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Today’s big DC news story is WAR OF THE SUPERMEN , the big Superman event for 2010 everyone has been speculating over. James Robinson and Eddy Barrow kick things off with a Free Comic Book Day issue.
While surely notable, the announcement of a new crossover storyline has failed to ...
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It’s been no secret that even as comics have been enjoying better-than-those-around-them economic results in the Great Recession, a few companies have been late with creator payments. Bleeding Cool has been doing the best job of covering these stories, and interviews Devil’s Due ...
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Dan Nadel , co-organizer of the recent BCGF, wraps things up at Comics Comics — it was a very successful day, and in response to my musings over how much money changed hands, indications are that it was a very successful show for exhibitors, as this picture graphic shows.
Nadel also ...
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Marvel Studios Chairman David Maisel plans to step down after the Disney deal goes through , the trades report. President Kevin Feige will remain and report directly to Disney Studios boss Rich Ross.
Maisel will retain a exec producer credit on movies developed while he was one board ...
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With the successful completion of the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival this past weekend, the New York con scene has finally rolled up its carpet and winterized the boats. But for those of you who just can’t get enough wandering around a room filled with longboxes and husky men named ...
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SThe 2010 San Diego Comic-COn has updated it’s website with the first list of guests :
Sergio Aragonés
Brian Michael Bendis
Berkeley Breathed
Kurt Busiek
Chris Claremont
Mark Evanier
Matt Fraction
Nicholas Gurewitch
Keith Knight
Jim Lee
Stan Lee
Paul Levitz
Larry Marder ...
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§ Tucker Stone looks back at the decade in comics :
Although it would be hard to look at the last ten years of comics and see much of the decade’s woes frankly expressed, it’s not hard to see the seams of conflict that float beneath them. Marvel spent its time messing around ...
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Google is doing one of it’s birthday tributes to E. C. Segar, creator of Popeye. It’s the 115th anniversary of Segar’s birth. The Guardian has a nice profile :
Popeye the Sailor – who famously attributed his strength “to the finish” to his consumption ...
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As we walked around the room at the Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival on Saturday we asked folks what was coming up for 2010 and got a few newsy notes
Perhaps the biggest news was confirmation that Randy Chang’s Bodega Distribution is taking 2010 OFF. Chang said he’s ...
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DC is revamping it’s Big Two with new origins and new “Jump on in!” continuities. Again. But the twist this time? It’s in GRAPHIC NOVEL FORMAT, a marked shift away from the Wednesday crowd in a search to get new readers and a move towards DC’s long-rumored ...
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It was the first actual day of Winter on Saturday, a wet raw day that no sun could pierce with the sky spitting out alternate fits of rain, freezing rain, snow and sleet — sometimes all at the same time.
Despite the inclement weather, the first annual (another is planned) Brooklyn ...
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§ Your must reading link: Abhay Khosla analyses Dark Reign in terms of vagina dentata, Freud’s theories of the head as stmbol of secret desires, the castration anxiety behind many of Marvel’s most recent event comics
The obvious conclusion to draw from DARK REIGN: THE ...
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by Michel Fiffe
Marcos Martin is one of the few modern cartoonists whose work I unconditionally follow. Although his art style is compelling and stripped of pretentions, it is Martin’s emphasis on storytelling that sets him apart from his contemporaries. From his first major ...
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Diamond will be holding its next retailer summit in the midwest, as it’s announced a team-up with Reed’s C2E2, to be held this April in Chicago. Most recent summits have been held in conjunction with the Baltimore Comic-Con, and in Las Vegas. PR below:
After successful ...
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by Matthew Murray
Image had their best month in a long time with Robert Kirkman and Todd McFarlane’s Haunt being their bestselling title in years, plus several of their other high selling titles shipped or increased their sales. Otherwise it was pretty much business as usual.
Thanks to ...
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In case you missed the just-concluded World Cup Draw, the US and England ended up in the same group and will play each other on June 12th in South Africa. Will there be a second Civil War in the Beat household?
By the way, whatever happened to that David Beckham and Posh comic book Stan ...
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Little Brown’s Manga imprint Yen Press has announced they will be publishing manga adaptations of Cecily von Ziegesar ’s immensely popular Gossip Girl series of YA novels — the basis for the very popular TV show of the same name. The series covers high school backstabbing ...
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The much traveled fantasy adaptation imprint run by the Dabel Brothers has been acquired by Dynamite Entertainment. Les and Ernest Dabel have made a name for themselves over the past decade by making deals with the top authors in fantasy and SF to adapt their works to comics format — ...
