Are you older than 6? Do you have a spare $27k?
Have you been admiring the many stirring and awe-inspiring full-size Batmans made from Lego over the past year's convention season? Now one can be...
Kibbles, Bits 9/19 matey
ITEM! Kingdom Come: Superman supplants Jesus as icon for rappers returning from retirement wilderness, or in Jay-Z's case, retirement wonderland.
ITEM! Colleen Doran...
New Tolkien!
Well, old Tolkien reallly, according to PW:
Houghton Mifflin has acquired U.S. rights to publish the first complete book by J.R.R. Tolkien since the posthumous...
SPX TV commercial
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There is apparently a TV commercial for this year's SPX (Small Press Expo) running on local Washington TV stations. And here it is!
Meltzer king of all media
Brad Meltzer has achieved what we suspect is an unprecedented double --- topping the NY Times Bestselller list AND the Diamond chart in the...
Linkage 9/18
Joe Illidge looks at HEROES and wonders about the racial message the program is sending.
Busy, busy Mike Catron has video from the opening of...
Covering Paul Buckley
Paul Buckley, the art director behind Penguin Classics' new comics themed covers is interviewed at Hear Hear:
PB: Yes, we all went to college...
To Do 9/16, BKNY: Brooklyn Book Festival
MEANWHILE on the East Coast, people are also celebrating literacy at the Brooklyn Book Festival -- and comics will not be kicked off the...
CATACOMBS trailer
http://www.youtube.com/v/cRkPL8VqF1w
While the lesson to be learned in the marriage of Hollywood and Toontown is that directors make comics writers, the obverse is also beginning...
Japanese toon biz update
Earlier in the week we told you about Itochu and Comic Book Movies possibly teaming to make a CYBORG 009 movie. But that...
Sony Pictures enter CGI glut
Speaking of CGI, earlier this week, the LA Times thoroughly examined Sony Pictures' new animation unit, and their debut production OPEN SEASON, based on...
Who Buried Roger Rabbit?
WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? is a film still fondly remembered by some. Melding animation and live action back when it was hard, the Robert...
