Tweet …what better to kick it off than the Butt-biting Bug song that has transfixed the internets?
Goodbye, Engine
08/31/2007 by 33 Comments
Tweet The Engine, Warren Ellis’s two year old forum for comics creators and aspiring comics creators, closes up shop today. So far, the replacement message board of choice seems to be Rantz Hoseley’s Panel and Pixel. Frankly we haven’t had time to spend on any message board of late, but P&P seems to be bustling [...]
Edward Gorey’s THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES
08/31/2007 by 3 Comments
Tweet Upon discovering that Edward Gorey was a Star Trek fanatic, Shaenon Garrity imagines what might have been. Aside: You realize this is just a blog post, right and not in some satirical magazine where it once might have been?
DC Month to Month Sales: July 2007
08/31/2007 by 57 Comments
Tweetby Marc-Oliver Frisch DC Comics’ performance in July was an improvement on the previous month, not unexpectedly. The publisher’s numbers were bolstered by issues of three high-selling titles, Batman, All Star Superman and Action Comics, which were late from June. Then there was the release of All Flash #1, the continuation of DC’s latest Flash [...]
What is everyone doing?
08/31/2007 by 3 Comments
Tweet § Jim Woodring is drawing bears § Len Wein is remembering old Bullpen stories: Anyway, on this particular day, I had just returned from my annual pilgrimage to the West Coast to attend the now-omnipresent San Diego Comic-Con and spend some vacation time visiting with friends. During the course of my trip, I’d paid [...]
WEHT Alex DeCampi?
08/31/2007 by 6 Comments
Tweet Controversial comics writer Alex DeCampi has been having quite a bit of success in the video field of late. Her video for “Those Rules” by The Schema a became the #1 music video on YouTube. This week we’re ahead of the new videos by Enrique Iglesias (Universal), the new band Domino is pushing hard [...]
VOTE FOR DAME DARCY
08/31/2007 by 5 Comments
Tweet Is there ANYONE alive who does not want to see these two get together? Vote Dame Darcy for Flavor of Love! It is the law.
Conquest of Summer Fun
08/31/2007 by 2 Comments
Tweet On a serious note, why if Tubby wearing a diaper on that cover?
Alex Robinson’s LOWER REGIONS
08/30/2007 by 2 Comments
Tweet Over on his LJ Alex Robinson has been previewing some pages from his new graphic novel, LOWER REGIONS, which comes out this fall. Click for more.
Kochalka’s Squirrelly Gray – UPDATE
08/30/2007 by 5 Comments
Tweet James Kochalka writes to tell us his kids book from Random House, Squirrelly Gray is out this week. Random House has an activity page up for the book which includes a trailer narrated by Kochalka himself, of course. PS: Over on the TCJ.com board, Kochalka notes that only 200 copies of this were ordered [...]
Millionaire and Kaplan on Drinky Crow
08/30/2007 by 2 Comments
Tweet You know isn’t that just like Tony Millionaire? He nags you and nags you to promote his cartoon pilot, and then when it gets picked up, you have to read about it on Comics2Film: The show was aired as part of a pilot competition on the Cartoon Network, in which fans could vote on [...]
Party Poop
08/30/2007 by Leave a Comment
TweetOccasional Superheroine talks about last night’s Comic Foundry party, which was a lot of fun and a great way to reacclimatize to civilization after our week in the country. In addition to pals like John Green, Marion Vitus, Red Stapler, Calvin Reid, Kai-Ming Cha and Nisha Gopalan, we got to meet 12 Days’ June Kim. [...]
Naruto Nation kicks off in September
08/30/2007 by 2 Comments
TweetBrace for a Naruto invasion, as Blog@Newsarama reports Viz Media unleashed “Naruto Nation” last week, releasing three volumes of Masashi Kishimoto’s international phenomenon into the book market. So, it should surprise absolutely no one that all three cracked USA Today’s Top 150 Books list: Vol. 18 at No. 116, Vol. 17 at No. 123, and [...]
A tale of two cons: Dragon and Polcon
08/30/2007 by Leave a Comment
Tweet§ The Ledger-Enquirer previews DRAGON-CON the freakiest show of them all. There’s only one weekend when you get the chance to see Spiderman, Doctor Who and the Sith cheerleaders in one place. Lucky for you, this is it. Dragon*Con, touted as the nation’s largest popular arts convention for sci-fi, fantasy and a miasma of other [...]
Italian thinks Spider-Man is real
08/30/2007 by 3 Comments
TweetAn Italian scientist has come up with an idea for a Spider-Man like climbing suit. The suit would use the sticky million-hair technology employed by geckos and…SPIDERS. It is generally accepted that the microscopic hairs adhere to the surfaces, not by gripping in the traditional sense, but by using intermolecular phenomena called van der Waal [...]
Japan frets over “net cafe refugees”
08/30/2007 by 2 Comments
TweetAccording to the Taipei Times, Japan’s 24 hour manga/internet cafes are giving rise to a small population of refugees who live in them. Internet cafes and “manga” comic cafes are omnipresent in urban Japan, offering couches, computers, soft drinks and comic books to stressed businessmen or commuters who missed their train. But a government survey [...]
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