Tag: 90s comics
Valiant teases Deathmate for Summer
Details coming at C2E2.
The first Deathmate is a famous - or perhaps infamous - 90s crossover event that was the Zenith of the Chromium era, a crossover between Valiant and Image that gave birth to...
Hopes briefly flare for a new Darkwing Duck tv show, but are cruelly dashed
https://twitter.com/amymebberson/status/689168071299170304
Earlier this week Joe Books announced a new ongoing Darkwing Duck comic book, by Aaron Sparrow and James Silvani, thus righting one of the great comics kerfuffles of all times. But as this news...
90s nostalgia; The Anti-Gravity Room
Just in case you missed my explanation of how manga helped pave the way for a more diverse comics industry, here's a video of me and then-Marvel editor Bobbie Chase in 1996 trying to explain why women might want to read comics. It's from a TV show called The Anti Gravity Room, which was shown on the SfiCi Channel as it was then known, which was a US version of Canada's Prisoners of Gravity. Both shows covered the whole "comics, nerd world" with taped interviews and comics-friendly segments that seem commonplace now, but were unique at the time. I think I co-hosted an episode or two, and I can't wait until those tapes surface.
SDCC ’15: Viz Media and Perfect Square: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to...
By Nick Eskey
Nintendo has a number of popular game franchises that have evolved and grown into rich stories and mythologies. None though come close to the world of “Legend of Zelda.” Ever since the...
Alan Moore Interview Part I – Steve Moore, River of Ghosts, The Show, and...
It’s the 26th of February, and the time is 7.00pm, the usual time for all my telephone interviews with Alan Moore, since the first one we did, back in March 2008. This is something...
21st Century TANK GIRL will be published by Titan in June
Titan announced today they are serializing the Kickstarter-funded 21st Century Tank Girl, which saw artist and Co-creators Jamie Hewlett and Alan Martin returning to the character which made them famous in the 80s and 90s.
Cowan, Hudlin, and Dingle Relaunch Milestone Media
While diversity in comics has made strides in the Big Two in the past couple of years, Denys Cowan still wants to see a greater shift in comics:
“We’ve never just done black characters just...
Bryan Talbot Talks About Grandville Noël
I suspect that I'm not alone in thinking any day that brings new work from Dr Bryan Talbot is a very good day indeed. The fourth of his Grandville books, featuring the adventures of...
Small Press Expo announces first guests and alt.weekly focus
What a great idea for a comic programming focus: this year's Small PressE Expo, to be held September 13-14 in Bethesda, MD, will spotlight the history of alt-weekly comics, a powerful if now vanished,...
The Beat Podcasts! – Heidi interviews Jeff Smith!
Straight from the offices of Publishers Weekly, it's More to Come! Your podcast source of comics news and discussion starring The Beat's own Heidi MacDonald.
In a More To Come interview special episode, Heidi talks...
On the Scene: Valiant Reveals Game Plan at Heroes Con 2013
Valiant gathered their ranks and hoisted their banners at Heroes Con to lay out the game plan well into their “Summer of Valiant” and beyond for fans. In a panel hosting a wide array...
