Tag: Image

by Nick Eskey For starters, this work is not for kids, and there might be a plot spoiler. With that out of the way, let’s...

Deadline announced today that Universal Television has optioned the rights to Image's Eisner-nominated The Wicked + The Divine.

Image Expo is coming back, but unlike last year's which functioned as a roll-up to San Diego Comic-Con, this one returns to Image's home...

Following Chrononauts, another Millar adaptation has been optioned

Jennifer de Guzman, Director of Trade Book Sales at Image, has left the company according to her Facebook page. De Guzman left her post...

With movies and TV shows based on comics unavoidable no matter where you turn, I've often wondered why there aren't more indie movies based on indie comics. Part of the reason is that it's just so darned hard to fund any indie movie any more. But it does happen. And if you had reminded me that Officer Downe, the one shot comic by Joe Casey and Chris Burnham was being actually made, with Slipnot's main clown Shawn Crahan directing, I would have said "oh yeah, April Fools." Not because it isn't good source material but it sounds so darned unlikely. <

The popular Eisner nominated series is headed to the small screen

At the last NYCC, I got shown a few pages of the new Airboy series by James Robinson (Starman, FF) and relative newcomer...

And when I say must-read, I mean MUST READ, as it really lays out fundamental changes in how the industry is working for creator owned books.. A few days ago I noted how an old post on the economics of Jim Zubkavich on Skullkickers, his Image comics, had gotten a second life on Facebook with it's very low numbers on comics profits. In the comment, Zub promised an update, and he's delivered with an analysis of his new book, Wayward. As you can see from the above graph, it's a HUGE change, and it's all due to the rise of Image Comics:

A weekend round-up of assorted entertainment headlines just before the Oscars

Secret Identities #1 wastes no time in establishing it's universe. On the opening pages we're thrown into a two page splash of super heroics familiar to even the casual comic reader. A team of eight archetypal heroes, known as the Front Line, converge in battle over downtown Toronto. They include a beautiful and deadly alien woman, a rock-bodied hulk , and a silver-suited man of super-human speed. A portal has been opened over the Canadian city, spewing wave after wave of nasty hell-creatures crashing over our heroes.

Image launches an assortment of brand new number ones each month, however, May's selection of new Image titles features some huge names creating important new properties....