More Comics folks take the Ice Bucket Challenge: Haspiel, Fowler, etc.
As reported yesterday, the Ice Bucket Challenge fad is hitting comics and it's spreading like wildfire. The viral fad involves having a bucket of ice dumped over you to create more awareness of ALS...
Comics stars taking the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge — UPDATED with Bendis and more
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Cartoonists and Quiznos raise money for schools
whata great event! helped raise over $10k for local san diego schools @sanfordgreene #sdcc #quiznos #QanvasbyQuiznos http://t.co/avW93mvE1R— bernard chang (@thebernardchang) August 6, 2014
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Here's a nice story from Comic-Con about more than 50 comics artists...
To Do Tonight, NYC: A Bone Marrow Donor Drive In Support of Seth...
And just a reminder tonight is a Bone Marrow Donor Drive and Hang Dai Studios Signing at JHU with all the above folks PLUS Fred van Lente and Joe Infurnari and doubtless other luminaries....
By the numbers: Doctor Who Humble Bundle now at more than $500k
We're not going to keep doing weekly updates on comics Humble Bundles, but since this is a new way of promoting comics—digital bundles on a pay-what-you-want model to a mostly gaming audience—is seems worth...
To do May 28th: Seth Kushner Bone Marrow Donor Drive and Hang Dai signing...
Here's an absolutely cool comics event that may help save lives.
Wednesday, May 28th the Hang Dai Studios gang of Dean Haspiel (The Fox, American Splendor), Christa Cassano (The Giant Effect) and Josh Neufeld...
Humble Bundle offers Doctor Who bundle
Humble Bundle is at it again, this time with a collection of Doctor Who comics, including seven books of collected comics, and a game. You can pay what you wish and a portion of the price will go to Doctors without Borders. Once again, all good. The first comics Humble Bundle, featuring Image Comics, did very well, as we reported yesterday. Details below:
Humble Bundle’s Image Comics sales raises nearly $400K
The first ever comics sale on pay-what-you-want portal Humble Bundle is wrapping up tomorrow, and it seems to have been a success, with 38,847 bundles of digital comics sold, making a little over $397,000....
Humble Bundle offers top Image Comics on a pay what you want model
Anatomy of a good deal: get digital versions of nine acclaimed Image graphic novels—including Saga, Chew, East of West, Walking Dead and more—pay what you want, AND send money to the Comic book Legal...
Lauren Sankovitch is editing the CBLDF’s 2014 Liberty Annual
When Marvel's Lauren Sankovitch left Marvel to pursue West Coast job ops, we were all sad to be losing a fine comics editor. Happily she is still keeping a toe in the game, as this release from the CBLDF reveals that she'll be editing this year's Liberty Annual, a fund-raising anthology published by the fund each year. So yay for Lauren! WE may hear her karaoke yet again!
On Bill Mantlo, Rocket Raccoon and Guardians of the Galaxy
When the trailer for August's Guardians of the Galaxy movie hit a week ago—and when the GotG toys were unveiled at Toy Fair last weekend—something that has been pretty clear to diehard comics fans was obvious from the gitgo:
Rocket Raccoon is going to be huge.
Sparkplug Books announces the end of REICH for 2014 and a fundraiser
Sparkplug Books has has some changes in the last few years, following the death of founder Dylan Williams, but under new publisher Virginia Paine, it's stayed in the game. In an email, Paine shared some plans for 2014...and also the news that times are tough at the indie, with Paine being forced to stop paying herself.
