Brits catch on to the graphic novel thing finally
Or so says the New York Times. Of course, when you have people like Raymond Briggs and Posy Simmonds leading the pack, it's about time:
First came the surprise successes of “Ethel and Ernest,” Mr....
3 Image Books that look rather cool
Newsarama previews three September books we like the looks of: REPO #4, MADAMAN ATOMIC #4, GUTSVILLE #2:
Speaking of GUTSVILLE, writer Simon Spurrier writer to tell us that he's joined the "Brit comics guy who...
What are people doing
§ If only we could be as funny as Tim O'Neil.
§ The Forbidden Planet Blog Log interviews the guy behind the Comics Britannia mini series up, Alastair Laurence. Until you see the three-hour special...
LUCHADORES lead Humanoids film slate
Well, only yesterday we were editing a story on LUCHA LIBRE, a drop-dead gorgeous book in the Euro style, first published in France by Humanoids, but now coming out from Image. And now it...
Video tribute to Comics Sans
http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=274428&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=00ADEFComic Sans from Genre Creative and Vimeo.
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Adventure on!
Over on his blog, Jeff Smith recently announced some impressive sales figures for Scholastic's BONE reprints:
I received some astonishing sales figures from Scholastic - - the paperback edition of BONE 6: Old Man’s Cave,...
Paul Levitz speaks
ICv2 has a four part interview with Paul Levitz. Click here and go on to the next three parts, which cover Flex, Zuda, Minx, and WORLD OF WARCRAFT.
It just feels like it's a wonderful...
Japan notes
§ The New York Times investigates the Manhattan branch of Book Off, the used book store chain from Japan that aims to eradicate “the shame of buying used books.”
Behind the counter of...
NSA Crypto For Kids
Speaking of educating the kids, Occasional Superheroine leads us to the NSA's "kid's site" complete with lovable with cartoon characters.
We’re the CryptoKids and we love cryptology.
What’s cryptology? Cryptology is making and breaking codes....
Geary’s Comic-Con Murder Case
Seriously if that single panel isn't enough to make you read this, you have the Beat's pity. But just in case, two more.
The story is running in the MySpace version of Dark Horse...
DC Month to Month Sales: July 2007
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
DC Comics' performance in July was an improvement on the previous month, not unexpectedly. The publisher's numbers were bolstered by issues of three high-selling titles, Batman, All Star Superman and Action...
WEHT Alex DeCampi?
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Controversial comics writer Alex DeCampi has been having quite a bit of success in the video field of late. Her video for "Those Rules" by The Schema a became the #1 music video...
