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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ImageWatch: While a number of Image Comic books are available digitally, there hasn’t been a linewide approach. This has now changed with the announcement of Image Comics and Comixology getting in bed together for their own Image Comics App. Initially with Savage Dragon, Chew, Battle Pope and Youngblood, expect to see Haunt joining the device shortly. You know, I’d happily let them put Chase Variant on that thing.
99cWatch: If Apple are to start releasing TV episodes for 99 cents, how long will the comics industry be able to sell digital comic books for $2.99 or $3.99? Could this even kill off the comic book $1.99 price point? For older comics, will it be 99c uber alles?
99cWatch2: Did you know the Pocket God comic book has sold three million copies at 99 cents each on the iPhone and iPad? Making it the best selling digital comic book in the world? Food for thought.
TiltWatch: Laura Hudson trials a new reader on the iPad that uses spatial distance to affect the viewing performance when reading a comic, such as The First Witch. A bit like the devices used in Kieron Gillen’s Curfew.
MoneyWatch: Advertisers line up! It’s time to start making money by plying your wares on digital comic books.
BOOM! Studios Marketing Director Chip Mosher added he’s also had some early discussions with advertisers, but suggested that the entire industry is understandably proceeding with caution. “I certainly think that digital comics have the potential to be ‘stickier’ for advertisers than traditional print, but digital comics are in its infancy right now, so there is no way to be sure at this point,” he said.
ListWatch: Comixology add the following new series to its various digital Apps;
Green Arrow #1-3
Jeremiah Harm #1-2
Deadpool #1-7
The Death-Defying Devil #1-2
Starcraft #1-7
Magician Apprentice Riftwar Saga #1-3
High Rollers #1-2
The Hammer #1
And new issues of existing series.
Irredeemable #15
Voltron: A Legend Forged #3-4
Captain America #43-45
Y: The Last Man #4
Challenger Deep #3-4
Ultimate Iron Man #2-5
Planetary #12
Carnivale de Robotique #2
Justice League: Generation Lost #8
Hunter’s Fortune #3-4
Marvel Adventures Iron Man #5
Superman/Batman #25
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #11
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man #5
Safe Inside #3
Ultimate X-Men #4-6
Sandman #10
New X-Men #117-119
JLA #6
Witchblade #18-19
Batman #669
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…
