Disney buys Marvel: Stockholders approve
PR via Nikki Finke:
Marvel Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: MVL), a global character-based entertainment and licensing company founded in 1939, announced that at a special meeting...
2009: Those who left us
A brief tribute to some of the cartoonists and pop-culture related deaths during the last 12 months:
Bob May
Ricardo Montalban
Patrick McGoohan
John Updike
John Carbonaro
Rod Gilchrist
Andrew "Test"...
RIP David Levine
Illustrator David Levine has passed away at age 83. In addition to being one of the most iconic illustrators of his era -- his...
News rumbles: Keenspot, Blackest Night, Haven
While we're gearing up for a few end of year posts here, pointers to news items that are making a few ripples in the...
Gaiman to edit next year’s BEST AMERICAN COMICS
Nestled in this account of author Neil Gaiman's entry into the world of reading glasses is the news that he's guest editing next year's...
Don’t plan that vacation around a trip to the Frazetta museum
We haven't been updating the Frazetta family feud, as it's certain to just drag on and on, but Howard Frank at the Pocono Record...
18 1/2 days of Christmas
Whew, things got a little heated around here this week! Time for other things. Let's just go out and buy some awesome graphic novels...
WOLVERINE pirate charged but culprit remains at large
You may recall that last April there was great chagrin at Fox when a near-perfect workprint of WOLVERINE was uploaded a full month before...
Amazon reveals secrets of EARTH ONE and MORE OGNs for DC
While DC reps remained mum about the price and format of the Earth One OGNs, they announced last week -- such elements being important...
Frazetta Heist update: Notary drops bombshell
http://www.youtube.com/v/5aq9Xrkt86Y&hl=en_US&fs=1&
It seems safe to say that the Pocono Record knows that they have the story of, uh, a fortnight in the Great Frazetta Art...
More best of the year, decade, longbox…whatevs!
"Best of" lists are coming at us thick and fast! Catch 'em all! And then complain!
• Whitney Matheson has her best of the year...
Gilbert Hernandez named 2009 USA Fellow in Literature
The great Gilbert Hernandez is one of this year's eight winners of a USA Fellows 2009 Literature grant of $50,000. Jim Woodring, Joe Sacco,...
