Inside the Comics Loving New York Times
Marvel sent out a press release yesterday trumpeting the fact that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa had been mentioned in the Arts, Briefly section of the New York Times. Now the Times has been breaking much comics...
Wacker to Marvel
52 editor Steve Wacker is ankling DC for Marvel, Wizard Entertainment reports:
Capping off a tumultuous summer of editor swapping, DC editor and overseer of 52 Stephen Wacker is leaving his office for a new...
DC Month to Month Sales: August 2006
by Marc-Oliver Frisch
With Marvel's Civil War #4 delayed by a month, DC Comics was August's biggest publisher in the North American direct market. DC claimed the top spot with crime novelist Brad Meltzer's...
Dawson’s OCT lands at Dimension
O.C.T.: OCCULT CRIMES TASKFORCE, the comic co-written by and starring Rosario Dawson about a supernatural crime solving NY cop and which everyone thought was a pilot for a movie will indeed be turned into...
FEAR AGENT moves from Image to Dark Horse
Rick Remender, Tony Moore and Jerome Opena move their book FEAR AGENT from Image to Dark Horse, a move a couple of books have made recently, but one that Image's creator oriented publishing deal...
Colan on Dracula changes
A couple of days ago we covered -- or uncovered -- the censorship in Marvel's TOMB OF DRACULA reprints where several previously topless young victims got new wispy smoke bras.
Around Comics...
Marvel Month-to-Month Sales: August 2006
By Paul O'Brien
Even with the parent title running late, CIVIL WAR dominated Marvel's output again in August, with a raft of crossover titles including the newly launched HEROES FOR HIRE. The Ultimate titles...
Quotable Brad Meltzer
In a very long interview with Scott King the best selling author talks about doing creator owned material:
Scott: …I know you write comics but do you have any desire to do a creator owned...
Movie news round-up: Surfer cast; Arch Enemies
Confirmation this morning from THR that Doug Jones will play the Silver Surfer, with the wizards at the WETA workshop finalizing the CGI character for the upcoming FANTASTIC FOUR 2:
Jones will take part in...
A coupla links
-- The Miami Herald interviews Alison Bechdel, whose recent interviews have mostly been about the after-effects of writing a tell-all family memoir that gets enormous amounts of attention:
''I'm beginning to wonder if...
Citizens flee CIVIL WAR
Apparently, the late shipping CIVIL WAR #4 shipped this week, with many shocking revelations. (Hint: We're going to need a bigger grave.) However, reaction in the blogosphere has been, well, contemptuous.
Normally we take...
