Ben Templesmith: “I’m alive.”
When the story broke about J. Michael Straczynski replacing Ben Templesmith with CP Smith, as artist on his Image series Ten Grand after Templesmith...
Let’s get this straight: DC is anti marriage, not anti GAY marriage
When the news broke earlier that co-writers JH Williams II AND W. Haden Blackman (and not just Williams, as some sites reported) had quit...
Nice Art: Seth at Adam Baumgold
Manhattan's Adam Baumgold Gallery will be hosting a show called Seth - It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken starting on the 9/10...
Valiant goes to Mexico with Kamite publishing deal
Valiant has just announced it's teaming with Mexican publisher Kamite to distribute a new line of Spanish-language versions of the Valiant line. Foreign publishing...
Should we even try to give indie comics a wider cultural context?
This is the golden era of indie comic, artistically and even financially, at least in term of the number of publishers, CAFs and cartoonists who wake up every day excited to be cartooning. It's a movement that is aesthetically and formally as exciting as anything else going on out there.
All of which makes the Jason Karns Kerfuffle all the more unusual.
Ben Templesmith Replaced on ‘Ten Grand’ After Cutting Off Contact with JMS
An interesting story's been picked up by Multiversity today, as it appears that artist Ben Templesmith has been replaced on Image's Ten Grand series...
Chuck Forsman’s TEOTFW being adapted into video series in the UK
I don't know why this news hasn't been picked up at every entertainment blog everywhere. A comic book has been optioned for a live...
JH Williams III and W. Haden Blackman Quit Batwoman over Editorial Interference
In a letter posted to his website today, JH Williams III has announced that he and co-writer W. Haden Blackman have quit Batwoman due...
First Second announces Winter 2014 line-up
First Second released some news about their Winter 2013-14 titles, including paperback editions for Sailor Twain and Baby's in Black, and some new books...
Reviewed! Every Issue of Villains Month, Week One
DC sent along a lovely pack of review copies for Villains Week, and I feel like it's only fair that I read through all...
Hyperbole and a Half the book is coming in October
This news has been around for a while, but it never got it's own item, so here it is: Hyperbole and a Half, Allie...
Stan Lee has an archive, but you will probably never be able to see...
In an era when more and more collection of personal comics papers are being given to scholarly institutions (Columbia's Karen Green and OSU's Jenny Robb being among the leaders of this particular movement) it came as a bit of a surprise to be reminded where Stan Lee's papers are housed: Laramie, WY. Sequential Tart's Katie Frank made the arduous journey to the archive at the University of Wyoming, braving raging rivers, scaling giant redwoods and sustained on morning dew from maple leaves, but she made it.
