DC Comics Month-to-Month sales: November 2006
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
Usually, DC Comics releases around 70 new comic books in a given month, not counting reprints, magazines and titles published through its Johnny DC imprint. In November 2006, the number rose...
Sexy superheroines advertise Mexican department store
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Ai caramba!
Brian Wood in the NYT
DMZ gets the full-on Sunday Times treatment:
What inspired Mr. Wood, 34, to create such a grim scenario? “Just living here,” he said during a recent interview near his Brooklyn home, where he lives with...
Detailed DC dolls
Robert Tonner is a high end specialty doll maker, whose made collectible figures for Harry Potter and other familiar figures. He's just turned his skills to the DC Stars Collection:
Robert Tonner has long been...
Stardust pics! Coraline GN!
You may have seen all this already, but there are some pics from Stardust online. You'll recall this is the film version of the Neil Gaiman novel, illustrated by Charles Vess. Michelle Pfeiffer in...
Friendly giant towers over superhero
We know all Beat readers were gladdened by the heart warming story of the world's tallest man, 7 foot 8 inch Bao Xishun, getting called in to save some gluttonous dolphins. The finny...
Alex Ross on gay characters
Thanks to the blogosphere, it's getting so you can't get away with ANYTHING. In a recent interview at Wizard, Alex Ross had some comments about the gay character Obsidian, that some construed as anti-gay,...
“Anti-gay” writer takes on gay superhero
The blogosphere has a new talking point as the news that Chuck Dixon is writing a comic starring Midnighter, the gay character from THE AUTHORITY hits. Dixon is well known to be on the...
Women in comics movies
A quick roundup of some comics to movie news that gives us a chance to post some nice photos.
Bollywood star Priyanka Chopra has been teasing involvement with the upcoming WONDER WOMAN film
The former...
Cliff Chiang, Harvard grad
We can't resist linking to this nice article from the Harvard Crimson on Cliff Chiang, a wonderful artist and pal. It tells of his fateful journey from promising Harvard scholar to comic book artist,...
MORE Minx Links
Maybe you are sick of this, but the Minx announcement seems to have capped off a year in which comics' gender issues took center stage in very unexpected ways. One of the interesting side...
More Minx Links
A few more just tying up the loose ends.
If you haven't read the epic comments thread on our previous Minx post, you are missing out on comments from all the players, a lesson...
