Tart, Foundry up
It's he first of the month! Oh crap, that means the rent is due. WAIT! It also means that new issues of Sequential Tart and Comic Foundry are up!
ST has a Sci-Fi issue with...
This, that, other things
Catching up on a few things around the web. David Glanzer, San Diego Comic-Con marketing guru, does the rounds and hints there may be changes next year to control crowds, including perhaps those rumored...
E3 now more intimate; SDCC officially the biggest, loudest show on earth
While everyone says the SDCC is loud and crazy, the gold standard for insanely multi-media booth babe saturated industry freak shows has always been E3, the video game industry's yearly confab. Indeed, many of...
Warren Ellis to Launch Free Webcomics Portal
Warren Ellis is putting his money where his mouth is with his interets in webcomics, according to a post by Joey Manley at Comixpedia:
I am working with Warren Ellis to launch a free...
Video Blog #7: Farewell, San Diego
Or as Walt Whitman wrote,
Now finale to the shore.
Now, land and life, finale, and farewell!
Now Voyager depart! (much, much for thee is yet in store;)
Comics Foundry Video Blogs
Well it seems video blogging is the new pink, as Tim Leong at Comics Foundry was maing his own vids guerilla style.
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Here he captues the con in all its glory including rare,...
Party happenings
The Hollywood Reporter Risky Business blog has all the actual happenings at San Diego -- a world of parties far too cool for comic book people to attend.
Sci-Fi Channel threw a cool rooftop...
2006 Friends of Lulu Award Winners
The 2006 FoL awards were presented in a ceremony at the Bristol Hotel this evening. The winners are:
WOMEN OF DISTINCTION AWARD:
(Honoring women in the comic book industry in non-creator roles .)
Diana Shutz (Editor, Dark...
Superheroes stamps go on sale
Those snappy superhero stamps featuring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the rest are going on sale. We're a bit weak on our philately, but apparently the day of issue stamps are here today at...
SDCC: Random Stuff
Looks, here's all the stuff we just didn't have time to write up in its own items. It's a big sloppy mess:
A woman is auctioning off ad space on her...forehead. How horrid.
Atomic Comics...
RIP: Mickey Spillane
CNN is reporting that writer Mickey Spillane has died at age 88 after a long illness. Spillane's hardboiled pulp novels, including I, The Jury sold millions of copies and influenced a generation of writers,...
Comics lexicon for a new generation
Continuing its team coverage of SDCC, the San Diego Union-Tribune offers and the most useful and yet arbitrary guide to comics term ever. Sample entries:
Costumed athlete: An adventurer in sartorial splendor who has no...
