TweetNumerous sources are telling us that Rory Root has passed away this evening. Our sincere condolences to his family and his friends. We’ll have more later.
Rory Root health update
05/19/2008 by Leave a Comment
TweetWord has been spreading like wildfire this afternoon, that Rory Root, owner of Comic Relief in Berkeley, is in a coma following complications from hernia surgery. ComicsPRO has more. Difficult news today— Rory Root, owner of Berkeley CA’s (and world-famous) COMIC RELIEF, is in a coma in an Oakland CA hospital. Shown in the center [...]
Top Shelf 2.0 launches
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Tweet Top Shelf has launched its new webcomics site, dubbed Top Shelf 2.0! . Spearheaded by Brett Warnock and Leigh Walton, it sounds like a lot of fun: From here on out, every weekday (M-F) we’ll post a new story. It might be a new chapter in your favorite serial, it might be a new [...]
Young John Stanley
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Tweet The D&Q blog runs this picture of cartoon master John Stanley when he was a teenager. It’s always refreshing to see a great artist captured in the full bloom of youth; our ideas of Stanley are mostly of the older, curmudgeonly but still insightful playwright of the heart. Jeet Heer takes the oppotunity of [...]
Women in Comics!
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TweetWriter Hudson Phillips runs a “women in Comics” roundtable: I recently had a conversation with 5 brilliant, creative, funny women who are up and coming (if not already established) in the world of comics. I asked artists Rebekah Isaacs (Hack/Slash, Drafted) & Amy Reeder Hadley (Fool’s Gold, Madame Xanadu), journalists Johanna Draper Carlson (Comics Worth [...]
Marvel steps up for Colan
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Tweet While we were off the grid Cliff Meth passed along some great news: I am delighted beyond delighted to announce that Marvel Entertainment has made clear its intentions to help Gene and Adrienne Colan. In a warm conversation this morning, executives at Marvel offered Adrienne and I some of the many things that they [...]
Mecha-supes?
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Tweet So cute! From 10 years ago, a Cliff Chiang reinvention of the DCU via J-pop stylings. [Via Blog@]
YOU’LL ALL BE SORRY in August
05/19/2008 by Leave a Comment
Tweet About Comics has just announced a collection of Gail Simone’s HIGHlarious “You’ll All Be Sorry” columns, originally published on Comic Book Resources. The cover is by Scott Shaw! (left): The entire comics community will rue the day they entertained Gail Simone when she unleashes You’ll All Be Sorry!, a collection of her hilarious prose [...]
2008 Glyph Award winners
05/19/2008 by Leave a Comment
TweetThe winners of the 2008 Glyph Comics Awards were announced in a ceremony at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention on Friday, May 16. Aya, Sentences and Satchel Paige: Striking Out Jim Crow were multiple winners. The list: Story of the Year Sentences: The Life of MF Grimm; Percy Carey, writer, Ronald Wimberly, [...]
International Museum of Cartoon Art moves to OSU
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TweetMort Walker’s International Museum of Cartoon Art has had a long (more than 30 year) history of diaspora: from its first home in Greenwich CT, to a castle in Rye, NY, to a new home of Florida, to a proposed home in the Empire State Building that never came through, to a warehouse in Stamford, [...]
The mystery of the AMAZING FANTASY #15 donation
05/19/2008 by Leave a Comment
TweetIt was big, big news recently when the entire original art for Amazing Fantasy #15, the origin story of Spider-Man himself, was presented to the Library of Congress by an unidentified donor. An incredible story. But who was that masked donor? Charles Yoakum looks at the evidence: While I’m missing the attribution, it has been [...]
More art sale news
05/19/2008 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Beat readers were divided over the $600k sale of recognized Pop Art master Mel Ramos’s painting based on a Gil Kane cover. So here’s a little cosmic balance: The art for the cover of WEIRD SCIENCE #16 has sold for $200,000: A major, sophisticated collector of comic book art has paid $200,000 for the [...]
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