Patric and Punch cast in Powers pilot
Jason Patric and Lucy Punch have been cast as as Detectives Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim for the Powers pilot in production for FX.
Brian Chippendale’s comics reviews are back and going mutant
When alt-comix superstar Brian Chippendale reviews mainstream comics, the result illuminates us all this episode he examines the X-men, the new UNCANNY #1, and fanboy style, suggests that consecutive numbering didn't hurt X-MEN #94:
Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival announces exhibitor applications available
Exhibitor applications for this year's Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival are now available; although the show is curated, all submissions will be reviewed, according to a letter from co-director Gabe Fowler. This year's show will be held December 3rd at the Mt. Carmel Church in Williamsburg.
TCAF ’11 drew 15,000. ’12 dates announced
Toronto Comics Art Festival Director Chris Butcher has a big round-up, thank you post that reveals that this years events drew a total of 15,000 people to the various venues. He also reveals that next year's show will be held May 5-6:
HUGE NEWS! New Hutch Owens collection in October!
Tom Hart's essential zeitgeist character Hutch Owen gets his third collection this fall,
Let's Get Furious!, due from Top Shelf:
Mike Dawson unveils cover for TROOP 142
Cartoonist Mike Dawson has revealed the cover for TROOP 142, his Boy Scout epic coming out from Secret Acres this fall. The book will debut at SPX.
TROOP 142 ran as a webcomic and follows a group of Boy Scouts on a retreat in 1995 and the things they learn about boyhood, manhood and more. It's an excellent story, without sentiment, and has already won an Ignatz as Best Online Comic.
Lafler's DOG BOY back as a webcomic
Indie comics legend Steve Lafler is back with his best known creation, the raffish, brutal DOG BOY. The strip will appear at CO2 Comics starting tomorrow.
KRAMERS ERGOT is back, normal sized and published by PictureBox
KRAMERS ERGOT #8: THE TRAILER from Dan Nadel on Vimeo.
Great news! Sammy Harkham, editor of the seminal art comix anthology KRAMERS ERGOT, has announced...
ELFQUEST to be on iPad/iPhone?
It's funny how something that has been around forever can still get a blog boost -- as we reported yesterday, some 6500 pages of ELFQUEST comics are online, to read, for FREE -- but they have been up for more than two years. Our post got Boing Boinged, and Richard Pini, WARP graphics co-everything, wrote in to answer some questions in that thread, especially complaints about the Flash interface (one wag posted a link to the complete Elfquest on a bit torrent site.)
First, thanks for putting this "old news" back in the news.
The online library: The Complete ELFQUEST
Speaking of fantasy, one of the pillars of the fantasy comics genres is now available in its entirety to read online. ELFQUEST, Wendy and Richard Pini's saga of homeless elves and their passions and battles, first published in 1978, was one of the foundational hits of the emerging indie comics scene, and after many publishers, movie options and assorted dramas, it's still a good story.
Indie Month-to-Month Sales: March 2011
IDW's new Godzilla series grabbed the top spot this month, knocking The Walking Dead from their throne after only one month. Meanwhile Dark Horse released a Dollhouse comic based on the Joss Whedon series of the same name, Dynamite launched a Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris comic with a "Risqué Nude Art" variant cover, and Boom! launched a Hellraiser comic.
