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Friday Trending Topics: Gene Colan

Published Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:04:25 -0500

Last updated Sat, 25 Jun 2011 01:04:35 -0500

Influential artist Gene Colan died Thursday night. Much of the talk around the industry today was about remembering him, his work, and what it means to us. I found myself wishing, as I have on a couple previous of these occasions, that I'd done more to let people know how important the person has been to comics before it came time for the obituary. Marvel's Tom Brevoort started a twitter hashtag #whiletheylive earlier in the year for that very purpose. It's a damn good idea, as a starting point. It'd be cool to see the spirit of that concept take root in the industry's conversation about its history.

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Legendary Comic Book Artist Gene Colan Has Died

Clifford Meth has reported that legendary comic book artist Gene Colan died last night at the age of 84. Colan is perhaps best remembered for his stylish, brooding work on Marvel's 1970s Tomb of Dracula series, but the artist's lengthy career spanned both titles and decades, beginning with Fiction House's Wings Comics in 1944 and including a number of memorable hilights such as Iron Man, Daredevil and Doctor Strange in the Silver Age, Howard the Duck in the 1970s, and DC Comics' Nathaniel Dusk in the 1980s. He won a Best Single Issue Eisner Award in 2010 for his work on Captain America 601, drawn by Colan and written by Ed Brubaker, and was inducted into the Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2005.

Can You Tell The Difference Between Signed And Unsigned Ultimate Spider-Man 160 By The Bag? (UPDATE x2)

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No Such Word As Superhero – DC's Retailer Roadshow Hits Baltimore – Collectors Cornered #2

Didio for all the heat he gets, was the most passionate of the bunch in explaining this initiative. He really won us over with some of this generalizing about the trend in comics to write for trades and to bet on the eventual sale or perpetual sale of of collected editions. We sell a lot of trade, but waiting for the trade syndrome is not helping us sell periodicals ultimately.

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The New Captain America Trailer

We've all been waiting for this new Captain America trailer since Marvel debuted it at the LA Times' Hero Complex Film Festival a couple weeks back. It generated some buzz there, let's see what the rest of the world has to say…

Nice New Image Of Pixar's Princess Merida, Interesting German Logo

In Germany, it seems that Pixar's Brave will be known as Merida – Legende der Highlands. I can swing with that. It's similar to how Tangled remained Raiponce in France, for example.

Four Character Images From Pixars Brave (And Sort Of A Fifth)- UPDATED

And here, I think is a fifth character. This is The Bear, as in The Bear and the Bow, the film's original title. I've blown up a part of the poster to highlight where I think he's hiding.