Posts filed under "comic-book-news"
Movie Mr Men - This made me smile a lot. Love how he's just constantly building this flickr set. Here are some of my favourites:
Charles Vess & Neil Gaiman’s Instructions - When this comes out it's definitely high on my buy list. Charles Vess's work has never looked better (he of Stardust fame).
http://brokenkode.com/charles-vess-amp-neil-gaiman-s-instructions
Plastic Beach- The new Gorillaz album appears to be imminent. Awesomeness.
Top Shelf 2.0 - Loads of excellent comics for your devouring pleasure over at Top Shelf. I've not read anything from the fine gents in a while (several years ago ...
The year in Manga - Also an excellent list of things that are definitely on my list, but I've not had a chance to buy/read yet (I did mention Children ...
PW Critic's Graphic Novel Poll - Great list of graphic novels that came out in 2009. The obvious candidates like Asterios Polyp, The Hunter and the one that I feel ...
not simple - And another series I've heard really excellent things about as well. More great Manga than you can shake a stick at.
Children of the Sea - Go read this for free. I'm going to be buying the volumes as well, but this is online for free for you to devour (I'm ...
AppleGeeks 3.0 - I've not heard of this, but it's actually pretty well done. I think I'll be buying the first volume when I get back to comic book civilisation ...
Turf - New four issue comic book series by Jonathan Ross and Tommy Lee Edwards. This thing is going to sell like a bazillion copies.
Looking forward to 2010 - A good start of graphic novels that are coming out in 2010. The ones that are interesting to me are: January
CBR Events Calendar - Instant bookmark. Check back every once in a while. Hopefully people will start submitting international events as well.
Work In Progress by Ricard Efa - Watch a comic page come to life in front of you. Great kick up the ass for yours truly.
The Complete Gaham Wilson Playboy cartoons preview - In preparation for Fantagraphic's 3 volume set of cartoons. Here's the introduction by Neil Gaiman.
Spiegelman and Mouly Interview - Having just watched comic confidential this afternoon, the timing of this interview is a bit spooky, as I only found out about Raw today. Definitely ...
Well the results are out for the 2009 Comica/Jonathan Cape/Observer 'Graphic Short Story' competition. For those of us who dreamed about winning, yesterday morning brought with it the sharp taste ...
http://brokenkode.com/2009-comica-jonathan-cape-observer-competition
Scott McCloud On Criticism - Great idea/thought by Scott regarding criticism. I'll try and keep this all in mind as I will be putting myself out there for said criticism ...
Hellblazer / Shoot - Although I think Warren Ellis is a fat slob of a man, with very very silly hair and a demeanor that makes you want to slap ...
Garfield Widget - Easily the greatest widget ever created. The whole archive of Garfield is there. These strips were meant to be consumed in byte sized chunks, so I'm incredible ...
Beast and Boo! - The best art I've seen for the Disney/Marvel acquisition.
Conversations with ADD - Free e-book by Alan David Doane, with conversations with a buttload of comic book creators, including Barry Windsor Smith, Seth, Mike Wieringo and loads more.
Inglourious Basterds Comics - With the Tarantino dialogue I presume and the EXCELLENT RM Guerra (he of amazing Scalped series from Vertigo). Beware, this isn't safe for work (I'm linking ...
http://brokenkode.com/inglourious-basterds-the-graphic-novel
Moby Talks About Cartooning and Small Press Comics - Didn't realise that he actually drew the cover to his latest album, which features that cute little character from some previous ...
http://brokenkode.com/moby-talks-about-cartooning-and-small-press-comics-comicsalliancecom
Scott McCloud Talk - Great presentation by Scott McCloud. I only recently bought 'Making Comics' (thanks to Mike) and it blew me away. In this talk Scott covers some ...
Les 24 heures de la bande dessinée (Edition 2009) - Talk about depressing. I mean seriously. Mike and I tried to do 24hour comic book day. We did 17 hours. ...
http://brokenkode.com/les-24-heures-de-la-bande-dessin%C3%A9e
I Can't Stop Thinking - Collection of appendix comics for Scott McCloud's Reinventing Comics book. I've not read it, but these strips and his overall style of using the expanded ...
Image Comics for October 2009 - This is really for me not to forget. That cover of Proof looks amazing. As does the crazy named 'Cowboy Ninja Viking'. Too bad ...
SDCC 2009 Eisner Award Winners - I've got to say, Chris Ware and James Jean winning another Eisner this year is really starting to show a lack of imagination on ...
SDCC 2009 Jim Shooter Talks Gold Key - The addition of Jim Shooter writing Magnus, Solar, Turok is definitely one of the highlights of the San Diego Comic Convention.
SDCC 2009 Photo Gallery - A more general, lighter touch gallery.
SDCC 2009 Cosplay Photos - So much attention to detail, don't know whether to be impressed or sad.
SDCC 2009 Marvel Acquires Marvelman - Is this true? I don't actually know, but I sure as hell hope so, because I've heard nothing but great things about this series, ...
SDCC 2009 Dark Horse News - Easily the highlight of the Comicon news for me so far. This press release just made my week.
New BlackSad (I've got the first ...
SDCC 2009 IDW Panel - Apart from getting a dreamteam lineup of editors (well they'll be pulling in the talent, you know that for sure), we got:
New Danger Girl ...
Bob Schreck Speaks on Move to IDW - First bit of interesting news to come out of SDCC (San Diego Comic Con for the uninitiated). Love this time of year ...
Comics and graphic novels on the Guardian - Just because I'm not getting enough of my comic book fix these days, my favourite newspaper (I tend to read the Economist ...
http://brokenkode.com/comics-and-graphic-novels-on-the-guardian
The Observer and Random House Graphic Short Story Competition - Definitely going to be entering this year. The only, only thing I need is the story, four pages long.
KA-BLAM Printing - Seems like an interesting POD service tailored for comic book related printing.
Selling your small press comic - If you're looking to sell your comic.