BoingBoing recently put the spotlight on Warner Bros. decision to shut down a series of original art auctions on eBay benefitting a childhood cancer charity. Apparently, many of the pieces of art in the auction (which the organizer had requested of his contacts in the comics community and they were more than happy to provide)…
The Incredible Hulk. Hulu. Now that you have a silly Hawaiian image stuck in your head, here’s the scoop: We’re talking about Hulu.com, the online streaming service that lets online viewers watch entire television episodes legally and, most importantly, without cost. Hulu is the product of a cooperative effort by several movie and TV studios…
In all of the comic book conventions you’ve ever attended, did you ever wonder what it felt like to be a struggling creator? In today’s brand-new episode of EZ Street, Robert Tinnell and Mark Wheatley show you what it’s like as Scott and Danny head for Baltimore, to share a table with Michael Oeming.
The man who founded the Mid-Ohio-Con, one of the best run and most entertaining of the hundreds of comic book conventions held each year, is retiring after 27 years. Roger A. Price issued an announcement today that essentially said it was time for a change. Having helped run a large convention (the Chicago Comicon) for…
A new week and a new ComicMix Broadcast where we lay out miles of four color fun waiting for you at the comic stores this week, plus some DVD treats that range from Blue Beetle to Uncle Scrooge to our pal, Dr. Johnny Fever. From there, it’s a sharp left to Hannibal Lechter’s song debut…
This time we talk about ComicMix a bit (!!!) and troll for some comments and we offer the lowdown on Marvel’s special Captain America convention edition (???), connect the music of Coheed & Cambria to Image Comics (Star Wars meets the Matrix?), uncover one of DC’s best kept secrets (no snitching!), we hear from writer/artist…
Only at ComicMix can we draw a line from Cactus Jack to Billie Gray to Major Apollo to Walter Brennan – and not even break a sweat! We interview the WWE’s Mick Foley AND Battlestar‘s Apollo, share some big Sin City casting news, reveal the details behind the new Shazam! action figures, and take a…
For the past few years I have hosted a panel at various conventions called The Black Panel. Before that, every so often I used to be a part of a Blacks in Comics panel. I started the Black Panel to try and avoid all the “Marvel and DC are racist” dialogue that seemed to be…
I just got back from WonderCon in San Francisco, the week before that I was at the New York City Comic Con (NYCC). These cons were fun and, for the most part, well run. I say for the most part because the NYCC people still have some work to do with regards to how they…
The Hey Lady isn’t about to let anyone disabuse her of the notion that comic book conventions are attended mostly by stereotypical male comic book geeks. Not even when they have huge manga and anime contingents (very popular with girls and women), all sorts of tie-ins with other media, and are run by professional convention…
It’s indicative of how the Comics Convention™ (Now with 50% More Media Tie-Ins!) has developed into some sort of über-monster when the promotions for the convention feature supposedly familiar faces and the average years-long con-goer can only recognize one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=-IqdLji47S8 Let’s hope bigger does mean better in this instance. Some of us would settle for…
