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A Weekend In Vegas With Grant Morrison Got Me To Kickstart A Comics Anthology
Asher Powell writes, When I sat on the rickety, tiny plane that dipped through the mountains from Fresno to Las Vegas, I didn't think the weekend would end with me manning a Kickstarter for a comics anthology in two years I couldn't even begin to comprehend what the MorrisonCon convention was going to be like[...]
Spike Valentine, A New Writer For Marvel Comics
Puig, he's a script doctor, music journalist, radio host living and working in Mexico, he looks like he has got his first gig writing comics for Marvel Comics. He writes, "Marvel Comics hired me this very week to work plotting and scripting stories to be published by the House of Ideas." Maybe we'll hear some more at NYCC? It would[...]
Comic-Con International Hands APE Back To Dan Vado
The program book handed out last night to exhibitors at the exhibitor registration party reads, The 22nd Alternative Press Expo in 2015 will return to Dan Vado and his team at SLG Publishing. With this transfer, Dan will once again be at the helm of what we feel is the best alternative comics show on the convention circuit[...]
Comic Artist Cat Stagg And Wife Amanda Deibert Star In Target Ad
I was beyond happy for her when she start working on Smallville for DC Comics, when her and writer Amanda Deibert got married and when they announced they were going to have a baby. So I thought it was pretty damn cool when the two of them got featured in an ad for Target this week. [youtube]http://youtu.be/ALU_br7r7nY[/youtube]   [...]
Jeff Parker Uses Meteor Men To Invade Your Minds And Wallets
Not just in comics, but in all mediums It's very difficult to one-up the classics like H.G Wells' The War of the Worlds or John W Campbell's Who Goes There? (later adapted into both The Thing from Another World and The Thing) And yet we still love a good Man vs Alien story, and pay[...]
Diane Nelson Writes To DC Comics' Freelance Creators About The Big Move West
We reported earlier this week that DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson was to address DC Comics staffers about the practicalities of the big move west, as the publisher moves from New York to Burbank. Subsequently, a letter was sent to DC Comics freelancers, informing them of what was to come. Aside from the use of first names,[...]
Comparing The Uncorrected And Corrected Batgirl #35 Previews
Exclusive in that it has fewer pages than ours from a few weeks ago – and they don't have big DC COMICS lettering slapped across it I suppose. But the two do seem very familiar So here's a small look at some of the minor changes between uncorrected preview and… corrected preview. The phone number of the[...]
Writer To Writer – Nancy Collins Talks With Christina Blanch
Nancy Collins, writer of Vampirella, talks with Christina Blanch about The Damnation of Charlie Wormwood #1, both came out this week. Nancy Collins: So, Christina, after using comic books as teaching aids as part of CAPE (Comics Association of Professionals and Educators), how does it feel to actually be writing one? Is this your first comic[...]
Twelve Issues Of Batman For Less Than $16 A Year – $1.33 Each
Currently, Scott Snyder is in battle with DC Comics to get them to bring the price of Batman down from its newly announced price of $4.99 to its previous price of $3.99. But there are other options. Such as this subscription deal with twelve issues of Batman for $15.90, or $1.32 and a half cent each. That's whether[...]
Mad About MAD? You Can Win A Prize Pack
Neuman "What–me worry?" portrait MAD About Super Heroes hardcover MAD poker card deck MAD baseball cap To enter follow @DCComics on Twitter and Tweet @DCComics which character they think Alfred E Neuman should parody next between now and 9:59 AM PDT on Monday, October 6, 2014 using the hashtag #DCAAGiveaway. [...]
Aaron Gillespie Talks Lady Demon And New Purgatori FOC Covers Revealed
Dynamite Entertainment's relaunch of the Chaos Comics characters has been going extremely well as they expand out to a new Lady Demon series written by Aaron Gillespie Byron Brewer chatted with the writer about the new series and working with the other creators to make the launch successful Also below, its sister series Purgatori had[...]
Monomyth – What If Adam And Eve Never Ate The Apple
On October 22nd the third and final issue of Monomyth comes out from OSSM Comics The story is written by Siike Donnelly with art by Eric Ninaltowski and it is basically a rebooting origin story for the bible. Here Michael and Lucifer fight and both fall from heaven It's Michael's plan to lead the angels in[...]
DC Comics Sells San Diego Comic Con Exclusive Items – From 2013
The Aardman Superman figure, a convention exclusive from San Diego Comic Con 2013 sells for up to $65 on eBay, plus shipping. It sells on Amazon for $35 plus shipping. Well DC Comics are about to undercut that when they sell, to comic stores, the same exclusive figure in the same exclusive packaging for a retail price[...]
The Fantastic Four Conspiracy: Another Disappearing Galactus
Bleeding Cool has been covering the rumour that Marvel Comics has been ordered by its executives to downplay the Fantastic Four comic ahead of the upcoming movie Whether it's sketch card artists or Mondo Poster makers, the FF and their related characters such as Galactus and the Skrulls are off limits to all sorts of[...]
Rat Queens #8 Takes Us Out Of The Action
I then promptly placed it at the top of the large stack of comics I bought, and immediately read it when I got home My first thoughts: "Dear Kurtis J Wiebe, why do you torture me?" No, not the good kind of suspenseful torture that I like to complain about, but actually enjoy, this is[...]