THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
IDW EIC Chris Ryall shared some covers: Angel vs. Frankenstein by John Byrne and Frankenstein Mobster, Vol. 1 by Mark Wheatley and friends.
Comics And... (Free subscription) | 06/14/2009
Not long ago I revisited Crisis on Infinite Earths, Infinite Crisis and Final Crisis, with some mention of 52 therein. Although Final Crisis was a disappointment, there's an element of seamlessness to reading those 4 event stories sequentially. They fit, so to speak. So it was something of a surprise in re-reading The Man of Steel just how different the era of Crisis on Infinite Earths was. It makes...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 06/14/2009
A West Side woman was held in lieu of $500,000 bail Saturday, accused of setting her estranged husband's bed on fire. The man wasn't home at the time, but other people were in the apartment, including the man's 85-year-old grandfather, who had to be hospitalized for smoke inhalation, according to prosecutors. "Ma'am, you can dislike your husband, but you cannot endanger other people," Cook...
Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun! (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Pages from The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #13 (December 1986), written by Mark Gruenwald and Peter Sanderson; main portrait pencilled by John Byrne, inked by Josef Rubenstein, colored by Andy Yanchus, plus previously published panels from various Marvel comics (Click any picture to Weight-class-1000-size)
EarthPortal (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
William Frederick Cottrell (1903-1979), an American sociologist, developed a general theory of social and economic change based on changes in energy sources and their conversion technologies. In Energy and Society (1955), Cottrell describes the evolution of human culture in terms of energy. Transforming Power: Energy, Environment, and Society in Conflict by John Byrne Coal Energy and economic myths...
Diversions of the Groovy Kind (Free subscription) | 06/12/2009
Greetings, Groove-ophiles! Being that I'm a charter Byrne-victim, I've waxed eloquent on John Byrne many times here on DOtGK, so I figured it was high time we took a look back at his first professionally published work. As with many of the greats, Byrne started off humbly paying his dues in the fanzines (like Amazing Science Fantasy--that one's from 1973, by the by) before finding paying gigs with...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
One day I noticed an advertisement in the Liverpool Echo. It read ‘Liverpool rock band requires manager’. Immediately, I recognised an opportunity to make further in-roads into the music industry. I phoned the number in the ad and it was answered by the band’s singer/guitarist John Byrne. He told me that the band were call The Cherry Boys and invited me over to his house, in an area...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Standing over the caskets of the three members of an Arlington Heights family who died when one of them intentionally set fire to their home, a priest today asked the two surviving children and a church crowded with mourners to accept that God had a reason for allowing the tragedy. Rev. Edward Fialkowski acknowledged at the services for Tricia Finnerty, her husband Kevin Finnerty and their 11-year-old...
Chicago Breaking News (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
A line of mourners wrapped around the parking lot and down South Kilpatrick Avenue next to the Blake-Lamb Funeral Home on the Southwest Side this afternoon, where the wake was held for slain Chicago Police Officer Alejandro "Alex" Valadez. Valadez, 27, a three-year department veteran, was shot and killed earlier this week as he and his partner were responding to calls of gunfire in the South...
Bully Says: Comics Oughta Be Fun! (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
Panel from What If? v.1 #26 (April 1981), (inhale) idea by Mike W. Barr, Roger McKenzie and Don Perlin script and creative contributions by Roger Stern & John Byrne, breakdowns by Herb Trimpe, finishes and inks by Mike Esposito, colors by Carl Gafford, letters by Michael Higgins (exhale).
MCF's Nexus of Improbability (Free subscription) | 06/05/2009
When given the opportunity to revamp Superman with his The Man of Steel, John Byrne gave us a very different view of Krypton , one in which couples like Superman's parent's never met. Everyone lived in isolation, genetic material from matched pairs combined in a gestation matrix in which machines controlled the growth of new life. It was a highly advanced society in which people had moved past physical...
StandDown Texas Project (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
"Public defender: No money, no death penalty," is John Byrne's report for the collective Chicago Breaking News. The Cook County public defender's share of a fund used to cover expenses to represent people in death-penalty cases is empty, the agency's...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
The Mediabistro Circus concluded yesterday, and our mediabistro.com blogs had the entire event covered: • MediaJobsDaily's Rachel Kaufman writes about Steve Rubel 's advice for making employees "rock stars," as well as why Crowdsourcing creator Jeff Howe isn't killing your industry . • PRNewser's Joe Ciarallo writes about the creative ways, including bribery, Businessweek.com EIC...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
FishbowlNY: Breaking: WNYC Lays Off Four FishbowlDC: Vaughn Ververs Join(s/ed) Politico FishbowlLA: Lauren Rich Fine on Newspapers Charging for Content BayNewser: Dave Eggers: OK, Here's Why I Believe Print Has a Future WebNewser: BusinessWeek.com's John Byrne on What Journalism Has To Become TVNewser: ABC News Expands Digital Reporting Corps PRNewser: Steve Rubel at Circus: "You Need to Put...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/03/2009
Our sister blog MediaJobsDaily has joined us at the Mediabistro Circus and they caught the presentation by Businessweek.com editor-in-chief John Byrne . Byrne's presentation was called "New World Intimacy" and dealt with building reader engagement -- something we think about every day. "The secret of digital technology isn't that you can do video, but that you can collaborate. Journalism...
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