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The Weekly Pulse – Drive Your Enemies Before You

Morgan Pielli — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:35:35 +0000

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Lots to look at today! A couple more number sixes trickled out in the form of Batgirl, Batman and Robin, Frankenstein, and Suicide Squad. Plus more of everyone’s favorite enmouthed Merc and enlobstered Johnson! Most exciting of all, a new Conan book from Becky Cloonan and Brian Wood! Throw is some Dark Matter, Scarlet Spider, Memorial, The Strain, and Thief of Thieves, (editor’s note: currently sold out. New stock shipping march 14th) and you have a busy week of comics reading!

To Do 4/7/10: The Creativity and Business of Comics

Jeff Ayers — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:00:11 +0000

The Graphic Artists Guild of New York is holding an interesting event at the Manhattan Campus of the Pratt Institute tomorrow night at 7pm featuring Becky Cloonan, Al Jaffee, and Mark Alan Tamatay.

Topics for discussion on their agenda include:

What are the challenges cartoonists face today in getting their work published?
How do you get started in the business?
What is the current market for comics? What is the future of the cartoon industry?
How does work get published? In what media? Print? Online? Animation?
Is a passion to create an important part of having a career in cartooning?
How important is it to be famous, or is it all about getting your work out there?

If you do decide to go make sure you pop into Forbidden Planet before or afterwards. The shop’s a few short blocks from the event (being held at 144 W. 14th Street) and it’s a Wednesday- and you know what that means. New Comic Day!

Its that time again: Wednesday.

David Press — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 17:07:04 +0000

I’m really, really trying to not go into a “Shining” reference here, so please thank me for that. Since our new online store has gone live (hint, hint its at the right or click here), we’re going to do a weekly feature of all the great stuff coming out this week in terms of comics.

The couple of things that I’m looking forward to this week is “Pixu: The Mark of Evil“. Handled by Indie darlings Becky Cloonan, Vasilis Lolos, and “Casanova” and “Umbrella Academy” twin brother artists Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon.

From DC Comics the obvious highlight of the week is “Wednesday Comics”. The first issue of this newspaper-sized comic that will run every week for the next 12 weeks is just bound to be gorgeous. With stories by “100 Bullets” team Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso doing Batman, and Neil Gaiman and Mike Allred doing a “Metamorpho” story.

Other highlights includes the first issue of “Dark X-Men #1″, the second printing of “Chew #1″ which people are throwing up their hands in expressing how awesome it is. I haven’t read it, but its important to try new things. Also is yet another Blackest Night prequel in “Green Lantern”.

However, what I am really pumped to check out is Jeff Lemire’s “The Nobody” which is an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ classic “The Invisible Man.” A number of people have expressed to me to check out his Indie classic “The Essex County”.

As always, for a complete listing of the new comics out today, head to our brandy new, fresh and user friendly online store at ForbiddenPlanetUSA.com.