Tag: Top News
Big Agents of SHIELD comeback had lowest ratings yet
I know everyone is tired of the dumping on Agents of SHIELD but Tuesday's big episode had the lowest ratings yet for the show....
Fun times with Abe Vigoda and Drew Friedman at the Society of Illustrators
It is not every day you see Fantagraphics associate publisher Eric Reynolds and legend Abe Vigoda in the same place (as seen on Reynolds'...
Singapore cosplayer finds room for all his mecha parts in amazing Ikea ad
Okay this is an ad for Ikea, but it is also a fantasy for most of us. Like, a Sex in the City/Axe ad level fantasy.
Comixology hacked; change your password
In a letter to users this morning, ComiXology announced they have suffered a security breach, as stated in a letter that went out to...
Interview: Jeff McComsey on FUBAR: Mother Russia Post-Kickstarter
By Matt O'Keefe
Since 2008 Jeff McComsey has been immersed in all things FUBAR. The New York Times best selling zombie series has consisted of three...
Alarm over Marvel’s future digital plans
GoodEReader is site that often has interesting digital news, but it just posted an alarmist article called Marvel Phasing out Retail Comic Distribution to Focus on Digital, which frankly is just wacky.
Comics retailers forming a new group called COBRA
Dennis Barger Jr. of Wonderworld Comics in Detroit is known as one of the more...idiosyncratic comics retailers out there. He's still resolutely anti-digital for...
Course alert: Social Issues Through Comic Books
It's a booming time for more scholarly looks at comics, and Ball State doctoral candidate Christina Blanch is one of the most important figures in this movement. last year she held a MOOC (massive online open course) on Gender in Comics that drew some 7,000 participants, and she's at it again with Social Issues Through Comic Books a six month online course that will examine "current social issues through comic books while understanding how popular culture is shaped by it's surroundings." Guests include Denny O'Neill, Shaenon Garrity, Scott Snyder, Gene Yang, Warren Ellis, Jonathan Hickman, Mark Waid... the list goes on. NOW how much would you pay? Well, it's FREE. Yep.
Nice Art: first look at a page of Walt Simonsons’s Ragnarök
Walt Simonson's new book from IDW is coming out this summer and the pitch is as simple as it is irresistible. It's called Ragnarök, and it is Simonson's take on the original Norse Mythology. Considering what he did with this raw material in his beloved run on Thor, this should be a treat.
Lebron shows what it is really like to wear a superhero mask
I don't even watch basketball, but while passing TVs of late I noticed some guy playing basketball who seemed to be wearing a...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/5/14: Mystery bullet found in former comics shop
I bet you thought the Michael George murder case was over. The former comics shop owner was tried twice for killing his wife in 1990, and convicted in 2011 after years of legal proceedings. But one little shard of the past may have just been revealed: a dusty bullet found behind a water heater in an unused room in the commercial space that was the murder scene back in '90. Creepy, isn't it?
Viz announces NEW Urasawa in English – MASTER KEATON
Naoki Urasawa is probably the greatest living genre cartoonist. Sorry ya'll but it's all true. Combining dense, suspenseful plotlines with thrilling, heart stopping artwork that never sacrifices character, he's just the master. He's even won an Eisner Award.Works in English, all published by Viz include MONSTER, PLUTO and 20th CENTURY BOYS. And now, MASTER KEATON, an early (pre-Monster) work from 1988 about a heroic insurance investigator who goes around using his archaeological skills to solve mysteries. SOLD. The series was co-written by Hokusei Katsushika and Takashi Nagasaki.
