Stan accorded great cultural honor
As you have probably heard, Stan Lee was recently presented with a 2008 National Medal of Arts at the White House, a prestigious...
King Features rolls out digital content/ad engine
Hearst-owned King Features has just announced Comics Kingdom, which is, as far as we can tell, a new attempt at a game-changing platform for...
RIP: Guy Peellaert
Sad news via The Forbidden Planet International Blog:
Belgian rock illustrator and cartoonist Guy Peellaert (previously profiled here) passed away on Monday, November 17th after...
Canadian literary awards still don’t like pictures
New scandal: The SKIM snub.
The ruckus started last week when Chester Brown and Seth wrote an open letter to the Canadian Governor General Literary...
When weekends attack!
Thanks to everyone for the many birthday wishes, and to everyone who came out to our birthday bash this weekend. It was a well-attended...
Incredible savings: PictureBox sales this weekend
Big sale in Brooklyn!
This weekend: Massive Visual Book and Magazine Sale @ PictureBox.Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 15 and 16th 12 pm -5 pm.Huge personal...
Vertical layoffs
As mentioned in "Lying in the Gutters" this week, Vertical, best known for its manga line of Tezuka releases, but also a publisher of...
WizKids canned; HeroClix’s fate unknown
Here's a story that got lost in the server outage yesterday: Topps has announced they are shutting down their WizKids division, effective immediately. Topps...
IDW’s parking lot sale
On Saturday, December 6, from 10 am – 3 pm IDW will be having a parking lot sale! With special guests. A number of...
Another $1 billion movie, another lawsuit
As THE DARK KNIGHT heads toward $1 billion in worldwide grosses, it was inevitable that lawsuits would be filed as unjustly neglected parties sought...
