Theater Hopper has been dropped from Google’s listings temporarily, due to some spam infesting its site code.
Luckily, you know what helps sites get reindexed? Links.
Links to some of the funny strips.
Links to some of their poignant strips.
Links to deep philosophical questions.
Just links in general.
And it really helps if you have a large website with a lot of Googlejuice of your own to spare.
No, no– we must use this power only for good.
This weekend the first new DOCTOR WHO episode of 2009 premieres in the U.K. and we celebrate with a visit from the sixth Doctor, Colin Baker, who is still riding The Tardis. Mike Gold looks at just who is really downloading WOLVERINE and Twitter without typing – it’s here.
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For your reading pleasure, we point you to Dial B for Blog which has collected the scrolls of Bennie David, better known to the world as Son O’God. And yes, that is Neal Adams artwork.
Now if we can only get to the inevitable battle against this guy.
That would be a real Final Crisis.
And you thought Watchmen warped book sales charts for comics. That’s nothing– according to USA Today, Watchmen came in ninth in sales for the first quarter of 2009. The first four books were the first four books in the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. In fact, a whopping 16% of all books sold in America in the first three months of the year were Twilight books– four books out of every twenty-five books sold.
The rankings:
Well, that’s one way to squash a rumor.
Stories had been appearing about Sarah Michelle Gellar finally being ready for a big-screen version of Buffy The Vampire Slayer appear to have been trumped by the announcement that she and her husband Freddie Prinze Jr. are expecting their first child.
On the other hand, the rumors had Buffy being a mom too… naaaah.
In the meantime, I’ll stick with the Buffy comics from Dark Horse.
Straight from Heidi at The Beat comes word that the Big Apple Con has been purchased by Wizard and will move to a new venue, Pier 94, and an October date for this year. If this date holds for next year it would put the show in direct competition with the New York Comic-Con which is moving to a fall date next year.
The Big Apple Con had been held at the rapidly decaying Penn Plaza Hotel– a great location, a lousy facility. Wizard has had its own problems with the cancellation of their Texas show, the postponement of their Los Angeles show, and the cutbacks in their publishing line. The Chicago and Philly shows are still planned. As with other Wizard shows, the new Big Apple Con will be partnered with another pop culture show, this time the Video Game Expo. Here’s the press release:
Gareb Shamus, CEO of New York-based Wizard Entertainment, today announced he has acquired Big Apple Con, one of the trailblazing brands in the comic book and pop culture world, and the longest running annual show in New York City. The “new” Big Apple Con is moving to Pier 94 in Manhattan the weekend of October 16-18, 2009.
“I’ve been going to shows in New York City since I was a kid and I have a fondness for Big Apple Con,” Shamus said. “Today’s acquisition fulfills a dream of running a mega-show in New York City unlike anything there’s ever been.”This move also enjoys tremendous support and enthusiasm from industry leaders. “Diamond is really looking forward to working closely with our friends at Wizard as they expand into the New York market,” said Bill Schanes, Vice President for Purchasing at Diamond Comics. “We anticipate a great event based on their ability to attract key talent, to promote and market the event, and at the same time to give consumers a tremendous value for their admission price.”
Ed Fleming, CEO/Founder of Video Game Expo (VGXPO), the largest East Coast expo of its kind, announced recently its partnership with Wizard World Philly. Now, VGXPO will expand its relationship to include Chicago Comic-Con and Big Apple Con as well. “Our partnership provides VGXPO with the ability to rapidly grow our footprint from Philadelphia to Chicago and now New York City,” he said. “We look forward to working and sharing our passion for video games with all the fans in New York.”
Michael Carbonaro , the longtime and current producer of the show, will continue to provide his limitless creativity and enthusiasm to the show.
Good luck, folks– you’ll need it.
Now that the 2009 Eisner Award nominations are out, we’d like to again congratulate all of the nominees– but we’d like to also take a moment of your time and explain why we aren’t among them.
It’s really simple– we didn’t submit anything for the Eisner nominations this year.
This probably comes as a surprise to a number of our fans, and certainly all of the talented folks that work for us and created award worthy pieces. No, we didn’t even submit EZ Street, even though it got a Harvey nomination for 2008 as Best Online Comic.
The reason is shown in the photo to the right of the Eisner judges. See the big guy with the glasses on the far right? That’s Andrew Wheeler. He does a lot of reviewing for us here at ComicMix, and we’ve paid him for them. Filthy lucre has changed hands.
We were as surprised as he was when he was selected for the judging panel– and we knew immediately that we were in a potential ethical bind. Could we submit work without putting Andrew in a bind? Heck, there’s a category for which Andrew is indirectly eligible, Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism. And yet, we couldn’t in good conscience ask Andrew to recuse himself; he’s a damn fine reviewer and that’s why we love him, and a look at the nominations makes you realize exactly how good he is. But if we were nominated in any category, it would call Andrew’s impartiality into question and taint the awards.
Ultimately, we just decided to give this year’s Eisners a pass, rather than let there be even a hint of impropriety. We’re sorry that this unfairly penalizes our creators, but we didn’t see a better way.
So once more, congratulations to all the nominess. And we’ll see you this year at the Harvey Awards… and watch out for us next year in San Diego!
The nominations for the best of the year are finalized. Ballots with this year’s nominees will be going out in mid-April to comics creators, editors, publishers, and retailers. A downloadable pdf of the ballot will also be available online, and a special website has been set up for online voting. The results in all categories will be announced in a gala awards ceremony on the evening of Friday, July 24 at Comic-Con International. More information about the Eisner Awards can be found by clicking here.
Congratulations to Simone & Ajax creator Andrew Pepoy on his nominations for Best Short Story and Best Continuing Series, and to all the other nominees!
Here’s the full list of nominees… (more…)
Among the exciting adventures at I-Con was a panel titled "Under the Radar: Comics You’re Missing." The panelists (Carl Fink, Bob Greenberger, Glenn Hauman, Andy Weir, Bernie Hou, and me) and attendees came up with the following list, which we promised we’d post for reference. You should check them out if you aren’t reading them already:
Webcomics:
Print Comics:
Of course, the real takeaway from the panel was that you should be getting your comics news and reviews from ComicMix.com!
Harlan Ellison just posted the following on his website:
Monday, April 6 2009 11:55:36 EXTREMELY BAD NEWS
Len Wein called this morning. More than half of his house burned down earlier today. Len and Chris Valada and Chris’s son, Michael, got out okay, but their beloved dog, Sheba, ran back inside and is gone. In addition to both bedrooms, the bathroom, and much of the office, what was burned first was the original art for the first Wolverine story, the cover of GIANT X-MEN #1 and other art pieces worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Susan and I will be over there as soon as I pick up my car today, and as soon as I’ve met the dental appointment we have scheduled. This is a major catastrophe for one of my oldest and closest friends. Like your Host, Len is a lifetime freelancer and, even though he remains a star of the comics world, even though he created Wolverine and Storm–among other characters–he goes from day to day earning a freelancer’s living, as do I… and these are frightening economic times for those of us out there, to paraphrase Arthur Miller, “on a few words and a shoeshine.”
As bad as the news is, we’re relieved to hear that Len, Christine and Michael are okay. We’ll pass along whatever additional information that we can.
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