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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Okay, I can only go to so many panels. So what else has been going on?
The Stan Lee Archie panel was conveniently right next to the Milo Manara panel. Hope no one went into the wrong show.
Not only does Stan Lee have one of the heavier panel schedules of San Diego Comic Con, but he also had to have emergency dental work today, that made him a couple of minutes late for his Stan Lee Archie panel. Man…
IDW are to continue the Next Men series by John Byrne, put on hiatus last century, and which they have been reprinting of late.
Yanick Paquette is to work with Grant Morrison on Batman Inc.
A Contract With God by Will Eisner is being made into a movie.
IDW have also confirmed the Rocketeer Anthology, with creators including Kurt Busiek, Michael Golden, Bill Willingham, Mike Allred, John Cassaday, Darwyn Cooke, Gene Ha, Michael Kaluta, Garry Leach, Bruce Timm and more. With Alex Ross on covers… and just look at that cover!
Top Cow is bringing back Minotaur Press for what it calls “more independent-styled series” and what we call “comics with women in comfortable clothing”.
These include Echoes by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Rahsan Ekedal, Last Mortal by Filip Sablik and John Mahoney with art by The Flying Friar’s Thomas Nachlik.
And Top Cow’s Pilot Season project will return with six new books,
Forever by Matt Hawkins, Brad Ingelsby and Thomas Nachlik, 39 Minutes by William Harms and Jerry Landon, Crosshair by Marc Silvestri, Jeff Katz and Allan Jefferson, The Asset by Filip Sablk and David Marquez, Midway Earth by MArc Silvestri and David Wohl, 7 Days from Hell by Bryan Edward Hill, Rob Levin, and Brian Stelfreeze.
Top Cow also gives a new home for Rest, which has left Devil’s Due. Jason Rubin will write Mysterious Ways with Tyler Kirkham
Stan Lee’ Airwalker will be teased in next week’s episode of Entourage.
And Simon Rohrmuller (Watchmensch) and I received a lot of interest in The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne. It almost seemed too easy…
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…
