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TweetOddly enough, an LA Times profile of manga pioneer Yoshihiro Tatsumi and Adrian Tomine touches on the late Mickey Spillane’s wide-ranging influence: Tatsumi’s work, appropriately, was shaped less by other Japanese comics than by local police reports and hard-boiled American novelists. “I was very moved by his descriptions,” he says, through a translator, of the [...]
TweetCNN is reporting that writer Mickey Spillane has died at age 88 after a long illness. Spillane’s hardboiled pulp novels, including I, The Jury sold millions of copies and influenced a generation of writers, and his tough-guy private eye Mike Hammer starred in both film and television. Early in his career, Spillane dabbled in comics [...]
TweetAnd speaking of Smithhere’s what he had to say about Rosario Dawson: Q: Rosario is kind of a sci-fi nerd, right? KS: It’s cool because a lot of people don’t know that. People said she’s so famous so why would she do my movie and I wondered the same thing and she said it was [...]
TweetIf nerd-as-underdog culture has an icon, it’s probably director Kevin Smith, a common man made good at the pinnacle of Hollywood, aka sleeing over at Skywalker Ranch, even while remaining approachable and utterly knowable. The LA Times has an in-depth, revealing profile of the director which wonders if CLERKS II will “brand him a boy [...]
TweetA bitter controversy is tearing the otherwise peace-loving city of Toronto apart, and it involves comic books. The enmity between Hobbystar, which puts on the Canadian National Expo, a large pop culture show, and Paradise Comics, which puts on the Toronto Comicon has been growing over the years, with the two shows locked in a [...]
TweetA while ago we told you about budding filmmaker Matt Busch reporting on his LiveJournal about a nasty breakup with his girlfriend, actress Sarah Wilkinson, with writer Steve Niles as the third party. We’re not going to rehash all the story because it’s just ugly stuff that should have been kept private, but in the [...]
Tweet A surprisingly touching tribute to 120 years of cartoonists in the Philippines. Did they all go to the same eyeglass shop or what?
TweetOver at his blog, Modern Tales founder Joey Manleytalks about major changes, including moving away from a subscription model for webcomics: As you may have heard, we’ve decided to open up the vast majority of the site to non-paying readers, and to recruit even more webcomics to join us on a free basis, while maintaining [...]
TweetContinuing its team coverage of SDCC, the San Diego Union-Tribune offers and the most useful and yet arbitrary guide to comics term ever. Sample entries: Costumed athlete: An adventurer in sartorial splendor who has no enhanced abilities or superpowers. Cyborg: A living entity melded from human and machine. Dumb fun: A name for amusing anime [...]
TweetDark Horse has a MAMMOTH and memorable signing schedule, with such folks as Eric Powell, Yoshitaka Amano, Tony Millionaire, Frank Miller, Kazuo Koike, the Conan crew, the Escapist team, and of course, more more more. Read all about it in the jump.
TweetMarvel will be set up at the Marvel/Activision booth this year, (#4315) and will be looking at portfolios. This could be your chance! They will also have a full-line-up of signings and panels. Expect to see the biggest names in the industry all Con long at the Marvel Booth, #4315, as an all-star cast that [...]
TweetWho’s who at the Last Gasp booth? A lot of amazing fine artists that’s who: Peter Maresca, Tim Biskup, Shag, Glenn Barr, Gary Baseman, Mark Ryden, Carlos Batts, David Choong Lee, Ron English, Michael Manning, Attaboy, Liz McGrath and S. Clay Wilson!
Tweet Manhwa specializt ICE Kunion is having a contest to give away some rare artwork by the artist group Kara at the show. The ICE Kunion imprint has been creating a stir by introducing the hottest Korean comics (aka ‘manhwa’) to English audiences, and now they’re heating things up in San Diego as well with [...]
TweetDo you have a way with sculpey? You may be just the person DC is looking for: Following the incredible success at last year’s COMIC-CON INTERNATIONAL – SAN DIEGO, DC Direct will be holding its second annual Sculptor Search – “A Cut Above”. Join us this year and meet Georg Brewer, DC’s VP – Design [...]
TweetWho will be who at the Silent Devil booth? Silent Devil, publishers of Dracula vs. King Arthur, The Devilâs Panties collections and a line of critically acclaimed comics, has announced their creator line-up for the San Diego Comicon. The Silent Devil booth, Table D1, will host creators Adam and Christian Beranek (Dracula vs. King Arthur, [...]
TweetUdon Studios has a ton of convention exclusives, you can read about in the jump, and booth appearances by: Alvin Lee, Omar Dogan, M3TH, Joe Ng, Scott Hepburn, Christine Choi, SVEN, Susan Lou, Tom Liu, Jen Chen, Jo Chen & Rey, Ken Siu-Chong, Jim Zubkavich, Erik Ko, Marshall Dillon, Clarence Lim and George Louro. More [...]
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