A coupla links
-- The Miami Herald interviews Alison Bechdel, whose recent interviews have mostly been about the after-effects of writing a tell-all family memoir that gets enormous amounts of attention:
''I'm beginning to wonder if...
Are you older than 6? Do you have a spare $27k?
Have you been admiring the many stirring and awe-inspiring full-size Batmans made from Lego over the past year's convention season? Now one can be YOURS courtesy of FAO Schwartz:
At 6'6" tall, a Batman statue...
Linkage: Rosemann to Marvel
Newsarama reports on the latest cross town shuffle with the Phantom Stranger, a.k.a. Bill Rosemann going back to Marvel after a 4-year break:
In October of 2002, Rosemann left Marvel, and by early 2003, had...
Meltzer king of all media
Brad Meltzer has achieved what we suspect is an unprecedented double --- topping the NY Times Bestselller list AND the Diamond chart in the same month. Congrats to Brad. He's also in the midst...
Ennis makes rare appearance with Lloyd
That's at Jim Hanley's Universe this afternoon, 4 West 33rd St.. across the the cartoon museum-less Empire State Building.
GON back at CMX
In all the retailer summit hoopla of Whedon and the Dabels a little news was missed, namely that Masashi Tanaka's GON will be coming back via the CMX imprint.
Long before the dawn...
BKV on NPR, AOK, more cartooners on radio
NPR darling Brian K. Vaughan (an earlier appearance is credited with spiking bookstore sales of Y THE LAST MAN trades) was back on Talk of the Nation to talk about PRIDE OF BAGHDAD yesterday....
Listen to Superman Audio Files
Ed Gross writes to tell us of the newish site Media Geek Palace which archives audio content of fannish interest broekn down into various channels. One of those channels is "Voices From Krypton," which...
Total Scuttlebutt: Wonder Bilson
'The O.C.' star Rachel Bilson is reportedly set to play Wonder Woman in the new comic book movie.
The brunette actress - best known for playing ditzy Summer Roberts in the hit teen series -...
Summit news: Whedon, DBPro, James Fenimore Cooper
The paucity of news from Marvel over the last new months has been made up for at the Diamond Retail Summit taking place in Baltimore. Those present last night got a nice side order...
WB and Nokia pact for mobile content
PR this morning on a pact between Warners and the mobile phone giant. . More to our point:
At service launch, mobile subscribers in select European and Asian countries will be able to explore...
Warners not happy with Reeves biopic
A potentially interesting comic-book themed film is opening this weekend, HOLLYWOODLAND, starring Ben Affleck, Adrian Brody and the ever radiant Diane Lane in a film covering the still-mysterious death of actor George Reeves, who...
