Garth Ennis talks about launching Dynamite’s new Crime Line With “Red Team”
Crime comics are something that are usually popping around in the background of the direct market, but usually only one or two takes hold at a time. In recent years, Vertigo held the crime...
Kick-Watcher: Martin Monsterman, Black Idol vol 1 and LUST (NSFW)
By: Henry Barajas
Project: Martin Monsterman- Graphic Novel
Talent/Project Manager: Manny Trembley
Days to Go: 27
Goal: $7,000
The spiel: Manny Trembley is debuting his latest ALL AGES graphic novel with his company Fish Tank books. Before he started...
Mark Waid Goes To Dynamite For Green Hornet
Mark Waid’s a pretty in-demand guy right now. He pulled an Eisner for his work on Daredevil over at Marvel. He’s also relaunching Hulk for Marvel. He’s doing his own work with Insufferable over...
INTERVIEW: Joe Caramagna Letters The Marvel Universe
Among other similar triumphs, letterer Joe Caramagna has recently become the most prominent letterer in Amazing Spider-Man history, having now worked on over 100 issues of Marvel’s flagship title. Not just content with Spider-Man,...
Emily Blunt and Ruth Wilson in talks to play Ms Marvel?
Those two most reliable sources in the world The Daily Mail and Bleeding Cool are today suggesting that Joss Whedon has already started the casting for Avengers 2. An interesting claim, especially as they...
Michael Uslan to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Monmouth University
Michael Uslan, executive producer of the Batman motion picture franchise and a pioneer of the academic study of comic books, thereby elevating the stature of the medium, will receive an honorary doctorate from Monmouth...
IDW to publish collection of Cerebus covers
Can we all agree IDW editor Scott Dunbier has the magic touch? Not only was he long the Alan Moore Whisperer, but now he's become the Dave Sim whisperer.
Despite his antipathy towards publishers...
Fool’s Gold: Searching for Longbox Treasure: Asbury Park Comic Con, Part 2
When last we saw our stalwart treasure seeker, he was riding the subway, reading comics which he had found in the discount bins at a comics convention a beer bottle's throw from the Asbury...
The Consequences of AvX
As a prelude to Kieron Gillen's actual recounting of the consequences from Marvel's Avengers Vs X-Men event, let's take a quick look at some of the dangling stories/ideas/moments which may or may not be...
Can Comics Become Legitimate Bestsellers?
To me, the answer to that question is definitely: yes! But that also depends on a lot of moving parts and with encouragement from The Beat, I’m going to post a few columns here about the elements needed to create real marketing programs that can help better define what a bestseller is and where the real opportunities lie.
Dave Sim’s October surprise — UPDATED!!!
Update! A new response fro Kim Thompson! Scroll down for the amazing response!
All of this hoo hah seems to have died down so maybe it is not time to resurrect it, but for those...
Studio Coffee Run: The Hulk TV show stalled, S.H.I.E.L.D. casting news, Walking Dead’s Cold...
The latest developments on The Hulk TV show that isn't happening anytime soon, S.H.I.E.L.D. casting leakage, The Walking Dead gets it's own masthead, Arrow stills and more.
There is major Hulk TV show stalling going...