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Comics Vs Comics In Michigan by Greg Baldino
When he's not traveling the highways and byways of North America promoting his autobiographical series "And Then One Day," Claytor teaches not one but two classes on comics and visual narrative at two different rival colleges. (If you don't follow college football, the MSU/UofM rivalry can best be compared to the eternal feud between Spider-Man and[...]
PREVIEW: League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969 In Comic Heroes #4
And as well as a free copy of Boom!'s The Traveller, a preview of Infinite Vacation, Warren Ellis opining on the future of webcomics, interviews with Mark Waid, Adi Granov, Bryan Hitch and Walt Simonson, is an piece with Kevin O'Neill, and a look at some letterless art from the second book of League Of[...]
French Comics Distributor Le Comptoir Des Indépendants To Close
Les Belles Lettres is expected to take the majority of L'Association's remaining distribution. France stills has a very healthy comics industry, it has grown rapidly over the past twenty years, growing 375% in unit sales between 1990 and 2005, but since then the industry has plateaued and growth, almost expected by the industry,[...]
What If The Avengers Were Dinosaurs?
They've been Robots. They've been Hulks. They've been Apes. They've been Zombies. They've even been Superheroes. Well now, thanks to d.r3sto on Flickr,
The First 1500 Covers Of 2000AD
Thirty year's worth of the British weekly sci-fi comic 2000AD, flash flash flash... Watch as the price sloely creeps up, as the logo switches and switches
Japanese Create Anti-Comics Code Authority, Boycott Convention In Protest
Variety reports a rather interesting development in Japan. That ten of the biggest Japanese comics publishers, including Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan and Kadokawa have withdrawn from the Tokyo International Anime Fair (TAF), the biggest such convention in the world attracting over 130,000 visitors. The fair is sponsored by the Tokyo city government The publishers, allied as[...]
Monday Runaround – Superman In A Santa Hat
Until that day, read on. Kodansha Comics USA New York, NY – December 12, 2010 – Kodansha USA Publishing is pleased to announce their exciting debut list of manga under the Kodansha Comics imprint Fans have been clamoring to know just what books would be on the list, and the wait is finally over. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney[...]
Wildstorm Licensed And Creator Owned Books To Be Collected By DC
From May to August, here are a few of the Wildstorm license and creator owned books being collected under the DC Comics label; STARCRAFT TP Writers: Simon Furman Artists: Federico Dallocchio and others Collects: STARCRAFT #1-7 $14.99 US, 144 pg, on sale May TOM STRONG AND THE ROBOTS OF DOOM TP Writer: Peter Hogan Artists: Chris Sprouse and Karl Story Collects: TOM STRONG AND[...]
BC ComicChron
No, what corporations need are profits, profits, profits! And in that case, Batman Incorporated has passed with flying colors in the first quarter of the financial year, to the tune of three million dollars that it moved in November just by selling comics Yes, you read that right, 3,000,000 bucks. Joe Quesada: Process And on to final[...]
Video: Bruce Timm Co-Creates 'The Flaming C' With Conan O'Brien
Last night on Conan O'Brien's talk show, he chatted about DC Comics characters with Peter Gerardi, the Creative Director of Warner Bros Animation. And they discussed the lamest characters in the DC canon. Was the creation of Green Lantern by someone who wanted to get out early for the weekend? How in the closet is Bat Lash? Is the[...]
DC Books In July And August
Miller, Mike Barr, Adam Beechen, Derek Fridolfs and Marc Andreyko Artists: Cliff Richards, Ramon Bachs, John Lucas, Pere Perez, Peter Nguyen, Szymon Kudranski, Agustin Padilla, Ryan Winn, Javier Saltares, Rebecca Buchman, Walden Wong, Scott McDaniel, Andy Owens Collects: BRUCE WAYNE: THE ROAD HOME – BATMAN & ROBIN #1, BRUCE WAYNE: THE ROAD HOME –[...]
Are You In Singapore This Weekend? Come To Comic Con
This weekend sees the Singapore Toy, Comics And Comic Convention take place, the first under the new ownership of Reed Expo, owners of the NYCC and C2E2. And, befitting this, the theme is one of East Meets West So Marvel people are out there, manning the booth, populating the bars and looking for new talent. Comics faces[...]
The Last Tweets Of James Robinson
Comics writer James Robinson has sworn off Twitter, and deleted his account But a few hours before, he seemed so happy Here's a timeline of last night. @marcosmarz Hey, welcome to Twitter Great working with you albeit briefly on Blackest Night JSA. Are you just bad @sterlinggates or truly evil? All I know is I'm completely basing[...]
The Martian Invasion Of The Marvel Universe Is Coming…
and a top secret upcoming new series ·       Jason Aaron, writer of Wolverine, Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine and a top secret upcoming new series "These are five of the top writers in comics and they're writing some of the best Marvel Comics ever" said C.B Cebulski, SVP Creator & Content Development[...]
Anthrax's Scott Ian To Write DC's The Demon
He's already written a couple of issues of Lobo published last year, this looks like his return to comics? Created by Jack Kirby, The Demon is Etrigan, a demon from hell, bonded to the immortal knight Jason Blood Yeah, Scott Ian seems a pretty good choice… Gone, gone, the form of man. Rise the demon Scott Ian! Rhythm[...]