Kochalka’s FF
The Beat |
2 minutes ago
Offered without context..James Kochalka’s retelling of of FF #9, page 17:
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To Do 8/21: Doctorow/Spooky
The Beat |
2 minutes ago
Cory Doctorow Meets DJ Spooky: A CBLDF Benefit Mashup! Sadly we’ll be out of town, or we’d be there in a flash.
Bear Creek Apartments
The Beat |
2 minutes ago
A new comic by Larson/O’Malley! Bear Creek Apartments. And there was great rejoicing! And server crashing apparently.
Yen 4-koma, Takahashi talks, Thorn translates
Check out this week’s PWCW, where I talk to Kurt Hassler of Yen Press about that company’s recent 4-koma binge, and I also interview Charlie “Spike” Trotman about her webcomic Templar, Arizona. It’s not manga, but very cool anyway. Also very interesting is Laura Hudson’s look at the digital comics landscape. I got an iPod Touch this weekend—they threw it in for free with the MacBook we bought for our daughter—so I’ll finally be checking out that particular corner of the [...]
PR: Takehiko Inoue titles from Viz
I picked up Real at the comics shop last week, and it looks great—and this is coming from someone so sports-impaired that I was standing on a baseball diamond last week and had to ask someone which was third base. Anyway, Viz is going long on Takehiko Inoue; check out the assortment of manga and art books that are coming our way. VIZ MEDIA ANNOUNCES THE DEBUT OF NEW WORKS FROM FAMED MANGA ARTIST TAKEHIKO INOUE INCLUDING SLAM DUNK and REAL [...]
Dave McKean wows Edinburgh Book Festival
Forbidden Planet Blog |
1 hour ago
“‘T’was a dark and stormy night, The rain the heaviest I’d seen, And yet in their dozens they came, To see Mister Dave McKean. He gave us all visuals to delight And soon we forgot the wet, chilly night.” Apologies, I’ve been looking over some old William McGonagle poetry again, I should know better at my age… But it was indeed a dark and stormy night, more like October than August, our unpredictable weather switching sudden deluges on and off like [...]
Failure
London Loves Comics |
1 hour ago
Several months of harassment later...A moment of clarity...Sadly it doesn't last...Ah, the 50s!Scans from Secret Hearts #57, April/May 1955 reprinted in Heart Throbs: The Best of DC Romance Comics, 1979. Purchased for 59p from Hackney Oxfam. Yay!
Aug. 20, 2008: The turn of Nagraj
“That new Kramers Ergot looks sort of interesting, but I bet it’s no Toupydoops.” - Dick Hyacinth Above the Fold [Top Story] Gerry Alanguilan sounds the warning bell on a proposed censorship law in the Philippines: “As an artist, this is a bill that gravely concerns me because it has the potential to seriously curtail not only my freedoms as an artist, but my the ability to make my own choices as a mature, intelligent and moral human being.” [...]
MGM Options British online comic for TV series
downthetubes.net |
3 hours ago
Seizing an opportunity to leverage the current wave of popularity and notoriety surrounding the new digital graphic novel sensation The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore, MGM Domestic Television Distribution has acquired an option to develop the Factory Publishing property created, produced and directed by British photographer and author Howard Webster as a possible television series. "The Many Worlds of Jonas Moore is an exciting digital graphic novel that's creating quite a sensation abroad," said Chris Ottinger, MGM's Executive Vice President of [...]
Wimsey Wednesday - 26. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, part one
Zarjaz Journal |
3 hours ago
The fourth of Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey novels is 1928's The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club and concerns the deaths of an elderly veteran and, separately, his estranged sister on the tenth anniversary of the World War One Armistice. It's a terrific book, and I'm certain that anybody who came to it without the odd circumstances of my first reading would enjoy it even more than I do. You see, in the early 1990s, when I first started reading Sayers, I [...]
12,000 To 1
Fortress Of Fortitude |
5 hours ago
Frederic Wertham and Estes Kefauver tried their best to get lurid comics out of the hands of children and into the garbage bin, but the medium still managed to limp along until it found its second wind with DC’s - and ultimately, Marvel’s - rediscovery of super-heroes. Even a publisher like Harvey, which published some of the wildest horror dcomics out there, stayed afloat with kids comics and a few neutered “thriller” titles. Alarming Tales #5 was one such title, [...]
Things that I have found inside other things.
Inside this issue of The Comic Reader #45 (Jan. 1966):...I found this letter from the then-new editor, hoping to pick up a new subscriber:Inside this issue of The Barks Collector #34 (Summer 1986):...I found this note to retailers, detailing wholesale costs and information:Mixed in with a pile of AMRA: Swordplay & Sorcery fanzines, of which this copy of issue #70 from 1982 is a sample):...I found this rejection postcard:This person just got told he wasn't good enough to be an amateur. [...]
Yesterday
MSP#36: The Matthew Sturges Interview
Major Spoilers |
Aug 19, 2008 11:45PM
In this outing: The news yas can use! The comic book reviews! The Statue of Bruce! Kirk and Han’s number twos! The Sturges interviews! Tag might make you say “eewwwws!” Beetle’s got the blues! And one listener in ten gets the joke when I say, “Burma Shave.” ShareThis
Paris
Read About Comics |
Aug 19, 2008 09:26PM
Written by Andi WatsonArt by Simon Gage144 pages, black and whitePublished by SLG Publishing For someone who loves most of Andi Watson’s creations, I really have no idea why it’s taken me this long to finally read Paris. It’s been a strange sort of blind spot amidst books like Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day, or Glister. And now that I’ve read it? I must admit that it wasn’t at all what I was expecting from Watson. Juliet is an American [...]
Jews and American Comics
Editor: Paul Buhle Artists: Many and varied Company: The New Press Even the most cursory investigation of the history of American comic books reveals the widespread influence of Jewish creators and businessmen. I’m not overstating things by saying that Jews built comics as we know them today. I’m aware of the major names in that history from past reading, but I’ve never come across a book that focused solely on that Jewish aspect before, so when the publisher sent me this, [...]
100 Bullets #94- A Reason to Keep Reading Comics
Comics Fairplay |
Aug 19, 2008 07:44PM
I just got home and my DCBS order was waiting for me. Jim had pulled out the pile of books, and I immediately ran to my stack and pulled out 100 Bullets. I sank down on the couch and read issue #94.All I can say is "wow".The series is set to end with issue 100, so the writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso have started to reveal bits and pieces. There is a meet up with three old dogs and [...]
Marvel Comics I Liked: Twelve, Iron Man, Mary Jane
Comics Worth Reading |
Aug 19, 2008 07:25PM
I read some Marvel comics this week I enjoyed (even though they came out a week before). Here’s some quick thoughts on them. The Twelve #7 — I’m still enjoying this saga of 40s heroes brought into the modern era. The blend of culture clash and dark secrets becoming known keeps me interested. I hope that all the hints pay off satisfactorily, but in the meantime, I like the characters, especially the reporter narrator who’s trying to keep practicing his profession. [...]
Déjà Vu 13: A Traitor?
The Legion Omnicom |
Aug 19, 2008 06:46PM
Hmmm.... At left, the cover to Jim Shooter's Adventure Comics #346.At right, the cover to Jim Shooter's LSH v5 #48 (Hat tip: Legion World) Note: if you're reading this anywhere besides an RSS feed reader or at the Legion Omnicom at http://adventure247.blogspot.com, it's been posted there without my permission. Please visit the Omnicom instead.
Why Bands Are Better Than Comic Creators
Kleefeld on Comics |
Aug 19, 2008 06:46PM
My band members and I were sitting around after rehearsal the other night, talking about various issues, and one of the things that came up is that we've got a pretty good mix of talent to become a successful area band. Oh, sure, there's musical talent in the group, but that's not what makes a band successful. It's only rock-n-roll, after all, and a huge chunk of songs are simple chord progressions that any moderately talented 14-year-old good pull off. No, [...]
Comic Artist’s Photo Reference: Women and Girls
Comics Worth Reading |
Aug 19, 2008 06:44PM
This reference book, second in a series, focuses on only one gender, but never fear: the Men and Boys volume is coming later this year. Comic Artist’s Photo Reference:Women and GirlsBuy this book And really, given the usual audience for “how to make comics” books, starting with pictures of women makes sense. The promotional material makes clear that they’re aiming at aspiring creators of action comics (promising “superhero poses”), and many of those are male, so they can use themselves as [...]
Detached
Comics Worth Reading |
Aug 19, 2008 06:44PM
James Burns sent me a link to his webcomic Detached, and I liked reading it. It’s about how he was diagnosed and treated for a detached retina. As an artist, the possibility of losing his eyesight was horrific to him, a fear I can definitely relate to. I was intrigued by his story, all the more so because it was true. A comic is a perfect choice to tell the tale, because he can draw what he saw during the ailment [...]
Annotated "Legion of Three Worlds" #1
The Legion Omnicom |
Aug 19, 2008 06:26PM
Starting early, due to the 5-page preview in Newsarama. Finishing up tomorrow night, after I recover from my brain meltdown (as predicted by inker Scott Koblish) from reading pages 6-15.Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,Or close the wall up with rebooted dead!... I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,Straining upon the start. The game's afoot!Follow your spirit; and upon this chargeCry 'Long Live the Legion! Annotate on!' For first appearances and creators of all the characters, [...]
Wonder Woman vs The Argyle Sweater!!
This is just funny!!The Argyle Sweater by Scott HilburnJuly 17, 2008© 2008 Scott Hilburn/Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate
In Stores 8/20
Comics-and-More |
Aug 19, 2008 06:24PM
Here are the books with most potential, shipping to comic shops tomorrow!!! .Pick of the Week.Where Demented Wented: The Art and Comics of Rory Hayes - I was enamored with Rory Hayes's artwork during a gallery show in Chicago a few years ago (put together by Ivan Brunetti). It was beautiful and disturbing, and completely stole the show for me. Up until now, there was nowhere to get your hands on his work, but luckily, the unconquerable Dan Nadel and Glenn [...]
Kirkman/Kochalka/Bianchi
London Loves Comics |
Aug 19, 2008 05:44PM
Good evening chums, much to discuss! What about that Robert Kirkman eh? Blimey! Jacks in Marvel, gets a seat on Image's top table and suddenly he's telling anyone taking their shilling off the big two to pack it in and concentrate on creator owned projects. He also wants DC and Marvel to cut out the disembowelment, evisceration, swearing and sex and concentrate on making comics for kids! Woah, radical stuff. If you haven't heard what he's got to say, then you [...]
