RIP: Bhob Stewart
Pioneering comics journalist Bhob Stewart has passed away after a lingering illness. His website is here, but tributes are piling up on his FB...
Disney heroically attempting to blow the brains out of zombie Stan Lee Media
I've been doing this daily comics news thing for 11 years, more or less, and if there is one thing which has remained consistent throughout those 11 years of comics industry tumult, it's Stan Lee Media suing someone or something. I honestly don't remember all the things they've sued, but it includes Stan Lee, Marvel (many times) Conan Properties, and Disney (many times). The suits usually claim that Stan Lee Media owns Spider-Man, or the Avengers or Conan or whatever someone is making a movie of, and the suits always involve insanely tortured legal claims over unrelated documents. The courts always rule against SLMi, as it's called, but that doesn't stop them. They keep coming back.
RIP: Bill Baker
Over the weekend I was extremely saddened to read of the death of comics writer and historian Bill Baker. He was 55 years old....
Podcast Alert: Stuff Said reveals everything you need to know about Heidi MacDonald
I can't believe I didn't mention this before, but I recently guested on Gregg Schigiel's podcast Stuff Said, and I have to say, this...
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.
Top Shelf’s Chris Ross on DRM-Free Graphic Novels and Print-Digital Bundles [Interview]
By Bruce Lidl
Indie comics publisher Top Shelf announced yesterday that they will be selling a selection of their digital titles, without any DRM copy...
Graphic novel finalists announced for the 2013 L.A. Times Book Prize
The LA Times Book Prizes are among the most distinguished to have their own comics category, and the nominees are always worth a close...
Five Days of Valentines: Bad for You Valentine Heart Brakers
BAD FOR YOU is a new book by Scott Cunningham and Kevin Pyle that illustrates extremes of, well, overprotectiveness, the nanny state and people...
Checker Books is back (?) with The Winsor McCay Project
Back in the day Checker Books was a company that specialized in reprinting old comic strips and books, including a bunchy of Winsor McCay...
Five days of Valentines: Young Avengers Valentines
NOTE: I originally attributed these valentines to Suzene Campos -- but she merely sent me the link. Apologies to the ACTUAL artist, callmekitto, about...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bts 2/13/14: Spoiler Spoilers
§ By now if you are at all interested in Batman you have seen This and the above intro of Bluebird by Dustin Nguyen....
Hasen, Moldoff and Evans voted into Eisner Hall of Fame
The Will Eisner Comic Awards judges have selected three comics creators for automatic inclusion into the Hall of Fame and a slate of 14...
