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Hailed as one of the country's best underground press conventions, APE exceeded all expectations by being especially good this year.
The interesting thing about APE is that you'll find Indie stars there, like Craig Thompson (author of Blankets and Habibi), the Hernandez Brothers, and even Matt Groening. What you won't find there is Marvel or DC,[...]
It's not the first time it will have seen the light of day though.
There were copies of a NYCC version being sold last weekend, as well as retailer-exclusive versions.
The former are selling for $30, the latter for $150.
There's a variant version for Third Eye Comics pre-selling for $15, and I understand that Larry's Comics is[...]
This is a double page from Frank Cho's upcoming Savage Wolverine series in progress. But where did it come from? Well here's a version he prepared
Thirteen Thoughts About Thirteen Comics – Nudity, Baiting And Naughty Words
13 Here Come The Sentinels – Mark Millar On X-Men: Days Of Future Past
14 Justice League #13 And Mighty Thor #21 Get Your Squee On
15 Rumour: Another Member Of The X-Men Has Filmed A Scene For The Wolverine
16 DC Cancels Frankenstein: Agent Of S.H.A.D.E[...]
It's like a paramilitary version of QVC at times and an interesting moel for funding the production of comics I'm rather jealous.
But 'm not sure what the protagonist would feel about a comic creator who stiffs his colourist $400 though.
And then there are some rather odd choices… who is our protagonist on the far right[...]
We mentioned this at NYCC. But now we have art. Kevin Smith's third Batman story with Walt Flanagan, to follow Batman: Cacophony and Batman: Widening
It's time to play that game with DC Comics, where we point out something just a little bit sexual about one of the covers of their comics, they get all cross with Bleeding Cool, but by the time it actually comes out they amend the cover and save themselves a modicum of embarassment, in printed[...]
Louis Falcetti reports from a hopefully-unusual sight from New York Comic Con. And provides photographic evidence. Isn't that lovely? A swastiki painted
This feels surreal…I miss the place already.
And then tweeting;
Okay, the obvious answer is 'both' but if you had a gun to your head..Battle Chasers game? OR more BC comics? #decisions#curious#hmmm
Before teasing;
I'll be talking more about 'The Next Big Thing' in the coming months, but in the short term, I'm focusing on banging out a bunch[...]
So I was in the Comics Museum in London this weekend, as part of the Bloomsbury Festival, as my kids got an impressive lesson in character design from Steve Marchant.Turns out I may have to be back for halt term next week, here's what they have planned as far as children's lessons are concerned… I[...]
Orboital Comics plans for Hallowe'en are, well, um…
Private view/Halloween party Oct 31st 2012 7.30-9.30 at Orbital Comics Costumes are, apparently, encouraged Or, it seems, a lack of them The exhibition runs from now for a month…
Exhibition artists include Junko Mizuno, Rockin' JellyBean, Rufus Dayglo, Graham Humphreys, Gaye Black, Shaky Kane, Dennis Franklin, Tom Spencer, Billy[...]
From Berk Senturk... the Justice League Of The Ottoman Empire... I think these are fairly identifiable... Of course, every JLOE needs a bad guy. And...
Shaky Kane writes; This week's offering features VID VICIOUS and NUKE PUKE' EM of legendary cyber assailants DEDDERS on the cover of an imaginary comic
Now, after ComixTribe signed a distribution deal with Diamond Comics Distributors, shops across the world will get a chance to see what the fuss was all about.
THE RED TEN is a ten-issue superhero re-telling of Agatha Christie's classic whodunit "And Then There Were None," written by Tyler James and drawn by Cesar Feliciano, with covers by[...]