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The legendary Jerry Robinson passes at age 89 (UPDATE)
Jerry Robinson, perhaps best known for creating Batman’s famous enemy The Joker, has passed away at the age of 89. From Comic Book Resources: Over the course of his early years in comics, Robinson proved a creative and social dynamo, moonlighting as a comics artist on projects such as the infamous “created in one night” [...]
Posted on: Dec 8, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 11 Comments
Cartoonist: Cowboys & Aliens infringes on his comic of same name
Cartoonist Steven Busti claims he drew a comic called Cowboys and Aliens back in 1994 and is now suing the producers and studio of the 2011 movie of the same name that starred Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde. From TMZ: So the question — Did the producers know about Busti before they penned [...]
Posted on: Dec 2, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 4 Comments
First Superman comic book sells for $2 million
The first Action Comics featuring Superman sold at auction for a record $2.16 million. It is reportedly the same comic book that was stolen from Nicholas Cage a decade ago and turned up in a storage shed earlier this year. From Michael Cavna: The near-mint-condition copy of Action Comics No.-1 easily beat the record of [...]
Posted on: Dec 2, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 0 Comments
Funds sought to open Jack Kirby museum in NYC
A fund-raiser has started to raise an initial $30,000 to open a museum in New York City for Jack Kirby. If Stan Lee is the George Lucas of comic books, then Jack Kirby is the medium’s Spielberg. Born Jacob Kurtzberg in 1917, the artist was honoured by his family and fans in 2005 with the [...]
Posted on: Nov 28, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 0 Comments
Boom! names artists working on Charlie Brown comic book
Boom! Studios has announced that the following artists will be working on the Charlie Brown comic book: Vicki Scott, Paige Braddock, Shane Houghton and Matt Whitlock. The press release notes that the first issue will be “written and drawn by Charles Schulz” with additional stories by the above mentioned artists. They’ve produced a teaser comic [...]
Posted on: Nov 15, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 4 Comments
Angry Birds signs with Diamond for book distribution
From Comics Beat: Diamond has signed with Rovio, maker of the game sensation Angry Birds, to distribute their growing line of books — presumably by launching them from a slingshot through the windows of comics shops, bookstores and mass market retailers around the world. A worldwide sensation, the Angry Birds game has been downloaded over [...]
Posted on: Nov 3, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 2 Comments
Digital comics study: Most readers won’t pay same price as printed version
Fleen blogger Gary Tyrrell has been helping Mia Wiesner (of the University of Applied Sciences in Liepzig) conduct a study of purchasing attitudes for digital comic content. He’s posted initial findings and has a more in depth look at the implications of the numbers yesterday. Final statistic for you: the largest single age cohort in [...]
Posted on: Oct 12, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 6 Comments
DC Comics inks exclusive deal for Amazon Kindle Fire
Last week I linked to an number of news stories regarding tablet computers including Amazon’s new Kindle Fire and how newspapers are considering giving away or subsidizing tablets to long-term subscribers. Comic Book Resources reports that DC Comics has inked a deal with Amazon to offer several graphic novels and collection editions formatted specific to [...]
Posted on: Oct 3, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 0 Comments
CDC to fight HIV with digital comic books
Politico reports that the Centers for Disease Control has contracted with a comic book publisher to create digital motion comics for digital devices such as smartphonnes, iPads and Xbox 360s, etc. to build an awareness and educational HIV program targeted at 15 to 24 year-olds. The early success of the still-evolving motion comic animation field, [...]
Posted on: Sep 21, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 0 Comments
Politico looks at Bluewater comic books of politicians
I’ve mentioned before that my impression of Bluewater’s comic books is that they are a supermarket tabloid in graphical form. After reading this story in Politico, I’m wondering if I misjudged. From Patrick Gavin’s piece in Politico regarding Bluewater trying to break the stereotype that comic books were all about men in tights. Defying that [...]
Posted on: Sep 15, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 1 Comment
Siegel and Shuster Society pushes for Superman license plate
Siegel and Shuster Society is trying to collect signatures to petition the making of a special license plate for Ohio with the iconic Superman “S” and the legend “Ohio — Birthplace of Superman.” From Cleveland.com: State Senator Tom Patton, a Republican of Strongsville, has agreed to propose the plate to the Ohio legislature when the [...]
Posted on: Aug 31, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 2 Comments
Remembering the work of Jack Kirby
Sunday was Jack Kirby’s 94th birthday (he passed away in 1994). A couple of sites have posted some of his great artwork. Head over to Tom Spurgeon for scroll after scroll after scroll (I don’t want to pay for his hosting fees) worth of Jack’s work. Bleeding Cool has also posted several pieces (in handy [...]
Posted on: Aug 30, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 3 Comments
WB releases first images of new Superman
Faster than a speeding locomotive, news (and photo) is spreading across the internet of the newly released teaser photo of Henry Cavill as the new Superman in the slated 2013 release of the movie Man of Steel The following are the cast members so far (or rumored where indicated) Henry Cavill (Clark Kent / Superman), [...]
Posted on: Aug 4, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 6 Comments
Court rules in favor of Marvel in Kirby heirs case
Last week the Southern District Court of New York ruled against heirs of Jack Kirby in their suit to reclaim copyright for many of Marvel’s best known characters. The Comics Journal has a great piece on the differences between this case and the Jerry Siegel/Joe Shuster cases against DC Comics: Some legal observers were expecting [...]
Posted on: Aug 2, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 2 Comments
Original Spider-Man #49 expected to fetch $100k+
Heritage Auctions is selling of an original Spider-Man #49 Cover Art by John Romita Sr. and expects to bring $100,000 or more when it hits the auction block this August. The cover was originally written in 1967 and features Kraven the Hunter and the Vulture. Current bidding is at $60,000.
Posted on: Jul 20, 2011, Section: Comic Books, Comments: 2 Comments
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