Davide Gianfelice Signing 3/19/10 6:30pm
Davide Gianfelice, the Italian artist whose fantastic work fills the pages of DC Vertigo’s Greek Street each month and splashed onto the American comics scene with his work on Northlanders, will be signing at FPNYC on Friday March 19th at 6:30pm.
That’s just one week after the 1st Greek Street TP (ONLY $9.99!) releases!
Lynch & Herbert on Dune, Cameron’s Apology to Giger, & More
Russ Fischer at /Film has posted all six parts of a fascinating conversation between Dune visionaries Frank Herbert and David Lynch, recorded for Waldenbooks in 1983.
Letters of Note features James Cameron’s response to H.R. Giger’s representation regarding the Swiss artist’s disappointment at not being contacted to collaborate on ALIENS despite “his, quite correct, intense sense [...]
Books of Interest Releasing 9/30/09
Umbrella Academy vol 02: Dallas TP- A fractured team gets thrust into new adventure involving a plot to kill JFK. An FP bestseller, The Umbrella Academy maintains the vibrant cool of volume one with Dallas well. Written by Gerard Way (lead singer of My Chemical Romance and a former guest of FP and an overall [...]
DC Announces Animated Film “Crisis on Two Earths”.
What, just TWO?! We want the full headache of INFINITE EARTHS. Come on, don’t short change us now. Through a press release, DC Entertainment announced the new project written by longtime Justice League scribe Dwayne McDuffie, produced by legendary Batman producer Bruce Timm, will be Crisis on Two Earths.
In Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths, [...]
Cameron Stewart joins BATMAN & ROBIN.
Those of us who have been lamenting Frank Quitely’s departure and Philip Tan as his replacement on the Grant Morrison series, Batman & Robin can breath easy. Morrison’s brilliant counterpart on the Seaguy series, Cameron Stewart is joining the book. Alex Segura at DC’s The Source reports.
I enjoyed Philip Tan drawing Green Lantern during those [...]
Meet Diane Nelson, new head of DC: she’s not a fan of comics.
Diane Nelson, the lady who brought the Harry Potter franchise to Warner Bros., is not a fan per se of comics. Speaking to The Wrap, Ms. Nelson said:
“I’m the first to admit, I’m not by my nature a comic fan. What I bring to the party is a skill at moving properties and brands.”
Okay, so [...]
On Paul Levitz.
Since Wednesday’s announcement, there have been a large number of posts looking back on the career of Paul Levitz, and all of them sounding like his career is over. Throughout the posts, there seems to be an overture of career death when it comes to him. Though Heidi catches herself, he’s a guy rejoining the [...]
REVIEWS! I know.
Everyone can’t seem to get enough of this Guy Richie/Lobo news. I’m just bored with it, to be honest. Regardless, its probably about that time that we finally start reviewing some comics. Mr. Ayers recommended the top pick of the week with Strange Tales #1, I must concur, but there are some other good ones [...]
Wildstorm previews the final issue of ‘Planetary’.
Man, am I sorry to see this series end. Warren Ellis is still the best at trying new things to get your brain working in comics, and his commentary is some of the best coming from a professional writer of comics. I love the guy, but frankly, there will never be anything as good as [...]
Batman Beyond miniseries announced.
Last week, Dan DiDio announced at Newsarama that the classic epilogue to Paul Dini and Bruce Timm’s Batman The Animated Series would return to DC in a miniseries.
11. darknight11 asked:
you said Terry McGinnis will back in the DCU; will he have his own mini series?
DiDio: There will be a Terry McGinnis mini-series early next year. [...]
No wonder Geoff Johns is really only writing mini-series now.
Because he has yet another movie to write! According to the Hollywood Reporter, Johns has been brought on to co-write another draft of the Shazam! screenplay.
Actor-turned-writer Bill Birch has been tapped to reboot “Shazam!,” Warners’ adaptation of a DC Comics series featuring Captain Marvel.
Geoff Johns, one of the three DC Comics heavyweights hired by the [...]
Today in “What Does This Remind You Of?”
For your consideration:
Brian Austin Green as Metallo on Smallville.
Mickey Rourke as Whiplash in Iron Man 2.
Heh. Well, this is awkward. No, not that the fact that the former 90210 alum is sticking close to something that he previously did on Sarah Conner Chronicles BUT the fact that he looks so much like the new design [...]
Playboy previews Vertigo Crime Comics out this week.
With books like “Criminal” and Darwyn Cooke’s adaptation of a Richard Stark novel, and Jason Aaron’s “Scalped” Vertigo Comics is starting to produce their own crime line of comics. Announced at SDCC, the Crime Line will feature works from Ian Rankin, Brian Azzarello,and Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba. Playboy has an online feature previewing the [...]
Azzarello talks Doc Savage.
With comics version of “The Wire” sadly over in the form of “100 Bullets”, Brian Azzarello has been keeping busy. With a weekly installment of Batman comics in Wednesday Comics, and coming out this week an installment to Vertigo’s Crime Line, titled “Filthy Rich”.
Coming in November he’s going to re-introduce Doc Savage to comics.
Doc Savage [...]
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 [...]
