Turanga Leela
December 10th was the centennial of the birth of Olivier Messiaen, one of the 20th century's greatest composers, and one of our favorites. Last...
Dave Cooper animation
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Painter/cartoonist Dave Cooper and animator Nick Cross have created an animated video for Danko Jones for the song King Of Magazines. The act is...
Comic Book Legends book due in April
We saw an oblique reference to this in an interview with Joe Quesada, and uncovered the fact that Brian Cronin's Comic Book Urban Legends...
WE3 Movie news: Stevenson on board?
Somehow we forgot to mention the biggest comics-to-movies news of the week: That a director has been found for the proposed WE3 movie. The...
Pull Quotes: The real deal
Bill Willingham speaks to Newsarama about his Vertigo series FABLES being developed as a TV show for ABC:
"I'm cautiously optimistic, I would say. The...
The Simpsons are people in Australia
In a controversial decision, an Australian judge has ruled that a man with a pornographic drawing of the Simpsons on his computer is guilty...
Details on You’ll All Be Sorry! collection
About Comics's Nat Gertler reports that the collection of You'll All Be Sorry!, Gail Simone's epochal humor column from the Golden Age of the...
More “Best of” lists
New York Magazine rounds up The Top Ten Graphic Novels for its 2008 Culture Awards, led by DISAPPEARANCE DIARY by Hideo Azuma.
Meanwhile, Dustin Harbin...
ABC orders Fables pilot
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Fables may just be a new TV show for ABC. Bill Willingham's popular tale of fairy tale characters trying...
More best of books: NY Times, STLtoday.com
§ Douglas Wolk contributes a a graphic novel list to the Times Holiday Books section:
If there’s one book that art-comics enthusiasts would be happiest...
Studio coffee run: Tintin, etc.
§ Producer Kathleen Kennedy (THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON) shed some light on the Tintin movies during BENJAMIN BUTTON promos --...
PUNISHER: DUD ZONE
Ouch! PUNISHER: WAR ZONE broke a longish string of comic book movies that did well at the box office with a "dismal" performance this...
