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…
Graphic Classics, Vol. 16: Oscar Wilde Edited by Tom Pomplun Eureka Productions, February 2009, $11.95 Graphic Classics has been adapting the work of famous dead authors – from H.P. Lovecraft to Rafael Sabatini – for at least five years, mostly focusing on the more popular (rather than literarily classy) writers. And that’s a good thing,…
Comics come in all sizes. Some are big books, massive “ultimate” or “essential” or “indispensable” or “your friends will say you have a small penis if you don’t buy this” editions, with fancy foil and trim to make the stories of people punching each other seem that much more serious. But there are also little…
IDW Publishing has announced the upcoming release of The Complete Rocketeer by Dave Stevens, collecting the classic series in its entirety for the first time ever. After more than a decade out of print, The Rocketeer makes a triumphant return to stores this October with a comprehensive hardcover edition featuring artwork digitally re-mastered from…
In the Flesh By Koren Shadmi Villard, February 2009, $14.95 You probably haven’t heard of Shadmi before this book – he’s an Israeli, now resident in New York, and this is his first collection. Some of these stories did appear before…in French, in various anthologies, which I doubt any of us are familiar with. But…
Chronicles of Some Made By Felix Tannenbaum Passenger Pigeon Publishing, October 2008, $10.25 Tannenbaum received a 2008 Xeric Award for the two stories collected here – in fact, the way of the Xeric, these two stories are collected because they won the award. The Xeric is specifically and entirely to help self-publishers get their work…
Want to see Watchmen before mere mortals? Can’t get into the MTV "Spoilers" show? Now you have another way, plus you get to see an art show and help out MoCCA while you do it. The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is presenting a Special Advance Screening of Watchmen on March 5th, yes 5th,…
Labor Days, Volume 1 By Philip Gelatt and Rick Lacy Oni Press, September 2008, $11.95 Some kinds of double standards will never die. Take a brutish young American male – dull, unattractive, drunken, and stuck in a dead-end odd-jobs business – and he’s both boring and contemptible. But turn him into a London boy, with…
We are back and barely unpacked from New York ComicCon 2009 and we brought you some surprises already starting with the coolest Comic iPhone app so far, plus DC revives The Doom Patrol yet again, Mike Gold talks comic economics plus The Five Cool Things in comic shops this week. Not enough? Then wait until…
08: A Graphic Diary of the Campaign Trail By Michael Crowley and Dan Goldman Three Rivers Press, January 2009, $17.95 Typically, there are two kinds of non-fiction books about big events – first are the quick-and-dirty ones that come out almost immediately, pulled together from news reports or written on the fly or just knocked…
It’s the trifecta of modern comedy: Sarcasm, Near-Cartoon-Levels-of-Violence, and The Deflowering of Fruit. I speak of a web comic that has consistently delivered all these aspects without fail for over 10 years. Since its creation in 1998, it’s spawned graphic novel collections, a charity that has raised millions of dollars for children’s hospitals, nearly half…
Planet Saturday Comics: Volume One Written and illustrated by Monty S. Kane Planet Saturday, LLC, $12.95 [[[Planet Saturday Comics: Volume One]]] collects short vignettes previously published on the Planet Saturday Web site. The stories, apparently based on the writer/illustrator’s own life, all concern either the child Emory (aka M, as in Monty), and his attempts…
