Tag: News
Last minute shopping advice: Hazarai!
Here's a new social media/commerce site that has an interface geared at people who collect: Hazarai!. Let's call it Etsy meets eBay for nerds—you can list stuff you want to sell with no fees....
News and Notes; Blair Butler good-bye, Dark Horse $1 #1s, Michael Emerson voices The...
§ In case you missed the news, G4's geek-oriented programming is going away, to replaced by an upscale "GQ" type channel which, we predict, will devolve into endless close-ups of motorcycle engines, eel-eating contests...
ComiXology #3 highest grossing iPad app for the year
Inside Mobile Apps has its top app charts for the year and comiXology ended up as the third highest-grossing app of the year on the iPad.
iPad Top Grossing
• 1. DragonVale
• 2. Slotmania HD
• 3. Comics
• 4. Pages
• 5....
Before Watchmen and Solo get deluxe collections this summer
DC also released their collection plans for the DCU for May-August, and they include FOUR deluxe editions collecting the various BEFORE WATCHMEN miniseries. Perhaps even more excitingly, a big collection rounding all of the...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 12/14/12: Don’t mess with the Oatmeal
§ If you were playing along on the Moore/Morrison stuff and can stand ONE MORE LINK, this piece on Moore, Morrison, Supergods by Emmet O'Cuana provides a fine coda.
§ DO NOT mess with The...
News notes: a tombstone for Shel Dorf; digital kiddie Spawn; more
Today's trip into the news bag:
§ The organizers of the Detroit Fanfare/Shel Dorf Awards write to say that fundraising efforts are underway to raise at least $2,200 to give Dorf a gravestone. Dorf, generally...
2013 Eisner judges named: Cavna, Hatfield, Healy, Monnin, Santoro, and Smith
The six 2013 Eisner Award judges have been named, and as these things go, the panel may have a sliiiiightly indie slant, with Charles Hatfield and Frank Santoro....but as usual administrator Jackie Estrada has...
First look: ICE AGE: THE HIDDEN TREASURE
Boom continues to have success with its comics for younger readers with Adventure Time, Peanuts and Ice Age. Based on the ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT! film, a new volume in the 8" x 8...
News and notes: Poison Elves return, Table Titans, Colombian comics progress and a big...
¶ Ape Entertainment has teamed up with the publishing house Sirius to publish an ongoing Poison Elves series which will launch an adults-only imprint at the usually family-friendly Ape.
Poison Elves is the...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 12/10/12: Where have you gone, Gail Simone?
§ The monthly fencing match between Vaneta Rogers and DC's Bob Wayne and John Cunningham has a meaty outing this month, and Cunningham lays out a bit of the strategy for the post-Berger Vertigo:
1...
News and Notes: Starlin at DC, Starstruck, Ellison, Chadwick
§ There was some anxiety last week when it was reported that Marvel/Disney had sent a cease and desist regarding STARSTRUCK, the 30-year-old property owned by Elaine Lee and Mike Kaluta. Disney had a...
Jusko and Ploog at Feral Planet for Goliath
Is this the week of new small publishers? Yes, everyone is doing it. Here's yet another: Feral Planet a newish company started by Michael Friedlander, formerly of FPG, a fantasy art trading company. They...
