Christmas comic covers
Let's get into the holiday spirit! Brit cartoonist Lew Stringer has a blog, and he's posting old Christmas covers like this one from THE BEANO, starring the mysterious Biffo. More to come....
Mr. Batman regrets he’s unable to rise today
We haven't read the finale of the BATMAN RIP storyline which came out last week...but lots of other folks have. Apparently Bruce Wayne's dad comes back and shoots him and there's a...
A cover we like: JERSEY GODS
Here's a new Image book by Glen Brunswick and Dan McDaid that caught our eye: JERSEY GODS.
A sneak preview of Jersey Gods was done in Robert Kirkman’s Invincible. The ongoing superhero series...
UK kids are crazy for comics
§ A raft of stories from the UK about how -- get this -- children love comics, in the wake of a study with hard numbers behind the surge. Sales are booming and growth...
Dressing to impress comics fans
While getting more women to read superhero comics still seems like an uphill battle at times, this winter, comics are IN. We were wandering around a local H&M the other day and while the...
Sfar to direct GAINSBOURG
Acclaimed French cartoonist Joann Sfar (The Rabbi's Cat, The Professor's Daughter, Little Vampire) is set to write and direct a biopic about French singer Serge Gainsbourg, Variety reports:
Eric Elmosnino has been tapped to play...
Cartoonists doing things
Too much talent #1: Joel Meadows catches Posy Simmonds and Art Spiegelman in the same place in this photo post. Guest appearance by Matt Groening.
Too much talent #2: Workinpana's photo set from last...
Even Spurge has event fatigue
Via The Comics Reporter:
Where I now see the primary weakness of Final Crisis is that the DC universe itself isn't vital enough or interesting enough or dependable enough as a starting point or filled...
A night of European comics
(l-r, front row Igort, Isabel Kreitz, Max, Nicolas de Crécy; standing, Jaromir 99 and Jaroslav Rudiš)
Euro comics week in NYC continued with an evening of slideshows and presentations by David B., Nicolas de Crécy,...
Fantagraphics 2nd Anniversary bash
Fantagraphics is having a big party on 12/13, and we're gutted that we can't go.
Over the course of two years, Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery has become woven into the region’s cultural fabric and drawn...
“We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Floppies”
John Rogers, screenwriter, blogger, and author of a fan favorite run on BLUE BEETLE, usually speaks his mind. His comments regarding the recent cancellation of the book have been quoted everywhere; we don't want...
