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THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
by Marc-Oliver Frisch More “Blackest Night” and more Batman make September another good month for DC Comics’ periodical business. This year’s retelling of Superman’s origin doesn’t set the charts on fire, on the other hand, despite the big-ticket creative team of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank — maybe it’s time to retire the character. In other [...]
Comixpedia - Webcomic News & Views Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
TOOLS Scott McCloud has a post (and comment thread) on the ratio of comic to controls (navigatin) to crap (everything else) on the screen. BOOKS An interview with Randall Munroe on the unusual publishing strategy for his first book, xkcd, Volume 0 . JUSTIFY MY HYPE Rebecca Dart illustrates an old murder ballad . Everyone is linking to this today and with good reason - Dart's imagination and the linework...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The Chicago Humanities Festival this weekend presents the pen-ultimate panel, entitled “The Not-So-Funny Situation of Alternative Comix” and featuring Matt Groening, Lynda Barry, Jules Feiffer, and Chris Ware. Tickets are $5. We are likely living in the golden age of graphic novels and alternative comics, but the artists themselves are facing what may be the most significant [...]
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Nexus Archives vol. 9 Written by Mike Baron Illustrated by Steve Rude, Paul Smith, Neil “Spyder” Hansen and Adam Hughes Published by Dark Horse The greatest superhero comic of all time hits one of its most controversial eras in this volume, which collects issues 53-57 and issues 2-4 of the concurrently published Next Nexus miniseries. Among Nexus fandom, the [...]
Drawn! (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Taiwan-born artist Flora Chang studied graphic design in San Francisco before moving to Kansas City to begin work as a greeting card artist for Hallmark. A lot of famous doodlers got their start designing greeting cards (Robert Crumb and Tom Wilson come to mind), and I’ll bet my wooden teeth that Flora Chang is also [...]
Superhero Hype (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
IGN has debuted four character posters for the Matthew Vaughn-directed comic book adaptation Kick-Ass , opening in theaters on April 16. The action-adventure, based on the Mark Millar and John Romita Jr. comic, tells the story of average teenager Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson), a comic-book fanboy who decides to take his obsession as inspiration to become a real-life superhero. As any good superhero...
Marvel (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
J. Michael Straczynski's epic run with the Thunder God comes to a close!
Comixpedia - Webcomic News & Views Daily (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Typically, in the great tug-of-war over which is most important to a comic — great art or great writing — I tend to think that writing wins out most of the time. A good narrative will get me through a webcomic any day, while nice art satisfies only but for a moment. But, you know, there’s a chance I’m looking at this debate all wrong. What if a lot of webcomic artists are just...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Are you ready to see Red light up and Walk Hard? Well, the Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog has announced that John C. Reilly (of Walk Hard fame), along with Weeds star Mary-Louise Parker, are joining the cast of Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner’s Red. Parker will play the romantic interest to retired agent-on-the-run Bruce Willis, while [...]
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
¶ We haven’t been reporting too much on Hollywood of late; but it hasn’t been for wont of activity. ¶ A while ago the mini series RED by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner– the tale of a CIA gent who’s called out of retirement for One Last Case™– was optioned. Since last we met, it’s [...]
Major Spoilers (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Since IMAGE UNITED’s announcement, fans have clamored for the one missing Image Comics founder, Jim Lee, to take part in the crossover event. Yesterday, Image revealed Lee will definitely take part with an all-new cover featuring the entire pantheon of Image superheroes at the hands of the resurrected Al Simmons. “Things just got real,” IMAGE UNITED [...]
ComicList Complete (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Media Release -- Since IMAGE UNITED 's announcement, fans have clamored for the one missing Image Comics founder, Jim Lee, to take part in the crossover event. Earlier today, Image and Newsarama revealed Lee will definitely take part with an all-new cover featuring the entire pantheon of Image superheroes at the hands of the resurrected Al Simmons. Read more » Original post blogged on ComicList...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Sheldon L. Dorf’s drive and vision paved the way for the Comic-Con International in San Diego that we know today. As part of the tributes emerging for Shel Dorf is a Web site where his memory can be honored, celebrated and shared with everyone. The photo above of Jack Kirby and Shelf Dorf in 1969 is [...]
Slog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
I've written about this before , but it's getting very close now: The 33rd issue of McSweeney's is going to take the form of a Sunday newspaper titled The San Francisco Panorama : It'll have news (actual news, tied to the day it comes out) and sports and arts coverage, and comics (sixteen pages of glorious, full-color comics, from Chris Ware and Dan Clowes and Art Spiegelman and many others besides)...
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Dragons, dragons everywhere! The She-Dragon has returned–looking ten different kinds of creepy–and finds herself facing off against a revived Savage Dragon who may be suffering from acute amnesia–or may have Emperor Kurr’s memories restored to him. All the while, there are bad guys trying to use Dragon’s blood to turn some of their B- and [...]
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