Art to own: Evan Dorkin
Evan Dorkin is selling some art, including this classic pin-up. Now who wouldn't want to own this?
Breaking news: Movie Doctor Manhattan hung like a horse
As regular readers of this blog know, as soon as the WATCHMEN movie was announced, we had only one pressing concern: Would Dr. Manhattan really be nude? Could America stand the sight of a...
This was once thought of as a way to increase comics readership
Via Gavin Jasper
But...The circle of life!
Quote of the day
My only regret is not doing everything myself forever.-- Webcomicker R Stevens.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits: Business edition
§ Reed Exhibitions is hiring a marketing guru for their pop culture shows:
I am looking for someone to join our team here in Borwalk, CT as a Marketing Director to oversee all of our...
Karen Ellis hit by fire
Karen Ellis, creator of the webcomic PLANET KAREN, is the latest comics creator to face the disaster of a devastating fire, according to a widely circulated letter:
Karen Ellis, creator of diary comic Planet Karen,...
DC answers “After WATCHMEN, what’s next?”
In a nod to capitalizing on Google searches if nothing else, DC has unveiled a plan for giving newbies who enjoyed WATCHMEN a place to go, with special $1 editions of five titles:
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Business bits
§ At PW Comics Week, Ada Price surveys s bunch of comics retailers o see how they're doing and the old "cautious optimism" line is used again. But "selectivity" may be the word we...
PRESIDENT AWESOME debuts
Is Barack Obama funny? Dean Trippe and Evan Bryce are going to find out as they launch a new webcomic entitled PRESIDENT AWESOME.
President Awesome has officially taken office! Welcome to the new administration....
A comics shop in France
Fantagraphics' Jason Miles visits Un Regard Moderne, a comics shop in France.
Top GNs in bookstores
And in our final chart based item for the morning, ICv2 has released an adjusted list of the top-selling graphic novels of 2008, according to BookScan:
The top nine titles remained the same, but beginning...
