His name is Everett Watford. He is seventeen years old. He is putting on a comic convention in Chicago. He says; My goal is to showcase independent comic book creators and people trying to break into the business primarily from Chicago. I plan to have artists booths to showcase their wares and a pre-party to have…
Here are a few of the things Marvel has got planned to help promote the Avengers Vs X-Men crossover through the summer. And do you know what? I think it might just work. Avengers Vs X-Men #1 is a new reader jumping on point, for those unfamiliar with the current Marvel universe. Possibly obvious, but…
This is the planned artwork for Archie Comics #635 in July, leaked to Bleeding Cool. As earlier rumoured, it will tell the story of the global protest against massively unequal redistrubution of wealth and power, under the title Occupy Riverdale, echoing the Occupy movements present around the world. This continued the further progressive storylines from…
Grace Randolph, as well as looking at tomorrow’s comics today, takes on Benderspink’s blatantly open plans to use Arcana to publish comic books as a way to get Hollywood interested in their ideas… as well as evangelising for the medium of comics. Get your injection of Grace Randolph’s Stacktastic, half of her Think About The…
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SuitWatch: Siegel/Schuster representing lawyer Marc Toberoff has responded to the Warners suit against him. His office states;
Warner and Mr. Petrocelli are aware that the frivolous allegations in their complaint do not add up and will never pass muster in the federal courts. However, that’s not the point of their lawsuit. Warner and Petrocelli’s objective is to “muddy the waters” by attacking Mr. Toberoff, potentially conflict him out of the case, and thereby strong-arm the Siegels and Shusters into selling at a cut-rate price the copyrights they have legitimately recaptured. Such unethical tactics are nothing short of deplorable.
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Ironically, Petrocelli, who destroyed the valuable Winnie the Pooh case based on the plaintiff’s use of documents stolen from a Disney dumpster, now purports to rely on privileged documents stolen from Mr. Toberoff’s law offices under very suspicious circumstances.
LobbyWatch: Dan Archer takes on the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in comic book form.
LoliWatch: Fox News is claiming a scalp over Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. They reported multiple Wikipedia entries with pornographic imagery, including that for Japanese manga genre lolicon with drawings of underage sex. After Fox News asked prominent Wikipedia donors for their reaction to these images being accessed by anyone with access to Wikipedia, Wales attempted to remove images. But after a user rebellion, Wales has decided to give up his administrator priveleges for the entire site and now cannot remove the images in question, leaving the running of Wikipedia in chaos.
StarWatch: Dark Horse Comics is producing an original graphic novel adaptation of the game Star Wars: Force Unleashed II. Written by Force Unleashed creator Haden Blackman and drawn by Mass Effect‘s Omar Francia. It’s out in early October, while the game ships a few weeks later. Its page count (88 pages) does smack of being a repurposed four issue mini-series however.
SecondDoctorWatch: What do you do when you have Dr Who license rights for your range of ice popsicles but can’t get Patrick Troughton in to make a TV ad? You just have some anonymous figure with a stupid hat covering his face…
Courtesy of Midtown Comics‘ listings and skipping the trades, here’s a look at the Marvel solicitations for May 2012. One word of warning, the credits on these do get mixed up, especially when there are double shipping issues – and there are a lot of those this month. But those pictures sure are pretty. AGE…
We already showed you what the DC Free Comic Book Day retailer customizable version would look like. Now we have the Marvel version, only available to retailers who order vast quantities. It’s intended to be used in mailshots or attached inside local newspapers, or given away in mass drives, each copy featuring the details of…
FastCoCreate has a new interview with Alan Moore talking about Watchmen – accompanied by the first art from Darwyn Cooke from the Minutemen book. It seems an odd article for DC Comics to have agreed to provide such artwork for, as negative as it is, including such paragraphs as; More recently, Moore says some lawyers…
Welcome to the Justice League Of Hanna Barbera, by Brazilian artist Daniel HDR. Can’t Boom just buy the rights and make this happen?
Neal Adams writes for Bleeding Cool, about Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich; Fellow creators, we can help Gary Friedrich without taking any kind of position in his case with Marvel. Gary is sick, and he’s about to lose his house, and though he will tell you he is not destitute, he needs help. If I…
This is the cover to Aquaman #7 by Ivan Reis and Joe Prado, the first part of the two part story “The Other League” by Geoff Johns. And from the solicits for issues 7 and 8… Who destroyed Atlantis? In the start of a new storyline, we follow the hunter as he stalks and kills…
