McDaniel talks his side of the Static rift…and what it reveals about the New 52
You may recall an ongoing blame battle between writer John Rozum and artist Scott McDaniel over the New 52 launch title STATIC. Rozum was the first of the New 52 creators to walk, and revealed it was because of creative differences with McDaniel. Now McDaniel has told HIS side of the story -- in a 15,000 word novella that covers every moment of every conference call in minute depth. McDaniel says he has never written anything before, but he seems to have a great future as a court reporter.
Continue ReadingJeffrey Brown’s Darth Vader and son covers
Back when we interviewed Jeffrey Brown about his movie at Sundance, he mentioned an upcoming humor book called Darth Vader and Son that features gentle humor on the topic of Darth as dad to Luke.
Continue ReadingNice art: Lauren Weinstein’s What You’re Really Doing
Lauren Weinstein offers helpful hints on how to interpret online profile pictures. More tips in the link.
Continue ReadingThe secret of comics revealed yet again
Here's a perennial of comics lore that gets posted every once in a while. Chris Sims looks at Carson Van Osten's 'Comic Strip Artist's Kit' , a brief 8-page guide to solving the most common problems of comics prepared by Creative Services' Van Osten. The above two-panel spread will give a sampling of its exceedingly basic yet hard to follow advice. Yep. Don't be wooden, alright. Easy peazy! Entire life dreams have exploded over that little gem.
Continue ReadingTwo new books from Koyama from Jesse Jacobs and Tin Can Forest
They won't be out until TCAF in May, but here's the scoop on two Koyama Press debuts, Jesse Jacobs’s BY THIS SHALL YOU KNOW HIM and Tin Can Forest’s WAX CROSS.
Continue ReadingHYPE ALERT: To do, NYC – Ben McCool at JHU
Meet Ben McCool at JHU Wed, February 8! On Wednesday, February 8 beginning at 6:00 pm, JHU Welcomes Back writer Ben McCoool (Choker, Memoir), signing copies of the brand new trade paperback of his Image series Pigs! All EXCLUSIVELY at Jim Hanley's Universe in Manhattan, Where Fans and Creators Meet!
Continue ReadingNice art: Who drew today’s Google Dickens doodle? Mike Dutton
You may have noticed Google's stylish doodle for the birthday of Charles Dickens today. But who drew it? an artist named Mike Dutton, who has previously worked on doodles for Richard Scarry, Mary Blair, the Royal Wedding, and the World Cup.
Continue ReadingEven Garth Ennis is going to Kickstarter—for a kids’ book
If you didn't ever expect to see comics writing star Garth Ennis launching a Kickstarter program, you surely never expected to see him do it...for a kids' book. But that's exactly what is happening for a project calledERF, a sort of Finding Amoeba, featuring four lovable creatures plucked from the primordial ooze to find a better way of life:
Continue ReadingLisa Hanawalt with the last word on The Super Bowl
The Puppy Bowl wasn’t so cute this year.
Continue ReadingNice art: Rokuro Taniuchi
Rokuro Taniushi is a Japanese illustrator of the '50s on who has been called "the kawaii Norman Rockwell of Japan" for painting some 1300 covers for the influential weekly magazine Shukan Shincho. Kawaii is the "cute" style of Japanese art, seen and deconstructed in everything from Hello Kitty to Murakami.
Continue ReadingNice art: THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON at Giant Robot
Giant Robot's YEAR OF THE DRAGON art exhibit, themed around this year's Chinese horoscope, is now online. It also serves as a farewell to BR employee Michelle Borok, who curated many exhibitions at the iconic LA store. You can view the entire exhibit here. Above, "Pink Mountains, Black Dragon" by Sara Saedi.
Continue ReadingThe Daily Cross Hatch is on hiatus
February 1st has yet ANOTHER comics birthday—the indie comics-focused blog The Daily Cross Hatch was five years old this week. However, owner Brian Heater was back with less-happy news. Due to his heavy workload editing the massively popular Engadget blog, Daily Cross Hatch is on hiatus: This is the part where I explain what’s going on.
Continue ReadingNew funding strategy for comickers: borrow money from David Choe, the $200 million artist
David Choe, the eccentric and talented graffiti artist/painter who once flamed out as the artist on an X-Men spin-off, is now set to make about $200 million from the Facebook stock offering. It seems that back in the day Choe painted murals for Facebook's Palo Alto offices...and instead of taking a lump sum he asked for stock. As you may have heard, Facebook went public yesterday, and was quickly valued at $5 billion or so, making Choe's little decision one of the savviest moves ever by an art-type. “Always double down on 11. Always," Choe advises in a recent art book.
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Happy Birthday Image Comics
Wow, February 1 is a banner day in comics history. It is also the day that Image Comics was created—20 years ago. Via Facebook co-founder Jim Valentino shared a photo of the founders and one pal on that fateful day, from left to right Erik Larsen, Hank Kanalz, Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, Marc Silvestri, and Jim Valentino. They'e all still in the game, all better off than they were 20 years ago. Collectively, they've changed the industry a time or two. It was also a day when people wore denim shirts. Ah, what a time...
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