Marvel news and notes: profits, Cap’s early release
Much goings on about a recent Marvelinvestor conference in which John Turitzin, Marvel’s general counsel and EVP of the executive office, answers a fan's...
Art Alert: Farel Dalrymple's Merv Pumpkinhead
The OMEGA/POP GUN WAR artist posts a commission. Merv Pumpkinhead is, of course, from SANDMAN, but he's also a nod to Jack Pumpkinhead, the...
Future sailors like comic
Speaking of sailors, our attention has been drawn to BRAVO ZULU, part of the "Fulfill Your Destiny" campaign to increase minority enrollment in the...
Handley pleads guilty
As reported yesterday, Christopher Handley, the Iowa man arrested for owning drawn material depicting children engaged in sexual acts, has pleaded guilty to...
Learn about comics Part III — Impact University at SDCC
And one more! Impact Books is sponsoring a one day intensive on July 21, the day before the San Diego Comic-Con kicks off.
Online registration...
Learn about comics Part II — Madden and Abel at SVA
Jessica Abel writes to alert us to anther great comics seminar, a pre-MOCCA Summer Intensive Comics Workshop at SVA:
Starting the day after Memorial...
Learn about comics Part I — Peter Sanderson at NYU
Peter Sanderson, a comics historian of erudite and informed lineage, writes to tell us he's teaching a course about graphic novels and movies at...
2009 Russ Manning Award nominees announced
Via PR, the nominees for this year's Russ Manning Promising Newcomer Award, to be presented at this year's Eisner Awards ceremony:
The 2009 nominees are:
Gregory...
The game changer
Was talking to a good friend the other day, one I had worked with back in my magazine publishing days. (I worked at various...
SHOJO BEAT cancellation reax
Predictably, the demise of SHOJO BEAT, Viz's girl-focused magazine of serialized manga, is being discussed far and wide:
Alexander Hoffman:
The strange thing is though, that...
Publishing news: FBI kids comics, death, cancellation
In news that must have many people standing around looking blank and confused, Fantagraphics has announced plans to publish a series of GNs...
These times we live in
Heard via AIM:
Agent Wolfenstein: But even so, is still short-sighted and fixated on a model that's not going to work for much longer.
The...
