Here are some of the things we didn’t get to on Monday, bullet-pointed for your reading pleasure: Alan Moore weighs in on Blackest Night in an otherwise interesting interview about the revival of Miracle/Marvelman, with predictable results and a huge fan backlash (as seen on the CBR Forums): “They didn’t need some upstart from England…
We all knew that Michael Uslan, executive producer of the Batman movies (All of them. Yes, that one. That one too. Okay, not the Adam West one) was scripting the upcoming Archie #600, wherein the Eternal Teenager finally ties the knot with Veronica, settling more than seventy years(!) of wondering. What we just found yesterday,…
IDW Publishing has announced a partnership with Archie Comics to reprint some of the property’s most iconic stories in deluxe hardcover and trade paperback editions. Under the agreement, IDW will reprint sequential newspaper strips for the first time, offer multiple collections of the very best Archie comics material from the past seven decades, and add…
Archie Comics has provided us with a first look at this week’s Archie #592 “The Demo”: A salesmen tries to sell Archie and Jughead an interactive sports video game, but the teens consider acting out the action with the wireless device as just “going through the motions” compared to their real life memories. SCRIPT: George…
Archie Comic Publications, Inc. issued a press release today, announcing promotions: Victor Gorelick was upped to Co-President/Editor-In-Chief and Fred Mausser named Co-President/Director of Circulation. Michael Pellerito was named Vice President/Managing Editor. In addition to running the day-to-day operations of Archie Comic Publications, Inc., the new management team will review all areas of the company’s properties…
2009’s Free Comic Book Day will be Saturday, May 2 and the Gold Sponsor titles have been announced. A complete listing of FCBD titles, including all Gold and Silver Sponsor comics, can be found in the January issue of Diamond Comic Distributors’ Previews catalog, available on December 24th. Here are the Gold titles: Archie Presents…
Archie Comics has declared that February will see a freshening of the sonic the Hedghog brand as they introduce a new title and reboot the others. Archie has added new characters and situations to the Sonic canon over the last fifteen years. For many Sonic fans, the Archie Sonic comics are considered the glue that…
One of the most important and successful garage bands of all time, the Archies return for the Christmas season with The Archies Christmas Album featuring Betty & Veronica! The Riverdale High quintet scored several top 40 hits, with "Sugar, Sugar" becoming the No. 1 song of the year. The Archies have been named one of…
Archie Comics chairman Michael Silberkleit, the last of the original breed of comic book company family-owners, died August 5th from cancer, Archie Comics announced last night. Along with his life-long friend Archie publisher Richard Goldwater, who passed away last year, Michael spent virtually his entire life at the comic book company. MLJ, its original name,…
Born on Governors Island, Manhattan, New York in 1941, Neal Adams attended High School Industrial Art in Manhattan and then went to work in the advertising industry. He had actually applied to work at DC Comics but didn’t get a job offer — Adams did do some freelance work drawing Bat Masterson and Archie Comics…
Born in 1929, Jon D’Agostino got his comic book start in the 1940s at Timely Comics. In the early 1950s he did work for several different publishers, including Story Comics, Master Publications, and Charlton Comics. D’Agostino continued to work for Charlton on a variety of titles throughout the ’50s and ’60s, though in 1963 he…
Following in the footsteps of previous digital media initiatives, Archie and the crew from Riverdale will soon be making their adventures available via the ol’ computer machines. A recent press release from Archie Comics indicates that the publisher has put together a new DVD-ROM collection that will feature high-quality image files from a large number…
