INTERVIEW: Stephen Mooney Goes Creator-Owned for ‘Half Past Danger’
Later this year IDW will be publishing Half Past Danger, a new series written, drawn, and created by Stephen Mooney. After working as artist...
Good news: Four new comics shops and a reopening
Diamond reports that for the last two years, their number of accounts has gone up by 1% each year—a tiny amount, to be sure, but at least it isn't falling. Here's some recent stories about NEW stores opening up, and one old one reopening—proof that indie bookstores and comics are not domed quite yet.
2013 Hugo Award nominees announced
Awards season rolls on, unstoppable. The Hugos—given to the best in SF—have announced the 2013 nominees and here's the comics category:
Best Graphic Story (427...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 4/2/13: Foodtown
§ Steve Bissette has begun writing a a history of WaP!, a pros-only newsletter from the '80s—spearheaded by Steven Grant and Frank Miller—that created...
DCU and Vertigo collection schedule: Deluxe Invisibles, DMZ, DC One MIllion and Planetary...
DC has released its graphic novel schedule into February 2014, and it's a huge list of 147 books. The whole list is below, with Vertigo first and then the DCU.
Lady Gaga cast as the Dazzler…beware the First of April!
The rumor's provenance was impeccable: director Bryan Singer.
On the Scene: Unpacking comics history at the Asbury Park Comicon 2013
The secrets of Stan Lee's hair and other tidbits from comics history at the just concluded Asbury Park Comicon.
Nice Art: End of the Hunt II print by Levon Jihanian
This unsettling image is one of several prints available from Levon Jihanian, a cartoonist/animator perhaps best known for his Ignatz-nominated Danger Country. Check 'em...
On the Scene: WonderCon 2013, Ann Nocenti and Jim Lee Enthuse about Comics
On March 30th, WonderCon attendees got treated to a bonus feature in a Spotlight panel with Ann Nocenti, Jim Lee acting as her interviewer....
Marvel’s Infinity shifts the spotlight to the Inhumans
Marvel is getting all cosmic with the looming threat of Thanos in the second Avengers movie, and in the run up to it, the new Infinity comic will reintroduce the weirder side of the Marvel U, with the Inhumans mixing it up weith Thanos in a saga penned by Jonathan Hickman (Avengers, Avengers VS. X-Men) and illustrated by Jim Cheung (Avengers: Children’s Crusade) Jerome Opena (Avengers, Uncanny X-Force), and Dustin Weaver (Avengers, Uncanny X-Men). Infinity kicks off with a Free Comic Book Day preview and then as a six issue mini-series in August.
2013 Glyph Comics Awards Nominees
The 2013 nominees for the Glyph Awards have been announced. The awards honor the best in black-themed comics, and the winners will be announcedat the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention (ECBACC) Friday, May 17, 2013 at The African American Museum located at 701 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
On the Scene: WonderCon 2013, Matt Kindt on MIND MGMT and Being Happy
You’d be forgiven if you think of Matt Kindt as a breakaway success, since the “slow and steady” approach that's defined his career so...
