Schilling for This Coming Weekend’s Big Apple Comic-Con
Exhibiting at Big Apple Comic-Con 10/17-10/19 2009
Big Apple Comic-Con looms like a big geeky monster towering above me this week, as FP prepares to exhibit at the newly-acquired-by-Wizard show. Myself and the FPNYC staff are busy scurrying around the store packing boxes, inventorying our wares, making banners and signs, and yadda yadda yadda… all while [...]
2009 Harvey Award Winners
The 2009 Harvey Awards were presented this past weekend at the Baltimore Comic-Con. Here’s a list of the nominees and winners (BOLD). forbiddenplanetusa.com has the the majority of the books and comics listed below if you’re interested in obtaining them.
BEST WRITER
Kyle Baker, Nat Turner, Abrams Books
Ed Brubaker, Captain America, Marvel Comics
John Gallagher, [...]
Another convention? This one is in Brooklyn.
A month after the Big Apple Con, spotlighting Wizard Entertainment we’re going to have another comics related convention, this time celebrating the comic creators of Brooklyn! Sweet.
Via press release, King Con will feature such creators as Brian Wood, Dean Haspiel, Molly Crabapple, and Al Jaffe. There is a ton more.
The convention is being held [...]
TO DO TODAY: Brooklyn Book Festival.
This Sunday, September 13, is the 2009 Brooklyn Book Festival, and this year they have a whole catalog of comics panels, hosted at the Brooklyn Borough Hall at 209 Joralemon Street. The entire event is outside with some panels in the Hall, The St. Francis Auditorium and looks like its going to have some great [...]
SPX Announces Jeff Lemire and Paul Karasik.
Nice. A press release expressed that Jeff Lemire (writer/artist of The Nobody) and New Yorker writer Paul Karasik (editor of the brilliant Fletcher Hanks book, I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets).
The Small Press Expo (SPX), the preeminent showcase for the exhibition of independent comics, graphic novels and alternative political cartoons, is pleased to announce [...]
Ignatz Award Nominees Announced.
The Ignatz Award nominees for Small Press Expo were announced, and the winners will be announced September 26, 2009. The Beat notes that the nominees were chosen by jury, and at least two jurors are nominees.
Outstanding Artist
Tim Hensley, Mome (Fantagraphics), Kramer’s Ergot #7 (Buenaventura)
Nate Powell, Swallow Me Whole (Top Shelf)
Richard Sala, Delphine (Fantagraphics/Coconino)
Josh Simmons, Mome [...]
NYCC Teams with Brooklyn Book Festival.
Set phasers to Sunday, Sept. 13. This is going to be a fantastic festival. The Beat has a press release announcing the partnership.
The renowned Brooklyn Book Festival and New York Comic Con (NYCC) announce that the premiere pop culture convention and its stars will have a powerful presence at this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival, which [...]
Roundup of news from Chicago Comic Con.
This weekend was Chicago Comic Con, and even though all of the major publishers declined to participate. Wizard Talking Head Gareb Shamus still expected record attendance and said they were committed to the location and “As far as I’m concerned, we’ll be there forever.”
Even though no one had a presence on the Con floor, there [...]
Captain Jack as Captain America?
At the Torchwood panel at the San Diego Comic Con this weekend (let’s face it: we’ll be talking about it all week) a fan asked John Barrowman a boring question: what other roles he’d like to play. This is what Captain Jack Harkness had to say:
“You know what I want to play? Captain America,” said [...]
SDCC: American Original Panel discusses creators.
At San Diego Comic Con, Jeff Katz announced creators behind his comedy anthology book “Comedy Death Ray,” and the first film to come out of the comic book and film production house.
Bob Odenkirk, Sarah Silverman, Patton Oswalt, B.J. Novak, David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Paul Scheer and Zach Galifianakis are among some of the first to [...]
Final SDCC News Tidbits.
Sorry for this not coming on Sunday, but there was no coffee in the house and I don’t function without coffee in the house. So, spinning out of Comic Con we got quite a number of the the answers we were looking for. So here we go:
Geoff Johns will be introducing the Justice Society of [...]
SDCC: Eisner Award Winners.
Last night the Eisner Awards were hosted and virtually everyone covered it. Below is a list of all the winners.
Best Publication for Kids
* Amulet, Book 1: The Stonekeeper, by Kazu Kibuishi (Scholastic Graphix)
* Cowa! by Akira Toriyama (Viz)
* Princess at Midnight, by Andi Watson (Image)
* Stinky, by Eleanor Davis (RAW Junior)
* Tiny Titans, [...]
SDCC: “Choker” announced.
Man, have I been waiting with baited breath for this announcement for what seems like forever. Well, almost a year, really. Yesterday, the Bens, (those being Ben McCool and Ben Templesmith) announced they will be bringing “Choker” to Image Comics.
Ben (McCool) has to be one of the most creative and likable guys I know in [...]
News from Day 2 of SDCC.
I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck, and I didn’t go out last night, but it seems across the country the party was raging all night. I guess Daughtry performed at the Wrath of Con party last night, which seemed like quite the event. Regardless, yesterday we had the Eisners, Marvelman, and quite [...]
SDCC: Vertigo Crime Panel.
I am ridiculously fired up over what comes out through the new Crime Line series of books from DC/Vertigo Comics. Shepherded in by Will Dennis, Kiel Phegley at Comic Book Resources gives us a great outlook of what to expect.
Karen Berger [VP of Editorial introduced panelists Jason Starr, Peter Gross, Jeff Lemire, Chris Gage, brothers [...]
