31 Days of Halloween: Dracula the Unconquered
BY JEN VAUGHN - Comic writer, podcast host and serial blogger at his own website, The Invincible Super Blog, and Comics Alliance, Chris Sims sat down to have a chat with me about his upcoming Dracula comic to be fully released on Monday, October 31st, also known as Halloween. Six delicious pages are up as a preview now.
Continue Reading30 Days of Halloween: The Dear Creature trailer
Although it would be equally suitable for a 28 days of Valentine feature, we'll file Jonathan Case's new GN DEAR CREATURE under Halloween just because it stars Grue, a deep sea monster. Encountering volumes of Shakespeare beneath the waves, he decides to come to shore to look for romance, and finds it with a woman named Giulietta...but nothing is as it sounds like it will be. This was one of the most unexpected GNs we encountered all year, especially coming from Tor Books. It's kind of loopy but very sweet and the art, in pristine black and white, is hugely expressive.
Continue ReadingReader tries digital comics, likes digital comics
Mike Romo writes over at iFanboy that things have changed since he purchased an iPad. Among the plusses -- easier to find back issues, comics look better and...NO BENT PAGES.
Continue ReadingHenry Cavill portrays Superman as super-fit, shirtless derelict
We don't know exactly what is going on in these set photos from the Vancouver shoot of the new Superman movie, but we approve.
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits, 10/26/11
Links of note from the last couple of days. Try it, you'll like it!
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween: Colleen Doran’s “Three Black Hearts”
Over on her site, Colleen Doran is posting her out of printGothic short story "Three Black Hearts"a page a day until Halloween.
Continue ReadingRED 2 set for August 2, 2013
Summit Entertainment has just announced that RED 2, the sequel to RED, will be released on August 2nd of 2013. The first film, very loosely based on the Warren Ellis/Cully Hamner mini-series, came out last year, and scored a surprise hit with its tale of over-the-hill spies (Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, et al) getting back together for one more gig.
Continue ReadingBrubaker goes Hollywood with COWARD
Another day, another option, but this one is a bit different -- this time the comics creator himself has been tapped to write the script. Ed Brubaker is writing a script for a COWARD movie based on the first arc of his CRIMINAL series, says Variety. David Slade (TWILIGHT, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT) is attached to direct for Jamie Patricof's Hunting Lane Films.
Continue ReadingFOUND: The Superman check that changed history
Looking upon the images of this check inspires both awe and revulsion. Awe that such a key part of American cultural history has been found. Revulsion that the American comic book industry was birthed in exploitation of the creators. And before anybody gets up in the comments to complain about "the greedy family," know that buying all rights in perpetuity was not necessarily the standard even in 1938.
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween: Red Light Properties
Another haunted webcomic, this time Red Light Properties Dan Goldman's creepy series about a real estate agency that specializes in cleaning up then selling haunted houses. Cory Doctorow gave it a big plug the other day:
Continue ReadingWebcomic alert: Muktuk Wolfsbreath is drawing to a close
We've previously plugged Terry LaBan's MUKTUK WOLFSBREATH, HARD BOILED SHAMAN because it's a hardboiled detective story about love, metaphysics, and obsession set among reindeer-herding tribesmen in the chilly forests of Siberia. Best elevator pitch ever! Terry writes to let us know the story is wrapping up soon, so there's still time to jump on board the reindeer.
Continue ReadingNice art: Garry Trudeau draws Cul-de-Sac
Team Cul-de-Sac launched as a fundraising effort for Parkinson's Disease Research after Reuben award-winning cartoonist Richard Thompson was diagnosed with the disease. The plan is to publish a book next spring and auction off some of the all-star art. Along the way it's featured art by retired cartoonists like Bill Watterson and Cathy Guisewite, all drawing Thompson's Otterloop characters. Here's a new piece by not-retired cartoonist Garry Trudeau. This is gonna be some book.
Continue ReadingKing Con 3 postponed
While many are still recovering from the Con Crud they picked up at the marathon New York Comic Con, the New York convention season is far from over. Two more shows were planned the the remainder of the year: King Con and the Brooklyn Comics and Graphic Festival. However, King Con, which was planned for November 3-6,has been postponed, according to a statement on their website.
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween: Steven Price’s Tillboy
Okay we kinda fell off the track there with our Halloween feature but we'll play super catch up until the big day. here's Stephen Price's take on Hellboy as Eustace Tilley, the New Yorker's cartoon mascot, in a submission for their annual Eustace Tilley art contest.
Continue Reading31 Days of Halloween: spooky webcomics
HABE writes with some links to webcomics suitable for the spooky season, starting with his own anthology The Midnight Tea Party, a Goth Lolita collection of tales, and "Fairy Soup" illustrated by Ashley Cope, creator of Unsounded (below).
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