To do tonight: Infinite Kung Fu launch party in Toronto
THE INFINITE KUNG-FU LAUNCH PARTY: FEATURING HOP-FU! A Spectacular Graphic Novel Launch and Live Music/Film Event
Continue ReadingAnd C2E2 announces dates: April 13 – 15
Continuing this afternoon's extravaganza of show date announcements, Reed Exhibitions has announced that C2E2, their Chicago comics expo, will be held April 13-15. This third edition will be a bit later in the year, but should fit into the increasingly busy convention schedule, with the WonderCon announcement of a few moments ago.
Continue ReadingWonderCon moves to Anaheim in 2012, C2E2 and Wizard World move shows
Well it's official: After a bunch of rumors, at least ONE show run by Comic-Con International is moving to Anaheim...and it isn't San Diego. PR below: WonderCon, part of Comic-Con International’s (CCI) family of conventions, today announced that the 2012 show will be held March 16-18, and Anaheim, California, will play host to the long-running comics and popular arts convention. San Francisco’s Moscone Center, WonderCon’s traditional venue, will undergo renovations in early 2012, leaving the 25-year-old show in the unenviable position of either being canceled or finding a new venue.
Continue ReadingYes yes: Don Cheadle’s Captain Planet is the funniest thing today
Via Funny or Die, the ecological wonderland of '80s TBS is recalled.
Continue ReadingSales charts: The shape of the market
Just to put everything being discussed into perspective, let's go back to John Jackson Miller's charts once more with three graphics that explain much:
Continue ReadingAvengers film teaser art found in Russia
MEANWHILE, back at the ranch, Marvel has released this comic book style promo for the Avengers movie, with all the actors in character as a Bryan Hitch cover. Well they didn't really release it, as it was found on a Russian website, but let's pretend it's real. Check out the awesome brokeback pose on Scarlet Johansson as Black Widow!
Continue ReadingCounterpoint: New 52 is just deja vu
Is someone making a pilot called "Johanna Draper Carlson for the Prosecution"? Because they should, While others are trying to think positive about all the hubbub over a new comics industry, Johanna is having none of it and she loads her balloon-popping pin with tons of links:
Continue ReadingYet another New 52 Link roundup — with audio!
Hm, so Lois is Clark's BOSS now? Hm, spicy.
Continue ReadingNew 52: The Legion of Superheroes Trailer
It's the daily DC 52 trailer, this time for LEGION OF SUPERHEROES by Paul Levitz and Francis Portela. Surely you all know the name of the music, right? And you got the hidden in-joke, right?
Continue ReadingMarv Wolfman: The man who invented the Crisis
Here is a Village Voice interview with Marv Wolfman, which is interesting for many reasons. Because Wolfman is always a thoughtful commenter on the comics industry and its may pressures, but also because CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS --and NEW TEEN TITANS by the same Wolfman/Perez team -- is to the New 52 generation what Fantastic Four #1 (the 1961 one) was to so many before it. With its sweeping changes, dramatic deaths and multiple universes, it set the stage for many a crisis to come. And, famously, there was talk after CoIE of doing a line-wide issue #1 reboot. The idea lay dormant until now. But Wolfman points out that for an event to be an event it should have actual motivation:
Continue ReadingMust Read: Michel Fiffe on comics fusion
Michel Fiffe's interviewing and archiving skills cannot be doubted -- nor, after his dynamic ZEGAS debut can his cartooning skills -- but this time out he offers a compelling survey of the often uneasy, sometimes brilliant crossover between indy and superhero esthetics:
Continue ReadingNew 52: Well that was fun
Wow, we're zonked and we didn't even do anything. But the beehive of activity over this weeks New 52 debut was exhausting just to follow on twitter. Yesterday Jim Lee and Geoff Johns made a barnstorming tour of NYC comics shops, calling ahead and then showing up for flash-style 45 minute signings. They hit Manhattan, Hanleys, Forbidden Planet and St. Marks and somewhere in between Lee did an NPR interview. This enthusiastic blitzkrieg was somewhat reminiscent of the 90s comics days, when Image signings required giant tents, creators did crazy signing tours, and unsold skids of comics were sometimes left in the wake. It was a silly time, yes, but there was genuine fan excitement; one senses Jim Lee's hand behind some of the current promotion, and there has definitely been excitement generated. Even Marvelites were complimentary, perhaps reaching the zenith when Lee retweeted Marvel's CB Cebulski retweeting writer Nick Spencer:
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