Posts filed under "comic-book-news"
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
Hiroaki Samura - Blade of the Immortal: Footsteps (Dark Horse)
Hiroaki Samura - Blade of the Immortal: Legend of the Sword Demon (Dark Horse Press)
J.Torres - Lola HC (Oni Press)
February
Jock - Hellblazer: Pandemonium (Vertigo)
Jason - Almost Silent (Fantagraphics)
April
Jim Woodring - Weathercraft (Fantagraphics)
Joe Quesada - The Art of Joe Quesada HC (Marvel)
Cowboy Ninja Viking TPB (Image)
May
Various - Wednesday Comics (DC Comics)
Immonen - Moving Pictures (Fantagraphics)
June
Greg Rucka/J.H. Williams III - Batwoman: Elegy (DC)
Hiroaki Samura - The Art of Blade of the Immortal (Dark Horse)
Adam Hughes - Cover Run: The DC Comics Art of Adam Hughes (DC)
July
Matt Kindt - Revolver (Vertigo)
Jason - Werewolves of Montpellier (Fantagraphics)
October
Alan Moore/Kevin O’Neill - The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century vol. 2 (Top Shelf)
December
Pat Mills/Kevin O’Neill - The Marshal Law Omnibus (Top Shelf)
Alan Moore/Steve Parkhouse: The Collected Bojeffries Saga (Top Shelf)
Update: I’ll be adding more graphic novels as I see them coming, with links to where I’ve read/heard about them.
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 one for tomorrow morning with my coffee.
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 of a dream lost (to most of us).
So I did what every person who’s had 3 months of creating, stressing and waiting do, I met up with Mike and Sam (who also had entered the competition) and had a day of comics, food, arguing, frustration, beer and ultimately consolation. We understood the frustration of having put soo much effort into something that was only ever going to be read by a select few number of people.
So after sleeping on it and updating this website with a new section dedicated for comics I’ve created (the first of course is ‘Coffee Beans’), I had another bright idea. If there are over 240 entries (because that was last year, and apparently there were more entries this year than any other year), then maybe 100 of these entrants are online somewhere; maybe they’re also considering where to go next. So maybe it would be a nice idea to try and self-publish an anthology with these 4 page stories. This could then be something we show various publishers or can share with family etc.
Well the point is that the dream would start all over again for most of us.
So a call to all those who entered the competition but were also unsuccessful, drop me a line on twitter or via the email (khaled.aboualfa at gmail.com) or post a comment below.
Update: All those wondering how we can do this, there are a plethora of self-publishing options available through print on demand services (PODs). I’ve got a bit of experience with a few of them, most notably this: http://www.lulu.com/content/222930
http://www.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 and to be honest I’ve been know to offer my own harsh brand in the past…
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 him, his general skill as a writer is actually undeniable (hard as I try). This is from a few years ago and still one of my favourite things he’s written that was never published and made him move away from Hellblazer.
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 excited to read a bit of Garfield every day.
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 to Playboy)…yeah I can already hear the comments from Stathi and my brother.
http://www.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 singles he’s released.
http://www.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 of the concepts he describes in the book, but what blew me away was how confident and eloquent a presenter he actually is. I could tell the guy was smart, but it’s one of those few times where I feel completely and utterly schooled in a way I’ve not felt for many many years. Highly recommended watching. (via sidebarnation)
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. Mike was getting there, I wasn’t doing it the right way. But the 2009 edition of the series in France brought out the above entries, which is an insane amount of work, by an insane amount of talented people. Flipping through the comics, you’ll see some rare gems.
http://www.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 canvas of the internet with a very very long page, is the only comics that I accept to read of the web. All other attempts fall short for me, because they’re basically recycled printed pages tried to be shoehorned into a website. Fail. All these years later, Scott’s work still stands out as the standard; I’ve not stumbled on anything that is as well put together as this.
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 the creators seem bad at self promotion. No website with a new section of blog. Seriously guys, that’s one of the easiest things to get nowadays, and it won’t cost you anything. What’s good about creating an awesome bit of work and then only 10 people knowing about it. Sort it out Riley Rossmo.
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 the judge’s part (even though I think they’re both extremely talented individuals). Ware has won in excess of 18 Eisners in his career, and Jean has one 6 for the same category.
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.
http://www.brokenkode.com/sdcc-2009-jim-shooter-talks-gold-key
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, and now maybe I might actually get a chance to read it, so will you!!!
http://www.brokenkode.com/sdcc-2009-marvel-acquires-marvelman
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 two volumes and the behind the scenes art), great series, I’ll be having some of that.
Final Fantasy Boxset? Yoshitaka Amano? Yeah bring that on.
Furry Water and Mesmo Delivery? Rafael Grampá? You had me at Mesmo Delivery, which I’ve been trying to get a copy of for a few months now.
The Art of Blade of the Immortal - Best news of the convention so far. I didn’t even know this existed in Japan. Hiroaki Samura, in colour.
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 - only covers by Campbell, which is a shame, what is he actually working on I wonder?
Back Roads by Willingham and Gene Ha is definitely the highlight for me however. So yay for Scot Dubnier for pulling that together (told you the editors had some pulling power).
Clive Barker’s Seuth sounds interesting (only because I’ve heard a lot about Barker but never read anything of his).