§ Nice Art: The Cool Comic Art twitter was spotlighting some Swamp Things in the spirit of the season and I was partial to this by Bruce Timm. You mostly see Timm’s Batman animation art so this was a nice switch. And then there’s Alex Ross: Swamp Thing by Alex Ross pic.twitter.com/BLeO06WCZe — Cool Comic […]
Nicolas Winding Refn and Ed Brubaker are making an Amazon series together…but that’s not all!
The news broke last week, but we had to laud The Brub for landing this sweet TV deal for a show called Too Old To Die Young which will be directed by Drive’s Nicholas Winding Refn: In what could, with any luck, end up becoming the Miami Vice of the new millennium, Variety reports that […]
Image Expo 2016: Nothing is impossible – updated
Image Expo is kicking off with a stirring speech by Eric Stephenson. We’ll social media it along for you Image Expo is 10 minutes from starting, and the venue certainly has some swagger to it. #imageexpo pic.twitter.com/ML7zoPbNWd — Christopher Butcher (@Comics212) April 6, 2016 "Whatever you imagine, it can happen." Starting the keynote at […]
CRIMINAL is back at Image
Back at the first Image Expo this year it was announced that Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips were going exclusive with Image for their collections, and that means porting over CRiminal from Marvel’s creator owned Icon line. And this month’s solicitations reveal that not only is it coming back, but there will be a new one-shot, and newly designed editions, hitting in January.
Preview: Brubaker and Phillips are back with FADE OUT
The stellar comics making team of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is finishing up FATALE, but fading in on FADE OUT, a new collaboration due in August. The first issue will be 40 pages long, and given its old time Tinsel Town sbject atter, a varient edition will be printed in an oversized “movie magazine replica” format with 8 extra pages of behind-the-scenes art and articles.
Affleck and Damon Producing Brubaker and Phillips’ Sleeper
SLEEPER, tone of several series by the dynamic duo of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is in production again, this time with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck producing. Shawn Ryan, of The Shield and David Wiener of The Killing are set to write the screenplay. Set in the Wildstorm universe, the tale involves an undercover […]
Preview: Fatale #18
On sale today, Ed Brubaker and Sean Philip’s stylish nor tale stays classy and lovely as always.
The Lakes Comic Festival Gets Everything Right
Last weekend I headed south for Kendal, a bustling town in the beautiful Lake District of England for a comics festival with a difference. The Lakes International Comic Art Festival fully embraced a European (Angoulême) approach to the medium, with the whole town celebrating the weekend of events, and perhaps consequently drawing a much more […]
Brubaker and Epting get a touch of Velvet in their new spy thriller
As part of the new wave of Image creator owned comics by big name talent, Velvet by Ed Brubaker and Steve Epting reunites the Captain America team for what is Epting’s first creator owned outing.
Velvet, which goes on sales on October 23rd, is a tale of espionage set in the Cold War. It’s an idea Brubaker had kicking around for years—he estimates that from the time he came up with it to when Epting was finally able to start ten years passed. Although it seems like a long time, Brubaker was able to take more time research, resulting in a stronger story, he said as a press conference this afternoon.
SDCC’13: Genre in Comics: Can Image Do Anything?
If today’s “Image Comics and the Genre Fiction Renaissance” panel at Comic-Con can be any guide, there are only two genres in the comic book industry: superheroes and everything else. Image are putting out a lot of ‘everything else’ these days, and genres are crossing like crazy. A panel including Tim Seeley, Mike Norton, Ed […]