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Is it June already? My parents were right, I guess: Time really does fly.
The first Wednesday of the sixth month brings the debut of DC’s latest weekly experiment, Trinity, the return of Manhunter, and the end of The Midnight (the series, not the character). It also sees the third issue of Marvel’s Secret Invasion, the [...]
Nominees for the third annual Doug Wright Awards have been announced. And here they are, courtesy of Brad Mackay:
Best Book
365 Days: A Diary by Julie Doucet (Drawn and Quarterly)
Spent by Joe Matt (Drawn and Quarterly)
The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam by Ann Marie Fleming (Riverhead Books)
Southern Cross by Laurence Hyde (Drawn [...]
With the flurry of news last week over the Manga Pilot contracts, many wondered exactly how well Tokyopop was faring. Now, IcV2 reports that the company will spin off its “comics-to-film” and digital units to a new company, to be named Tokyopop Media LLC:
Publishing production will be reduced by roughly 50% through the rest of [...]
TVGuide.com reports on One Life to Live star Michael Easton’s jump into the comic world — Soul Stealer from DMF Comics. The book and the actor will make their comic world debut at Wizard World Chicago. Christopher Shy is the artist.
In addition to One Life to Live, where he plays “crimefighter John McBain,” [...]
I stopped watching after the second or third episode, but apparently the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon featured the young Peter Parker bonding with the symbiote suit a couple of episodes ago. And you know what that means …
Every Monday, Diamond provides the comic book industry with a list of products shipping for the current week, as well as those products expected to ship the following week! It’s everything you love, everything you hate, and everything you have to read again. A look forward to the one list that’ll rock your week… this [...]
Threadless T-shirts is offering “The Beginning,” a design by Alexandre Deviers, for $10 as part of a big sale. Now we know that Batman drew first blood in his longstanding feud with Oswald Cobblepot.
(Via Slashfilm)
David Goyer’s oddly named Green Arrow-goes-to-prison movie, Supermax, appears to have a new title: Green Arrow. Yes, simply Green Arrow.
That’s according to Robert Sanchez of IESB.net, who speculates on Warner Bros.’ tent-pole movies for summer 2009.
Sanchez writes: “I am hearing with the success of Marvel’s Iron Man, considered a second-tier comic book character, certain execs [...]
ICv2.com reports that Publishers Services International, a distributor to the book and hobby markets, has sued Dabel Brothers Publishing, alleging breach of contract.
According to the lawsuit, filed last Friday, PSI began negotiations in August 2007 — around the time the Dabels split with Marvel — to become Dabel Brothers’ exclusive sales and fulfillment agent. PSI [...]
I guess you can consider this “Art Tuesday” here at Blog@ … Chris Schweizer shares a collection of artwork titled “Smokers of the Marvel Universe,” featuring various Marvel characters taking a puff.
Thanks, Rich!
Super Punch links to a new painting by Brandon Bird, featuring Spider-Man going head to head in a pillow fight with a nemesis. Click through to see who it is …
Vertigo Entertainment developing U.S. remake of Death Note
If production notes from Shutter and The Strangers are to be believed, U.S. production company Vertigo Entertainment is remaking Death Note, the popular manga turned anime turned live-action movie franchise.
Vertigo, the company behind remakes of Japanese horror films like The Grudge and Dark Water, has hired Vlas and [...]
Cartoonist DJ Coffman announced yesterday that he’s suspended Hero By Night “due to financial issues” at publisher Platinum Studios. He doesn’t elaborate on what those financial issues are.
Coffman’s comic was the winning entry in Platinum’s inaugural Comic Book Challenge in 2006. The series, about a young man who discovers the lair of an old superhero, [...]
Last year’s 5 mini-comic was one of the best things I picked up at San Diego (I picked up six copies for my fellow bloggers), and now Becky Cloonan announces that four of the 5 crew are back again this year for Pixu, pictured above. She says it is a two-part story, with the [...]
Just in time for Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Universal Pictures and Dark Horse have collaborated with Adidas Originals to create two exclusive pair of Hellboy shoes. They’ll be released in limited quantities in July in Adidas Original Stores.
(Via The Ephemerist)
Strangeways: Murder Moon
Written by Matt Maxwell; Illustrated by Luis Guaragña, Gervasio, and Jok
Highway 62; $13.95
Much like its main character, Strangeways has had a long, hard road. Matt Maxwell may not have encountered any werewolves or crooked sheriffs – at least I hope not – in his quest to produce his Western werewolf comic, but I [...]
The Sunday Times talks with writer Mark Millar about Wanted – “the highest-selling creator-owned comic book of the past decade” — rubbing elbows with celebrities, and life on the comics industry’s A-list:
Millar’s comic book stories sell hundreds of thousands of copies and when he flies to Marvel’s New York base every month, he travels first [...]
At his Standard Attrition forum, artist Cliff Chiang shares the evolution of some of the covers from Beware the Creeper, the 2003 Vertigo miniseries set in 1920s Paris and starring a female Creeper.
“I’d love to revisit this material, especially since we talked through a sequel that involved Maddy’s son as the new Creeper, and the [...]
Nick Abadzis will be serializing his next graphic novel in the pages of the Times, beginning Tuesday:
Everyone one had one: the person at school who was thought most likely to succeed. A chance encounter at a private view sees friends Marco and Petra encounter their old school rival Joe Chase again after many years. It [...]
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s turn as action hero in the first issue of Captain Britain and MI: 13 draws the attention of the Scottish Sunday Mail.
In the issue, which spins out of Marvel’s big Secret Invasion summer event, Brown tells U.K. superheroes and secret agents about the alien threat, and tackles three Skrulls disguised [...]
Again, courtesy of Andertoons.
Rich Tommaso reminisces.
So this week I found this really great opportunity with Tokyopop, all I have to do is… what’s that? Read the fine print, you say? Oh never mind. Seriously though, look anywhere else in blogland for opinions on the latest Tokyopop fallout/spin, as I only briefly touch upon the subject here. And I mainly did [...]
If you don’t want to wait until tomorrow night to see the premiere of the third season of The Venture Bros., you can find it in full over on the Adult Swim website.
Via
Also at the Cup o’ Joe panel, Marvel confirmed The Stand comic book that author Stephen King announced on NPR back in March.
According to Marvel.com, Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa will script the book, with art by Mike Perkins. Colorist Laura Martin, letterer Chris Eliopolus and cover artist Lee Berjemo round out the team.
During the panel, Quesada said [...]
Live from Cup o’ Joe at Wizard World Philadelphia comes the news that the Marvel Zombies will return in time for Halloween with a new mini-series by Fred Van Lente and Kev Walker.
I would have thought people were a little zombie’d out by now, but if they’re going do a third series, bringing them [...]
Dean, Chris and the gang over at Project Rooftop have another contest up — this one challenging artists to redesign Superman:
Ready to tug on Superman’s cape? Heck, tear it off and take the tights back to the drawing board! Project: Rooftop is teaming up with Pulp Secret and Jim Hanley’s Universe for a new [...]
Miller addresses The Spirit’s suit, and those comparisons to Sin City
We’ve all seen Frank Miller’s upcoming adaptation of The Spirit compared, unflatteringly, to Sin City, right? Well, so has Frank Miller.
And in the latest entry for the movie’s production blog, he addresses concerns about the look and feel of the production — “The Spirit is, [...]
Tucker Stone will be liveblogging as makes his way through Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Vol. 1:
This Saturday, May 31st, The Factual Opinion’s Head Comics Writer will tackle the Uncanny X-Men Omnibus Vol 1, live-blogging his way through this Highly Esteemed! And Oh So Important! volume of comic book literature. Published in 2006, the Omnibus contains Giant [...]
As readers of the first Sentry event might remember, the character was an active part of Marvel’s Silver Age until he erased the entire world’s memories of his career to save us all from the Void.
As announced at the Mondo Marvel panel today at Wizard World Philadelphia, writers Jeff Parker and Paul Tobin [...]
Kevin showed you the trailer for the Prince of Persia graphic novel earlier today, and to complement that Gina at First Second was kind enough to send over a nice-sized image of the cover. The book is due this fall.
This morning’s Good Morning America shared two “alternate” endings to last night’s Lost season finale. Check out a clip after the jump (where there be SPOILERS) …
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First Second’s Prince of Persia website now features a trailer for the upcoming graphic novel. The 208-page book, by video-game creator Jordan Mechner, A.B. Sina, LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland, is set for release in September.
Tonoharu Part One by Lars Martinson, Pliant Press (but distributed by Top Shelf), 128 pages, $19.95.
Travel abroad is supposed to provide a life-changing, mind-broadening experience. It’s an notion that Lars Martinson craftily subverts in the first volume of his ongoing, Xeric-award winning “innocents abroad” story, Tonoharu.
The book opens with Martinson, or a reasonable facsimile, logging [...]
Now that I’ve gone through another set of solicitations, it’s time to return to the topic of line-wide events. I’ve already run through an inventory of post-Crisis events, so this week I’ll be looking at how Crisis On Infinite Earths and its antecedents set the stage.
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Last time I called these things “line-wide [...]
Sony says it’s not searching for a new Peter Parker
Sony Pictures representatives deny this week’s Big Internet Rumor that the studio is considering a replacement for Tobey Maguire in Spider-Man 4.
According to IESB, some websites were even asked to remove the link to the original story, reported by Latino Review. IESB quotes Sony’s Steve Elzer [...]
According to his fake blog on NBC.com, Dwight Schrute, a character on The Office, likes manga … but don’t try to slip him any shokushu goukan:
The comic books that the other gentleman was purchasing were of the “hentai” sub-genre. Hentai is disgusting. It is Japanese comic pornography and it is completely inappropriate. What disturbed me [...]
Cartoonist Coco Wang is sharing stories via comic strips about the recent major earthquake (and aftershocks) from China:
I don’t know how much information the BBC or any UK media received from us, I imagine the UK audiences were presented with the major developments of the incident, but you are probably unaware of many important and [...]
ASIFA has a gallery of gag cartoons by the beloved Playboy artists. Probably NSFW though.
A promising new Webcomic by David Reddick.
