The exciting world of Mark Millar, part IV: Enter Wolverine
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMark Millar’s message board postings are, depending on how you look at it, either a highly entertaining account of a successful multimedia writing career, or the highly entertaining imaginings of a delusional madman. Today’s claim: that he was offered an unspecified job on X-MEN 4. Incredibly, given Millar’s long stated desire [...]
Continue ReadingThe more things change….
Share this link on Facebook!TweetSo, I’m cleaning and I find a random issue of AMAZING HEROES from 1989. I leave it out and save for…bathroom reading later in the day. I see that THE BEAT (before she went by that name) has a column in this issue and one of the subjects is BAT-MOVIE HYPE. [...]
Continue ReadingSD08: Man of Action — #2007
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMan of Action, the team behind Ben 10, and many fine comics, has stuff for sale at San Diego! Man of Action Studios, the creative development company formed in 2002 by comic book iconoclasts Joe Casey (Godland), Joe Kelly (Spider-Man), Duncan Rouleau (Metal Men), and Steven T. Seagle (American Virgin) will be [...]
Continue ReadingGoodwin, Lieber get the Finger Award
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe winners of this year’s Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing have been announced, and worthy ones they are: Archie Goodwin and Larry Lieber. . The award is presented each year to writers to spotlight their accomplishments. PR below Comic-Con International, the largest comic book and popular arts event in [...]
Continue ReadingAnd you can look it up…
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThanks to all who sent me the link for the word “Fanboy” entering the Merriam-Webster dictionary along with other useful terms like “edamame” and “webinar”. The word is cited all the way back to 1919, doubtless in some kind of “He’s totally a fanboy for Baroness Orczy!” kind of way. However, Gia [...]
Continue ReadingOh, Mark Millar!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWhat with WANTED’s very strong debut, original scribe Mark Millar is having his day in the sun, and you know what? He’s earned it. A few days ago, the UK Evening Times profiled him: JET lag is an occupational hazard for Mark Millar. That and other hardships, like having Angelina Jolie rub [...]
Continue ReadingVaughan at Midtown this Thursday
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Brian K. Vaughan, who is now a “beloved comics figure”, makes an incredibly rare signing appearance this Thursday at Midtown Comics: Midtown Comics in New York City will host a comic book signing event with beloved author Brian K. Vaughan. BKV, as he is affectionately referred to by his fans, is the [...]
Continue ReadingChuck Dixon and the DCU — UPDATED
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet UPDATE: Well well well. The Diamond figures for the month are out, and Secret Invasion #2 came in at #1 with Final Crisis #1 coming in at #2. We can’t imagine anyone at DC is very happy about that. The recent departure of Chuck Dixon as a writer at DC has spawned [...]
Continue ReadingChuck Dixon out at DC
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOr so says this post at the Dixonverse Message Board: I am no longer employed by DC Comics in any capacity. Dixon was currently writing Batman and the Outsiders and Robin. UPDATE: Kevin Melrose reminds us that Dixon had abruptly replaced Tony Bedard as writer of BATMAN & THE OUTSIDERS before the book came [...]
Continue ReadingYoung John Stanley
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet The D&Q blog runs this picture of cartoon master John Stanley when he was a teenager. It’s always refreshing to see a great artist captured in the full bloom of youth; our ideas of Stanley are mostly of the older, curmudgeonly but still insightful playwright of the heart. Jeet Heer takes the [...]
Continue ReadingYOU'LL ALL BE SORRY in August
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet About Comics has just announced a collection of Gail Simone’s HIGHlarious “You’ll All Be Sorry” columns, originally published on Comic Book Resources. The cover is by Scott Shaw! (left): The entire comics community will rue the day they entertained Gail Simone when she unleashes You’ll All Be Sorry!, a collection of her [...]
Continue ReadingMyStan
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Never let it be said that Stan isn’t down with the kids.
Continue ReadingSteve Gerber Links
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet#1. Grady Hendrix talks about Gerber changed comics : But Gerber himself was trapped in a vulturelike publishing industry. A dispute with Marvel over payment terms for the artist on the Howard the Duck newspaper strip led to Gerber leaving the book, only to realize too late that his creations [...]
Continue ReadingTrapped in a world he never made
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe “tweener” generation of comics readers and creators — of which I’m one — were lucky enough to come of age in an era of comics struggling to break out of a chrysalis. Nurtured on the canny, mythic cosmic melodrama of classic Lee-Kirby-Ditko Marvel, the next generation yearned to break out [...]
Continue ReadingPaper choice kills Finnish edition of HP VII
Share this link on Facebook!TweetFrom the New York Times: J. K. Rowling blocked the Finnish publication of her latest Harry Potter novel on paper from Finland because it lacked the ecologically friendly certification she favors, Agence France-Presse reported. Her Finnish publisher, Tammi, said that Ms. Rowling insisted that it import paper certified by the Forest Stewardship [...]
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