Awwwww… Jim Lee finished the most recent issue of Justice League #5 just before his new child was born, and while his wife Carla was rather heavily pregnant. He’s written that the new arrival held out until he’d finished his deadline, which was appreciated by all, I’m sure. But what tribute could Jim Lee make…
We know from the publicity that DC Vertigo are publishing graphic novel adaptaions of the Millenium Trilogy, with Denise Mina and Leonardo Manco adapting the first book The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo into two parts. And in April they’ll be publishing a free teaser of the first graphic novel. But Bleeding Cool (alone it…
Recently, Bleeding Cool ran an article on how Marvel were looking to get certain creators out of their exclusive deals with Marvel, in an attempt to save money. And how Ariel Olivetti may have been a good example, locked into a two year excluisve deal with Marvel but suddenly appearing on the rejigged Men Of…
Toy News International ran these scans of images of DC toys and statues for 2012. But did they miss the headline story? Or is it a case of one side of DC not knowing what the other is doing? Because in May 2012, as part of the New 52 Cover Girls Of The DC Universe,…
Are Garry Trudeau, Lynn Johnston, Scott Hilburn, Mark Tatulli really trying to find their own competition? Well, these comic strip creators are amongst the judges in a competition to find a new newspaper comic strip for Universal Press Syndicate, hosted by Amazon. The winner will receive a publishing contract from sponsor Andrews McMeel Publishing, a…
New comics are available from comic stores on Wednesdays in the USA and Canada and Thursdays in the UK. Unless there’s a US holiday which means everything gets delayed a day. Some shops get their comics the day before but they aren’t allowed to sell them until the appointed day. That’s the way things work….
Long standing alternative comics writer Nick Abadzis pens his first Torchwood comic, out this month in the Torchwood magazine, drawn by regular artist Paul Grist. Abadzis is probably best known for his seminal surreal-slice-of-life series Hugo Tate that appeared in Deadline and eventually became an award winning graphic novel. And more recently his graphic novel…
012 The story’s well known, now. Disenchanted with Marvel — with the constraints on his creativity, with not getting his original art back, with Stan bloody Lee and his bloody ocarina (and, perhaps, with Stan Lee suddenly emerging as a pop-culture celebrity, embraced as an intellectual on the college lecture circuit while Jack had to…
The comics charts have been posted, with ICV2 giving their own statistical estimations of sales. So what can we learn? A lot got published this month, including that infamous week of Marvel’s 39 regular titles. Blame it on convention season, blame it on the end of the publishing quarter, blame it on the boogie, but…
The LA Times outs Firas Alkhateeb, a twenty year old student, as the man behind the Obama Joker image that went slightly viral earlier this year. Originally a Photoshopping of a Time Magazine article , it was taken by an unknown activist, the Time references removed and the “socialism” line added… Galactic Tranny by Dan…
Mark Millar uses his Millarworld board for many things, keeping in touch with a fanbase, using them to bounce ideas of, sometimes a crowdsourcing resources, other times a way to announce items free of media interpretation. And evry now and then he runs a Millar Hour, like a live Q&A convention panel, where anyone can…
Neil Gaiman will be directing his second film two weeks time. It will be a ten minute silent movie based on the script he has written as part of a series of silent films to be broadcast in the UK at the end of the year. And most likely torrented twelve seconds after broadcast. It’s…
Midnight, Mass, the little Vertigo comic that couldn’t, has been picked up as a TV show, Midnight, by NBC from Warner Bros. The original comic was published in 2002 with a tumultuous birth. Green lit as an ongoing series, by John Rozum, Jesus Saiz and Jimmy Palmiotti and it was suddenly reduced to an eight…
Puffin books adapt the popular Bengali detective better known as Pradosh Chandra Mitter, Feluda, created by Satyajit Ray into graphic novels, the first published this month by children’s author Subhadra Sen Gupta and illustrator Tapas Guha, Beware in the Graveyard and A Bagful of Mysteries. Gupta writes how the project originally began in a serialised…
One of the things I do is read other people’s scripts and manuscripts to assess whether they’re suitable for production or publication. The biggest test every story has to pass is “Why Should We Care?” And it’s the test that writers forget more than any other. Why should we care about the characters in a…
Stray Bullets and Young Liars creator, David Lapham, appears to be writing a comic book mini-series for Wildstorm based on the upcoming and much awaited first person wartime shooter, Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The comic is called Modern Warfare 2: Ghost, according to game developer Infinity Ward‘s community manager Robert Bowling. He posted a…
Below you’ll see a photo of a poster, hanging on a bus shelter. It was taken by Little Bleeder Ian, who wondered: I don’t know if this is genuine viral marketing or just a bunch of students. You can see a #believeinsherlock hashtag on the bottom right hand corner. I went to Twitter and searched…
The above is a commission by Frank Miller, recreating the splash page from The Dark Knight, below, for one Felix Lu. Such a detailed commission from Miller, it would be quite a rarity these days and rather expensive. Albeit not quite as expensive as buying the original art, recently selling for almost half a million…
Here’s an orderly and dependable plot blurb for The Amazing Spider-Man, as issued by Sony and piling up across the net (and in my inbox) like wildfire right now. There may not be any bombshells in here, but the strands come together pretty clearly. You know – like a web. The Amazing Spider-Man is the…
The last time I remember reading a Legend Of Zelda comic was back in the nineties, from Valiant Comics before they decided to move into superheroes. There’s were also a few manga books tied into specific game releases but no US licenced comics for quite some time. This could change if Joe Madueira gets his…
He’s done gangbusters for DC Comics, taking C-list character Animal Man, whose return to the DC Universe from DC Vertigo had been lacklustre at best, and turned him into a surprise critical and commercial hit as part of the DC New 52. So it’s only natural that DC might tap him for any other bright…
I would assume that the success of The Lord of the Rings and the huge interest in The Hobbit, not to mention the extraordinary, eight-film success of the Harry Potter series, would encourage Warner Bros. to look seriously into all of their similar options, but the studio has not to move ahead with a long-developing…
