SD08: MARVEL
Marvel's San Diego panel schedule is up. One that's particularly interesting:
SUNDAY, JULY 27
WHAT: Women in Marvel Panel
WHEN: 10:30am – 11:30am
WHERE: Room 6A
THE 411: She-Hulk...
More on Memin Pinguin
Mexican artist Adalisa Zárate gives some context to Memin Pinguin:
Now, Memin was created back in 1940, and it hasn't changed since then. Should he...
Goodwin, Lieber get the Finger Award
The winners of this year's Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing have been announced, and worthy ones they are: Archie Goodwin and...
Morning Manga updates
§ Correction 8/13: These titles were announced as cancelled by a Tokyopop distributor, but ToykoPop has not announced them as cancelled as of yet:
Tokyo...
Dean Haspiel’s ‘Street Code’
Pop Candy previews Dean Haspiel's new Zuda Comics' Street Code
{Thanks to Austin for the link.}
Wal-Mart bans Mexican comic
Wal-Mart has pulled copies of a Spanish-language comic starring Mexican comics mainstay Memin Pinguin CNN reports on charges the character is racist:
For more than...
More on thinking person’s manga
Much soul-seacrhing in the blogosphere today over whether manga is doomed to be a medium of kiddies and wanna-be ninjas. Much of it was...
EXTERMINATORS brings it on home
This story on Simon Oliver and Tony Moore's Vertigo series EXTERMINATORS getting picked up by Showtime for possible TV development, by DEXTER's Sara Colleton,...
More on Tpop: WEHT Chuck Austen?
Well, speak of the devil. Benjamin Ong Pang Kean catches up with Chuck Austen and his erotic baseball manga BOYS OF SUMMER. Turns...
The history of Image and more
While we were out of it, we should have just posted this single link which should have kept everyone busy for a whole day:...
Bottomless Belly Button Trailer
http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=55430
Dash Shaw has created an animated trailer for Bottomless Belly Button his epic tome that has every one talking. View it above...
And you can look it up…
Thanks to all who sent me the link for the word "Fanboy" entering the Merriam-Webster dictionary along with other useful terms like "edamame" and...
