Beneath A Steel Sky: Remastered is a rerelease of the popular computer game from 1994 from British developer Revolution Software. This month, Revolution brought it to the iPhone and iTouch, complete with new fully animated cut-scenes created by Watchmen and Martha Washington artist Dave Gibbons. Sales have already gone over 20,000, and the publisher expects…
No one can fault Warner Bros. for not giving their best marketing effort to get people to come find out for themselves why the fans and the mass media have been falling over themselves to hail Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen as the greatest graphic novel of all time. Last summer they hooked the…
Today’s list of quick items– Watchmen, Watchmen everywhere: Flickr: Bad viral marketing. See right. Dave Gibbons video on how 2000 AD influenced Watchmen. Also from Wired: Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic From the Onion A/V Club: In the wake of Watchmen: 24 more graphic novels…
After years of eager anticipation, the fan community was given a film version of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ classic [[[Watchmen]]] story. DC President & Publisher has noted that after 20 years of attempts to mount this project, the sophistication of special effects and the growth of acceptance among the general audience for the super-heroic…
Editor’s note: With the imminent release of Watchmen, we thought we’d try and get a different perspective. So we asked Alexandra Honigsberg, a professional ethicist and genre author, to read the book for the first time and delve into the ethos of the world created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. If super-hero comics are…
Yowza! Another con comes to a close, and a lot of hi’s from the usual gang of idiots, renewals of acquanitances (hi Cooch!), the continuted con conversations– you know, the ones which you pick up again as soon as you see the person you haven’t seen since the last convention, and so on. We’ll have…
Watching the Watchmen Dave Gibbons Titan Books, $39.95In January 1985, DC Comics sent me to England to begin meeting with the talent working across the pond, reminding them of our needs and working environment. Dick Giordano and Joe Orlando had been out a few years prior so this was like a booster shot, a tangible…
Dave Gibbons mentioned to Digital Spy that another of his comic properties is being eyed for the big screen. "There’s been nothing picked up,” he admitted. “There was a series I did with Frank Miller called Martha Washington, which in fact is longer than Watchmen, it’s about 500 pages. Frank’s enjoying a certain amount of…
Judge Gary Allen Feess handed Warner Bros. a legal lump of coal on Christmas Eve, as he issued a brief ruling indicating 20th-Century Fox has the distribution rights to Watchmen, according to Variety. His five-page ruling said, “Fox owns a copyright interest consisting of, at the very least, the right to distribute the ‘Watchmen’ motion…
It’s little surprise that the Watchmen toped BookScan’s list of Top 20 Graphic Novels for November for the fifth month in a row. In a report at ICv2, it was noted the book actually hit the Top 10 list twice with the paperback edition of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ story atop the list and…
Warner Bros. is doing a tremendous amount of early publicity for March 6’s Watchmen release. They have dispatcheddirector Zack Snyder on tour, showing clips to the press and other parties first in London then last week in Los Angeles and last night in Manhattan. He and the clips will continue their tour to Europe and…
The New York Times is reporting that DC has ordered around 900,000 additional copies of Watchmen printed since the trailer for the film adaptation of the graphic novel debuted last month. Only 100,000 copies of the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons project sold last year, but DC’s president and publisher, Paul Levitz, says he expects…
