Tag: News
Marvel tops November with Marvel NOW!
Marvel NOW! debuts handily took 8 of the top 10 spots on the sales charts for November, just released by Diamond. Overall sales are up for the year but down from last month. graphic...
News and Notes: George Wunder, Judd Apatow
• Hermes Press is going to publish an archival reprint of George Wunder’s Terry and the Pirates. Although not as good or well-known as Milton Caniff, Wunder drew the strip for 27 years or...
Huge shake-up at DC Comics lunch counter
We're hearing that DC Comics is in turmoil today after popular lunch spot McGee's changed their bean salad recipe: instead of cannellini beans, the salad now contains navy beans, and the change has everyone...
Working With Wacker: Steve Wacker on Helping Creators Make Comics
By Matt O'Keefe
For someone who describes himself as America's 14th favorite comic book editor, Steve Wacker has edited a lot of beloved books. I first became aware of his work with 52, a weekly comic...
IRON SKY coming from IDW
A gn adapting the cult Nazis on the Moon movie IRON SKY is coming from IDW with art by Gerry Kissell and Amin Amat. Everyone wants to put Nazis on the moon right on...
Video: Dash Shaw animates Sigur Rós
[vimeo 49262701 w=400 h=225] Seraph from Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Films on Vimeo.
Describing the work of Dash Shaw as "unique" strains the meaning of the word: childlike and formalist, preoccupied with the physical body...
First Look: Marvel releases AVENGERS #1 trailer
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And Marvel NOW! just rolls on, with the debut tomorrow of Avengers #1 by Jonathan Hickman and Jerome Opeña and Dean White. And they've released a trailer.
The greatest heroes in comics together...
The Hobbit is barreling at us with sexy dwarves and fashionable Radagast
Hero Complex has a bunch of interviews about The Hobbit up, which is a reminder that OHMIGOD THE HOBBIT OPENS IN 12 DAYS!!! OH MY GOD! IT IS HAPPENING! DON'T LET ME ALMOST DIE AGAIN!
Webcomic alert: Mark of the Best by Conor Willumsen
An amazing descent into oddness by Wright Award nominee Connor Willumsen to disturb your weekend getaway.
SLG’s offices and Art Boutiki must relocate
Although we've never been, the Boutiki run by San Jose-based comics publisher SLG has always sounded like a cool place: a storefront and performance space that sold comics and has a tiki theme in keeping with publisher Dan Vado's sensibilities. But now, in a dime-a-dozen story of real estate improvement, the space must close by next summer as the building is being razed to make way for an apartment building.
Hollywood director harbors sexist thoughts; film at 11
Yesterday there was a new source of gender battle outrage on the internets, as spelled out by The Mary Sue. It seems that director James Gunn, who has made the film Super and is slated to write and direct Guardians of the Galaxy has a very active website and online presence and nearly two years ago he ran a piece called 50 Superhero you want to have sex with that included all kinds of jokes about having sex and rape and gays.
RIP: Josh Medors
Following a long battle with a rare form of spinal cancer, artist Artist Josh Medors passed away yesterday, at age 36, capping a pretty bad day for comics. Medors had been sick since 2008 and helped organize the Help for Heroes charity. He is survived by his wife, Charlotte, and his son, Garth.