Dark Horse React to Disney’s Acquisition of Lucasfilm

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TweetNewsarama have published a statement from Dark Horse President Mike Richardson regarding Disney’s acquisition of Lucasfilm. This move obviously raises questions about Dark Horse, who currently own the rights to the Star Wars franchise. It’s nothing definitive, by any terms, but it does suggest that something may have to change as a result of Disney’s [...]

Frankenstorm Reading: Weathering the Evacuation Blues

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TweetOn Sunday, I went out and got groceries from the already Walking Dead-like store with its empty shelves and zombie walkers and then I stashed everything that could be blown around outside my house, causing damage. Then I settled in for some 30 Rock on demand and snatched some Halloween candy from the pile, getting [...]

Dark Horse to publish the complete Sin Titulo

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Cameron Stewart’s excellent webcomic Sin Titulo has finished and will get a hardcover collection from Dark Horse next year. The strip, described as “a dark, neo-noir semi-autobiographical mystery thriller concerned with dreams, family, and memory” launched in 2007 as part of the TX webcomics collective, and has continued on, with a few lengthy breaks, ever since. It won the Eisner Award for Best Webcomic in 2010

On the Scene: NYCC 2012 Day Three: Mike Mignola in Hell

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TweetIn a panel devoted to the future of the Hellboy universe, it became quite a task to distinguish between all its various parts currently in motion. But is it perpetual motion, or will it face its abrupt end with Hellboy’s descent into Hell?  After all, it seems like fate has finally had its way with [...]

On the Scene: NYCC 2012 Day Two: Scott Allie Tells It Like It Is

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TweetBy Hannah Means-Shannon Well, firstly, Friday was the new Saturday this year at NYCC. What that makes Saturday is yet to be seen. Though both Friday and Saturday passes sold out ahead of time, the energy and sense of a full house closely matched Saturday’s peak in attendance last year. The numbers were clearly reflected [...]

Brendan Wright upped at Dark Horse

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Tweet Brendan Wright has been upped to associate editor at Dark horse where he’ll work in various capacities on Conan, Creepy, Eerie, and Usagi Yojimbo and his own titles, MIND MGMT; Archie Archives; Jughead Archives; Tarzan Archives; Korak, Son of Tarzan Archives; The Curse of Dracula; Men of Steel; and several others. What does an [...]

Bryan Talbot’s Grandville III: The trailer

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Tweet It’s always hard to know what graphic novelist Bryan Talbot is going to be up to — will it be a crazy imaginative story of English history and dimensional travel like Luther Arkwright? Or a sensitive, heart-rending story about child abuse like Tale of One Bad Rat? Or something else entirely? One genre Talbot [...]

Dark Horse introduce new gay male ‘Billy, the Vampire Slayer’

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TweetBy Steve Morris More Jane Espenson! Dark Horse Comics have today been discussing Espenson’s upcoming issue #14 of their Buffy Season 9 comic, in which she introduces a new character to the series. Called Billy, this character is notable for being the first gay male vampire slayer, taking the basic idea that Buffy is about [...]

Dark Horse introduce new gay male 'Billy, the Vampire Slayer'

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TweetBy Steve Morris More Jane Espenson! Dark Horse Comics have today been discussing Espenson’s upcoming issue #14 of their Buffy Season 9 comic, in which she introduces a new character to the series. Called Billy, this character is notable for being the first gay male vampire slayer, taking the basic idea that Buffy is about [...]

Dark Horse Adapt 'Husbands' as a Digital Comic

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TweetBy Steve Morris We’ve reported on a comic becoming a show, now here’s a show becoming a comic. The Insider reports that Jane Espenson and Brad Bell’s webseries ‘Husbands’ will be adapted by Dark Horse comics as a digital-only comic, starting in October.

UPDATE: Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran working on a graphic novel for Dark Horse

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In a post on her artistic techniques, Colleen Doran reveals that she’s working on a graphic novel with Neil Gaiman, to be published by Dark Horse. The two previously collaborated on issues of THE SANDMAN.

Dandelion Seeds: The Return of Halloween Comics!

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Tweet___________________________________________________________________________ A few months ago, I brainstormed about how Halloween mini-comics being offered by Diamond could be used in a variety of ways to promote comics and have some fun!   (Read that again… there are event suggestions and a timeline there, which I’ve paralleled below, but did not exactly duplicate.) During C2E2, Diamond announced that [...]

Coming Attractions: Fall 2012: Dark Horse

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Christmas is coming! Here are the upcoming titles from Dark Horse! What’s on your wish list?

SDCC 12: Dark Horse announces a triumphant return….

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What??? Hellboy isn’t dead????

Brian Wood is writing Star Wars

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Brian Wood and Carlos D’Anda have been announced as the creative team for a new Star Wars series debuting next year, from Dark Horse Comics.

Russ Manning Award Spotlight: Tyler Crook

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The third nominee for this year’s Russ Manning award is Tyler Crook! Artist for Petrograd and B.P.R.D, amongst others.