Schlock Mercenary: The Teraport Wars is now available for pre-order. The Teraport Wars is the fourth collection of Schlock Mercenary strips to make it into publication; in true George Lucas style, Book 3 and Book 4 were released first. This book fits between The Tub of Happiness and Under New Management, and with it the…
Philadelphia’s Institute of Contemporary Art has opened an exhibit, "R. Crumb’s Underground", running through December 7. As a part of ICA’s Comics, Animation and Graphic Novels at Penn – A Year-Long Celebration, the exhibit chronicles Crumb’s work from the pioneering early days of Underground Comix through his more modern works of art. The 100+ works…
In a story that has had more twists and turns than the graphic novel it’s based on, the legal battle over the movie rights to Watchmen is in the final stretch. Gary Allen Feess, a federal judge, set a trial date of January 6th for the copyright suit between 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers. …
According to the media, lawyers are gearing up for a “frenzied fight” over the screen rights to the biggest graphic novel of all time, plus: Barack sells out at Image It’s now a world without Don LaFontaine Robert Englund tells us about the rebirth of V And on Saturday, catch ComicMix Radio as we are…
American Widow By Alissa Torres; Illustrated by Sungyoon Choi Villard, September 2008, $22.00 Luis Eduardo (“Eddie”) Torres started a new job as a foreign exchange trader at Cantor Fitzgerald on September 10th, 2001. He was thrilled to get it – he’d been out of work for a few months, his wife, Alissa, was then seven…
Chris Staros at Top Shelf sent out the follow news regarding a sale worth sharing: To celebrate The Surrogates movie wrapping principal photography, surviving San Diego, and all the cool new summer and fall releases, for the next ten days — thru Friday September 12th — Top Shelf is having a giant $3 graphic novel…
When The Watchmen won the 1988 Hugo Award for Best Novel, horrified science fiction purists saw to it that graphic material be excluded from consideration. Until now that has remained the case but next year, the World Science Fiction convention will be adding the Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story to the ballot "to honor works…
Will Eisner’s final book, Expressive Anatomy For Comics and Narrative, was released this week from W.W. Norton without a lot of fanfare. It would have slipped our notice had James Vance not discussed it at his blog. Among his comments, Vance wrote, “But the reward was being allowed to pore over decades’ worth of Eisner…
Zot! The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991 By Scott McCloud HarperCollins, July 2008, $24.95 There are those of us – only a few now, I bet – who keep hoping that Scott McCloud will finally get the comics-about-comics thing out of his system and go back to fictional comics. (1998’s [[[The New Adventures of…
Like so many of the great cartoonists, Raymond Briggs operates almost in disguise, using his innocuous-appearing drawings and simpleton characters as a front while he delivers thoughtful commentary and a piercing wit. The British pioneer of the graphic novel field (he was, at the very least, a contemporary of Will Eisner’s, though Briggs is too…
The past few months have brought a swell of attention to indie comics writer Elizabeth Genco, who scored a coup by having a story included in the Tori Amos Comic Book Tattoo collection from Image Comics, and then her graphic novel Blue — a modernization of the Bluebeard legend — sold well in part thanks…
Between now and this year’s Christmas Special, you might be blessed with a Doctor Who RPG, the first in over 15 years. We’ve got the details, plus: Voltron shuffles toward the screen A big month in the comic stores for Secret Invasion and Batman John McCain said what about D&D? And we turn you on…
