TO DO: 8/12 Brooklyn 24Seven Extravaganza
We know Rocketship knows how to throw a party, and we know the 24Seven gang knows how to party. This is going to be good:
a number of the creators of 24seven will be appearing/drinking/talking...
Ask the cartooners!
Bryan Lee O'Malley and Brian Wood have open Q&A's on their LJ's. Spoilers beware.
Meanwhile, Chip Zdarsky day over at the Engine may have faded into the collective unconsciousness of a battered nation, but he...
MARVEL: Industry writers miss Avi
Marvel held another invester conference call this morning, this time to introduce its new production heads, Michael Helfant and Kevin Feige. But reading between the lines of Variety's report, you can see it just...
Meltzer: x-over star
PW Daily looks at nest week's unusual cross-promotional stunt between Hacette and DC Comics: An excerpt from Meltzer's new novel will appear in his first issue of JUSTICE LEAGUE:
It's an unusual effort for an...
WEHT: Mark Millar
He's busy cooking up plots, according to a post at Millarworld:
Quite an exciting time right now. MCW is going great guns and redrawing the Marvel U for the next few years. Sadly, I won't...
Wood on NORTHLANDERS
Over at his LJ, Brian Wood talks about his upcoming NORTHLANDERS, his upcoming Viking saga for Vertigo:
Ah, not really a Viking epic... I mean, it's more than that. The title NORTHLANDERS is a broad...
Catch up with 52 on UGO
Why so glum, Bunky? Is it because you missed the first few issues of 52, DC's weekly comic series detailing the goings on in their meta universe, and now you can't keep up with...
Fight! Simone vs Bendis!
NO not really. THERE IS NO REAL FIGHT. Just some posting on an internet message board. A few people sent us the links to the whole kerfluffle, but to be honest, Graeme already did...
Time on MARVEL Business
Time's online business section was COMICS CRAZY not only with that manga piece, but this one on Marvel, which rounds up much of the speculation surrounding the company:
Yet Marvel's future remains a cliff-hanger....
Comics films lead summer BO underperformers
Movie City News' Dave Poland rounds up this summer's hits and misses at the box office, and two of the biggest problems are, ulp, Superman and- wha?!--Garfield.
Superman Returns. It's still not clear how much...
First look: Darwyn Cooke’s Spirit
Darwyn Cooke has been working on his new SPIRIT stories for a while, and in an interview with Will Eisner: A Spirited Life's Bob Andelman he talks about the book and there are some...
Marvel Q2 report: not as bad as expected
Marvel's been predicting a slow '06 for some time, so it comes as no surprise that Q2 was down substantially from last year:
Comic book publisher Marvel Entertainment Inc. said Monday its second-quarter...
