Slate’s Cartoonist Studio Prize nominees announced
Slate and the Center for Cartoon Studies have teams up for the third annual Cartoonist Studio Prize nominees. Awards and a $1,000 prize are...
RIP: Yoshihiro Tatsumi
Manga pioneer Yoshihiro Tatsumi has passed away at age 79, according to a letter received by Paul Gravett. Tatsumi had been battling cancer for several years.
Tatsumi is best known as the pioneer of the "gekiga" style of manga (a term be invented), true to life stories of ordinary people. He own work featured haunting adult themes of alienation, dread and obsession. His autobiography A Drifting Life, depicting his struggles as an artist, won the Eisner award for Best Reality Based Work in 2010. He also won the World Outlook Award at Angoulême and the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize.
Valiant lands nine-figure deal with Chinese entertainment company for movies and more
Valiant Entertainment is partnering up with Chinese-based distribution company DMG Entertainment to bring Valiant characters to the big screen, according to a report from The New York Times. The deal is described as a nine-figure investment geared at creating films for global audiences as well as animation, theme parks, and merchandise.
100 Years of Solitude: Swamp Thing #40 Puts an Avatar to Sleep (Review)
Scott Snyder came to the New 52 with a mandate for Swamp Thing to become a dark character settled with the likes of Animal...
Bendis Bombs Away: Ultimate Spidey is Ending + Meet the Guardians of Knowhere
Brian Michael Bendis took delight in toying with the poor internet this afternoon with a few 'Bendis bombs.' The first was a little surprising;
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Christos and Ruth Gage announced as writers for Marvel and Netflix’s Daredevil
More details continue to trickle in about the first Marvel/Netflix collaboration
CBS releases first images of Melissa Benoist as Supergirl
Just when you think the news is going to slow down for the weekend, we've got one more item of interest.
Warner Bros. has just...
Another editor-in-chief fleeing his website as Hoffer leaves The Outhouse
We get most of our mainstream comics news at The Outhouse, which despite being a little rough with the personal jokes, still has a jaundiced view of comis publishing that's closer to the truth than many would suspect. However in a recent spate of comics news site turnovers, The Ourhouse is losing it's editor in chief, Christian Hoffer, who's moving on. Although he cites the usual—life changes, less time—it's clear that the snarky tone of the Outhouse also took its toll:
Entertainment Round-Up: Jared Leto’s Joker hair, Marvel Movie Marathon, Warner Bros’ CEO claims DC...
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Good luck to Tom Spurgeon on his halfway cross country move
Tom Spurgeon is relocating from New Mexico to Columbus, OH this week. I can only imagine how stressful that is—some tweets posts about...
Los Angeles Times Book Prize graphic novel nominees announced
Awards season is barreling along now. And here are the nominees for the LA Times Book Prizes, which added a graphic novel category several years back. It's a prestigious literary prize, and the winners over the years—Duncan the Wonder Dog, Finder, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life among them—have definitely lived up to the billing. This year's five books chosen include what I would almost call the usual suspects for 2014:
