Platinum fun
For those who like following the internet trail of Platinum and Arcana, there's a fun thread at the Digital Webbing Forums in which DJ Coffman (!), Andrew Foley, Lee Nordling and even Platinum's Dan...
Oh Rob Liefeld, you scamp you
Oh man, we can just imagine the internet chatter about this lengthy profile of Rob Liefeld in the OC Weekly:
To this day, Liefeld is described as “controversial”—it’s one of the first things you’ll see...
Brum Con II
Aside from SPX, this weekend there's the second Birmingham International Comics Show, in the UK, featuring all the hard-drinking Brit comics folk you would expect to see, and even panels. Tony Lee, who...
New Cap, new clothes
Alex Ross designs new duds for Captain America....AND NOTHING WILL EVER BE THE SAME!
Six months after the death of Steve Rogers captured national attention, Marvel is proud to unveil the new Captain America as...
SPX: Fantagraphics
FBI will be at SPX in force. Check this FLOG post for even more details here her'es the signing schedule:
FRIDAY:
3:00 Paul Karasik & Bill Griffith
4:00 Paul Karasik & Bill Griffith
5:00 Gilbert Hernandez &...
Rutu Modan on tour
Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan kicks off her Exit Wounds tour in Washington, DC at the JCC, 7:30 PM, 1529 16th Street, NW. She'll be at SPX this weekend as well.
HYPE: The Nightmare Factory
If I may be allowed a very brief period of hijacking this blog for my own purposes. Faithful readers may recall my work earlier this year editing The Nightmare Factory anthology for Fox Atomic/Harper...
Hawthorne starts Thinktank Comics site
Artist Mike Hawthorne, of late working on Vertigo's THE UN-MEN, has joined the growing ranks of "traditional" comics artists taking their books to the web with the launch of ThinkTank Comics, a website which...
Ben Towle's Midnight Sun
SLG announces a new graphic novel about a North Pole mystery-- an increasingly popular subject for comics it seems --by Ben Towle. The first chapter is available as a free download.
In May 1928, the...
Spielberg talks TIntin
Director Steven Spielberg gave film site scribes visiting the set for some Indiana Jones scoop a heaping helping of news about the planned Tintin trilogy that he and Peter Jackson are making, according...
