Disney launches toyetic shonen Avengers cartoon in Japan
The main reason Disney acquired Marvel was to finally break open the boy market bank, and their simple plan worked pretty well. They're even conquering Japan, it was just announced, with "the first Japanese Marvel animated television series targeted at boys." It's called Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers. "Disk" wars, eh That sound highly, highly toyetic.
The Alan Moore/Marvelman Interview Part II: A Crumpled Letter from Archie Goodwin
The second of three parts of a telephone interview I did with Alan Moore in October 2010 about Marvelman and his later incarnation, Miracleman....
The JIm Zub Interviews: Jai Nitz on Green Hornet
ZUB: What draws you towards Green Hornet as a character, or the pulp genre in general?
NITZ: Pulp characters are much more grounded than their...
31 Days of Halloween: Robb Mommaerts
Robb Mommaerts has done lots of work in animation, illustration and most recently, The Lookouts (written by Ben McCool). You can find ore of his work on deviantART aallery and his website.
Kryptonite, Cairo’s comics shop
As we've been noting more and more, comics are a global culture, and there's even a comic shop in Cairo, Kryptonite located in Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt. Here's the description from the English language "Yelp" of the region.
DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: August 2013 – Allocation Blues
Due to unprecedented demand for the DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales Column, The Beat announces that broadcasts of the August 2013 DC Comics Month-to-Month Sales Column will be allocated. This column is now FUBAR-Late at the writer level.
You won’t believe this Chester Brown Louis Riel cartoon
A tiny snippt of a lost project that would have animated Chester Brown's great graphic novel of Canadian history.
Court tells Stan Lee Media to get the hell away from Conan
Stan Lee Media—the creeping zombie of a company that no longer has anything to do with Stan Lee, but loves to say they have...
NYCC Panel Recap: The 2000AD Panel
Starting with moderator Mike Molcher quickly breaking two microphones in a row and ending with him soliciting selected members of the audience for sexual...
Alan Moore Speaks about Marvelman: Part I
On the 22nd of October 2010 - three years ago almost to the day - I spent an hour on the phone with Alan...
The Making of The Art of Frank Thorne
A few weeks ago we told you about the launch of Dynamite's art editions line with Frank Thorne's Red Sonja, an oversized collection of...
First peek at Jeff Smith’s Tuki Save the Humans!, with CBLDF future unveiling
With RASL running up the sales chart and soon to start racking up awards, Jeff Smith's next project—a webcomic called Tüki Save the Humans!...
