Russ Manning Award Spotlight: Teagan Gavet
Teagan Gavet is the fourth of the nominees for this year's Russ Manning Award, for her work on the original graphic novel Nordgard: On Thin Ice
New York's MoCCA comics museum shuts down its physical space
Backing up rumors we'd been hearing over the weekend, MoCCA, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, is closing its physical space on Broadway in Soho, effective immediately.
Disneyland Pyongyang?: It's A Small World After All
Mickey Mouse diplomacy? Disney characters were recently seen at a state concert in North Korea.
Russ Manning Award Spotlight: Tyler Crook
The third nominee for this year's Russ Manning award is Tyler Crook! Artist for Petrograd and B.P.R.D, amongst others.
As The Oatmeal Suit Is Dismissed, Another Cartoonist Makes Some Noise
The strange affair of The Oatmeal Vs. Funny Junk Vs. Funny Junk's lawyer has ended. Maybe. The suit was dismissed this week, but it's not quite as cut and dried as that. What? You were expecting simple answers in this affair?
Russ Manning Award Spotlight: Martin Coccolo
Our spotlight of the five artists nominated for this year's Russ Manning Award shifts across to Uruguay's Martin Coccolo, who draws cowboys and monsters. Yay!
Howard Chaykin is Reviving Buck Rogers
OK, here's another one you weren't expecting. Howard Chaykin is going to be writing and drawing a Buck Rogers series. From Hermes Press.
More DC Creator Moves: Nocenti Returns to Catwoman and Tony Daniel's Next Stop-Over
More creator change announcements at DC today. Ann Nocenti taking over Catwoman under unusual circumstances and Tony Daniels moving on to a higher profile title... for a little while.
Russ Manning Award Spotlight: Craig Cermak
The Russ Manning Awards Draw Closer. Here's a quick rundown of nominee Craig Cernak
Final Xeric Grant winners announced
The final round of Xeric Grant winners have been announced, and as usual it's a great line-up. Nothing like going out with a bang. $74,510 was awarded to these cartoonists to publish and market their work.
Joe Kubert Gets an Anthology at DC
Joe Kubert continues to be pretty active over at DC. Currently inking his son, Andy, on Before Watchmen: Nite Owl, Joe's going to be having his own anthology at DC. Joe Kubert Presents is slated to have a six issue run, debuting on Halloween. Joining Kubert for the anthology are Brian Buniak and Sam Glanzman.
John Layman Taking Over Detective Comics
There's a new team on Detective Comics and it probably wasn't who you were expecting. New artist, Jason Fabok, maybe you could have seen him coming. He's filled in on a couple issues of Batman: The Dark Knight and also worked on the recent Batman Annual. You could make an argument he got a quick promotion from designated reliever (while that isn't a formal title in comics, it probably should be) to primary artist. John Layman writing Detective? No, you didn't see that one coming.
