MECHANOID PRESS RIDES THE WEIRD WEST WITH DEBUT OF ‘STRANGE TRAILS’!


A copy of Action Comics #1, featuring the first appearance of Superman, was bought at auction for $121,000 on Friday, after 33 bids. The CGC 2.5 book was sold through ComicConnect.com and its parent site, Metropolis Collectibles. Back in March, ComicConnect sold a 6.0 graded copy for $317,200, pictured to the right. At $121,000, it…
Ralph Azham does not live in the same world as Dungeon . We’re pretty clear on that; this is not Terra Amata. But it’s the same kind of world: whatever Joann Sfar brings to the mix for Dungeon, that style of fantasy seems to be the way Lewis Trondheim operates. (There are some lesser similarities…
I’m looking for a few good artists. In February 2013, I will have the honor of curating a galley show called Milestones: African Americans in Comics. Pop Culture and Beyond. The show will held at the Geppi Entertainment Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. It’s my goal to make this the most comprehensive showing of black comic…
The suddenly in demand Brad Ingelsby is scripting Die Bad, the English-language remake of a Korean action film with Marc Foster (Quantum of Solace) negotiating with Universal to direct. The 2000 original production was written and directed by Seung-wan Ryoo and, according to Variety, was comprised of “four short films that told the story of…
I’ve stopped reading the letter columns entirely at this point. Sorry, Ryan and Erica, but they don’t make much sense in a collection to begin with, and I don’t really care to see lots of stories about your young fans, cute though they may be. For what it’s worth, I do glance at the pictures…
I had something like five hundred words typed about this book — pretty much the whole post — but I deleted it instead of cut-and-pasting, and then saved over the place I was typing it. So I’m not going to try to recreate that thought process: it’s too frustrating to contemplate. Instead, I’ll run through…