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TSA finds comic script threatening
05/11/2009 by Leave a Comment
TweetVia his Twitter feed, writer Mark Sable reveals that he was detained for 30 minutes prior to a flight by the TSA after a random search turned up a copy of his script to UNTHINKABLE. In the BOOM! series, a government think tank spends its time thinking up possible terrorist scenarios. Read Twitter backwards! # [...]
The Mark Waid interview
04/28/2009 by 16 Comments
Tweet Everyone is talking about this career-spanning interview with writer/BOOM! EIC Mark Waid at AICN. In a comics media drowning in promotional interviews, the long, in-depth interview is a thing of the past (or a TwoMorrows publication) but this one pulls out the stops, and Waid spells out his version of some of the most [...]
What ever happened to …Bill Jemas
02/02/2009 by Leave a Comment
TweetAlong with Joe Quesada, former Marvel publisher Bill Jemas was one of the principle architects of the revitalization of the House of Ideas back at the turn of the century. His tenure led the way to some big successes — like the Ultimate line–and some big flops — remember Marville? He certainly made a strong [...]
RIP John Updike
01/27/2009 by 6 Comments
Tweet Famed novelist John Updike has died at age 76. Besides winning awards and being one of the best prose stylists of recent American letters, Updike was a friend of comics, having planned to be a cartoonist in his youth, and studied painting for quite a while. Or as Jeet Heer wrote: Years ago while [...]
Can superheroes grow up?
01/24/2009 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Screenwriter Todd Alcott examines the genre: First, let me make something clear: there is nothing wrong, shameful or second-rate about adolescent fantasies. Adolescent fantasies drive the entire movie business and have for more than a generation. “Grown-up” drama was once where all the money was spent in Hollywood, now it’s the opposite: all the [...]
Willingham calls for an end to “Superhero Decadence”
01/12/2009 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Thank God, a NEW controversy! Last week, Bill Willingham penned a piece for Big Hollywood, a newish website dedicated to presenting a more conservative view of the entertainment industry. The piece was entitled: Superheroes: Still Plenty of Super, But Losing Some of the Hero. While admitting his own part in superhero deconstruction back in [...]
The life of Steve Gerber
01/07/2009 by Leave a Comment
Tweet The Gerber Curse is an anonymously written online biography of the famed writer. Three chapters are up and more are planned. It’s fascinating reading, with historical background and analysis of Gerber’s best known works. According to the mysterious author: The Gerber Curse is a work in progress. As of this writing, there are three [...]
William Moulton Marston’s OTHER pastime
12/18/2008 by Leave a Comment
Tweet Psychologist William Moulton Marston had a life full of achievements — he helped invent the polygraph test, he created Wonder Woman, and he lived with two women at once! But this book cover would indicate yet one more feat to be proud of: he also wrote lurid novels about Romans — who probably liked [...]
“Warren Ellis: King of the Internet”
12/17/2008 by Leave a Comment
Tweet You’ve got a lot to answer for, Dustin Harbin.
Details on You’ll All Be Sorry! collection
12/09/2008 by Leave a Comment
Tweet About Comics’s Nat Gertler reports that the collection of You’ll All Be Sorry!, Gail Simone’s epochal humor column from the Golden Age of the Internet, has been delayed…but it will contain much NEW and BONUS material, including 50 all-new Condensed Comics Classics: You’ll All Be Sorry!, the collection of Gail Simone’s humor columns, is [...]
Herman Melville, the original Arnold Drake
09/23/2008 by 21 Comments
Tweet Variety announces that WANTED director Timur Bekmambetov will direct a new version of MOBY DICK , which wouldn’t in and of itself, be of that much interest to a comics blog, except that everyone connected with the movie seems to be rushing to tell Variety that this classic tale of man, marine mammal, vengeance, [...]
Moore: spitting venom on WATCHMEN film
09/19/2008 by 53 Comments
Tweet § Geoff Boucher chats with Alan Moore and makes a shocking discovery…Moore doesn’t think much of the upcoming WATCHMEN film! “Will the film even be coming out? There are these legal problems now, which I find wonderfully ironic. Perhaps it’s been cursed from afar, from England. And I can tell you that I will [...]
The chipper world of Mark Millar
09/19/2008 by 5 Comments
Tweet If there’s one word we’d use to describe writer Mark Millar, it’s “chipper.” It’s all happening right in front of his eyes and he can’t believe it! Reading his update on the Hollywood status of his WAR HEROES project, you can’t help but see that he’s got it covered!: I was in London working [...]
Comics-loving celeb corner
09/08/2008 by Leave a Comment
Tweet § It seems that the Way family boasts not one but TWO comics writers: My Chemical Romance’s Mikey Way is writing a story for DC. § Should Chuck Pahlaniuk write comics? § Art Brut’s lead singer Eddie Argos takes on the ultimate expression of pop culture: comics blogger.
Writer Dan Slott and DC Comics editor Michael Siglain join Comics Experience
08/27/2008 by Leave a Comment
TweetIs this a trend? Press releases complete with giant photos of Dan Slott holding a copy of SHE-HULK and Mike Siglain standing in front of a boat? It’s all in reference to now-IDW editor Andy Schmidt’s Comics Experience courses. Comics Experience is pleased to announce that Dan Slott (Amazing Spider-Man and Avengers: The Initiative) will [...]
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