Breaking: Moonstone is still around
As the comics market has gotten a lot dicier In This Economy, a few smaller companies have become a bit harder to spot in the forest. Companies like Moonstone, the long-running pulp-themed publisher of such things as KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER, BUCKAROO BANZAI, and so on. In recent year they have been best known for putting out a bunch of pulp heroes now published by Dynamite, such as The Spider and so on. Things have been pretty quiet on the Moonstone front of late -- publishing small indie comics periodicals seems like a supersonic journey to insolvency and industry scuttlebutt around Moonstone hasn't been exactly robust. But Moonstone is still around -- here are their April releases, both collections and both Buckaroo Banzai-themed. Guess that cult film has found its afterlife in the comics, with the participation of auteur W.D. Richter a big bonus.
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Guggenheim’s Nowhere Man is somewhere again, three years later
The week before a big movie release is the traditional time for announcements of new projects for those involved; it's a magical time when the entertainment world's attention is turned to you, but before possible tankage or bad news, when there's a world of opportunity for those with vision. Thus it is that Deadline today announced that GREEN LANTERN writer Marc Guggenheim was launching his comics series NOWHERE MAN:
Continue ReadingAnatomy of a Press Release, Part 2: Disney DROPS Radical’s OBLIVION
Back in August, 2010, we told you all about the story behind OBLIVION, a graphic novel concept by director Joe Kosinski (TRON: LEGACY) that was optioned to Disney Studios for a cool $500,000. It seemed like a lot of money for yet another "celebrity comic" so what was so hot about it? At the time we wrote:
Continue ReadingNice Art: Dune by Sienkiewicz, and more Dune Comics
This link has been making the rounds and why not? The 1985 comics adaptation of David Lynch's DUNE drawn by Bill Sienkiewicz. Yes. NOW with added Moebius and Paul Pope.
Continue ReadingNice Art: Ben Templesmith’s BLACK SKY teaser
"Black Sky" is a new "illustrated film" project by Ben Templesmith from Halo-8 Entertainment, the production company that seems to have a hand in a lot of interesting comics-esque related things, like the Grant Morrison documentary and so on. The first teaser image have just been released:
Continue ReadingWhat’s up at: Universal
You know Disney and WB have comic book companies, and Fox and Paramount have dabbled with their own comics in the past, but what about Universal? They're putting out at least one comics-y type thing, even if it's coming out from their Universal Studios branch as part of Halloween hoopla. Vampyre: Castle of the Undead (Blood Secrets of the Iron Guard), is not only the longest title ever but also the first graphic novella to be based on a Halloween theme park maze, we're told. Patrick Ian Moore is listed as artist.
Continue ReadingMoCCA: Harvest Is When I Need You The Most
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Okay here’s one of those oddball pop culture anthologies: Harvest Is When I Need You The Most: Harvest Is When I Need You the Most, features the talent of 8 cartoonists paying homage to the original Star Wars trilogy. The 36 page, full color book releases at MoCCA Art Fest 2008, and will [...]
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Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe keepers of the enw Kingdom Comics line at Disney, Ahmet Zappa and Christian Beranek, showed up at WW Philly and revealed more of their plans: When asked how the duo would deal with the use of Disney’s beloved characters, Zappa responded, “We’re not trying to make Mickey Mouse comics. The [...]
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