SD10: Radical #3735
SCOTT PILGRIM’S FINEST HOUR hits at MIDNIGHT! UPDATED
Stores across the nation are having midnight events for SCOTT PILGRIM'S FINEST HOUR. Oni has a list but we've reproduced it below. The epicenter...
CB Cebulski promoted to SVP, Creator & Content Development
Globe-trotting gastronome CB Cebulski has just been promoted to SVP at Marvel. Cebulski is a familiar and popular figure at shows around the...
Tonight to do: Digital Panel: Abs & Apps @ Meltdown Comics… – Eventbrite
If you are not going to the Big Show or want to get a head start on the activities, here's an interesting-sounding event, Meltdown's...
Kirkman launches Skybound imprint at Image
WARLORD OF MARS coming from Dynamite
If you are a long term Beat reader you know that we here at Stately Beat Manor are big fans of the campy yet imaginative John Carter of Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A John Carter movie is in the works from Pixar, meaning (as we fear) it will be the movie that breaks Pixar's string of making SOME OF THE THE GREATEST MOVIES OF ALL TIME, or maybe....it will be the John Carter movie we've always dreamed of!
The first five books in the Mars series -- from A Princess of Mars to Chessmen of Mars -- are actually in the public domain, and so, we have a new Mars series WARLORD OF MARS coming from Dynamite this October.
DC talks digital to retailers
While the whole Comic-Con thing was gearing up we totally missed this important column by Comix Experience retailer Brian Hibbs who recounts a meeting at the WB offices, where DC's top executive team invited about 20 top retailers and went over the whole DC Digital thing with them. We're going to give an extensive quote because it kinda explains Where Comics Are:
SD10: Fantagraphics #1718
Where at Comic-Con will you see Stephen DeStefano signing with Moto Hagio? Did you even know such a thing was possible? IT IS! At the Fantagraphics booth where books by Charles Schulz, Jacques Tardi, Norman Pettigill, The Hernandez Brothers, Drew Friedman and C. Tyler will debut. And that's only a smattering of the treasures to be found. You can find a Fantagraphics Comic-Con 2010 Pocket Guide here if this is too much to take in. Clearly, this is the place to be.
SD10: Drawn and Quarterly
D&Q, one of the finest comics publishers in the world, actually has all their news and debuts and what not at their blog. We urge you to go there for all the poop. We have taken the liberty of reproducing the covers to WILD KINGDOM, the new Kevin Huizenga and a new issue (hardcover) of PALOOKAVILLE by Seth. Also their signing schedule is below, with guests Vanessa Davis, Jillian Tamaki, Gabrielle Bell and James Sturm. These put the COMIC back in Comic-Con! Let's do this!
SD10: Rob Hanes Adventurer – K1
In the seasonal ocean of hype and comics companies whose main attraction is some actor signing some comic, there are still oases of good old comic books. And also people who send out fine little news releases and pictures of comics. Such a person is Randy Reynaldo who has been at this a while but still sends out a nice. concise news bit. And he always gets his own news item, like this. Because he did it right. This time out, Reynaldo will premiere the first ever collection of Rob Hanes, Adventurer.
"Randy encourages everyone to support small independent comics publishers by visiting his booth (K1) and the other tables in the Small Press Pavilion." And so do we!
SD10: IDW #2643
You can see all of IDW's convention exclusives, panels and signings here but the short version is Michael Chiklis (Pantheon), Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County), Joe R. Lansdale, Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn), Scott Morse, Steve Niles, and the creative teams for True Blood, STAR TREK, TRANSFORMERS, and G.I. JOE at the booth and lots o' news on panels.
SD10: Viper Comics #1903
You would think that writing the script to BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA would be enough to get a person banned for life, but no. Jeff Bushell will be at the Viper Comics booth, roaming fee and unharmed, with his new book, STU BEAR IN THE 25th CENTURY. It turns out he's an okay guy with lots of other writing credits. Let's bury the hatchet and try to live in peace, okay?
