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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SoldierWatch I: From Vertigo creators’ favourite covers;
Favorite cover? It’s a tie- Dave Johnson’s 100 BULLETS cover for the Once Upon a Crime trade paperback and issue #98 of 100 Bullets! Graphic, incredible and iconic! Dave Johnson is the best cover artist out in comicsland!” –Jill Thompson,
From Dave Johnson’s on the cancellation of Unknown Soldier;
It will also end a 13 year cover streak with DC comics. That’s right, for 13 years there hasn’t been a month gone by without one of my covers on some book that DC was publishing. But with nothing on the horizon (that I feel right for, cover wise) the streak will end. It makes me a bit sad. But Marvel keeps throwing more and more covers my way, so I won’t have time to be sad for long.
SoldierWatch II: Joshua Dysart has been twittering about the cancellation. He tweets;
The gig is, literally, up. Since Rich Johnson posted the news yesterday that Unknown Soldier will end with #25 I’ve been swamped with loving emails from readers. The outpouring of affection and praise has been amazing. Thank you. The book may not have moved “enough” of you to keep it alive, but it moved enough of you for me. Thank you. I promise the book will end in an awesome, natural way and that when read in trades, will feel like it was always meant to conclude this way. I’ve been preparing for this cancellation for a while and have had plenty of time to sing it out right. I actually really, really like the way the series is going to end and feel like it should end this way. Keep reading! Five more issues!
For two years we executed a comic that flirted with both pulp nonsense & real-life genocidal truth. As far as I’m concerned, we won. “If you’re gonna tell the truth, you better make them laugh. Otherwise they’ll kill you.” US wasn’t a funny enough book about genocide. My next book will be called WISE CRAKIN’ PROTAGONIST! Featuring a sassy talking puppy who experiences first hand the human sex trafficking trade.
CyborgWatch: Salon looks at a pace maker wearer’s reaction to the Iron Man movies and comics.
my current crop of students don’t hesitate to interrupt class to point it out. “I can see your pacemaker now,” they call out. But at least it’s not as noticeable as Tony Stark’s, which often glows blue through his form-fitting black T-shirt
SnowyWatch: As the Tintin auction expects to raise millions, Tintin’s home of Belgium looks to whther to ban the, shall we say, culturally insensitive Tintin In The Congo at the end of the month.
The original printing of Tintin in the Congo showed Tintin, a reporter for Belgium’s Le Petit Vingtieme, teaching a Congolese classroom about the wonders of Belgium. Revisions were later made to show him teaching mathematics. The offensive illustrations remain
SecretWarsWatch: Mike Choi and Brian Bendis appear to have had a bit of an online bust up, involving writers’ retreats, insulting writers, and basically biting hands that feed. However all threads and posts appear to have been deleted – and too soon for google caches.
ToyWatch: Dr Brain figures from Raje Toys, launching at Bristol Comic Con this weekend. Charlie Adlard’s band played last night as well…
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…
