SDCC 2014: All the Mind Boggling Saturday Programming
Craig Yoe! Don Rosa! Kelly Osborne! The annual Comics Journalism Panel! Can u stand it?
SATURDAY, JULY 26
10:00am – 10:45am The Simpsons ball Room 20
Celebrate...
Nice Art: Newelt and Remnant on Paul Shapiro’s Jewish Jazz
Joseph Remnant, artist on Harvey Pekar's CLEVELAND, channels a bit of that Pekar vibe along with writer Jeff Newelt in this online comics about jazz musician Paul Shapiro, whose new album VERSES , is out featuring famed guitarist Marc Ribot. It's on John Zorn's TZADIK label, so if you like Masala, you might like this.
SDCC 2014: The Eisners are getting a little more showbizzy
I'm sort of a little mixed on this. On the one hand we keep saying that the Eisner Awards should be funner and shorter...
SDCC ’14: All the FRIDAY programming with….oh, everyone
FRIDAY! Things are just getting going with Dan Slott! Carole Tilley! Andrew Lincoln! Ahmed Best! David and MEredith Finch! More! Whew.....and the Eisners!
And TWO panels...
ONE AND DONE: The Trouble With First Issues [The Life After #1]
Sometimes, it’s just not fair to judge a book by its first issue. They’re just so different from what you’ll end up getting on...
SIX-GUN GORILLA REVIEW: All That And More
Let's start with that title, shall we?
Calling a story "Six-Gun Gorilla" is a bold and audacious decision, one that's guaranteed to attract a specific...
Outcast #1 has sold more than 86,000 copies
OUTCAST #1, the new book by Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta has been a huge success, we're told with orders surpassing The Walking Dead...
SDCC ’14: Legends: The first thing you see when you land in San Diego...
So far this year's San Diego has been sounding pretty routine—no radical new venues or marketing efforts. But that was with 12 days to...
Sales Charts: Batman leads June, but Marvel still on top
It was the usual story for June sales figures just released by Diamond. DC led the single issue chart with Batman #32, but Marvel...
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes uses Charles Burns’ Black Hole as a...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WlGUvg4vBU
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which opens today, tells of how the enhanced apes, led by Caesar, strive with humans for supremacy...
Report: Digital comics sales at $90 million in 2013
Milton Griepp has run his annual analysis of digital comics sales and the numbers are up again. He reports that digital was at...
Archie rebrands Superhero line as Dark Circle
Oh man, it's getting dark and edgy at Archie Comics! They've been planning a reboot of their superhero line for a while, with SVP and respected mystery novelist Alex Segura helping out with the editorial side, and now it's getting a new name: Formerly known as Red Circle, the reboot will now be known as Dark Circle -- maybe giving it a bit of a horror edge and playing off the massive success of Afterlife with Archie, the zombies in Riverdale epic.
