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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CEO Bob Iger today chaired a Disney shareholders meeting and while I don’t have all of the details yet, Bleeding Cool has been sent a few partial accounts of what went down, with more to follow.
It seems to be an annual occurrence that somebody asks Iger about The Song of the South, the long-shelved Disney pic accused in some quarters of being racist because it portrays a happy slave* getting along all fine and dandy with his master. And, yes, this is a year with a nine or a two in it, so Iger has had to field another enquiry on the same. His response? That it wouldn’t be “right” to use “studio resources” to release the film.
Hmmm. So it’s better to hide it and, if you’d excuse the term, splash a little white wash on the history of Disney, at the same time as keeping a very interesting movie, and one that’s arguably not racist at all, perhaps only rather naive, out of the public’s reach? I’m not sure I agree with that.
Meanwhile, Iger also identified something else that we won’t be seeing anytime soon: The Incredibles 2. Or Finding Nemo 2. Or Rata2ouille. According to Iger, while Pixar have several films in development for after Monsters Inc. 2, none of them are sequels.
So, it’s a good news, bad news kind of day, rough coming with the smooth.
*Okay, forum folk, “former slave”. I should have been more clear in the first place.
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…
