Interview: Sydney Padua presents “The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage”
by Alex Dueben
For the past few years, one of the funniest, strangest and most inventive webcomics around has been crafted by Sydney Padua, a...
Interview: Jack Baxter returns to Tel Aviv for Mike’s Place
By Cal Cleary
Jack Baxter, an American filmmaker, went to Israel in 2003 to make a documentary. When his initial subject fell through, he found...
Watch The First Trailer From LEGO Marvel’s Avengers
Not to be outdone by this Friday's release of Lego Jurassic World, WB Games UK debuted the first trailer for Lego Marvel's Avengers on...
First Look at the New Powerpuff Girls
The City of Townsville is....getting a preview! Cartoon Network has released some info on the new Powerpuff Girls cartoon which comes out last...
Special Edition: New York City 2015: On The Waterfront
For the second year, ReedPOP has hosted a comics-focused mini-con on the Hudson River: Special Editon: New York City, promoted as "a pure celebration of...
Lionsgate Reveals the First Trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part Two
"Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 76th Hunger Games."
And welcome to the last Hunger Games movie. In the first trailer for the series finale,...
Interview: Brian Wood Tackles The Evils of the Food Network in Image’s Starve
Brian Wood is a Multiple Eisner Award-nominee comic book creator whose first comic, Channel Zero, debuted in 1997. He continued creating original series like DMZ,...
The Retailer’s View // Opening Daze
As I’m writing this, it’s Sunday and things are slow. At my former place of employment, Sundays were one of our busier days -...
CAKE Chicago report: perhaps 5000 people attended
It's a little hard to find concrete reports from indie shows these days unless Secret Acres or Robyn Chapman post reports, from the social media, looks like CAKE Chicago this weekend was a successful indie show. I've heard mixed reports on sales in past years, but based on the "haul photos" I've seen, a lot of comics were purchased. I dug up a few more concrete reports:
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice synopsis reveals more about the upcoming clash
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, for such a massive movie, is surprisingly something we don't know that much about. We've gotten teaser photos,...
New Archie a very modern guy with 17 variant covers by everyone from Kate...
The new "verismo" era of Archie kicks off on July 8th with the first issue of Archie #1 by Mark Waid and Fiona Staples. And to mark the occasion, Archie is making sure the numbers are up with 17 retailer exclusive variants. And it's quite an array of styles from Dave Dorman's Brad Pitt-esque version to Jae Lee's typically surreal take.
Award Winning Comics Announced at the Munich Comics Festival!
The Comicfestival München (Munich Comics Festival) was held last weekend, and numerous comics and graphic novels were honored with the Peng! Award, and the ICOM...
