24 Hour Comics Day is an annual challenge for cartoonists to produce a 24-page comic book written, drawn, and completed in 24 consecutive hours. The event was founded in 2004 by Nat Gertler, prolific author and publisher of the About Comics company. Currently, the event is organized each year by the comic book specialty retailer…
Typhon Dirty Danny Press, $24.95 At 50, I’m pretty set in my comic book reading habits. Having been raised largely on the output from DC Comics and Marvel, I have fairly mainstream tastes. Now and then, though, I push myself to see what else is out there. As a result, reading Danny Hellman’s recently published…
Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette / Puff, puff, puff until you smoke yourself to death. / Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate / That you hate to make him wait, / but you just gotta have another cigarette. – Merle Travis I was getting ready to leave the office and walk over to NBC,…
Welcome to Mixing it Up where breakout creators create things, break things, and hang out. Every week, David Gallaher experiences the world beyond comics to discuss the influences, hobbies, and thoughts of your favorite artists and writers. This week, David heads to Philadelphia for the Zombie Prom with Black Cherry Bombshells creators, Johnny Zito and…
Week two of the Siegel & Shuster Society’s auction to fund the restoration of Jerry Siegel’s Cleveland home is underway and more creators have signed on to add items for bidding. Joining in the auction, which already includes items from Brad Meltzer, Ed Brubaker, Joe Staton, Gene Ha, Judd Winick, Ivan Reis, Bill Morrison, John…
Canadian cartoonist Ralph Hagen will craft a new comic strip, The Barn, debuting from Creators Syndicate on October 27. The strip will concentrate on the interaction between farm animals and local humans. Hagen, a self-taught artist, has been professionally illustrating for 31 years and has been published in a variety of outlets from The Saturday…
Flight, Volume Five Edited by Kazu Kibuishi Villard/Random House, July 2008, $25.00 As always, the stories in the annual [[[Flight]]] volume are gorgeous and fun, created by a group of artists who worked on storyboards and other art for animated movies, and Flight is easily the most visually diverse of the new breed of mass-market…
Over at Hypergeek, newly citizen-ized Edward Kaye has decided to celebrate his Canadian residency by profiling comic book creators who also hail from areas north of U.S. border. That in itself is an ambitious project fur sure, but he’s doing it in A-Z form. He kicked it off yesterday with a look at the career…
Shmobots is a pretty stupid book on its face. And it’s pretty stupid inside too. Government negligence leads to a city full of worthless robots (termed [[[Shmobots]]]), and three of the laziest ones hang out with a guy and do pretty much nothing with their lives. The humore here — from writer Adam Rifkin —…
It’s official. Platinum has purchased Wowio. I won’t have a chance to get into details on the numbers yet, but expect something soon. Under the terms of the Agreement the Company acquired from the Members 100% of the membership interests of WOWIO for a total purchase price of $3,150,000 payable in shares of common stock…
The ACME Novelty Date Book, Vol. 2: 1995-2002 By Chris Ware Drawn & Quarterly, December 2007, $39.95 In typical Chris Ware fashion, this is an attractively (and extensively) packaged book – so much so, in fact, that what this book precisely is isn’t immediately clear. Is it some kind of notebook, journal, or calendar, perhaps?…
The word went out late last about the passing of creator Michael Turner, but I waited until this morning to post it here in the hope that there was some mistake. Unfortunately, the news was confirmed this morning on the Aspen Message Boards by the publisher’s editorial director, Vince Hernandez. Hello all, Unfortunately it’s with…
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