Dragon*Con Founder Ed Kramer files dozens of complaints from jail while looking extremely creepy
Warning: watching this video is likely to cause your blood pressure to rise.
Poisoned Chalice Part 10: Alan Moore at Eclipse
The original contract between Quality Communications Ltd and Eclipse Comics called for Quality to provide enough material for twelve issues, but this ran into...
On the Scene: Sex and Violence? “Blame it on New York!”
A group of New York City inspired comics creators descended on the Soho Gallery for Digital Art on the 17th of April to discuss...
Studio Coffee Run: Thor, Flash Point, Guardians and Ninja Turtles
I'm not going to lie, but my "mjolnir" dropped when I saw the brand-spanking-new Thor: The Dark World movie poster. You won't see the...
Titan Solicitations for July 2013
Good morning, hungover Brits and Americans who are staying up far too late. And, of course, hello to all our other friends across the...
PREVIEW REVIEW: Shipwrecked with BREAKERS
It’s a strange guide to a mysterious treasure, this tome launching April 25th at Desert Island (eerily appropriate venue name!) from So What? Press,...
But if you are trying to buy Eisner Award nominated book in a comics...
In a note to his fellow retailers giving them Diamond codes for this year's Eisner nominees, Brian Hibbs made a rather interesting discovery: Diamond has only 59% of the 101 individual SKUs in stock. Meanwhile, Baker & Taylor, the world's biggest book distributor, has 83% of them in stock.
Eisner Awards Nominations Fallout, 2013 edition
We can't all be winners, folks —we can't even all be nominees. The Eisner Awards nomination always ignite a debate wth one saide or another feeling snubbed and dissed, because the choices are particularly dependent on each year's jury—its makeup can skew this way or that. The 2013 edition skewed towards....well, if you really look at the list it didn't so much skew towards anything as skewing AWAY from superhero comics. But even there, Marvel's Hawkeye TIED with Chris Ware's epochal Building Stories for second most nominations -- I wouldn't exactly call that a superhero snub, would you?
Mini-Review: New Territory for HE-MAN and the MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE #1
I could pretend that I wasn’t slightly baffled by this comic, and try to be objective about its visually appealing art and its rather...
RIP: Robert Morales
Wow. I am stunned and heartbroken.
SF legend Samuel Delany has just written the following on Facebook:
Robert Morales was one of my closest friends--and had...
Interview Part 2: Alan Moore may be making movies with Kickstarter
PÓM: Jimmy’s End. The whole Jimmy’s End project, how is that coming along?
AM: Well, let me see. We have the first cycle of films,...
Today’s money breakdown from the Penny Arcade Report: paying for journalism with panty shots
The Penny Arcade Report is a video game news and commentary site run by....well, we'll let you figure it out. Yesterday editor Ben Kuchera ran down the economics of running a website in dollars and cents. Although he's talking about video games, it all applies equally to comics journalism:
