Frank Miller to write, direct THE SPIRIT
While a big announcement on the identity of the director for the long-planned SPIRIT movie had been teased for San Diego, The Hollywood Reporter...
San Diego isn’t about movies! It’s about TV!
Variety previews SDCC with a boffo headline:
H'w'd courts nerd herdNets hope to capture fan fervor at confab
However, the story goes on to point...
SDCC: ASFA (#4800, 4701-03)
Allen Spiegel Fine Arts is the booth where you find some of the most amazing artists at the comvention, this year including Thom Ang,...
A few other things
TEZUKA! Irresponsible Pictures tips us off to a documentary about Tezuka available on on YouTube -- go!
Matt over at Highway 62: San Diego posts...
Kevin Smith on girl nerds
And speaking of Smithhere's what he had to say about Rosario Dawson:
Q: Rosario is kind of a sci-fi nerd, right?
KS: It’s cool because a...
Must reading: Kevin Smith
If nerd-as-underdog culture has an icon, it's probably director Kevin Smith, a common man made good at the pinnacle of Hollywood, aka sleeing over...
SDCC: DC’s Second Annual Sculptor Search
Do you have a way with sculpey? You may be just the person DC is looking for:
Following the incredible success at last year's COMIC-CON...
SDCC: Vanguard (#1706)
Appearances by the legendary Steranko, Basil Gogos John Romita Sr. and more highlight the Vanguard schedule, along with the premiere of 3 new calendars....
Good GOD, Derek Kirk Kim
WEHT Derek Kirk Kim, anyway? He was hailed far and wide as a comics genius back in 2004 for his wonderful collection SAME DIFFERENCE...
Variety on Painkiller Jane
Variety has a few new details on the 22 episode PAINKILLER JANE TV show just annonced by the SciFi Channel:
As for "Painkiller Jane," a...
SDCC: Avatar talent hunt and booth signings
Avatar Press will have a booth presence at SD for the first time in a few years, and Brian Pulida, George RR Martin, Antony...
Moore, Lee, Braque, Picasso
Marcela Valdes has a good piece in WaPo's Book Notes section nicely tying together LOST GIRLS and the Gordon Lee case:
Alan Moore better be...
