KaBOOM! has announced Peanuts: Dell Archive, a collection of Peanuts comic book stories originally published by Dell Publishing. Nat Gertler has a few details. Local Legend: Tom Batiuk in ‘Funky’ cold Medina Story from Cleveland.com about local cartoonist made good. Richard Pietrzyk to write and draw original Dick Tracy graphic novel ComicList has the story and an […]
From Niagra This Week: Bell-Lundy has invited some of her comic friends to form a speaker series aimed at inspiring a new generation of comic creators. She has teamed up with the Grimsby Public Library to offer three evenings of comic-centred discussion beginning next month. The speaker series runs the first Thursday of the month […]
From Comicbook.com:Sources for TMZ say the 92-year-old was “taken from his Hollywood Hills home to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center” yesterday. As of now, the reason for the emergency call to 911 isn’t clear. Lee was feeling well enough to be interviewed at the premiere, showing no signs of being under the weather. Actually, he was very […]
Marvel Comics is diversifying several of their characters. NPR has a report on the upcoming new Spider-Man and alter ego Miles Morales, a half-African-American, half-Latino character.From NPR:As far as its comics go, Marvel has had a string of diversity shifts recently, with changes to Captain America, Ms. Marvel and Thor. Bendis tells NPR’s Arun Rath […]
From Comingsoon.net:On July 20, 2018, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, the directors of The LEGO Movie, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and 21 and 22 Jump Street, are taking Spider-Man back to his graphic roots with the first-of-its-kind animated Spider-Man feature, it was announced today at CinemaCon by Tom Rothman, chairman of the Sony […]
The National Cartoonist Society has announced the 2014 Division Awards aka Silver Reubens (or tongue in cheek the “Steckleys”).The winners will be announced during the annual NCS Reuben Awards dinner on May 23rd. This year’s Reuben Awards will be held in Washington D.C.Congratulations to the nominees.EDITORIAL CARTOONS Clay Bennett Michael Ramirez Jen Sorensen NEWSPAPER ILLUSTRATION […]
Astérix co-creator Albert Uderzo donated a storyboard from the 1971 Astérix and the Laurel Wreath for auction.From The New York Times:PARIS ? An original Astérix comic book page fetched 150,000 euros, or about $160,000, at a sale at Christie?s here, with all the proceeds going to the families of those killed in the attack on […]
Someone had to have seen this somewhere in between the design/concept and production stage and said… “let’s see if we can get this into stores before someone notices.”via Robot6
I might be suffering from super hero fatigue because I found this mostly uninteresting, but yeah, I’ll probably go see it.What are your thoughts?
Kind of like a super hero that just can’t be defeated, Stan Lee Media is filing yet another lawsuit – or in this case an appeal of an earlier loss with the hope of going to the Supreme Court for final resolution.From Robot 6:After losing one lawsuit after another in its eight-year battle for many […]
Archie is getting a reboot. The last issue (#666) will be released in June featuring work from Tom DeFalco, Pat & Tim Kennedy, Dan Parent and Fernando Ruiz. Bleeding Cool reports the new series will be by Fiona Staples and Mark Waid.
The next issue of MAD Magazine will be edited by Weird Al. Last May the National Cartoonists Society honored the Grammy award winning musician with the The A.C.E. Award (Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinaire), an award given to someone who had aspirations of being a cartoonist but made it big in another field. A fan of MAD […]
With almost super-human strength, Stan Lee Media continuously takes legal losses like the recent loss in the 9th district court that ruled that it’s “claims over being denied the fruits of such characters as the X-Men, the Incredible Hulk and Iron Man had been previously adjudicated.” In other words – you lost previous battles gentlemen. […]
Marvel announced they’re increasing their super-hero releases from two films a year to three. DC Comics has previously said they’re releasing 10 films in the coming years.From Business Week:Then, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, Marvel released a plan for a slate of nine new superhero movies featuring the Avengers, Thor, and a Guardians of the Galaxy […]
Yesterday Marvel/Disney released a trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron. It hints at Marvel is adding a few more characters from the Marvel Universe: Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.The movie comes out in May of 2015.