Little, Brown scraps Tintin Congo outing
Following tons of international controversy, PW reports that Little, Brown has canceled the US version of Tintin in the Congo:
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, which had been planning to publish Tintin in the...
JOHNNY DYNAMITE to green screen
Today's comic book option is JOHNNY DYNAMITE by Max Allan Collins and Terry Beatty, a hard boiled copper whose adventures once ran in the back of MS TREE. Now, quoth Variety Law &...
The comics nobody wanted
Purge week continues here at Publishers Weekly. Yesterday, Calvin, Ada and The Beat boxed up about 1500 comics -- that was two years worth of comics from a handful of major publishers. We won't...
Links of compelling inportance
§ The LA times looks at the practice of "slabbing which despite what you think, is not a preference you can check on Suicide Girls.
"It's changed the nature of the hobby, it's turned...
Summer Fun Special!
If you've noticed a bit of slacking here at CBM of late it's because...well, it's August and we're slacking. Pretty simple. Call it the Summer Fun Blogging Hours. Not that we could have as...
Long lost Wesley Morse art
SHE was a beautiful showgirl in the Ziegfield Follies. HE was a dashing young cartoonist/illustrator. It was the '20s, things were roaring, and whatever went on between them they took to their graves. But...
RIP Roger Armstrong
Mark Evanier reports on the passing of cartoonist Roger Armstrong, a very prolific cartoonist whose work was doubtless known to anyone who read kids comics from the 40s on. He worked on numerous Dell/Western/Gold...
Here is your new fetish
Throttle, the blog devoted to comics images of people being, well, throttled.
Fan-made Fletcher Hanks toon
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Via Flog.
Studio Briefing 3: Alvin Schwatz film in the works
Here's today's offbeat entertainment item: the filmmaking duo behind WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW has optioned the memoirs of Superman writer Alvin Schwartz:
Global Intelligence Press has optioned "An Unlikely Prophet" and its sequel,...
