Quesada Wizard Man of the Year
Wizard's 2006 Awards are out, and you'll have to pick up the magazine to see all the winners, but they have released the Man of the Year, and it's "The man known as Joe...
Comics news briefs: Tellos, Legion, Batman
Over at CBR Todd Dezago talks about a collected edition of TELLOS by himself and Mike Wieringo, due from Image.
The new edition features every "Tellos" work created by the Dezago/Wieringo team, including all ten...
Tokyopop Terror
Christopher Butcher has his RSS feed working again and the Beat rejoices. Now it is not so easy for us to miss stuff like this, where he reveals the dangers of reviewing OEL:
Itâs funny,...
Comings and Goings: Pohja, Weidenbaum
After a long search, DC has hired a VP for trade sales, Publishers Weekly reports. Sue Pohja, former v-p of trade sales for Langenscheidt Publishers, Inc. takes the post vacated by Rich Johnson, who...
Comics films updates: WHITEOUT, LOSERS, WANTED
So many comics. So many options. So many stories about comics being optioned -- but only a handful will ever be turned into films. Yet, with the average comic book movie doing fairly well...
MoCCA call for sponsors and donors for STAN LEE
MoCCA will be presenting an exhibit to tie in with Stan Lee's appearance at the NY Comic-Con, curated by Peter Sanderson. They are still looking for a few key pieces -- see the end...
How they do it: Brevoort and Jones
There are really only two blogs that give it to you straight on what its like to create comics. One is, on course, Tom Brevoort's over at Marvel.com. This is such a realistic day-to-day...
Secret Venom appearance!
Okay this one is a little mysterious, but we'll try to piece it together. While you're porbably still drying your pants by the campfire after viewing Thursday night's debut of the SPIDER-MAN 3 trailer,...
No slump for Toriyama!
The Honolulu Star Bulletin look at Akira Toriyama's DR. SLUMP. Toriyama is best known for creating the international blockbuster DARGON BALL Z, but his earlier creation, DR. SLUMP, is intelligible to even the more...
Dark Horse: “quirky, brooding and inventive”
Dark Horse gets a HUGE, complimentary profile in the comics-loving NEW YORK TIMES.
COMIC books â sealed in plastic or not â were only the beginning. By 1991, Dark Horse had set up a...
Morning briefing: THEM/SIX
An obscure Image B&W one-shot entitled SIX by Michael Avon Oeming, Daniel Berman and Ethen Beavers will be turned into a TV pilot, now called THEM. Terminator 3's Jonathan Mostow, Battlestar Galactica's David Eick...
