Archive Page 2210

October 2024

The New York Comicon programs for 2024 – Comicsbeat

Official Website – New York Comiccon

Shelved Concorde game cost $400 million? – Boundingintocomics

...the game was, to a fault, "heavily championed behind the scenes." "The idea behind this was, and the term apparently verbatim had been used that ‘Concord is the future of Playstation,’ said Moriarty’s source. "That they had such major ambition behind this game, that it was referred to internally as a ‘Star Wars-like project for Sony’

Comic book exploitation: Public Domain – MSN Boing Boing

Originally launched as a Substack original comic, Public Domain tells the story of illustrator Syd Dallas and his wayward sons, Miles and David. Years ago, Syd helped create a popular comic book, Domain, which has now been turned into a billion-dollar Hollywood franchise. Of course, Syd sees none of that money, much to his family's chagrin-until his son Miles, a deeply indebted gambling addict, finds some old dusty paperwork in the basement that says that Syd might own the IP after all...."

Explaining Wolverine's costumes – MSN CBR

Scotland’s most underrated city – birthplace of the Beano and Dandy comics – UK The Sun

Interview with Mark Waid and Chris Samnee about Batman and Robin Year One series – Comicsbeat

The "wacky" mashup of Marvel characters and Fortnite into food items: Ghost Rider as hamburger, Wolverine as a banana – Gamesradar

Lucky Luke comes to auction

Story at First Online

Maurice De Bevere aka “Morris” created Lucky Luke the “lone cowboy”in 1946.

The first complete album was released in 1947, followed by 71 more during Morris's lifetime. The 50 pages of comics for sale come from almost as many different albums. They reflect the evolution of a character who became a legend for generations of readers...."

Mike Mignola says thank you to Marvel Comics for "screwing him over" which helped bring forth Hellboy

Story at Bounding into Comics

Interview with Manu Larcenet about doing the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s THE ROAD for comics

Story at Comicsbeat

85th Anniversary Batman 10 Film 4K Collection at Amazon

Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters film

Story at Screenrant

Marvel comics collector used London buses to find rare issues and now the collection is going to auction – UK Yahoo

Woman facing extradition from Scotland to USA for defrauding comic book company – UK The Times

A woman accused of defrauding her American employer of more than £130,000 to buy a kilt and gift cards before fleeing to Scotland has been sentenced to almost four years in prison by a judge in the United States. Sarah Lynn Tweedie, 49, who was extradited from Scotland in March, was also ordered to repay the money to the comic book publishing company based in St Louis, Missouri, after pleading guilty in June to one charge of wire fraud and one of aggravated identity theft at a court in Missouri..."

"Blank comic book pages" goes back to print – Bleedingcool

The "then and now" art of Alex Ross – Screenrant

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice making money could mean Tim Burton should also revisit you-know-what-franchise* and bring Michael Keaton along for the ride – MSN Nerdist

The Numbers reports Beetlejuice Beetlejuice bringing in $172,433,471 million world wide so far.

*Batman

Game Stop reports a profit number, but also announces store closures coming – Gamespot

Review of Hellboy Artist Edition: Richard Corben

Story at The Comics Journal

The book collects all of Corben’s Hellboy-adjacent work with writer Mike Mignola, from the shorts in “Double Feature of Evil” to the longer myth-narrative of “The Crooked Man”2 in a nice, large-sized hardcover. One reading these stories for the first time wouldn’t know that the man drawing these was well in his 60s when the collaboration began (starting with “Makoma” in 2006) and well-past 70 when the last work saw print (“The Mirror,” 2016). Indeed, I wasn’t much of Corban fan when I first read these, the young(er) and foolish(er) version of me first experienced Corben when my mind wasn’t developed enough to appreciate him, but reading his Hellboy taught me to love Corben’s artwork..."

Is Marvel going to drop film projects Blade and Armor Wars? – Bounding into Comics

Debunking Stan Lee's seminal 1974 book The Origins of Marvel Comics

I was a kid in Glyfada, Greece, when I saw a paperbound copy of Stan Lee's Origins of Marvel Comics at a newstand. I was a DC Comics kid and only obtained Marvel titles through trading with other readers, and I only did that halfheartedly because I had so little knowledge of the Marvel characters and stories. Picking up a random issue meant not really understanding a lot of detail since the tales were nominally linked to previous issues, which I didn't have, but here was an opportunity to clear a lot of that up with an actual book that showed the foundation of the Marvel Comics characters. The only other "scholarly" work on comic books I had then was a paperback of All in Color for a Dime, so Origins was a way to fill in a huge empty space for me on the history of comics, and importantly, a relatively (then) contemporary piece of that history.

Well, now comes Stan Lee Lied: Your Handy Guide to Every Lie in The Origins of Marvel Comics by Chaz Gower. The review of the book at Bleeding Cool mentions how the book is dedicated to the recently passed pioneer comics collector and store owner Bob Beerbohm (who had a lot of opinions on the conflicting classic era origin stories about who authored what, when, and how, for example: "Lee was essentially a blank-slate, a clueless grifter, who from the mid 60s thru the mid 70s transformed himself.")

Amazon Link Stan Lee Lied

Amazon Link to Origins of Marvel Comics 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

The plans for September 21 "Batman Day"

Article at Batman News – DC Comics Batman Day announcement

Denver Mile High Comics marks 50 year anniversary – Westword

The unique history of American Comics – Scotscoop

A very short history of medium with emphasis on popularity measurements.

Still, comic book popularity remains. In 2011, the overall North American market, including both print and digital, was estimated to be worth $715 million; in 2021, the market increased to $2.075 billion, according to Comichron."

Beano #1 from 1938 gets record price at auction – Down the Tubes

The "top comics" for the end of summer – Comicsbeat

Grant Geissman and the magisterial History of EC Comics – Comics Journal

James Gunn idea for Superman-Batman teamup movie to be titled World's Finest – Gamerant

Beetlejuice aiming for $100+ million weekend start for theatre run – Variety

Related: Michael Keaton "A lot of people making money in superhero films because of Tim Burton's vision for 1989 Batman" – Variety

IDW downsizing – Publishers Weekly

The departures mark just the latest round of workforce downsizing at IDW over the past two years. In April 2023, the publisher reorganized after laying off 39% of its staff and delisting itself from the NYSE. And Doyle’s exit was only the latest in a steady stream of them at the top of the company—a number of them voluntary—leaving industry observers wondering who will run IDW's editorial department..."

Controversy around payment on Jen Bartel's She-Hulk covers – Bleeding Cool

Jen Bartel is upset, apparently with good cause, because her Marvel Comics art is being sold digitally without any remuneration.

We have to accept sh-tty deals knowing full well that they're bad, bc the alternative is no deal at all..."

Deadpool and Wolverine keeps piling up the box office money – crosses the $600 million domestic earnings level – Variety

Strong bidding at auction of first issue of the UK Beano turns it into the most expensive British comic yet – UK Scottish Sun

Only a handful of copies of the 28-page debut issue of The Beano are thought to still exist today..."

Seeing the Infinity Saga with 15,000+ fans – Yahoo

Article reads like a promo piece for the event but does include interesting observations of the "nostalgia" for the films.

The show ended with a beautiful fireworks display that paid tribute to each Avenger and brought me right back to seeing Endgame for the first time. But, in Marvel branding, there was also an “end credits” of sorts for the show right after that. Michael Giacchino himself unexpectedly came on stage to interrupt a group of fans starting to leave the venue and ask if they had just four more minutes to spare. And by four he meant that he had the orchestra play the theme for next summer’s Fantastic Four: First Steps..."

First printing of Naruto sells for $20,000 – Something

Right now, you can find auctions in Japan and the United States for first printing, first editions of Naruto. These volumes date back to 2000, and looking at their sale history, the editions can run upwards of $500. In some cases, a copy in excellent condition may cost $1,000, but that is not the norm. Even series as big as Naruto aren't pulling in the big bucks, but as grading enters the market, those manga prices might change...."

This is bound to mushroom as the older first wave American manga fans start hitting adult-age nostalgia stage combined with adult-level incomes.

The Crow remake gets creamed in theaters – original ‘The Crow’ Director on the new film "I Thought The Remake Was A Cynical Cash Grab. Not Much Cash To Grab It Seems" – Bounding into Comics

Low Intensity, a comics anthology – BBC MSN

Creator Marianna Mooney "When I went to comic book stores, I would've been the only girl there."

Andrew Pope, Low Intensity founder: "Having it in print really felt important," he said. "Now, market forces are against us, and it's totally understandable why print media has gone the way it has."

"Comic writing and drawing informed everything in my life".
Comics anthology, Low Intensity, to showcase the skills of artists in Northern Ireland.https://t.co/ZDWCESqn5S

— BBC News NI (@BBCNewsNI) August 26, 2024

If you thought there was a hope that the Pattinson Batman would show up in The Penguin TV show you can stop hoping now – The Wrap

Get into the Public Domain archives that are online at Graphic Chatter

Original page October 9, 2024