Tag: News

Okay, I'm prepped for ridicule. I know people say you can't judge a film without having seen it, but if a trailer acts as an advertisement to entice viewers to pay to watch the...

§ Fred Gallagher's Megatokyo was a very popular webcomic and a very popular print title, so no surprise that the Megatokyo Visual Novel Game has already made a tad less than $150,000 on...

Oh, Adhouse, why must you torture me so? The publishers of fine comics and art material have been on a streak of fire recently, releasing quality book after quality book. And now here's another...

§ Sean Kleefeld has the fullest CAKE indie comics expo report and it sounds stimulating: Although the show was formally about any independent comics work, there was something of a theme around the possibilities of...

I've been tied up on another project so this is a free association gathering of bookmarks. § Gabrielle Bell has been 'tooning a trip to Oslo. § It turns out Vertigo Comics is not dead! Not...

If there's one phrase that frosts my scuppers these days it's variations on the "comics are a dying industry" or "failing medium" or some other rote expression of gloom. This attitude goes back to...

I had about 20 posts in various stages on gender issues this week...let's put them all into one big roil, complete with shocking personal confessions: § Villain Month is for boys: When the New 52...

The lady X-Men led the single issue sales charts for May, while kids comics made a strong showing on the graphic novel chart, with Adventure Time or My Little Pony coming in at 1, 5 and 7. Superman charted with the paperback versions of Earth One V.1 and Action Aomics V.1. The Walking Dead and Saga both had strong backlist showings.

Okay, so there was this library in Illinois that got the idea to build a 9-foot tall statue of The Hulk out front. As you do. In order to accomplish this, The Northlake Public...

More Canadian cartooning awards? Yes indeed. The ninth annual Joe Shuster Awards, honoring Canadian comics in multiple categories, have just been announced and it goes from Yannick Paquette to Michael DeForge and back again. Nominees...

§ We've always been a bit baffled by the real life superhero phenomenon, but this one is pretty cool, as a well-established NYC team is fighting recent gay-bashing incidents: As a spate of hate crimes...

Official launch seems to be tomorrow, but in case you missed the bold-faced names, the NY Post seems to be launching its very own nerd/comics/gaming blog, called Parallel Worlds. The logo features the senseless...