Hey folks! The much-anticipated documentary The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone and the Changing Face of Comics , is now in stock at The Beguiling. We just got it in so unfortunately I haven't seen it myself yet, but I've heard good things and Jeff Smith himself seems pretty pleased with it. The 76 minute documentary is an extensive profile on Smith including interviews and other footage, and also includes...
Echo: Desert Run, released last week, is the third volume in what I still can’t help myself calling “Terry Moore’s new series after Strangers in Paradise.” Echo has been going on for a couple of years now and has created a pretty big footprint on the comics industry itself—but Strangers in Paradise is the kind [...]
Well, another sun has set on the thunderous foot prints that roamed the San Diego Convention Center for five days in July, 2009. Comic-Con has come and gone. But with great gusto! What recession? Maybe some things have been scaled back, but not at Comic-Con. It seems like it was bigger and better than ever. If you weren't there and needed to be for business, you blew it, man. I haven't heard what...
Watchmen producer Lloyd Levin has acquired screen rights to Echo , a comic book series by Terry Moore, reports Variety . "Echo" tells the story of a photographer who is preoccupied with her personal problems until she gets doused by liquid metal from a military experiment gone awry. She discovers she can now harness the power of a nuclear bomb, and soon the military wants its walking weapon....
It’s a big day for comic book movie news, eh? Lloyd Levin, one of the producers of Watchmen, snagged the rights to Terry Moore’s Echo in a six-figure deal, Variety said today. The series, written by the Strangers in Paradise alum Moore from his independent Abstract Studio imprint, focuses on a photographer who becomes a living weapon [...]
Variety reports that a bunch of new comic book movie deals are on their way, and first out of the gate is TErry Moore’s sf tale ECHO, which has been acquired in a six figure deal by Lloyd Levin, who produced WATCHMEN. “Echo” tells the story of a photographer who is preoccupied with her personal problems [...]
Here’s Jeff Smith’s schedule for this year’s SD: CCI, and a mock-up of the booth he’ll be sharing with Terry Moore. PS: Smith has just been announced as the second GoH at next year’s C2E2 in Chicago. Thursday July 23 Signing: Cartoon Books Booth 2109, 2:00pm-3:30pm Panel: Happy Hour with Jeff Smith & Terry Moore Room 7AB, 5:30pm-6:30pm Friday [...]
A roundup of links from the world of publishing - including a book deal for ABC's fictional sleuth Richard Castle , the serialization of a long-lost whodunit by Graham Greene , how Elmore Leonard writes all those books, and why Wonder Woman still needs permission to fight domestic violence in Kentucky ... ABC to Publish Novel Tie-in For Hit Show Castle (Book Blog) Long-lost Graham Greene work to be...
Here are the highlights of books shipping to comic shops this September! . Abstract Studios . Strangers In Paradise Omnibus Limited Edition - This was a no-brainer. The entirety of Terry Moore's Strangers In Paradise , collected in three hardcovers within a slipcase. Should be nice! . Archaia Studios Press . The Grave Doug Freshly HC - Love that play on words... Josh Hechinger and mpMann's comedy/western...
It’s been a couple of months since we checked in with Terry Moore about his intensely-enjoyable new sci-fi/romance/conspiracy series Echo, and so our “creator commentary” column is covering two issues this month, both of which are fairly old now. As such, I’ll let the interview speak for itself so that we can move the narrative [...]
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