Webcomic watch: Joe Infurnari’s THE NEW ADVENTURES OF ULTRA-LAD
It's not quite what you think.
INCOGNITO preview
A new comic by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is always a pretty thing; in this case, it's INCOGNITO #1, a new Icon book due in January about a bored supervillain in the witness...
WE3 Movie news: Stevenson on board?
Somehow we forgot to mention the biggest comics-to-movies news of the week: That a director has been found for the proposed WE3 movie. The brilliant Grant Morrison/Frank Quitely miniseries is best described as "Homeward...
Comics on iPhones?
For those of you who missed it, we got a chance to interview uclick's Douglas Edwards and Jeff Webber about their program to sell comics on iPhones for $0.99 an issue.uclick has long...
DC Month-to-Month Sales October 2008
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
Any signs yet of the financial crisis affecting the periodical direct market in October? No, not really. Thanks to several high-profile books that weren't published in September coming out again, DC Comics'...
The Simpsons are people in Australia
In a controversial decision, an Australian judge has ruled that a man with a pornographic drawing of the Simpsons on his computer is guilty of possessing child pornography, fined him $3000, and given...
Details on You’ll All Be Sorry! collection
About Comics's Nat Gertler reports that the collection of You'll All Be Sorry!, Gail Simone's epochal humor column from the Golden Age of the Internet, has been delayed...but it will contain much NEW and...
Inaki Miranda and TRIBES
Soulcraft Comics is a small comics publisher that has several properties coming out in the next year or so. (Full disclosure: Future Mr. Beat is working on one of them.) They've been serializing their...
Marvel month-to-month sales – October 2008
By Paul O'Brien
It's a quiet October. SECRET INVASION continues into its seventh month. Just think, when the crossover began, Hillary Clinton was still campaigning for President...
The biggest new title of the month...
Salem! No!
Oh no! Soon you will see another beloved comics character as you have never seen him before! That never happened before, either! But it's not who you think! And we're not done using exclamation...
ABC orders Fables pilot
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Fables may just be a new TV show for ABC. Bill Willingham's popular tale of fairy tale characters trying to make it in the modern world would seem to...
RIP: Gérard Lauzier
Numerous French-language outlets are reporting the death of Gérard Lauzier, a very well-known cartoonist/satirist who later had even greater success as a film writer and director. According to his Lambiek page, he created...
