To Do Today NYC: Smoke Signal 21 Launch
Smoke Signal, Brooklyn's free comics newspaper, gets a fab release party today with Al Jaffee in attendance:
Please join us on Saturday, March 7th from...
Bendis Bombs Away: Ultimate Spidey is Ending + Meet the Guardians of Knowhere
Brian Michael Bendis took delight in toying with the poor internet this afternoon with a few 'Bendis bombs.' The first was a little surprising;
Photo: FRIDAY BOMB...
Christos and Ruth Gage announced as writers for Marvel and Netflix’s Daredevil
More details continue to trickle in about the first Marvel/Netflix collaboration
Unassuming Barber Shop: Age of Ultron, Vision, and Spock
The passing of Leonard Nimoy last week was, as Lance Parkin notes, “a significant event.” Trekkers Everyone mourned this actor, and this character, by...
CBS releases first images of Melissa Benoist as Supergirl
Just when you think the news is going to slow down for the weekend, we've got one more item of interest.
Warner Bros. has just...
Tonight to do NYC: Alt-Weekly Comics show at SoI
This one is pretty special, a joint Society of Illustrators/SPX exhibit focusing on Alt-Weekly Comics. The show is jointly curated by Bill Kartalopoulos and Warren Bernard so its pretty much guaranteed to be museum quality. Bill K has been posting tantalizing sneaks at the events FB page, and this is pretty certain to be a generation-defining reunion of the 90s Max Fish crowd at the very least.
The El Paso Comic Con is dunzo— but more cons are coming
A little while ago I wrote about a bunch of comic-connish events getting postponed or cancelled and now The El Paso Comic Con has bitten the dust.
Another editor-in-chief fleeing his website as Hoffer leaves The Outhouse
We get most of our mainstream comics news at The Outhouse, which despite being a little rough with the personal jokes, still has a jaundiced view of comis publishing that's closer to the truth than many would suspect. However in a recent spate of comics news site turnovers, The Ourhouse is losing it's editor in chief, Christian Hoffer, who's moving on. Although he cites the usual—life changes, less time—it's clear that the snarky tone of the Outhouse also took its toll:
Superman now shreds his pants, Hulk-style
Superman has evolved! He has a new power—a powerful solar flare which leaves him -100 energy for a day—and using that power has just...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/6/15: RIP Gordon Kent
§ Prolific animator and writer Gordon Kent, who worked on everything from Fangface to Bob's Burgers, has passed after a battle with cancer. Kent...
Ryan Cody discusses ‘Doc Unknown’ Kickstarter success
Fabian Rangel Jr. and Ryan Cody debuted Doc Unknown # 1 two years ago, and the project was financed entirely by Fabian out of pocket. They launched...
