Comics

A new comic up at Cartoon Movement by Dan Carino is a tragic look at self-immolation and the Tibetan situation.

We know this post will anger comics industry journalists, but after Disney's success getting PR for their gay-themed comic onThe View, it seems Turner/WB is getting in on the synergy action too. We just received a tip from a Turner PR person for this story on the HLN (Headline News) site.

Dara Naraghi has been running a features on his blog called Indie Cover Spotlight where he goes through his longboxes and pulls out the amazing, unlikely, and just plain forgotten indie comics of yore, say, like this cover of something called STAR RANGERS by Dave Dorman, a loving tribute to Fredric Wertham.

Everyone does seem to be all hot and bothered about DC's gay superhero announcement. The really odd thing about all the hubbub is it really doesn't seem to have been planned out ahead of time... and as such, the June solicitations show perhaps a slightly different picture than all the buzz. Let's look at the actual timeline for all this:

EW has rolled out the first photo of Danai Gurira as Michonne, the sword-wielding zombie slicer from Robert Kirkman's THE WALKING DEAD TV series.

Ben Towle is at it again, organizing another alphabetical tour through some delightful category. Last time it was fantastic beasts; this time, it's fictional characters, and it's called AlphaBooks. Towle kicks it off with A is for Captain Ahab and a quote on his blog fromMoby Dick: The path to my fixed purpose is laid with iron rails, whereon my soul is grooved to run.

Danny Hellman—one of the signature art styles in the New York illustration world until that went kerflooey. The Holy Yost has a shout-out.

by Casey Burchby

Frank Frazetta’s prodigious and varied output is given even more breadth by a new collection from IDW of the artist’s humor work. The contents of Frazetta – Funny Stuff date from the late 1940s, when he was still just a kid, really, and still a long way from the cavemen, exotic temptresses, movie posters, and cover paintings that would come to define his work. Yet, as Frazetta told The Comics Journal in 1994, “The funny stuff is the real me.”

According to Screen Daily, the movie adaptation of Jason's I KILLED ADOLF HITLER now has director Timo Vuorensola attached. The Finnish helmer is best known for IRON SKY, which is about a secret moonbase full of Nazis who escaped WWII but are back to wreak havoc.

When a young fan with hearing impairment didn't want to wear an aid because he felt it'd make him stand out, his mother assembled with Marvel's staff to save the day

This press release is a little light on details, but we're big on Spain Rodriguez here, and it appears he's been hired to draw one of those "screenplay-to-comics" deals, which will be funded through Kickstarter. Like we said, it's just a plan, but it's nice to see Spain in the news.

Here's Marvel's official PR and artwork for the gay marriage storyline, and you know...well, who doesn't cry at a wedding? (Click for larger version)