LOS ANGELES: The new unscripted series “Comic Book Men” has fans of AMC excited for the debut on February 12. The show is the brainchild of Executive Producer Kevin Smith of Clerks, Chasing Amy and Dogma lore, and is a 6-part series that enters the underbelly of the fanboy culture of comic book fans. It [...]
LOS ANGELES: Fox has acquired the rights to the pilot episode of yet another Marvel attempt to bring to life the comic book series “The Punisher.” According to reports, the new prime time series is slated for next year and will revolve around New York City detective Frank Castle. Castle, the title role in [...]
LOS ANGELES: Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who recently passed away after a battle with Pancreatic cancer, will see a comic book after his life released early by Bluewater publishing, the company said. The comic book—illustrated by artist Chris Schmidt, with cover art by Joe Phillips—was originally slated to hit shelves on Oct. 27, but with the [...]
LOS ANGELES: Bookstore giant Barnes & Nobles angrily announced they would no locker stock the relaunch of all DC Comics titles after the comic book company agreed to exclusively release them in digital format on B&N’s Nook competitor, the Amazon Kindle. “We will not stock physical books in our stores if we are not offered [...]
From the blog Geek Out: Mark Hamill, best known as Luke Skywalker or the Joker in “Batman: The Animated Series,” is also co-writer of Dark Horse Comic’ “Black Pearl” series and a big comic book fan going back to his childhood. He told us back in July about a dinner he had in the mid-1980s with comic [...]
Comic books have always aimed at pushing the boundaries of social norms, so when Archie comics – a staple of younger readers comic book reading – launched a gay character last year, many were angry with the series. Now, with a gay wedding taking place, the debate over “alternative” culture appears to be heading toward [...]
A comic book store owner in North Carolina has said he will not sell Action Comics after alleging the Man of Steel is anti-God and blasphemous. Jeff Lamb, an owner in Asheboro, wrote on his store’s Facebook page that he plans to boycott Action Comics for the time being and lashed out at the writer. [...]
10. Blade Certainly not the most critically loved film, Blade somehow captured what we expected: a dark tale of vampires before vampires were popular. Wesley Snipes boosted back into stardom for a while with this film that takes on the idea of a half-vampire bent on a mission to destroy the underbelly of the vampire [...]
Marvel Worldwide Inc. has confirmed their latest project, Road to Avengers, will be released in May next year. The comic book will be based on the Marvel Film Universe canon and will have character illustrations that resemble the latest strings of actors that have portrayed them, such as Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man. The [...]
LOS ANGELES: Featured in the 2010 smash “Kick Ass,” Arizona comic book store Atomic Comics is closing its doors after filing for bankruptcy as a result of the economic slide across the United States. The store, which opened as Bubba’s Comic Store in 1988, had become one of Arizona’s premier comic book stores, earning enough [...]
While it’s not technically a “relaunch,” DC Comics will renew nearly every single one of their titles beginning Wednesday in what has the comic book work in a frenzy. All new #1 issues, including staples Action Comics and Detective Comics as well as Batman and Superman, will be on sale through the month of September [...]
LOS ANGELES: Michele Bachman, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry will be coming to a comic book store nearby this fall after Bluewater Productions announced its fall line-up. The comic book publisher has already issued comic books about Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton and hopes to push forward on its biography series with the Republican presidential [...]
Malaysian cartoonist Zulkiflee Anwar Ul Haque, who goes by Zunar, has fiercely resisted state censorship, deployed creative strategies to keep his cartoons alive for the Malaysian public, and courageously fought all the institutions of state power that have worked against him. Cartoonists Rights Network International (CRNI) presented its annual Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning [...]
One must ask why we continue to rehash stories and stereotypes so often in pop culture. With Y: The Last Man, writer much-praised and award-winning writer Brian K. Vaughn delves into a scenario where one man and his sidekick monkey survive a global plague, leaving the world in the hands of the women. Vaughn, and [...]
CAIRO: Indulging in DC’s Vertigo imprint for years, Marwan Imam decided that art and illustration were to be part of his future. The recent graduate from the American University in Cairo (AUC) sips his Turkish coffee at a local café as he tells of his journey from comic book lover to now co-owner of what [...]
ISLAMABAD: Tough times demand tough measures, right? Not so for a new wave of development workers and peace activists in South Asia who think that doodling rather than bamboozling might finally yield some results. Afghanistan is ravaged by a civil war that shows no signs of ending any time soon. Pakistan and India are grappling [...]
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