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 [...]
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 [...]
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: Marvelman belongs to Marvel.
So that super secret thing that Rich Johnston alluded to that was going to be announced at Marvel’s Cup O’Joe panel? Well that thing is the company has bought the rights to Marvelman. “It is an honor to work with Mick Anglo to bring his creation to a larger audience than ever before,” said Dan [...]
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, [...]
Friday roundup of news from Day 1 at SDCC.
I’ll admit I’m intrigued with Seth Rogen’s Green Hornet film, Topless Robot featured the above picture of the Black Beauty, the Green Hornet’s car that drives around accompanied by annoying buzzing sound. The car looks awesome regardless. A lot of weird and unexplained bits of news have shown up from the very first day of [...]
SDCC: Matt Fraction is all things “Iron Man”.
That is certainly a good thing. From consulting on the “Iron Man 2″ movie, to being nominated for an Eisner for his work on “Invincible Iron Man” it now surfaces that Matt Fraction is writing the video game version of Jon Favreau’s film. The trailer premiered at Comic Con. Along with this bit of news, [...]
Going to Comic Con? Here are some tips.
io9′s Graeme McMillan has done this thing for years: steps to surviving Comic Con. Frankly it would be presumptuous for me to tell you how to survive the convention, considering I’ve never gone and I’m not going this year. However, that does not mean that I won’t be bringing you highlights from the con as [...]
Tuesday Morning Cartoons.
Marvel and DC Comics have released their latest animation endeavors with the “Spider-Woman” motion comic, and the first four minutes of “Green Lantern: First Flight”. We would embed the clips to the body of this article, but they’ve crashed my browser four times since this morning. So, apologies. The Spider-Woman “motion comic” which still just [...]
“Owly” to star in animated film premiering at San Diego Comic Con.
Released today, Andy Runton’s award winning kid’s comic “Owly” will star in its own animated short film at the San Diego Comic Con. From the release: Directed by Moto Sakakibara and storyboarded by creator Andy Runton. Prominently featured will be Runton’s innovative “Pictomation,” a storytelling device in which the characters’ thoughts and feelings are animated [...]
