NYCC ’13: Road War – Boom Vs Valiant Vs Image Vs Dark Horse
Valiant's editors were talking about something strange on Twitter yesterday. Boom's editors were doing the same today. They kept going on about cars and...
Review: Dash Shaw’s New School is Pretty “Artsy” Stuff
I find Dash Shaw's work to be strangely invigorating. I admit I had some reservations when I first saw the daunting heft of his Bottomless Belly Button, with its absurdly extended passage of a man running and profusely sweating, drawn in a style so crunchy that it makes Gary Panter look slick. The idea that all we cartoonists must now draw books that are at least three inches thick and that take several years of deprivation to accomplish thanks to the efforts of obviously dedicated workhorses such as Shaw and Craig Thompson was not a pretty one. But I was eventually to resign myself to this new order.
LIsten to The Beat, Michael Emerson. Carrie Preston, Kevin Maguire and even Jimmy Aquino...
Comic NEws Insider is a very well established podcast at this point—and it just posted its 500th episode with a gala list of...
Madefire raises $5.2 million in VC money
Launched last year at San Diego Comic-Con, Madefire aims to be both a publishers and platform for developing next level motion comics/future comics/whatever you...
MUST-READ: Mark Waid’s Open Letter to Young Freelancers
Mark Waid's taken to his blog to write some advice for freelance writers who are just breaking in - or trying to break in...
Reviewed! Every Issue of Villains Month – the final issues
There are no new issues of Villain's Month left from DC, and business goes back to business this week. But there were six issues...
Natalie Portman Launches STEM Mentoring Program with Marvel
STEM being Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Marvel have launched a campaign looking to offer a mentoring program for girls aged fourteen and over,...
Steve Bissette: no money YET for Constantine TV show
By now everyone including the Hollywood trades has linked to Steve Bissette's Facebook post about the Constantine TV show and the fact that he...
31 Days of Halloween: Nightworld: A Gothic Treasure
The comic miniseries Nightworld is a saga of psychodramas between cunning devils, gross monsters, and the inner demons of regret of lost love. It's...
Dark Horse moves to Random House for book distribution
Here's a pretty huge story that kind of slipped below the radar yesterday: Dark Horse Book has shifted from Diamond to Random House for...
Jeff Smith joins the CBLDF Board of Directors
Like it says, the man behind Bone and Rasl and soon Tüki Save The Humans is also fighting for free speech by joining the...
AMARILLO: New Blacksad book is coming and here’s the cover
Our own Zainab Ahktar has scoped out the arrival of a new Blacksad book. It's called AMARILLO and it has obvious allusions to the great American Coming Of Age Ritual: driving across the country in an ace vehicle. Zainab gave a rough translation of the blurb:
