes way beyond the usual Maus/Persepolis/Joe Sacco list.
Continue ReadingSPX announces programming with Woodring, Beaton, Telnaes, Chast, Brown
programing has just been announced, and I'm doing two panels, both of which I'm super excited about, but as always the entire schedule, as curated by Bill Kartalopoulos, includes a ton of provocative, educational events. SPX will be held this year September 11-12, in Bethesda, MD.
Continue ReadingNice art: Storm and Cyclops sitting in a tree…with Greg Pak and Mike McKone
Marvel sent out another one of their teasers earlier today which got people talking a little. While the news that Greg Pak and Mike McKone were taking over writing and drawing duties of ASTONISHING X-MEN with #44 in November was notable enough, the idea that Scott and Ororo -- who are in pretty tight relationships with others at this time -- might be locking lips is positively TMZ territory! Pak explained:
Continue ReadingShel Dorf Award nominees announced
We're not quite sure who or what the Shel Dorf Awards represent but two things: 1) they will be presented for the first time this year at Detroit's Detroit Fanfare show September 24-25 and 2) we were nominated in the Best Blogger category...so thanks to whoever!
Continue ReadingComic shops hit in UK rioting all open for new comics day
News roundup and some personal notes on the rioting.
Continue ReadingMoCCA’s statement on new dates and other industry reaction
On Saturday we broke the news that the MoCCA Festival in New York and Stumptown in Portland, OR would share the same dates, April 28-29, as MoCCA had finalized their dates for the same weekend. Since then, all the participant have spoken out regarding the unfortunate timing. MoCCA museum director Jack Walsh has just released a statement:
Continue ReadingFrances Bean Cobain sports Al Columbia tattoo in goth-y photos
As many have noted, Frances Bean Cobain, long the innocent ping pong ball in a custody battle with her stability challenged mother, Courtney Love, and other family members, will be 18 in a few days. And to celebrate, she's been photographed by fashion designer Hedi Slimane, best known for his ultra-slim cut suits. Along the way Cobain shows off a tattoo based on a character by cartoonist Al Columbia (Pim and Francie) -- which should come as no surprise, since Cobain's art alter ego Fiddle Tim lists Columbia as an influence. These pictures from Slimane have gotten wide play and they are beautiful. If you scroll down the page you see his previous subject was Amy Winehouse. Given Cobain's genetic influences, (and her swift evolution from
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