Eddie Pittman is taking pre-orders for his sci-fi web graphic novel Red’s Planet. If you haven’t seen his comic, head over to his site. It’s a great story with great art and coloring. This first edition special edition collects the Prologue and Chapter One. Eddie showed me copy at this year’s Festival of Cartoon Art. […]
Bluewater Productions is releasing a second Sarah Palin comic book in December. Female Force: Sarah Palin, Act 2 focuses on Palin’s life after the 2008 presidential elections. The book examines the reasons behind Palin’s increasing celebrity, and the threat that she might pose to both Democrats and mainstream Republicans should she decide to run in […]
Gotta admit the Green Lantern wasn’t the super-hero I identified with. I wasn’t even aware there was an alien component in the story’s history. Movie due out June of next year.
Apparently the earlier cover featuring Obama and Palin was so good they felt they needed to do it again. Archie Comics will announce on Tuesday variant covers on the Obama-Palin theme, with one cover showing Obama poised to clash with Palin in midair, while another ? labeled “The Fight for America!” ? depicting Obama and […]
From Boing Boing comes this little nugget of comic book history: The Library of Congress has just opened up 222 boxes worth of files and papers on Fredric Wertham, the scaremonger whose book Seduction of the Innocent led to widespread bans, burnings and censorship of American comic books. Wertham wasnt just a nutcase pro-censorship crusader: […]
The Washington Post has posted an extensive profile of Liberty Meadows creator Frank Cho. The profile is the cover story for this Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine. The story goes into his history with the strip, his personal life challenges and his work with Marvel. It also discusses his attempts to penetrate the French market. The […]
This Saturday is the international Read Comics in Public Day and as you might have already deduced – it’s a day to come out of the closet as a comic book reader an flaunt it (just the comic book, please) in public. RCiPD is being spearheaded by Sarah Morean and Brian Heater founders of The […]
The Gazette (NJ) has a profile on Archie comic book artist Fernando Ruiz who was tapped to draw a action-adventure version of Archie that is due out in the latter part of September. The title of the four-part series is The Man From R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. a play on the 1960’s The Man From U.N.C.L.E. TV series. […]
Ever play, “where are they now?” and wonder what happened to “CHiPS” Erik Estrada and “The Hulk’s” Lou Ferrigno? Wonder no more. They’re starring in an interactive comic book… defending Butterfinger candy bars! The Butterfinger Defense League is brought to you by Butterfinger of course. I should mention that the comic book also stars Charisma […]
From last weekend, The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced. Here they are:Best Short Story “Urgent Request,” by Gene Luen Yang and Derek Kirk Kim, in The Eternal Smile (First Second)Best Single Issue (or One-Shot) Captain America #601: “Red, White, and Blue-Blood,” by Ed Brubaker and Gene Colan (Marvel)Best Continuing Series The Walking Dead, […]
The LA Times writes how “Hollywood-ized” the San Diego Comic-Con has become. They didn’t care how acclaimed the director, how bright the star, if you didn’t measure up to their very high bar, they would flay you. When the Hollywood power brokers started showing up in the ’90s, the hardcore fans who had been making […]
ComicsDC’s Mike Rhode posts the press release from the Library of Congress and points out three cartoonist will be part of the 10th annual National Book Festival sponsored by the Library of Congress. Jeff Smith, Brad Meltzer and Jules Feiffer will among 70 authors on hand for the event on Sep. 25, 2010. Full details […]
Remember the story line that had Peter Parker returning to a bachelor as if he had never married Mary Jane? The scenario in the comic book was mirrored in the comic strip (though the newspaper version brought Peter out of a dream five months later). Next week’s Spider-Man comic book picks up and reveals that […]
The 2009 Harvey Awards Nominees have been announced. Here they are. Details on the award at end of post.BEST WRITER Jason Aaron, “SCALPED”, Vertigo/DC Comics Geoff Johns, “BLACKEST NIGHT”, DC Comics Robert Kirkman, “THE WALKING DEAD”, Image Comics Jeff Kinney, “DIARY OF A WIMPY KID #3: THE LAST STRAW”, Amulet Books Mark Waid, “IRREDEEMABLE”, BOOM! […]