Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 10/4/13: This weekend, San Diego Comic Fest
§ I hadn't realized that there was a second San Diego Comic Fest, but there is and it's this weekend. This is a "throwback"...
31 Days of Halloween: Steve Niles’ Arcane Images tumblr
It's Halloween every day of the year at writer Steve Niles' very very busy Tumblr blog, Arcane Images; it's a continuous flow of images...
George A. Romero’s ‘Empire of the Dead’, with Alex Maleev, Announced by Marvel
Empire of the Dead, George A. Romero's next zombie story, will be published as a comic by Marvel.
A fifteen-issue maxiseries, the comic will be...
Facebook Demographics: How many women read graphic novels?
And speaking of reaching new audiences, Brett Schenker has been continuing his studies into Facebook's comics demographics, and has some very interesting info. He's...
My Little Pony leads to their big sales for IDW: 1 million copies
There can't be that many bronies, can there? IDW has announced that they have sold 1 million copies of their My Little Pony comics,...
Lost Neil Gaiman strips offered via Knockabout and Sequential
Okay this is a win win for everyone. Knockabout Comics and the digital graphic novel app Sequential are offering a FREE digital download of...
More legal woes at Archie as employees file lawsuit against co-owner Nancy Silberkleit
I've lost count on who is suing who in the brutal ground war between Archie Comics, and their controversial co-owner Nancy Silberkleit, but it...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 10/3/13: we don’t got no stinking badges
This New York Comic-Con badge thing is wild this year. They are much harder to get this year than before, and it seems a ton of people just don't have one. But want them. You can buy them on StubHub ($130 for Saturday, $159 for a four day pass), or Craigs List or Ebay, although I'm told this practice is NOT condoned and next year procedures will prohibit badge resale. I posted yesterday that I have one badge for a writer to help cover the show (alas, Henry Barajas won't be coming as planned) and the response was kind of overwhelming.
Man of the Day, Ed Piskor
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Ed Piskor's HIP HOP FAMILY TREE is one of the cooler comics of the season—a detailed history of the music and the people who...
Boom! Studios gets ‘innovative’ first look deal with Fox
Somewhere in the Long Slog Of 2013's Comic Book Movie summer, I probably suggested that 2 Guns might end up being the most important film in terms of how Hollywood deals with comics properties (relatively low budget non superhero fare); how true that will be remains to be seen but it DEFINITELY was the most important film for Boom! Studios. They've just signed a first look deal with 20th Century Fox, that, at least in the hype rollout, sounds promising in terms of how it involves comics creators:
Ministry’s Al Jourgensen is writing a comic book
Al Jourgensen is back, and...he...he's writing a comic book. It will be drawn by Sam Shearon, a British artist who has worked on such comics as KISS and a 30 Days of Night spinoff but is best known for his album covers for such folk as Rammstein, Ministry, Rob Zombie, Iron Maiden, KISS, A Pale Horse Named Death and Fear Factory.
New comics website launches: 13th Dimension
Like a Phoenix from the ashes...in our recent obituary for MTV Geek we noted that the NY Post's Parallel Worlds site also seemed to be gone. And indeed, a NY Post website design claimed its young life. However, undeterred, editor Den Greenfield has teemed up with Asbury Park Comicon's Cliff Galbraith for a NEW SITE, 13th Dimension.













