Rescue Rangers back at BOOM!
With BOOM!'s DARKWING DUCK comics doing well for the '90s nostalgia crowd, was it only a matter of time before they brought back RESCUE RANGERS, as well? Absolutely. Imagining chipmunk terrorists Chip and Dale as bold adventurers, with the addition of rodent heroes Monterey Jack, Gadget and Zipper the Housefly, the Rescue Rangers were another staple of the Disney Afternoon and a favorite of furry fans everywhere. Ian Brill is back as writer, with Leonel Castellani as artist.
Continue ReadingDownload this: The Imp by Daniel Raeburn
Daniel Raeburn has made the entire four-issue run of his 1997-2002 fanzine The Imp available for PDF download. Single topic issues on Dan Clowes, Jack Chick, Chris Ware and Mexican historietas generally defined the direction of all future scholarship on such topics and this is one of the finest and most influential bits of comics scholarship/criticism of the last 20 years. So go download for your iPad or whatever.
Continue ReadingDynamite acquires Chaos Comics library
It's the 90s and the "Bad Girl" era of comics all over again, as Dynamite announces they have acquired the Chaos Comics library which in cluded such titles as Evil Ernie, Chastity, Purgatory, and so on. Lady Death, the best known character from Chaos, was not included in the deal. Chaos flourished in the 90s under publisher/chief creator Brian Pulido. Various characters from their library have been controlled in recent years by Tales of Wonder, Crossgen, Devil's Due and Avatar.
Continue ReadingTurtles — true and false
Yesterday the above, somewhat disturbing photo, swept through the internets like a virus, with the breathless question : is this a leak from the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie?... Latino review, which first cirulated he photo, says that it's just a class project from one of make-up master Tom Savini's students. However we are happy to report that THIS is the real deal: PIZZA TIME!... The above is Jon Vermillyea 's drawing, and it is not disturbing at all.
Continue ReadingThe history of Image and more
While we were out of it, we should have just posted this single link which should have kept everyone busy for a whole day: Part Six of Jay Allen Sanford ’s lavishly illustrated history of comics in San Diego. In this episode: 1 – The Birth of Image Comics 2 – Pacific Comics: The inside story [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles 'n' Bits
§ 90s Nostalgia! Laura Hudson looks back at Wizard in the 90s: § It’s generally impossible for an interview with Alan Moore not to be awesome, and this one at Forbidden Planet by Pádraig Ó Méalóid is no exception: It seems, at least in the case of Lost Girls, there is now an existing piece [...]
Continue ReadingThis and that
§ Chris Butcher is on a tear this week, first with a calling-a-spade-a-spade . post So yeah, most of the 3300 graphic novels released in 2007 sucked. Godwin’s Law Sturgeon’s Law is that 95% of everything is crap, and that’s about right in this case. Of course, the fact that there’s a “Godwin’s Law” “Sturgeon’s Law” [...]
Continue ReadingThe Self-Publishing Movement remembered
Over at his Boneville blog, Jeff Smith has started a series of posts looking back at the self-publishing movement of the 90s: It’s been 15 years since I met Larry Marder, who introduced me to Dave Sim. Who in turn introduced me to Colleen Doran. Soon, along with James Owen and Martin Wagner, we created a [...]
Continue ReadingOh Rob Liefeld, you scamp you
Oh man, we can just imagine the internet chatter about this lengthy profile of Rob Liefeld in the OC Weekly: To this day, Liefeld is described as “controversial”—it’s one of the first things you’ll see on his Wikipedia page—but he isn’t quite sure why. “I ask people, but no one really has a good answer,” he [...]
Continue ReadingMore on Massarsky, Goldwater
The recent deaths of past and preseng comics execs Steve Massarsky and Richard Goldwater have a bit of online commentary. Marv Evanier discusses Goldwater here. Masssarsly so was instrumental to the face of early 90s comics via his involvement with Valient/Voyager, was a more controversial figure, as comments in the Newsarama thread and this Comicmix [...]
Continue ReadingAdventure on!
Over on his blog, Jeff Smith recently announced some impressive sales figures for Scholastic’s BONE reprints: I received some astonishing sales figures from Scholastic – - the paperback edition of BONE 6: Old Man’s Cave, which just shipped last month, is in its third printing for a total of 260,000 copies! The combined hard cover & [...]
Continue ReadingValiant Harbinger reprint runs into trouble
Here’s one of the subjects we really need to read up on: the legal tangle surrounding the return of Valiant comics. It seems the tangle has already caused one problem: Diamond will not be distributing the HARBINGER reprint due to legal concerns: In the latest development in what has seemingly become a quagmire of intellectual property [...]
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