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Tweet Mark Evanier marks what would have been the King’s 89th birthday: I miss Jack. I miss the guy the same way you miss that favorite uncle you always enjoyed being around. But I also miss just having a Jack Kirby in our midst…a man who just radiated creative energy and who made everyone he [...]
Tweet Best Nancy Cartoon Ever. “The Tao is that from which nothing can depart.” [Link via Boing Boing]
TweetThis weekend’s big video game/webcomic event was a convention thrown by a couple of webcomickers, PAX namelyPenny Arcade gang, Tycho and Gabe. Both Kotaku and Joystiq, the main vidgame blogs have extensive coverage. The big news is a new video game from Hothead Games based on PENNY ARCADE (pr in the jump.) Since PENNY ARCADE [...]
TweetKevin at Blog@Newsarama has an interesting factoid from Chris Mautner’s article on LOST GIRLS: But the article also looks at Top Shelfâs financial wager on Lost Girls, something Iâve not seen much of in mainstream media coverage. According to the Patriot-News, the first two printings of the $264-page book cost the publisher âin the realm [...]
TweetSimon at Icarus Publishing boils down that article on the evolving editorial slant of Shonen Jump that ComiPress linked to last week, and boils it down into something a bit more comprehensible–and illuminating: 1. Shonen Jump is marketed to boys, but it has a silent, but significant, number of female readers. Significant enough, at least, [...]
TweetJustice turns swiftly in Iran, it seems, as the managing editor of the Iranian newspaper that in May ran a cartoon insulting to the Azeri ethnic minority, has been acquitted: The state-owned newspaper âIranâ? was suspended on May 23 after publishing a cartoon that offended Azeris and led to several days of unrest in the [...]
TweetIf you are wondering why we’re taking a break from link-blogging, the follow of three headlines say it all in spades and with a bag of chips: Graphic Novels Take a Huge Step Forward Graphic novels the hot new library item And, finally, the headline that we have been waiting to read for nigh on [...]
TweetCinematical tracks down the latest on the proposed CAVALIER AND KLAY movie after author Michael Chabon posted some rather discouraging sounding things on his blog. I was unable to find any further info in culling the usual sites for Chabon updates, so I went straight to the source — or the next best thing — [...]
TweetSpeaking of Wuthering Heights, which is one of our favorite books, we forgot to mention that Dame Darcy is doing an illustrated version of Jane Eyre. Everything’s coming up! Meanwhile, Tintin Pantoja posted a picture of Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice at her LJ. Okay we reallt screwed this up, but that’s what happens [...]
Tweet•DC has starts a “Ask CMX” page. Getting a little more down with the otaku is always good. Dear CMXI’ve heard that CMX is releasing EMMA manga. When does it come out, and will it stay faithful to the anime?- Anna Y., Simi Valley, CA Dear Anna,EMMA volume 1 will indeed be out in stores [...]
TweetIt was a dog: The body of the dead animal found in Turner, Maine, according to DNA tests conducted on behalf of and paid for by the Lewiston newspaper, the Sun Journal, belonged to a member of the genus Canis, not a Tasmanian devil, not a rodent, not a Chupacabras, not a hyena, not a [...]
Tweet It used to be t-shirts. You know, people were always giving you t-shirts. If you work in the media biz and go to even a few conferences, chances are you have a whole bunch of t-shirts you got for free. If you’re The Beat, you long ago stopped taking t-shirts that only come in [...]
Tweet Hopefully this will stay up for a while — a pilot for a Plastic Man cartoon prepared for the Cartoon Network. The work of Ren & Stimpy vet Stephen DeStefano and Clone Wars vet Andy Suriano is clearly seen, while Sponge Bob Tom Kenney does the voice.
Tweet From PR, a cool event for Monday night: Local New York author Arie Kaplan will host an event to celebrate the release of his new book, Masters of the Comic Book Universe Revealed! The launch party takes place on Monday, August 28 from 6:15â9:30 p.m. at Museum of Comic & Cartoon Art (MoCCA, 594 [...]
TweetHUMAN EVENTS ONLINE, which bills itself as “The National Conservative Weekly” and includes ads for such things as Ann Coulter and a website for beleaguered conservatives who can’t bear to date another liberal, has an article saying that the graphic novel version of 9/11 is not seemly or befitting the Memory of Those Who Died [...]
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