Tag: Top News
Six new What The Duck covers for April with Aragones, Stokoe, etc.
April is Howard the Duck variant cover month for Marvel and here are six more -- these covers could function as a mini-FAQ for "famous images to parody" : American Gothic, check, Washington Crossing the Delaware, check, Iwo Jima, check and so on. I don't think there's been a Janet Jackson Rolling Stone cover parody yet, but give them time.
Faith No More is back, and their first single is ‘Superhero’
90s nostalgia, baby! Faith No More, a seminal MTV band that had great success with the whole hip hop/metal thing before hip hop won, is back with their first album in 17 years, since 1997's Album of the Year. But a new studio album, Sol Invictus drops on May 19th, and the first single has just debuted on Marvel.com, because a) bassist Bill Gould is a big Kirby/Silver Surfer fan (chatted with in link by Ryan Penagos) and b) the debut single is called "Superhero" and Marvel publishes Superhero comics.
Nilah Magruder wins the first Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award for M.F.K.
As announced this weekend, the first Dwayne McDuffie Diversity Award was given out, and the winner was Nilah Magruder for her webcomic M.F.K.
Disclosure: I was one of the judges for this award. And I couldn't be happier that Magruder won.
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits 3/2/2015: Only five more months of winter!
§ First off, in the Massive Achievements Dept., Kelly Thompson has put together a massive, massive list of women who makes comics. Everyone...
Matt Wayne on What Dwayne McDuffie Meant To Comics
Although it's in Playboy, it's SFW and a must read: former Milestone managing editor Matt Wayne on his friend, the late great Dwayne McDuffie:
Rio Rancho mom “incredibly disturbed” by finding “Palomar” in school library
Sadly I can't embed the local news scare quotes story here but the transcript is almost as good. A mother in Rio Rancho, NM found her son had checked out Gilbert Hernandez' PALOMAR from the school library, and then things got dangerous!
Kickstarter alert: Comic Book People 2: Photographs from the 1990s by Jackie Estrada
Somehow I have neglected to mention until this moment that Jackie Estrada is crowdfunding a second book of photos taken at conventions over...
RIP Leonard Nimoy
https://twitter.com/TheRealNimoy/status/569762773204217857
After being taken to the hospital complaining of chest pains a few days ago, actor Leonard Nimoy has passed away at age 83. He'd...
Other colors you can get THAT dress in do not include gold
Last night twitter nation became one as never before—from Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato and Gerard Way to millions of Tweets around the world, everyone was obsessed with the optical illusion of what color this dress is:
Indie Month-to-Month Sales December 2014: It’s a Bitch Planet type month
December felt like a rough month for comics, with seven titles seeing a drop of over 40% of their readers. The month wasn't all bad, however, as it also saw the release of Bitch Planet from Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro. It had the highest release of December, followed by Rumble (Image), Hellboy and the BRPD (Dark Horse), and The Valiant (Valiant Entertainment).
Society of Illustrators announces the complete Comic and Cartoon Art Annual winners
Last year the Society of Illustrators added a medal competition for comics arts, parallel to those they have long given out for illustration. And...
WonderCon Anaheim reveals Babs Tarr Program Book Cover
Speaking of SDCC, did you know that WonderCon is thrown by the same folks and you can go to the website and buy tickets and book hotel rooms in a totally normal, non-anxious fashion RIGHT THIS MINUTE? It is true that you may not run into Travil Fimmel at the Hilton bar, but you are pretty much still going to have a good time. This years show is April 3-5 at the Anaheim Convention Center, and guests include Babs Tarr, Ed Brubaker, Neal Adams and other people you would probably like to see.
