SDCC '10

Probably the biggest "classic comics" announcement at SD10 was a new series of reprints of Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comic strip. Disney is partnering with Fantagraphics for the reprints, which will begin in 2011....

DAOMU, a hot Chinese graphic novel/"transmedai" series about a tomb raider, is coming to the US via Image. PR below. Image Comics and Concept Art House announced plans to release a series of Daomu...

Today is getaway day. Saturday and Sunday always turn into frantic catch-up adventures with little posting time, and I won't be able to get my final con thoughts up until tonight, but it was...

DC Peter David will be writing episodes of the upcoming cartoon Young Justice, which is based on the comic of the same name that he wrote for an almost five year run.

by special correspondent Bruce Lidl Techland Presents: Comics and Digital Piracy A “hastily thrown together” panel on the last day of the Con made for some lively discussion about the realities and moralities of pirated...

Many years ago (2007?), Heidi described the new "normal" in Hall H.  Reading her reportage, I pictured a United Nations refugee camp, people packed into the space, tarps and tents laid out at the...

Once again, I'm on Watchtower duty here at Stately Beat Manor on Friday night.  A tremendous thunderstorm rages around me, and I wonder, "Is this turret grounded?" Heidi continues to report from the front lines,...

(National Cartoonist Society, Reuben Dinner, 1969) Earlier, Heidi lamented that the Eisner Awards were not given more notice by the general public. But there are ways. Why aren’t the Eisners a bigger deal? EVERYONE, it seems,...

Marvel At the Saturday Cup o' Joe panel, Marvel teased fans with the hint that they would be doing something to do with Crossgen in 2011. After Crossgen entered bankruptcy, Disney bought up its creative properties. Now that Disney owns and operates Marvel Comics, it is seems natural for them to take advantage of the fact.

Dark Horse Given that pretty much all of the Spartans died at the Battle of Thermopylae - which was sort of the point - people have been speculating for years about how Frank Miller would wring a sequel out of his hit Dark Horse graphic novel and movie 300. Today, at Comic-Con, the answer came out. The sequel, XERXES, will actually take place at exactly the same time on another battlefield of the same war.

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

We're back! And we have had no dinner and nothing to eat, so this may be very, very rocky. The evening gala starts with the introduction of host Bill Morrison, who lets on that "Somewhere...