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Jon Landau Talks Titanic 3D, And After A Preview Of The Footage, So Do I
"It's a creative process." Landau believes that the only reason way to convert a film to 3D is to have the director himself stand up and decide that it's something he wants to do. Landau also reiterated past comments that Cameron might return to convert some of his other films to 3D a few years down[...]
Be Patriotic On C-Day With Crossed
As part of "C-Day" on March 14th, Avatar are reissuing Crossed #0 as Crossed C-Day edition entitled Crossed: Get Infected, to be given away or used in promotions by stores to promote the new twice-monthly Crossed: Badlands series And it's getting the terribly patriotic image above. They are also issuing "survival kits" for stores containing Crossed[...]
Ferals #1 by David Lapham and Gabriel Andrade – Avatar Plug Of The Week
Lapham has been carving out a bloody niche for himself at Avatar Press with his work on three Crossed spin-off projects (Family Values, 3D, and Psychopath) and the Caligula miniseries, and the ongoing FERALS series promises to deliver a healthy dose of crime noir drama to go along with its big helpings of gore and[...]
Do You Dare Vote In The 2011 Horror Comic Awards?
Oh look, a comic book award that Bleeding Cool publisher Avatar Press has a shot at actually winning. The Third Annual Horror Comic Awards, voting open until the end of the year Here are the nominees Oh look I accidentally listed the Avatar nominees in bold red. Writer of the Year Mike Mignola on Hellboy Joe Hill on Locke[...]
Garth Ennis And Jacen Burrows Bring You Crossed Twice A Month – And Launch C-Day!
The post-not-quite-a-zombie apocalypse story that has taken the very worst things that humans do to each other, and made it the norm. And from the original creators of the Avatar series, Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, comes Crossed: Badlands Telling stories of Crossed all over the world, and starting with the story of a young Englishman,[...]
Lady Death For Free Comic Book Day 2012
Well now (through hush hush sources that you'd never guess) I can tell you that Boundless/Avatar will have their first FCBD offering for May, Lady Death: The Beginning. Written by Brian Pulido and Mike Wolfer, drawn by Marcelo Mueller with a cover (below) by Jason Eden, it's a full colour 40 page comic, for free, collecting[...]
Going Feral: An Interview With Gabriel Andrade
Gabriel Andrade is the artist on the upcoming Ferals series written by David Lapham from Avatar Keith Davidsen talked to Gabril for Bleeding Cool… Keith Davidsen: What were your thoughts on the work you'd be doing for FERALS when you received the script for issue #1? Gabriel Andrade: First I thought: "Finally I will[...]
Ferals – A Very Nasty Comic By David Lapham
So William Christensen, publisher of Avatar Press and Bleeding Cool, asks me if I'd like to look at the first issue of Ferals, coming out in January by David Lapham and Gabriel Andrade He tells me that the comic is his favourite thing he's read of David's work so far And that he's onto the[...]
Frank Miller Vs Alex Cox On OWS… And Robocop
But a few years ago, Avatar Press published a comic book version of the Frank Miller screenplay, adapted by Steven Grant and Juan Jose Ryp, with covers by Frank A work that the Guardian chose not to feature… possibly because it might interfere with the narrative. And indeed, as Cox recalls, Robocop is pitted against homeless[...]
Nine Page Preview Of David Lapham's Ferals, Plus Various Other Entrails
Ferals is the new big book from Avatar Press shipping in January and they are expecting, well, for it to be the next Crossed. Retailer orders close for the first issue next Thursday (a happy lycanthropic Thanksgiving to you all) so they are releasing this nine page preview, pitch by David Lapham and a bunch of[...]
Avatar Plug Of The Week: Warren Ellis' Captain Swing TPB
Warren Ellis and Raulo Caceres' Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island, out in softcover and hardcover from Avatar Press tomorrow Here's the solicits… From the sparking-mad mind of Warren Ellis, the creator of TRANSMETROPOLITAN and PLANETARY, comes an electrical romance of a pirate utopia thwarted!  In the London[...]
Talking To Ken Meyer Jr About Warren Ellis' Atmospherics
In January, Avatar will publish a new colour edition of Atmospherics, a graphic novel by Warren Ellis and Ken Meyer Jr about an alien abductee – or a serial killer In addition to the color softcover edition, there's a hardcover edition that's limited to only 1,000 copies – and each of these individual copies[...]
Boundless Plug Of The Week – Lady Death #11
And it looks as if a certain Lady Death will be showing, well, even more than Catwoman gets away with, in her new Avatar comi, issue 11, out today From all good, and some bad, comic stores Have a preview. LADY DEATH #11 by Brian Pulido, Mike Wolfer and Gabriel Andrade. Lady Death's quest for the only[...]
How Avatar Guerilla Markets Crossed At Hallowe'en Parties
This is Keith Davidsen, Avatar's Director of Sales and Marketing And in a series of videos, he shows us the extremes he will go to, to promote the comic book Crossed By dressing up as them, going to Hallowe'en parties, and talking to people about Crossed And taking posters with him too. Next year, he'll do[...]
Ennis And Ellis – Avatar Plug Of The Week
Tomorrow sees a new Garth Ennis book from Avatar, Stitched #1 with Mike Wolfer And from Warren Ellis, the last issue of  Captain Swing And The Electrical Pirates Of Cindery Island #4 with Raulo Caceres. Here's a preview of Stitched; Here are the promo bits to entertain, dazzle and excite! Stitched #1 – Garth Ennis and Mike Wolfer[...]
Talking To David Lapham About Ferals, His New Avatar Comic
David Lapham and Gabriel Andrade have a new series from Avatar out in January 2012 As you can tell it's about werewoves – except it's not quite More like in the manner that Crossed is not a zombie book… Keith Davidsen talked to David Lapham about the book for Bleeding Cool. With the success of[...]
Neonomicon Not Cancelled In The UK
This week, UK retailers received the news that Diamond UK had cancelled the Neonomicon TPB and hardcover, collecting the series by Alan Moore and Jacen
Avatar's Other Plug Of The Week: Neonomicon HC and TPB by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
Alan Moore's Neonomicon by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows is published by Avatar today for $19.99 Hardcover for $27.99 As well as the series, it also contains the original Courtyard adaptation by Anthoiny Johnston and Jacen Burrows years before Neonomicon was published. Brears and Lamper, two young and cocky FBI agents, investigate a fresh series of[...]
New York Comic Con Sold Out For The Weekend… Except When It's Not
Odds are they will be a bit on the scarce side as well. Well, the owner of Bleeding Cool, William Christensen on Avatar would like me to point out that there are Avatar VIP ticket sets still available, with hundreds of dollars worth of swag and including tickets to the show for the weekend All that[...]
NYCC Debut: Neonomicon TPB by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
Title: Neonomicon TPB Creators: Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows Publisher: Avatar Comics Available: Booth #1930 High concept: What if the horrorific fantasies of HP Lovecraft were far more than that, and reflective of another reality – and one that FBI agents find themselves both investigating, and being investigated by A horror story worthy of the name, and from a[...]
Avatar Call For Open Submissions On Sunday At NYCC
Are you coming to NYCC? Want to get in comics? Might you consider Avatar as part of that? Editor in Chief, William Christensen and Managing Editor, Jim Kuhoric will be accepting submissions at New York Comic Con from 10am to 11am on the Sunday of the show While they won't be going through the books[...]
Whitechapel Challenge: Spurt Hammond
The “Remake/Remodel” challenge, founded by Warren Ellis, gives artists of all abilities the opportunity to show-off what they can do in the midst of the