This month’s Fast Company has a great article on Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead, detailing the hard work and innovative rule breaking he and his team put into managing that brand. Their backstory is as impressive as their success. And that property is just a little over ten years old. It made me wonder ……
NBC has brought back LAST COMIC STANDING, but with a number of big changes that include a whole new panel of judges that has Roseanne Barr coming back to series TV. We talked with Roseanne on what lured her back and just what she thinks it will take to win this year’s competition. Plus Jeff…
Michael D. Sellers’ new book, John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood, takes a look at the story that brought John Carter of Mars to the big screen. About John Carter and the Gods of Hollywood: It took 100 years to bring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter of Mars to the big screen. It took…
Cover Art: Nathalie Lial COMING DECEMBER 2012 – Tales of the Shadowmen 9: La Vie en Noir, featuring the “Wold Newton Origins” story “Violet’s Lament” by Win Scott Eckert… Direct from Black Coat Press! About Tales of the Shadowmen – La Vie en Noir:If Edith Piaf liked to sing about la vie en rose, this…
Art: Joe Jusko Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan turns 100 this year, but don’t think celebrating his centennial has slowed down the Lord of the Jungle. Quite the opposite. Here are a few odds and ends from Tarzan’s world happening in 2012 and beyond. Art: Tom Grindberg Art: Tom Grindberg EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS COMIC SERVICE-By signing…
At the 2012 Baltimore Comic-Con, Basement Comics began offering for the first time a new-to-market, original owner 1920s-1950s science fiction pulp collection. “This collection is literally farm – or should I say, barn-stored fresh,” said Basement Comics’ Al Stoltz. “We recently purchased over five hundred pulps with lots of bed sheet size and regular pulp…
I’d believe that Disney and Marvel would re-release The Avengers if for no other reason that doing so could be the spur to get Joss Whedon’s film even higher in the rank of all-time money makers– and as much as Disney wants the money, they want the ego boost and bragging rights even more. The…
The problem with being a trendsetter is that if you’re successful, you get imitated time and time again. Such was the fate that befell Edgar Rice Burroughs’ pulp heroes Tarzan and John Carter. The thriller-seeking readers of pulp magazines were enthralled by ERB’s pulse-pounding, straight-forward prose, which was strong in ideas and weak in word…
Originally posted at http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2012/04/dynamite-responds-to-erb-inc-lawsuit-over-john-carter-tarzan/ In response to the lawsuit filed in February by Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc., Dynamit has filed what amounts to a blanket denial to accusations of trademark and copyright infringement and unfair competition involving its Lord of the Jungle and Warlord of Mars comics. ERB Inc., which holds the existing rights to…
Let the laments commence; it’s official – John Carter is a flop. Looks like the movie’s makers will take a $200,000,000 bath. We finally trekked north to the monsterplex and settled ourselves to witness a showing of the flop before anyone was certain of its flophood. We did, and we left the theater and got…
But before we get to this week’s topic, John Carter (of both Mars and East St. Louis), I’d like to apologize to the students and faculty of the State University of New York at New Paltz for the talk I gave there on Friday, during which I allowed myself to ramble… But you want to…
Walt Disney Pictures 2012 Directed by Andrew Stanton Produced by Jim Morris and Colin Wilson Screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Mark Andrews and Michael Chabon Based on “A Princess of Mars” by Edgar Rice Burroughs It was while waiting in the theater lobby for my wife after we had just seen JOHN CARTER that I heard…
