Tonight to do: 24/7 Release Party
Ivan Brandon writes to remind us:
Tonight's the celebration of the release of my new book: 24seven v2. 24seven is a collection of urban robot stories told by a gathering of my favorite verbal...
Z to pen Jameson tales
Via PR come the word that Witchblade co-creator Christina Z., long MIA from the comics scene, will be writing Virgin's upcoming Jenna Jameson comic which is not called what you think it is, but...
Dabel Bros. news wrap-up
Try as we might, we couldn't unearth the smoking gun of yesterday's news that the Dabel Brothers and Marvel were parting ways. Maybe there isn't one. The word from our usual sources is that...
Brunetti Nancy, Grunge Popeye
This link from Mike Lynch has been getting a lot of deserved play: Ivan Brunetti's account of how he almost took over drawing NANCY. The strips evince the sort of lethargic fatalism one might...
Time for Thor to “play the game?”
IGN.com has a story about the upcoming THOR movie, which just had STARDUST'S Matthew Vaughn sign on as director. But who will play the Norse God?
The story says that Marvel is interested in...
Marvel and Dabel Brothers — Sayonara
Well, that didn't take long! This morning Marvel issued a terse press release announcing the end of the agreement between themselves and the Dabel Brothers, the much traveled but enterprising fantasy comics packaging concern....
Alex Ross on Avengers/Invaders
Well that didn't take long! Marvel has already revealed their new Alex Ross book and it's an Avengers/Invaders 12 issue cross-over:
"As a fan, as a reader, I enjoy those books," says Ross from his...
Puckett and Johnson on Supergirl — update
UPDATE: Someone more knowledgeable than we has written to say that the Bedard/Guedes run was only ever a fill-in and it was never announced how long they would be on the book.
Well, that...
La Muse returns
The second season of the webcomic La Muse, by Adi Tantimedh and Hugo Petrus has just launched at Big head Press.
Genndy Tartakovsky on Cage
You can take your Millar and Hitch, the news from Chicago that MOST got us excited was animator Genndy Tartakovsky writing a Luke Cage mini-seres. :
Marvel's hippest hero for hire from Harlem, Luke Cage—a.k.a....
DC adds new kids comics
Actual Chicago news that got us excited: continuing to serve audiences largely abandoned by current comics, DC is launching actual kids comics that aren't directly based on cartoons. The three new books are Billy...