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One more for the weekend — meet the future superstars of comics at FRESH MEAT, SVA’s annual comics fair for graduating students. More info on participants in the link, but this is one place where you are sure to find some future superstar in the making.
The PEN World Literary Festival is a pretty big deal, bringing authors and audiences from around the world together for over a week of readings, talks and other events. They’ve had several cartoon-related events over the years (including a complete day of comics a few years back.) This year they are presenting a single event but it’s pretty sweet: Get Super Lit: Comic Books Come Alive on Stage
A few years ago Dark Horse made a splash by announcing an all-new project with CLAMP, the insanely popular supergroup of manga-ka behind such hits as CHOBITS, CARDCAPTOR SAKURA, and CLOVER. Since then, little has been heard as CLAMP was busy with other projects and scheduling was not possible. However, DH has just announced that GATE 7 is finally coming out in October and released the cover image.
ACTION COMICS #900 is a momentous occasion for many reasons — both numerically and thematically. The issue includes stories by an all-star line-up of folks including Paul Cornell, Damon Lindelof, Richard Donner, David S. Goyerm and Geoff Johns.
It also includes a mild little tale by Goyer wherein Superman decides to help out some Iranian protesters and gets chided by the US government for getting involved in “policy.” Prompting Superman to proclaim that he’s not a US citizen but a citizen of…the universe!
Or, as Fox News succinctly puts it:
Superman is no longer an American.
Via Robot 6, word that Heritage is auctioning off an early strip by Charles Schulz that would appear to be part of a developmental period between Lil’ Folks and Peanuts, which launched in 1950.
Via Robot 6, word that Heritage is auctioning off an early strip by Charles Schulz that would appear to be part of a developmental period between Lil’ Folks and Peanuts, which launched in 1950.
Post-Coital Thor, the AVENGERS extortionist, Shaky Kane, Chris Ware’s weekend, and what’s up at Image.
Yesterday was the big day for the launch of Dark Horse’s digital store — and apparently it was a hit — at least one server melted from the onslaught of fans, according to a press release:
We’d venture the opinion that a fairly entertaining film could be made of Mark Ruffalo just wearing Hulk Hands.
BTW, is this the slowest news week ever or what? Is everyone just exhausted from the brutal spring convention schedule? Probably.
It’s a newish comics chat show, set at Brave New World in Santa Clarita with hosts Bryan J Daggett and Atom! Freeman with guests Mark Waid and Andy Khouri, this time out talking about digital comics. The show airs live Tuesday at 7 pm on Justin.tv’s Geekweek channel, or on YouTube right this very minute. We’d definitely spend an hour listening to this crew.
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