Tag Archives: Dave Gibbons

Watchmen Is $4 On Kindle In The USA

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Rich Johnston

It may look like $13 to us Brits. But in the US, clicking on this link will give you the complete Watchmen for $4 on your Kindle. I think. Try it and let me know… ComiXology aren’t matching, because it …

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Dave Gibbons, Rian Hughes, Garry Leach And More At Image Duplicator, Tonight’s Exhibition Launch Dedicated To Reappropriating The Work Of Roy Lichtenstein

Posted on May 16, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Rian Hughes, holding his copy of the Image Duplicator catalogue, held behind his back. Hughes, designer of comics and much more besides, was one of the major figures behind this exhibition – and a major contributor as well. Reappropriating the …

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Image Duplicator At Orbital – The Best Comic Art Exhibition You’ll See This Year

Posted on May 3, 2013 by Rich Johnston

In a couple of weeks, Orbital Comics in London will be filling its gallery with pieces below, and more, comic book artists re-appropriating the works of Roy Lichtenstein, tracking them back to their original source material and then creating a …

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Colin Firth Ready To Sign Up For Millar And Vaughn’s Secret Service, Aaron Johnson Not

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Brendon Connelly

Using just the same model that brought us Kick-Ass, Matthew Vaughn has co-written an adaptation of Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons’ The Secret Service with Jane Goldman, is funding the project independently, and will set about shooting the thing this Summer and Autumn.

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Fox Locks Down Dave Gibbons and Mark Millar’s Secret Service For 2014 Release

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Mark Seifert

Patrick Dane told you this was likely to happen back in October of last year, and now it looks like Fox has tied a bow on it by fending off a play from Universal. Vaughn has already completed the script …

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Watchmen #1-3 Original Art Covers Sell For A Total Of $216,892.50

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Mark Seifert

The original cover art for Watchmen issues #1-3 by Dave Gibbons have just sold for a total of $216,892.50 at Heritage Auctions. The cover of issue #1 sold for $155,350, the #2 cover sold for $38.837.50, and the #3 cover …

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Rewatching The Watchmen – Tuesday Trending Topics

Posted on January 30, 2013 by Mark Seifert

Watchmen — before, during and after, all in one blog post: Tomorrow, DC Comics published Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #5 by Len Wein and Jae Lee. Wein was one of the three editors of the original Watchmen, with Dick Giordano and Barbara …

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For Sale: Original Art For One Of The Most Iconic Comic Book Covers Ever (Hint: Dave Gibbons, Watchmen)

Posted on January 21, 2013 by Mark Seifert

These things are forever open to debate, but I’m having a hard time coming up with too many cover images from the history of American comics that I’d definitively call more iconic, more memorable, more instantly evocative of what makes …

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Pop Culture Hounding Dave Gibbons And Herb Trimpe In Malta

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Chris Thompson writes; [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This week I take a look back at the absolutely amazing Malta Comic-Con I’ve recently returned from – then Taylor & I discuss some of the gems found there, including …

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The Real Reason Matthew Vaughn Left The X-Men Movie, According To Mark Millar

Posted on November 7, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

The version of events I strongly believe to be true.

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Ben Abernathy Joins Madefire

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Rich Johnston

He was the digital editor at DC Comics, until he mysteriously vanished from the company a couple of weeks ago. Now he has popped up, mentioned in a USA Today puff piece about the innovative digital comics company, Madefire, full …

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DC Comics Announces Before Watchmen: Moloch By JMS And Eduardo Rizzo, And Bill Sienkiewicz Takes Over On Nite Owl

Posted on August 25, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Diana McCallum writes for Bleeding Cool from Fan Expo Canada; At the Before Watchmen panel at Fan Expo Canada, DC Comics have just announced a new two issue mini-series as part of the Before Watchmen project entitled Before Watchmen: Moloch, …

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Did Alan Moore Turn Down Two Million To Bless The Watchmen Prequels?

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Rich Johnston

It’s been rumoured that Dave Gibbons was paid somewhere closer to half a million dollars to, basically “bless” the Before Watchmen prequel series with a couple of sentences. But Alan Moore appears to believe he was offered a lot more. …

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Friday Trending Topics: Dave Gibbons Discussing Before Watchmen

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Mark Seifert

Dave Gibbons discussing Before Watchmen and more: “I didn’t have a lot of input in it. To me anything to do with the movies – as far as I’m concerned, what Alan and I did was the Watchmen graphic novel and …

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Dave Gibbons Dismisses Before Watchmen As “Really Not Canon”

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Rich Johnston

This is Dave Gibbons first comment on Before Watchmen since his words quoted in the DC Press Release that, even then, seemed rather awkwardly – or rather precisely – chosen, so as not to give them any real blessing. Butwhen …

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This Is What Your Rorschach Toast Looks Like

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Once you’ve done Before Watchmen, anything is suddenly morally acceptable. So, from Dynamite Entertainment, here is the Watchmen toaster. I do hope Dynamite’s Nick Barrucci gives his Damsels and Sherlock Holmes writer Leah Moore a freebie. To be eaten with …

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The Re-Reconstructed Tales Of The Black Freighter From Watchmen

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

A few years ago, an aspiring fellow reconstructed the Tales Of The Black Freighter comic from the fragments seen in Watchmen, the panels and the captions that extended into the rest of the comic. But that wasn’t enough. Jeff Pedigo …

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Liam Sharp, Dave Gibbons, Gary Erskine, Doug Braithwaite, Mike Carey And More Launch Madefire – The Ultimate Digital Comic Book Reader?

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Rich Johnston

At Bleeding Cool, we’ve been following the different types of digital comics that have been emerging. Those that use limited animation. Those that use different layers, with limited special effects. Those that let you tip the tablet to see different …

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