Harvey Awards Announced.
The Harvey Awards were released earlier to today. Via release, the details include:
Nominations for the Harvey Awards are selected exclusively by creators – those who write, draw, ink, letter, color, design, edit or are otherwise involved in a creative capacity in the comics field. They are the only industry awards both nominated and selected by [...]
JMS leaves “Thor”.
“Babylon 5″ creator J. Michael Straczynski is leaving “Thor”. His exit on the extremely popular, Eisner nominated re-boot had long been rumored, and was confirmed by Comic Book Resources on Friday. JMS said:
The one concern at the back of my head was that of being pulled into a Big Event that could affect the forward [...]
TSA does the “Unthinkable” by detaining comic book writer.
Mark Sable, writer of Boom! Studios “Unthinkable” comic about a writer who goes to work for a think tank to predict terrorist scenarios post 9/11 became a “person of interest” recently while traveling to New York for a signing. Sable wrote of his experiences:
“Flying from Los Angeles to New York for a signing at Jim [...]
Jeez, don’t you think Alan Cumming looks just like the Green Goblin?
Good thing, because he will be playing Spider-Man’s penultimate nemesis, Norman Osborn in Julie Taymor’s Broadway show, “Spider-Man: Turn off the Dark.” Also announced with Cumming, via press release, Evan Rachel Wood (currently starring in Woody Allen’s “Whatever Works”) will be playing the Wallcrawler’s love, Mary Jane Watson.
The Broadway show, written and directed by Julie [...]
Tribute: Jim Mahfood’s Michael Jackson.
I feel like there are so many people saying far more adequate things about Michael Jackson and his love for comics that me saying anything is beating a worn-out drum. So, I’d rather share a wonderful piece of art by comics living legend, Jim Mahfood.
Behind the scenes of the “Scott Pilgrim vs the World” movie.
Besides “Iron Man 2,” I personally can’t wait for the film version of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s “Scott Pilgrim” to come out. Directed by Edgar Wright, the movie stars Michael Cera as our lovable loser Scott Pilgrim, Mary Elizabeth Winstead as Ramona Flowers, and every other 20-something up-and-coming actor in Hollywood.
Wright, director of “Shaun of the [...]
“The Maxx” streaming live (and free) on MTV.
I think I’m dating myself with this one. Way back when, I must have been in 8th grade or so, MTV had this spectacular late-night animation series called Oddities. (Think Adult Swim ten years before the fact). They aired such classics as “Aeon Flux” and this show, Sam Kieth’s “The Maxx”.
Based on Kieth’s Image Comics [...]
‘Watchmen’ Director’s Cut to be released in theatres.
Collider reports from a press screening of “Watchmen: The Director’s Cut” on Blu-ray that Zack Snyder’s full vision of “Watchmen” will have a brief theatrical run in four cities for one weekend before Comic Con International in San Diego. From the story:
Zack said the movie would show in theaters “the weekend before Comic-Con in Los [...]
News roundup from WW Philly and HeroesCon.
Last weekend, there was quite a bit of news coming out of Philadelphia and Charlotte, and this wouldn’t be much of a news site if we didn’t give you SOME idea of what happened.
The big news spinning out of HeroesCon was Longbox, essentially an iTunes for comics. The brainchild of “Comic Book Tattoo” editor Rantz [...]
Good morning, I think introductions are in order.
By David Press.
Welcome to the first day of The Daily Planet! For those of you who have visited Forbidden Planet the store in Union Square over the years, consider this your daily update on what’s going on in the genres the store inhabits.
On a daily basis we’ll be bringing you news on manga, science fiction [...]
INTERVIEW: Marjorie Liu talks ‘Dark Wolverine’ and ‘Darkness Calls’.
Marjorie Liu is an exceptionally interesting person. Besides co-writing “Dark Wolverine” with Daniel Way and reviving “NYX” Liu started out studying East Asian Cultures with a minor in Biomedical Sciences at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. She followed up by going to Law School at the University of Wisconsin, and graduated in 2003. Liu writes [...]
Welcome To Sibuya-Cho
By Mat K.
Okay, all of you who keep up with me and my rants and reviews, remember the other week when I was going on about how 20th Century Boys has been falling behind and why Volume 3 wasn’t out already? Well, almost as if someone at Viz actually reads these articles, here it is! [...]
Unkiedev’s Amazing Stuff
By Unkie Dev
I was hit on the head by a flying plank this weekend and ended up in a magical land of Ez. All I had to do was find the enchanted Wizard of Ez to get home, but along the way I was assisted by strange counterparts from the land of comics. There was [...]
