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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mary Blair!
You lucky Left Coasters! San Francisco's Museum of Cartoon Art is presenting an exhibit of artwork by Mary Blair, the designer and illustrator whose...
Zuda's first comics announced
Zuda finally announces the line-up and if it's anything, it's diverse, with known talents like Corey Lewis, Pop Mhan, Sho Murase and Steve Ellis...
More on storytelling
The Post That Wouldn't Die continues to captivate the blogosphere, and many of my private conversations. My mom called to say she enjoyed it,...
