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TweetTwitter has been flooded with news of a stabbing prior to the Marvel Studios panel in Hall H. According to Andy Khouri: “Hearing conflicting details but it sounds like a dude was stabbed in the face with a pen before the Marvel Studios panel for seat squatting.” Some people on Twitter claim one of the [...]
TweetIDW’s Library of American Comics expands with more Alex Raymond as Jungle Jim and Flash Gordon, two stylish, definitive strips will be reprinted in a deluxe volume in 2011. PR below: IDW Publishing, a premier publisher of graphic novels and books, today announced the Ultimate Alex Raymond Collection: The Definitive Flash Gordon and Jungle Jim, [...]
Tweet Drawn & Quarterly expands its gekiga offerings with the announcement of two new books from manga-ka Shigeru Mizuki, one of the most famed cartoonists in Japanese history. (Above image from Drawn, not from either announced project.) Shigeru is known as the master of the macabre yōkai tradition, but the two books that D&Q are [...]
Embargoed until the Top Cow panel happening right about now, we can now share all the latest Top Cow news.
Top Cow is reviving Minotaur Press as an imprint for its more “independent-styled series”. Upcoming Minotaur projects are ECHOES by Joshua Hale Fialkov and artist Rahsan Ekedal
Tweet Via pr: Legendary comic book master Will Eisner’s groundbreaking graphic novel “A Contract with God” is being adapted into a live action feature film, it was announced this evening at Comic- Con International 2010 by the film’s producers. In what is considered by many to be one of the most influential graphic novels ever [...]
Briefs & Boxers! 07/25/10
This week: Some Dopey Prequels and Sequels to WATCHMEN probably in the pipeline; Vertigo not really about to give up the ghost; veteran comics creator gets by on two hours of sleep and a handful of nuts; and more.