THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY wins International Horror Guild Award!
Woot! I'm proud to announce that THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY Volume 1 (which I edited) won a 2008 International Horror Guild Award for Best Illustrated...
Weekend joyous events
§ Congrats to Laurenn McCubbin and Alex Getchell who were wed in a star-studded Vegas ceremony! (Photo above ganked from Katherine Keller!)
§ Congrats...
Sad day in Nerdville: Tennant leaving DR WHO
In news that could probably best be described as a "when, not if" story, David Tennant announced that he will be leaving DR WHO...
Agents who handle graphic novels
Once again, Colleen Doran does the hard work and digs up a list of book agents who handle graphic novels.
Here are just a...
Men severely beaten in comic shop mooning incident
A game of Magic: The Gathering turned violent when pranksters mooned a comics shop in Bellingham, WA and vigilante justice went too far, news...
PR: Hero Initiative and WizWorld Tex
Via PR, news of benefit activity at the next Wizard Show in Texas:
Wizard World Texas will play host to a game show night...
New York Times snubbing graphic novels?
You'd think with the WATCHMEN graphic novel selling 10K+ copies a week on and off since July that it would have cracked a major...
Crime watch: Avatar murder; proud papa goes too far
§ In Japan, a woman has been arrested for killing her husband. But it was only a MMORPG character that died, and the charge...
An Oscar for Gary?
Variety laments the continuing outrage of the Academy snubbing performances in superhero-esque films. but maybe this year the pain will end.
Oscar's biases are nothing...
Two links for the day
§ Steven Grant looks at the 20 most important comics ever published, chronologically:
1) FAMOUS FUNNIES #1 (Eastern Color, 1934)Max Gaines' brainchild, the one that...
Yen Press moves to Orbit; Johnson leaves
Via PR from Hachette: Yen Press, the manga imprint led by Kurt Hassler and Rich Johnson, will be folded into a new publishing division,...
