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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KevinWatch: Everyone’s talking Archie! The Daily Mail, Huffington, Tim, Fox News… it’s going to get busy!
MooreWatch: Alan Moore on sexism in comics in the eighties.
Miss Arrowette would reduce gangs of criminals to spluttering, coughing helplessness by engulfing them in clouds of talc from her ‘Powder-Puff Arrow’. Batgirl would dazzle villains by reflecting the sun’s rays from the mirror contained in her Bat-Compact. Supergirl, a being of strength approximate to that of Superman himself and thus able to push planets out of orbit without working up a sweat, would spend her time either frolicking with Supercat or Superhorse, or maybe falling in love with the young men from the bottle city of Kandor who would always turn out to be villains who wanted to use her in order to revenge themselves of Superman.
AxeWatch: A “graphic novel” launches from Axe perfume and Arcana Comics tomorrow.
CookeWatch: A look ahead at the next Parker volume from IDW and Darwyn Cooke.
AmericaWatch: The Kyoto International Manga Museum in Japan has a new exhibition, Manga Style: North America, looking at how certain comic creators used manga stylings – Felipe Smith, Svetlana Chmakova and Takeshi Miyazawa. The exhibition runs until early February.
SagaWatch: Bryan K Vaughan talks (very little) to USA Today about his new comic with Fiona Staples, Saga.
You’ll get a nice mixture of some bounty hunters, monsters and all sorts of lovely threats.
FictionWatch: Lee Budgie Barnett starts a new Fast Fiction challenge on Whitechapel.
AndBeDamnedWatch: The harsh realities of self publishing comic books.
The thing was that it was measurable and predictable. You could draw a graph with the curve heading toward the floor and make a serious plan of running your book into the ground within a specific number of years, months and weeks.
KickstarterWatch: Crowdsourcing is the new patron of the arts.
The money frees Walsh to work on the pages of the online comic, which he said will take him a couple of more months to finish. “Go Home Paddy” follows Paddy Brennan, an Irishman drawn to resemble 19th century caricatures of the Irish, who arrives in Boston in 1847, at the height of the Irish Potato Famine.
“It’s already written,” he said. “But it’s time-consuming. After you’ve written it, you still have to draw it.”
Fifty-six backers gave Walsh $5,800, where previously he’d have needed to get an advance from a publisher — not very likely after the Great Recession. He said crowdsourcing is evolving into a new business model for writers and artists.
StripWatch: Doonesbury takes on Newt Gingrich, and goes for the Google jugular. A nation is now one search away from “Kip Carter”…
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…
