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What Every Retailer Needs To Know About Ordering Teen Dog – Thug Pug!
Boom's newest imprint, Boom Box has been the home of comics like Lumberjanes and the upcoming Cyanide & Happiness: Punching Zoo collection It seems to have the company mission statement to bring Tumblr into comic shops, something Boom also managed with Adventure Time and Bee & PuppyCat And I've spent a little while pointing out such moves to retailer who may[...]
Lying In The Gutters – 18th August 2014 – Getting Ice Water Challenged
So what have you been reading while I've been insensible to feeling as to sight? Top Twenty Traffic Stories Of The Week Exactly What Happened Between Bruce Wayne And Barbara Gordon That So Estranged Dick Grayson In Batman Beyond The Great Cyclops Conspiracy Of 2014 So What Exactly Did Nick Fury Say To Thor? Who Made Thor Unworthy To Hold[...]
DC And Marvel's Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
So what changes have occurred 'twixt solicitations and publication in a week or two's time? Well, a few worth noting... Kyle Higgins replaces John Layman
What's In Scott McCloud's The Best American Comics 2014?
The Best American Comics is an annual volume, edited by a different prominent comic book person each year, and published by Houghton Mufflin Harcourt. The 2014 volume is edited by Scott McCloud And here is what you are getting Basically it's a really posh comic book version of Nerd Block Consider this the unboxing video… Jaime Hernandez[...]
Things To Do In New York This Week If You Like Comics(UPDATE)
Monday, August 18th The ninety-fifth meeting of the NY Comics & Picture-story Symposium will be held on Monday, August 18, 2014 at 7 pm at Columbia University's Butler Library, room 523 The event is free and open to the public The Presentation will be by Tom Motley on "Composition Lessons from Comics Masters" He says: "[...]
Swipe File: Lalique And Doctor Who
This is a Lalique Midnight Blue Mossi vase, being advertised on the back of a glossy magazine. But it does look rather familiar doesn't it? Let's make a
Pete Woods, Redesigning The New Gods With Glee
Pete Woods tweeted this weekend, When DC Comics asks you to redesign the New Gods do you decline because haters gonna hate, or do you dive in with glee? I know my answer. — Pete Woods (@thatpetewoods) August 16, 2014 The wording suggests that it will be with glee Which generated a little discussion. @thatpetewoods I gotta say, I[...]
Viz Comic Is As Funny As It Used To Be
It's a cliché that the British satirical monthly comic, Viz Comic, is not as funny as it used to be. Started in the eighties, phenomenally successful in
Artist Spotlight – Daniel Govar Of Dynamite's Grimm
But I always loved comics and sequential art I did a couple of award-winning animations for the SciFi Channel (now SyFy), and in 2009 I submitted and won DC Comic's ZUDA competition for my comic AZURE that was published for 2 seasons Since then – I've been doing work for a variety of publishers. BC:[...]
Bloodshot #25 To Be Over-Sized With Milligan, Chaykin, Hitch, Perlin And More
It also features standard covers by Lewis LaRosa and Al Barrionuevo; incentive variant covers by Rafael Albuquerque (American Vampire) and Bryan Hitch (The Ultimates); and a new throwback variant featuring Bloodshot's original logo and trade dress design by Bloodshot co-creator and comics legend Don Perlin (The Defenders).  Bloodshot #25 then leads directly into The Valiant – a prestige format mini-series from Jeff Lemire, Matt Kindt, and Paolo Rivera beginning[...]
When Even Fantagraphics Mistakes Gilbert Hernandez For Jaime
It's one thing for a reader, a fan, a retailer, or a fellow comics creator to mix up the Hernandez Brothers Even though the styles of the creators of Love And Rockets are so different, it's not uncommon for someone to refer to Jaime when they mean Gilbert, or vice versa. However it's probably a different[...]