31 Days of Halloween: Kyle Bolton
Animator Kyle Bolton provides a team-up of sorts between his own Smash Comics character and a more familiar one. Smash Comics is a superhero webcomic for kids, written by Chris Bolton, that was recently picked up by Candlewick Press. More info here.
Sarah Glidden is going to Iraq for "Stumbling Towards Damascus"
With her How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less soon to come out (and getting solid advance reviews) cartoonist Sarah Glidden is embarking on another journey to the Middle East, with hopes of turning it into another non-fiction comic. And she's funding part of the travel via Kickstarter with a project called "Stumbling Towards Damascus". For the project, she'll be working with the Common Language Project, a Seattle-based group of journalists who travel to under-reported on areas. For this trip they'll be journeying to places affected by the Iraq war, including Syria, Turkey and the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Glidden's larger hope is to follow in the tradition established by Joe Sacco, whose "comics journalism" in the Middle East has won multiple awards.
How almost to: Embedding comics
Gareth Hinds is a very accomplished artist (and former Xeric winner) whose comics adaptations of classic literature have found a home at Candlewick Press. His full color Odyssey adaptation just came out, and there's a nice story about it in today's PW.
While we were looking around for some art to illustrate the story, we came on Hinds' own page for the book and were struck by the "embeddable comics preview" on the page, which he said was developed by Candlewick:
Candlewick has released a short preview, using some new "widget" technology which enables it to be easily embedded in any blog or webpage. There are still a few rough spots in the implementation, but it's pretty handy. See below -- and feel free to repost it elsewhere!
31 Days of Halloween: Steve Ellis
Some promo art for HIGH MOON, the Harvey-winning Western/Werewolf webcomic, by Steve Ellis and David Gallaher, once of Zuda, now of comiXology. Much more here. Speaking of Ellis and Gallaher, they are part of a new group blog, Comic Social Club, which also includes Andy Belanger, Caanan Grall. Daniel Govar, Kevin Colden, Mike Zagari, Monster Island Media, and Twin Comics.
Nice Art: Art of the Panel: DC
Case of the Explosive Vegetables!
John Broome, Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson
THE FLASH #152; May, 1965
More of those adorable X-Men cosplayers
Via Comics Alliance and G4, a video of those eye-popping young X-Men cosplayers. Iceman, call me.
31 Days of Halloween: Tom Neely
Tom Neely has a whole book devoted to reinvented horror comics covers. You can buy it here. More info here.
31 Days of Halloween: Steve Rolston
A spooky image from GHOST PROJEKT, the Oni Press book by Joe Harris and Steve Rolston. Colors by Dean Trippe.
New York Comic Con 2010: Battling crowds
It's taken a few days to recover from this year's New York Comic Con, and recovery has been slowed by the vast number of out-of-towners who have stayed on to hang out and make merry with New York friends. It is a real thrill to know your hometown show has become an attraction for colleagues around the world, and it definitely inspires one get gussied up and make everyone feel welcomed and well lubricated with social beverages.
The time has given me a bit more perspective and enabled me to read and listen to more experiences from the show, and I have to say that when I pegged it as "a complete success" the other day, I was incorrect. NYCC '10 was a SUCCESS, no question, and from talking to comics exhibitors and New York-loving visitors you might conclude that it was a "complete" success as far as their goals went -- exposing their wares to as many potential customers as possible, and drinking as much free alcohol as possible, respectively. I would not gainsay that these are worthy goals, and their accomplishment is praiseworthy, but there were so many other logistical and conceptual problems with the show that its success is almost baffling.
31 Days of Halloween: Greg Staples' Frankenstein
UK painter/concept artist Greg Staples rolls out this portrait of the classic Boris Karloff Frankenstein.
Even George Lucas was cool then
A big coffee table book on the making of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK may not have pictures of Carrie Fisher's tooting up, but we like these photos best. After 30 years, everything becomes black and white.
31 days of Halloween: Raina Telgemeier's fall tour
Raina Telgemeier sent along the itinerary of her fall tour which begins a APE and ends at the Long Beach Comic-Con, with a barnstorming tour of the west in between -- plus the art fits right in with our holiday theme!
