Tag: Top Cow
Emerald City Comic Con Day 0-1: The most con-like con of all
Now I know what you are thinking, Beat, you have been offline for two days and all you can post is six lousy photos?
Well, there is a longer story but it involves airline...
Five Days of Valentines: Bad for You Valentine Heart Brakers
BAD FOR YOU is a new book by Scott Cunningham and Kevin Pyle that illustrates extremes of, well, overprotectiveness, the nanny state and people going too far. The authors created some Valentines at ...
Checker Books is back (?) with The Winsor McCay Project
Back in the day Checker Books was a company that specialized in reprinting old comic strips and books, including a bunchy of Winsor McCay comics. Run by Mark Christopher Thompson, the company kind of...
Japan launches worldwide assault via its own anime channel
The Japanese government is taking matters into its own hands by spending 15.5 billion yen ($14.7 million) to launch its own TV network with an eye to foreign distribution.
Help Bob Kahan Keep A Roof Over his Head
Bob Kahan is a comics industry veteran and good person that I've shared many a laugh with over the years. Like many good people, he's hit a rough patch, and needs help to keep...
RIP Peter O’Toole
The late actor was the subject of a pretty good graphic novel called, Hellraisers by Robert Sellers and JAKe (SIC), and adapted from Sellers' prose work of the same name, which featured adventures of...
RIP Joey Manley
What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their pundits and bloggers.— Joey Manley (@joeymanley) October 17, 2013
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Webcomics pioneer Joey Manley died...
New comics website launches: 13th Dimension
Like a Phoenix from the ashes...in our recent obituary for MTV Geek we noted that the NY Post's Parallel Worlds site also seemed to be gone. And indeed, a NY Post website design claimed its young life. However, undeterred, editor Den Greenfield has teemed up with Asbury Park Comicon's Cliff Galbraith for a NEW SITE, 13th Dimension.
Congratulations to Leela Corman and Tom Hart
I am certain that all of the world of comics will join me in congratulating Tom Hart and Leela Corman on the birth of their daughter Molly Rose Corman-Hart on August 18th.
In addition...
The Cover for Wimpy Kid #8: Hard Luck has been revealed
They are the rites of fall: kids buy new pencil cases, Jet Coach Rex Ryan says something stupid, turkeys look back on their life and sigh....and a new Wimpy Kid book by Jeff Kinney...
Must read: India’s Leaping Windows—an emerging comics market’s first comics cafe
I often run links about India's comics market while still wondering just how emerging it is, but Ryan Holmberg's great profile of
Leaping Windows Comics Cafe outside Mumbai explains a lot about both...
SDCC ’13: All the limited signing schedules
Want to get a RObert Kirkman autograph? Or buy stuff at Graphitti? You'll have to get up pretty early in the morning to do so at this year's Comic-Con. How early? Well the DRAWINGS...