Joe Sacco tonight and tomorrow
Via Flog:
Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is pleased to welcome to Seattle the cartoon genius that is Joe Sacco. This Friday evening and Saturday afternoon, Fantagraphics celebrates the publication of "Palestine: The Special Edition" with...
Would cheering up sell more comics?
Retailer John Riley of Grasshopper's Comics has a piece at ICv2 called "Sharpening the Sword--Where Are The Villains?" which suggests that since we're living in grim times, the pervasive grimness of superhero comics...
Tokyopop: Film industry eyes manga properties
Today's issue of Variety (we think -- it might have been yesterday's) includes a special "10th Anniversary salute" to Tokyopop. Usually these "salute" sections in the trades are put together as advertising opportunities,...
Jerry Robinson named DC Creative Consultant
VIA PR:
DC Comics, the largest English-language publisher of comics in the world, and home to Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman announced today that legendary Batman comic book artist Jerry Robinson, a key contributor during...
The wit and wisdom of Steven Grant, part XLVII
From this week's Permanent Damage:
Ultimately there's no publisher in America today predicated on the idea of letting talented creators go their own way, because no publisher has a coherent plan for capitalizing on that,...
Brendan McCarthy pens Mad Max IV
Mel Gibson is too busy making his Easter Island version of the book of Ezekial, but George Miller is reportedly back for Mad Max IV and there's a VERY SPECIAL screenwriter.
Considering that you really...
DC Month-to-Month Sales September 2007
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
As Paul O'Brien points out in the Marvel column, the margin between Marvel and DC Comics' market shares in September is smaller than it's been in months. The reason for that...
Webcomics updates: Love, Jensen, Lee, Crabapple, etc.
Several new webcomics announcements that we need to catch up on:
Jeremy Love's BAYOU is the first Zuda instant winner, it's been announced.. The strip has already been awarded a 1-year contract, and was a...
Jaime Hernandez/Bob Dylan crossover?
If the idea of Bob Dylan, Mr. Mumbles himself, having a radio show sounds like some kind of comedy sketch, you'd be wrong. He has a show on XM Satellite radio called THEME TIME...
Rare Bill Watterson Art
Before he drew CALVIN & HOBBES, the comic strip that made talking to your tiger all the rage, and before he become a reclusive painter, Bill Watterson drew a college comic strip for Kenyon...
