A little bit on PLUTO
Over at Comics Worth Reading, Ed Sizemore reviews PLUTO: URASAWA x TEZUKA, Volume 1, the mash-up reimagining of Astro Boy by Naoki Urasawa, master...
John Mitchell’s webcomics exhibit
John Mitchell, known for his comics reviews at Shuffleboil, and a member of the comics self-publishing movement in the '90s with VERY VICKY, has...
Tokyopop cancellations
Johanna Draper Carlson notes that you can't buy Kozue Amano's ARIA #4 any more, even though it just came out in December.
Aria Book...
Recession Watch: MySpace Comic Books division
Nikki Finke reports on layoffs at Fox, including MySpace. The departments cut include the Comics division. We can confirm that marketing manager Sam Humphries,...
VIZ launches SF line
Via PR: Viz has announced a new line of SF/fantasy books. The initial rollout includes The Lord of the Sands of Time by Issui...
IDW plans Rip Kirby reprint
Okay! Finally some good news! IDW is planning to add Alex Raymond's gorgeous Rip Kirby to its deluxe comic strip reprint series, with the...
RIP John Updike
Famed novelist John Updike has died at age 76. Besides winning awards and being one of the best prose stylists of recent American letters,...
Recession Watch: Newsweekly comics meltdown
Yesterday, cartoonist Tom Tomorrow revealed the dire news that his strip, This Modern World, and all other weekly cartoons were being canceled by Village...
Stan Lee Media sues for $750mil Marvel movie profits — UPDATE
If you're a lawyer, everything surrounding the strange history of Stan Lee Media is a fountain of endless, cool, refreshing litigation. Now "legendary" lawyer...
Huizenga halts OR ELSE
Kevin Huizenga has announced that OR ELSE, his periodical comic from D&Q, will not have a sixth issue:
I've decided that Or Else (the series)...
Comics about the Louvre in the Louvre
(AP Photo by Thibault Camus)
As previously reported, Paris's famed Louvre museum is now housing an exhibition featuring comic books by some of the world's...
You should be reading ROCKY
One comics genre that only old-timers talk about is "funny animals," and it concerns the foibles and fantasies of humans beings thrown into relief...
