Archive Page 2097
August 16, 2021
ShortBox is doing a month-long digital comics online fair in October with 48 artists bringing all-new material – Hollywood Reporter
DC Comics, WEBtoon and HYBE from South Korea teaming together on project – MSN News
Fast and Furious #10 is coming April 2023 – IMDB
Why director Martin Campbell (of Green Lantern fame) doesn't make comic book movies anymore – story at Looper
Massive collection of Wash Tubbs comic strips combined with readers notations from the 1930s obtained by Columbia University
In 1928, the barber, I.A. Persinger, began compiling this collection of “Wash Tubbs” comics, a well-loved daily newspaper strip by artist Roy Crane, whose adventure graphics popularized the visual sound effects—Bam! Pow!—we know so well today. Soon, though, the scrapbook expanded with handwritten insights from Persinger and his customers on life during the Great Depression.
Comics can be terrific conveyors of social norms, political movements—reflections of the concerns of the day. There are so many avenues of research that the Persinger scrapbook offers, from social history to rural social networks to outsider art. I’m also hoping, as we explore deeper in its pages, that we find messages that comment directly on the “Wash Tubbs” strips, which will speak to the reception of comics in daily life.
Story at Atlas Obscura
Marvel Daredevil ends with issue #36 – Comic Book
Shang-Chi tickets starting to sell for the September 3 release date – Comicbook
Free Guy ploughs over The Suicide Squad
Weekend movie tally:
Free Guy – $28.4 million opening weekend / $50 million total worldwide so far
Jungle Cruise – $35 million opening weekend / $154 million total worldwide so far
The Suicide Squad – $26.2 opening weekend / $118 million total worldwide so far
Black Widow – $80.3 opening weekend / $367.7 million total worldwide so far
Sources: Boxofficemojo and TheNumbers
Comparison of production budgets
Free Guy: estimated $100–125 million
Black Widow: estimated $200 million
Jungle Cruise: estimated $200 million
The Suicide Squad: estimated $175 million
Sources: Wikipedia
For a show not about Batman, Titans has an awful lot of Batman in it – Polygon
Joe Quinones points out that Marvel erased his signature from American Chavez poster art – CBR
This prompted responses from other writers and artists, like current Nightwing artist for DC Comics Bruno Redondo, who said, "This is absolutely not cool, anti-cool." This is apparently not the first time Marvel has scrubbed an artist's signature from merchandise, with comic book artist Francesco Francavilla also responding to Quinones' Tweet with a similar story. "Yeah it's a thing- I found a T-shirt with my Shang-Chi cover and signature was gone," Francavilla said.
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