Last week, to little or no fanfare, a new convention, ComiqueCon, launched in Dearborn, Michigan with a primary focus on celebrating female comics creators and being a positive space for female fans.
The winners are in. and Riad Sattouf won the top prize for Album of the Year, for his L'Arabe du Futur (The Arab of the Future) which will be published in the US this fall by Holt. As might be expected from the title, the book deals directly with the matter of the day, and I expect it will get a lot of attention. Sattouf is well known in France for his cutting social humor, and is also a prize winning film director. Here's the rest of the winners with my rough translations of the prize names from the official site—the only American prize was Chris Ware's Building Stories for the Jury Prize.
In an interview with EW, X-Men: Apocalypse writer Simon Kinberg confirmed Rose Bryne will be returning for the X-Men: First Class sequel to reprise her role as Moira MacTaggert.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, TT Games and The LEGO Group today announced their 2015 slate of LEGO videogames, including LEGO Jurassic World, LEGO Marvel’s Avengers, plus new handheld and mobile titles. Here's the full rundown straight from Warner Bros Interactive.
People in Hollywood are STILL liking indie comics. Descender, one of the mighty Image armada by Jeff Lemire and Dsutin Nguyen, has just been picked up by Sony after what THR called "a competitive bidding war." That could be only four figures...or more figures. The book comes out in March. I'm running out the door so here's the PR:
Game of Thrones fans - your official season five trailer is here! Can we talk about that choice of cover songs? The use of a "Heroes" cover here is basically perfect.
At NYCC Retailer Day, Marvel's new Editor in Chief Steve Wacker spent more than half an hour telling store owners what they can expect from the new Marvel
