Tag: Image
DEAR DRACULA gets animated for Halloween
Here's one of those comics-to-TV/movie success stories that's a little more under the radar: DEAR DRACULA which appeared as part of Shadowline's kid line...
A new edition of A Distant Soil is coming
On her blog, Colleen Doran has announced a new collected edition of A DISTANT SOIL, her long running signature work.
Advance Review: Happy #1
By Steve Morris
Happy marks the first creator-owned story from Grant Morrison in a while, with the writer busy reworking Batman and Superman over the...
Preview: Think Tank #2 by Hawkins and Ekedal
Top Cow's President Matt Hawkins has gone back to the keyboard as the co-creator and writer of THINK TANK, an ongoing B&W series about a government scientist who starts coming up with some tech that is too hot to handle. The artist is Rahsan Ekedal, who previously drew ECHOES and THE CRAZIES for Top Cow. The book is part of their more experimental Minotaur line, and so far it's a pretty taut thriller. Issue #2 comes out next week. Here's a preview of issue #1.
Trailer watch 2: Harris and Morazzo's GREAT PACIFIC
A few days ago CBR rolled out the exclusive revealof the trailer for GREAT PACIFIC, an Image series comics out in November that deals with the (real) great garbage pile floating in the Pacific and ecological issues.
To be blunt, we like this trailer better than many we've seen, and the main reason is the great score. According to Harris, he got one of his old pals from film school to actually write the music. And wow...that makes a difference.
More Invincible #100 death teasers
As previously reported, for its 100th issue, Robert Kirkman's superhero saga INVINCIBLE is following in the "issue 100 = a heartbreaking death" comics tradition, by teasing said heartbreaking death. And here are the teasers that have run since Monday, each featuring a different set of blood-spattered remains strewn around the rubble.
INTERVIEW: Brian K. Vaughan on the first SAGA collection
In the annals of "very safe predictions" the idea that the first collection of SAGA
is going to sell very well is right up there. The book—collecting the first six issues of the science fiction drama by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples—isn't out until October 23rd, but it's certain to get a whole new audience for the book. Not that it's been lacking an audience: the first issue already has already sold over 70,000 copies in various printings. And a low $9.99 price tag makes the barrier to entry pretty low.
Robert Kirkman Promises Death, Sweet Death
Image have released a teaser image for issue #100 of Invincible, Robert Kirkman's other long-running series, promising things are all going to end nicely... NOT REALLY! Somebody's going to DIE
Valentine is coming from Image
Another digital to print success story—Alex De Campi and Christine Larsen's VALENTINE, which made headlines as a digital only comic that was translated into multiple languages. As noted below it was a true digital pioneer, with more than 350,000 downloads.
And now...you can hold it in your hand.
Tezuka-esque CIRCUIT BREAKER by McCarthy and Baker is coming from Image Comics
We've alluded to this a few times, but Kyle Baker has posted some art from a new Image book by himself and Kevin McCarthy called CIRCUIT BREAKER, which is:
When Kevin sent me his story about a little girl robot in futuristic Tokyo, I thought it would be funny to draw it in the style of my favorite Japanese cartoonist, Osamu Tezuka!
The Walking Dead #97-99 get second printing with landscape cover
After WALKING DEAD #100 became the best selling comic in 15 years, folks wanted to go back and read the first three parts of the storyline, in WALKING DEAD #97-99. Thus a second printing has been necessitated. The new printing will have new covers, by Charlie Adlard, depicting the villain Negan and his now-infamous baseball bat, Lucille.