Paul Cornell has been writing novels, comics and TV screenplays for 20 years, most notably as part of the Doctor Who franchise. More recently, he’s been making a splash in American comics, with Marvel’s Captain Britain and MI: 13 and Dark X-Men. He recently took over Action Comics for a serial starring Lex Luthor, and he’s about to …
Comic-Con was Robert Kirkman’s big week. Besides the building momentum for the forthcoming AMC series based on his comic book The Walking Dead, he announced a new imprint called Skybound that he’s running at Image Comics. He talked to us about the new company, its structure and its business model.
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One surprise announcement that broke this afternoon at Comic-Con–because, apparently, it had been finalized barely hours before–is that Fantagraphics Books has made an agreement with Disney to publish the complete run of Floyd Gottfredson’s “Mickey Mouse.” Gottfredson drew the “Mickey Mouse” daily comic strip from 1930 (a few months …
11:38: And we’re done! Go forth and celebrate.
11:32: The final category of the evening, Best Continuing Series, goes to “The Walking Dead.” Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard are both here to accept! I keep saying it, but it’s really, really nice that “The Walking Dead” and “Scott Pilgrim,” the two big stories of the weekend, are both …
And we thought DC wouldn’t have any big announcements this time. Grant Morrison’s back-to-back panels Friday afternoon–his own spotlight followed by the Batman panel–saw the announcement of Morrison’s new Batman series, Batman, Inc.
It will debut after the Grant Morrison/David Finch one-shot, Batman: The Return, which will debut …
Right across the street from Comic-Con is the Scott Pilgrim Experience–a little pavilion where you can get silkscreened Scott Pilgrim or Sex Bob-Omb T-shirts, check out the Scott Pilgrim video game, hear DJs and bands, have a flipbook made of yourself fighting, or get autographs from the movie’s cast, director Edgar Wright, and/or Scott …
The official beginning of Comic-Con International San Diego is today, but the long-established tradition of “preview night” happened Wednesday evening for three hours or so. There’s not much in the way of programming on preview night–the show floor opens, and that’s about it–and the cosplayers and such don’t really turn up in force. …
Comic-Con’s events started a little early yesterday: an hour before Preview Night began, Boom! Studios had a press conference to announce three new ongoing series created with Stan Lee’s involvement. Paul Cornell and Javier Pina’s Soldier Zero begins in October, Mark Waid and Chad Hardin’s The Traveler in November and Chris Roberson and …
Welcome back to the Scott Pilgrim Book Club. We’re psyching ourselves up for Bryan Lee O’Malley’s Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour (out now!) and the Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World movie (due out August 13) by discussing each volume of the series over the course of six weeks. This week, Douglas Wolk, Graeme McMillan, Mike Williams, Evan Narcisse …
Comic-Con International is here, taking over the San Diego Convention Center, most of the rest of San Diego, and the lives of the 130,000 or so people who go there from July 21-25. It is a pressure-cooker of an event, and it’s easy to have a miserable time there if you get caught up in the crush. It’s also pretty easy to have an …
Comic-Con International San Diego starts tomorrow, and its program schedule features roughly three billion panels. (It would appear that the line for the “Scott Pilgrim” movie panel started yesterday.) But a handful of them are particularly notable, because we’ll be there. Here’s the scoop on Techland’s own “Comics and Digital Piracy” …
This Friday evening is the 23rd annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards–the most significant awards in American comics, voted on by comics professionals. This year’s Eisners are being awarded in 29 categories, and since half the fun of this sort of thing is guessing in advance who’s going to win, here are my picks and notes on the …
