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 AND OTHER STORIES, and scored a rare triple, winning the...
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 superhero actioner about a young Marine officer with self-healing powers,...
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 Johnson, Stuart Moore and Sharon Scott will be signing. in...
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 careful. The long-haired comix genius from England -- whose V...
SDCC: Active Images
The debut of ELEPHANTMENT and the return of KAFKA are highlights of the Active Images booth at SD,
with Richard Starkings, Tim Sale ad JG Roshell around. Ask them about lettering!
Active Images -- publishers...
BREAKING: Narwain kaput – UPDATE
We haven't actually been putting too much energy into a cadaver derby here at SBM, but chances are, in any random polling, the frontrunner for the next comics company to fold would have been...
PAINKILLER JANE series a go; Edlund at SciFi
The SciFi Channel has announced their upcoming TV slate with new shows from Mark Burnett and Lynda Obst, but of most interest to comical types will be the news that the PAINKILLER JANE tv...
Humanoids production deal, Cassaday to direct
The Hollywood Reporter has a story this morning about how SUPERMAN producer Pierre Spengler has a 12-picture option on titles drawn from the library of Humanoides, starting with I AM LEGION, by Fabien Nury...
A Lost Princess of Mars?
A while ago, on the Old Beat we told you about a new comics series to be published by IDW based on Edgar Rice Burroughs A PRINCESS OF MARS, to be written by...
Watch The Amazing Screw-On Head!
Dear God, this is cool. The SciFi Channel has put the entire first episode of Mike Mignola's THE AMAZING SCREW-ON HEAD cartoon online. We'll let SF describe it:
In this hilarious send-up of Lovecraftian...
New EC Comics reprints this fall
EC Crypt and Gemstone are teaming up for a new full-color reprinting of the classic in deluxe hardcovers. WE WANT OURS!
Once unjustly maligned as a cause of escalating teen delinquency during the â50s, the...
Woo and Ennis team, blood to flow
Virgin Comics released the official PR on their upcoming John Woo/Garth Ennis collaboration, SEVEN BROTHERS. Yoshitaka Amano will paint the covers. Details and PR:
Newly formed Virgin Comics is collaborating with Tiger Hill Entertainment, film-maker...
