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Saturday Runaround – Steranko Fever
GameWatch: Paragon Studios publisher of the oldest continuing superhero MMORG, City Of Heroes announced that the studio was closing its doors due to a restructuring of its parent company NCSoft. And that City Of Heroes will close its servers and shut down service on November 30th.
SterankoWatch: Jim Steranko is accepting art collectors in the States and overseas, as long as they feature characters associated with the artist.
Character portraits rendered in ink on 7×10" stock which range from $250-750, depending on the complexity of such detail as dramatic lighting/shadows, expressions, minor background elements, etc. Blank comicbook cover portraits range from $400-750. Super-tight pencilled figures with minimal backgrounds on 11×14" Strathmore vellum stock run about $1250. Variations will be quoted individually. Scheduling depends on commercial deadlines, but generally 1-3 weeks. Postage, packing, and insurance are extra. Steranko vintage originals have recently sold for $30-100K, with recreations reselling for $30K, so the investment aspect is significant.
The artist can be contacted at supergraphics@prevue.net
ValiantWatch: The Indian Times looks at Indians dpoing rather well relaunching Valiant Entertainment.
Unlike Marvel and DC, which feature largely Caucasian heroes, Valiant's lineup has a touch of diversity to it, something that could prove to be a strength now that social networking is bringing together countless countries and cultures. "One of the reasons Valiant is so successful is because it is expanding to ethnicities," says Shamdasani. "Valiant has a very prominent biracial character, a very prominent Asian character. Now we are adding Indian to the mix as well."
StoreWatch: The Dragon, in Guelph, gets profiled by local press after winning a Eisner.
Only 30 stores in the world have received the prize over the past 20 years and it's the first time that a store founded and solely owned by a woman has been recognized, Haines says.
The award is no small achievement in the world of comic books and graphic novels, which, particularly in the past, has not been the friendliest place for women. And historically, female superheroes have been portrayed as scantily-clad heroines with chests the size of Manhattan.
But Haines is a force to be reckoned with. Her "women friendly" store has more female customers than most comic book stores, she says. At the same time, female comic book heroes are gaining ground with more realistic portrayals as strong, smart, independent protagonists.
DalekWatch: From Alasdair Stuart;
This is Computo the Comic Link Conqueror speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.
They say I am a work in progress. The fools.
Con Games | News From MENews From ME
Within about two months, we should know if these folks will be staging a convention at the Moscone at any point during 2013. If they do, it will be called WonderCon and the March 29-31 con in Anaheim will be called something else. So they'll do three conventions plus APE.
Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency: Wertham Versus Gaines On Decency Standards – WNYC
The investigation continues! The evils of horror comics are explicated by two contrasting witnesses, Dr. Fredric Wertham, a reserved psychiatrist, and William Gaines, the chief purveyor of such lurid publications as The Haunt of Fear, The Vault of Horror, and Tales From the Crypt.
Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Delinquency: Comic Books, "Soda-pop," and Societal Harm – WNYC
This is "not a subcommittee of blue-nosed censors," the chairman Robert Hendrickson claims, in his introductory remarks at these famous Congressional hearings on the link between comic books and juvenile delinquency, broadcast over WNYC on April 21, 1954.
But artist continuity? Yeah, that I am far more cynical about, given the past efforts of Marvel to keep creative teams together, and the increasingly meaningless definition of "regular artist" at Marvel over the last couple of years.
Blog@Newsarama » Blog Archive » Wood Off X-MEN Earlier Than Anticipated
Wood tweeted yesterday that #38 was "the last issue I was contracted to write," suggesting that he's totally done with the series
SRBissette.com – Steve's Debut Ebooks—Coming This Month!
I'm also about to deliver my first ebook all about comics, S.R. Bissette's On/In Comics—Bryan Talbot: Dreams & Dystopias (manuscript completed, awaiting Bryan's final proofing/polish of the completed interview text), with a second volume forthcoming later this fall focusing on the great Alan Moore,
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