According to an article on pinknews.co.uk (Europe?s Largest Gay News Network), Action Comics writer Grant Morrison says the Batman character is gay. “Gayness is built into Batman,” he said, adding, “I’m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay. There’s just no denying it. Obviously as a fictional character he’s […]
News from IDW: One of the most famous comic-strip characters of all time appears in new comic-book adventures starting this week. Popeye the Sailor, created by E.C. Segar and first appearing in the comic strip “Thimble Theatre” in January 1929, is starring in new comic-book stories from IDW Publishing.
Mark Waid, a former Editor-In-Chief of BOOM! Studios, crunches the numbers to print and distribute your comic to comic book stores. Probably not a big revelation to this audience but interesting nonetheless. So…Diamond. Typically, a non-Premier publisher sells its wares to Diamond at 40-45% of cover price. Let?s say 40%. You?re one of those publishers. […]
Hefei University of Technology has developed software that uses facial recognition to analyze movies to produce a comic book based on the movie.Developed at the Hefei University of Technology, in China, the clever tech will first of all analyse a film, identify the characters via facial recognition, and then start taking screen-grabs of the action. […]
The Joe Palooka comic strip is back, but not in newspapers. According to CBS News boxing announcer Joe Antonacci has purchased the rights to the character and is reworking the boxing champion character into a “mixed martial arts fighter” to be released as comic books. You can see the samples of the comic book online.The […]
The conservative group One Million Moms has demanded in a letter that Toys ‘R’ Us remove all Just Married – Archie comic books from their stores. In the issue the character Kevin Keller (the comic’s first gay character) gets married to his partner.The letter posted on Media Bistro:As a mother and a member of OneMillionMoms.com, […]
The Daily Mail reports that a strange spider-web like substance has been found on nuclear waste containers stored under water at the Savannah River Site nuclear facility. The idea of some radioactive biological substance brings to mind Peter Parker who gained his super spider abilities by being bitten by a radioactive spider.Experts say that any […]
Heritage Auction will be auctioning off several highly prized pieces of comic art next month including on original Calvin & Hobbes cover art for Bill Watterson’s 1989-1990 18-month calendar that is expected to fetch more than $50,000. Due to Watterson’s reclusiveness and that he kept most of his artwork to himself, the few originals that […]
Giving evidence that bad news comes in threes: Joe Simon, who co-created Captain America with Jack Kirby, has passed away at age 98. From AP News:For Timely, the duo created Captain America, debuting on the cover of “Captain America Comics” No. 1 with the champion of liberty throwing a solid right-hook at Adolf Hitler in […]
Eduardo Barreto, the former artist for the Judge Parker serial comic strip has passed away at the age of 57. He took over Judge Parker from Harold LeDoux in 2006 but had to end his association with the strip in 2010 after contracting meningitis. Previous to Judge Parker, he worked on several comic books such […]
Jerry Robinson, perhaps best known for creating Batman’s famous enemy The Joker, has passed away at the age of 89. From Comic Book Resources: Over the course of his early years in comics, Robinson proved a creative and social dynamo, moonlighting as a comics artist on projects such as the infamous “created in one night” […]
Cartoonist Steven Busti claims he drew a comic called Cowboys and Aliens back in 1994 and is now suing the producers and studio of the 2011 movie of the same name that starred Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde.From TMZ: So the question — Did the producers know about Busti before they penned the […]
The first Action Comics featuring Superman sold at auction for a record $2.16 million. It is reportedly the same comic book that was stolen from Nicholas Cage a decade ago and turned up in a storage shed earlier this year.From Michael Cavna:The near-mint-condition copy of Action Comics No.-1 easily beat the record of about $1.5-million […]
A fund-raiser has started to raise an initial $30,000 to open a museum in New York City for Jack Kirby.If Stan Lee is the George Lucas of comic books, then Jack Kirby is the medium’s Spielberg. Born Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917, the artist was honoured by his family and fans in 2005 with the Jack […]
Boom! Studios has announced that the following artists will be working on the Charlie Brown comic book: Vicki Scott, Paige Braddock, Shane Houghton and Matt Whitlock. The press release notes that the first issue will be “written and drawn by Charles Schulz” with additional stories by the above mentioned artists.They’ve produced a teaser comic book […]