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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Earlier this year, the original “red band” trailer for David Fincher’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo was “leaked” online. Pretty soon, it was sniffed out for what it was – a marketing ploy by Sony (or perhaps Fincher and his cohort, but I’d expect the studio were at least complicit).
And they’re at it again.
/film received a link to Mouth Taped Shut, a Tumblr containing images and video from the closed sets and editing room in which the film has been constructed. There’s nothing on here that will spoil the film in any respect, and it’s obviously all been very carefully stage managed.
There’s a serious effort going on to surround this film with a certain ambience, a kind of punkiness and an anti-corporate position that belies its multi-million dollar budget and subtitle-fleeing remake status.
I’m not sure if we’ve seen any more of this film so far than lifestyle porn and posture. From where I’m looking, this mock-rebellious marketing is just dull fog in front of the film itself.
Big films cost big bucks and have expensive marketing campaigns and this one’s no different – the PR and marketing crews just seem to be pretending that’s not the case at all. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo is, no matter what else it turns out to be, a hugely expensive but exploitable commodity that a multinational corporation will be looking to monetize in every way they can. It’s like a Kit Kat or an iPhone or pair of Dr. Martens boots.
It’s a Che Guevera T-shirt from a high street store.
Of course, wearing Che Guevera on your chest might be a sincere, and potentially even very powerful, personal statement…
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…
