Image launches DAOMU
DAOMU, a hot Chinese graphic novel/”transmedai” series about a tomb raider, is coming to the US via Image. PR below. Image Comics and Concept Art House announced plans to release a series of Daomu comics based on one of China’s best-selling novel series. This will be Daomu’s debut in the U.S., following a successful graphic [...]
Continue ReadingSD10: Indie Comics Saturday
Dark Horse Given that pretty much all of the Spartans died at the Battle of Thermopylae - which was sort of the point - people have been speculating for years about how Frank Miller would wring a sequel out of his hit Dark Horse graphic novel and movie 300. Today, at Comic-Con, the answer came out. The sequel, XERXES, will actually take place at exactly the same time on another battlefield of the same war.
Continue ReadingSD10: Image Comics #2729
Chew! Turf! Choker! Viking! Haunt! Books with more than one syllable titles like The Walking Dead. And Ziggy Marley. It's all below: CREATORS You'll find a surplus of Image creators on hand at booth #2729. The stupendous talents joining Image include GLEN BRUNSWICK, KODY CHAMBERLAIN, KIERON GILLEN, BRYAN JL GLASS, ROB GUILLORY, PHIL HESTER, GREG HORN, JASON HOWARD, ANDY KUHN, ERIK LARSEN, JOHN LAYMAN, ROB LIEFELD, DAVID MACK, DEREK MCCULLOCH, JAMIE MCKELVIE, MINK, RYAN OTTLEY, PAOLO PARENTE, CLIFF RATHBURN, JIMMIE ROBINSON, STEPHEN SCOTT, KRIS SIMON, BEN TEMPLESMITH, JIM VALENTINO and CORY WALKER. WE'LL ALSO HAVE SIGNINGS WITH JANE WIEDLIN, BILL MORRISON, JONATHAN ROSS, TOMMY LEE EDWARDS, TIM SEELEY, JOE KELLY, KEN NIIMURA, NICK SPENCER and more!
Continue ReadingKirkman launches Skybound imprint at Image
The NY Times has the scoop on a new Image imprint to be headed up by Robert Kirkman. Skybound will allow Kirkman to take a more hands-on role in mentoring and editing, and offer creators an advance and marketing, in exchange for a percentage -- so it's kind of like an agency AND an imprint.
Continue ReadingImage news: CHEW Poyo variant and more Firsts
A scary chicken graces the cover of a CHEW variant edition available at Comic-Con.
Continue ReadingNSFW: THE PRO cartoon
Okay, this is DEFINITELY NSFW. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. THE PRO, the tale of a working girl with superpowers by Garth Ennis, Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti, has been a sales sleeper since it came out in 2002 — it’s now in its fifth printing. Some test animation has been floating around [...]
Continue ReadingNice Art: Ted McKeever’s META 4
“What's different [about META 4],” McKeever said, “is the lack of a specific central theme or category. In the past, I would find myself wanting to do a ‘political drama’ or an ‘apocalyptic horror’ tale. But here, I am allowing myself to weave through [different] subjects, and pull into it whatever is needed based on that given scenario. The challenge is to make it all work.”The key to that, he said, lies with the characters. “[They] have to be designed in such a way that they come across as subtly ‘real’ and yet malleable enough to show extreme emotions when called for,” McKeever said.
Continue ReadingBEAT MAY GIVEAWAY FRENZY #7: Eddy Current
Today we are giving away a cult comics classic which was published in 1987 but still speaks to today's issues. Before there was Wesley Gibson or Dave Lisewski or Flex Mentallo there was...Eddy Current, the story of an inmate at a mental asylum who finds himself melded with the "Dynamic Fusion Suit" he ordered from an comic book ad and escapes to save the world.
Continue ReadingAnatomy of a panty shot
Dear lord, what is coming out of this woman’s vajayjay? People, dogs, monster claws, golden light, frayed denim. This one has it all. The cover to Image’s new NANCY IN HELL miniseries by Juan Jose Ryp and El Torres is either a subtle homage to such cameltoe classics as Ryan Kinnaird’s X-Men: Phoenix – Legacy [...]
Continue ReadingCorey Lewis’s SEEDLESS
Image has just released information on a new Corey Lewis concoction — this time a saga of garden fruits and the aliens who look like them: Just when you thought it was safe to go to the supermarket for a bag of grapes, Corey Lewis (Sharknife, Peng) reminds us that aliens could be anywhere in his [...]
Continue ReadingPersonnel moves: Barton, Martinez, Cabardo, etc., etc., etc.
Lots and lots of personnel announcements over the last few days. ¶ Image has hired Todd Martinez as their new Sales & Licensing Coordinator. For 14 years, Martinez was manager of the pioneering Bay area comics shop Comics Relief. According to the PR: As manager, he worked extensively with other retailers, book market representatives and libraries. His [...]
Continue ReadingThe march of art
In the spirit of cleaning out our email in-box, here is some promo art that came in yesterday that may be of some interest to Beat readers, including THE CRUSADES, MORNING GLORY ACADEMY, HAWKS OF OUTREMER, FCBD IRON MAN/THOR, DARKWING DUCK and SECRET PROJECT ROBOT.
Continue ReadingC2E2: Top Cow teams with the Bears’ Lance Briggs
Via PR: Top Cow Productions, Inc. is proud to announce Lance Briggs, the 5-time Pro Bowl player and Co-Defensive Captain of the Chicago Bears, will play a special role in Top Cow’s plans for next week’s Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo (C2E2). “I’ve been in love with comics since I was 7 years old. I remember reading [...]
Continue ReadingC2E2: Image Comics gets Windy
It’s hot in the Windy City of Chicago as Image Comics gets ready for the inaugural edition of C2E2 (Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo). It’ll only get hotter at the Image Comics booth, #651, when the show gets started Friday, April 16th! Don’t miss RYAN OTTLEY (INVINCIBLE) and JASON HOWARD (THE ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN), who will be [...]
Continue ReadingImage panel announcements: Emperor Dragon, Officer Downe, The Crusades
Image provided a list of their new projects announced at this afternoon’s WonderCon panel: EMPEROR LARSEN Erik Larsen discussed the upcoming story arc for SAVAGE DRAGON, entitled EMPEROR DRAGON. Following the events of the DRAGON WAR, Savage Dragon remains his evil self, Emperor Kurr. Without the opposition to stop him, the ex-cop, ex-superhero makes a play to [...]
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