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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This was rather unexpected, but I do get it.
Morgan Spurlock, the man who made his name by gorging on McDonalds’ meals for Supersize Me and has just completed a documentary about Comic-Con, has come over to the UK and gotten himself a TV show, Morgan Spurlock’s New Britannia.
I was canvassed to see if I wanted tickets, and here’s the pitch I was given:
Morgan Spurlock’s New Britannia is a brand new exciting entertainment show from Sky Atlantic where the award-winning & Oscar nominated US filmmaker focuses on life in modern Britain seen from an American point of view.
Morgan’s here to help us take an honest look at ourselves, what we do really well, what we don’t do so well and he’ll have plenty of fun along the way.
He’ll be joined in the studio by top celebrities, a live band and comics from both sides of the Atlantic (Russell Kane, Dave Fulton, Howard Marks and Rich Hall) with plenty to say about US/UK relations and the good and bad in both countries.
As part of the audience you may well get a chance to let us what you think as well. So come and join us for laughs, strong opinion, odd facts, occasional weirdness and more laughs after that.
Well, you surprised me, Spurlock, I’ll give you that.
If you want to book tickets, the filming sessions are on the 5th, the 9th and the 10th of January. And I expect a full report on my desk by 9am the following morning.
From the inclusion of Howard Marks on the list of guests I’m sure that drug use is on the agenda. The health service is probably a bit of a no-brainer too. But what else would help illuminate differences between the UK and the US? All I’m coming up with right now is:
Can you do any better?
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…
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Welcome to the Justice League Of Hanna Barbera, by Brazilian artist Daniel HDR. Can’t Boom just buy the rights and make this happen?
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