Forgive me if this one gets a little personal. My very long-time friend, comics store pioneer Joe Sarno, died today from a fall that followed a severe, long-standing illness. A long-time science fiction fan dating back to the 1950s, Joe started The Fantasy Collectors of Chicago in 1969, a comics-oriented pop culture club. It was…
It was a long, long running series of one-panel cartoons. It was an iconic teevee series. It was subject of two pretty decent movies. It was almost a DC Comic by Mike Baron and Bill Wray. It is the subject of a Broadway play that opened last week to mediocre reviews. And now it looks…
Diamond Comic Distributors just promoted our friends at IDW to “Premier” status. Essentially, that means IDW’s titles – which include the ComicMix line as well as Transformers, Doctor Who, Angel, Star Trek and a great many others – will now appear in the highly valued front portion of the monthly Diamond catalog. This is a…
Well, you just can’t keep a good Doctor down. 76 year-old Tom Baker, the longest-running Doctor to date, will once again return to the role of the fourth Doctor in original adventures – this time for Big Finish’s full-cast audio productions. This follows this year’s Baker’s successful six-hour full-cast audio, Hornets’ Nest, for the BBC….
In the never-ending battle with the Jerry Siegel estate over the rights and ownership of Superman, DC has fired its old law firm and replaced him with a big, scary guy. Well, Warner Bros. did the hiring. DC no longer has any distance from their parent company and therefore no longer steers the ship. The…
On the right, the well-known Watchmen icon. Trademarked and in use since 1986. On the left, Marvel Comics’ ad for their new X-Men summer event, “We Are The X-Men.” Coincidence? Really? Worse still, if there are any walruses in the storyline, Marvel could have Yoko Ono up their ass.
About seven minutes after Canada beat the United States for the Winter Olympics gold medal, I got a call from ComicMix‘s own utility infielder, Glenn Hauman. “So are you going to write it up?” Glenn asks. “Write WHAT up?” Mike responds. “The Grell thing, Glenn responds. “Damn. WHAT did Mike do NOW,” Mike queries, oblivious…
Commercial artist Frank Kasy was thrown by a 1,200 pound horse and was taken to a Chicago hospital. “It’s a miracle he’s still alive,” his friend Jim Wisniewski told ComicMix today. Outside of ad agencies, Kasy is perhaps best known as Alex Ross’s model for Superman in his sundry DC Comics paintings and stories. As…
After years of rumors, I finally understood what the playing field was going to look like when ComicBookLover released their viewer for the iPhone yesterday. I knew that Apple’s new iPad would run on the iPhone OS, that it would be high-resolution enough to read comic books on a 10” screen. I knew it was…
Yeah, I know. Jack’s long-gone. That doesn’t mean he can’t be sued – or, at least, his estate. To be fair, Jack started it. A whole bunch of copyrights expire between 2014 and 2019, and Kirby’s estate sent notices saying those copyrights will revert to from the House That Jack Built to Jack’s actual house….
When you think of the classic Marvel artists, you think of masters of the medium such as Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, John Romita Sr, John Buscema, and Gene Colan. No wonder Marvel left all other American comics publishers in the dust. This coming February, Marvel Entertainment will honor one of those gentlemen by releasing The…
1,000 Comic Books You Must Read By Tony Isabella Krause Publications, 272 pages. $29.99 retail. I want to publicly thank Tony Isabella for taking on a task that is as courageous as it is, well, thankless. It’s hard to imagine a more difficult and a more controversial chore than recommending only 1000 comic books you…
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