Web Arted May 24th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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O Human Star
Alastair Stirling, roboticist and AI inventor wakes up. Which is amazing considering he died sixteen years earlier. Al dreams of more for robots, how advanced, how life-like they can be. Then he wakes to find he is one. What’s more, he’s…
BIFF SOCKO: “All In Color For a Dime..Plus A Couple Million ”
It’s time for another update from BIFF SOCKO, TWO-FISTED NEWSHOUND. Biff Socko covers Comic Book News like zits on the A-V Club. Faster than Perry White! Stronger than J. Jonah Jameson! Hotter than Cat Grant. He is…BIFF SOCKO! DATELINE:…
Auction Highlights #77
Auction Highlights #77, Comic Link May Featured Auction The Comic Link Featured Auction has just ended, all results below ended between Tuesday May 21st and Wednesday May 23rd. This was a good auction with a nice mix of books. The…
Canadian Whites Collection Found
Yesterday marked 1 year and 6 months since my Undervalued Spotlight #103 post. In that post I put the spotlight on Maple Leaf Publishing’s Better Comics #1 and talked about the importance and the scarcity of the book. I remember…
Asthetics Of Print Versus Digital Reading
Came across an interview with Fantagraphics co-founder and co-publisher Gary Groth about their publishing efforts. This quote got me thinking. “One of the things we try to do with most of our books is to create beautiful objects. I think that…
Comic Culture May 22 2013
This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija welcome back show producer Shekky Feldstien. Shekky was AWOL for a month but does a great job diving back in. The gang discuss all the talent leaving DC Comics lately,…
Excellent places to buy indie comics in digital format
6 options for buying indie digital comics other than from ComiXology.
The Wolverine Trailer Two
Here’s the latest extended trailer from The Wolverine, coming to theatres July 26th 2013. [youtube ] Plus, here’s the Silver Samurai teaser movie poster.
MCM London Comic Con
This weekend is the MCM London ComicCon and I’ve (once again) managed to score myself an invitation… which I’ll be putting to good use on both days. With no Kapow! this year, this really is the best opportunity…
So you want to buy a comic book shop?
Please also check out our series So You Wanna Open A Comic Shop. Have you ever thought of owning your own comic book shop? The notion crossed my mind years and years ago, when my local comic book shop closed…
Crash 3! Page 8
Crash 3! by Dennis de Pues continues exclusively on comicbookdaily.com If you enjoy this storyline, we are proud to announce that Crash!!1 and Crash!!2 are now available for Digital Download in our CBD Store.
Web Arted May 17th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days.
Social Media and the Comic Community
Back in the day the only way fans could connect with their favourite comic book artist or writer was to go to a comic con or store signing. And, if that specific artist or writer wasn’t coming to your area…
Art for Art’s Sake
The quality of the artwork in the Canadian WECA books has often received unwarranted malignment for its primitive, almost amateur quality. Though it’s true that this was sometimes the case for the fledgling comic book industry of the early forties,…
Comic Culture May 15th 2013
This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija discuss the 4 titles DC Comics is cancelling, the record run of Iron Man 3 at the movies, Laura Vandervoort being cast as the voice of the Blue Fox on…
BIFF SOCKO: “ STRAP ON THE OLD FEEDBAG”
It’s time for another update from BIFF SOCKO, TWO-FISTED NEWSHOUND. Biff Socko covers Comic Book News like zits on the A-V Club. Faster than Perry White! Stronger than J. Jonah Jameson! Hotter than Cat Grant. He is…BIFF SOCKO! DATELINE: FLUTTER…
Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. Trailer
Here’s the first full trailer for Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., coming to ABC Tuesdays this fall. [youtube ]
TCAF 2013: Artist Interaction
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival celebrated its tenth anniversary this past weekend and was a grand event in and around the Toronto Reference Library. Like all comic shows I attended in the hopes of interacting with favourite creators and scoring…
Character Design
In the days and weeks and months and years and decades that we’ve all been fascinated and consumed by art and story in comic books, I’d like to wager my hard-earned pounds that, during your time as a fan… you’ve probably attempted to create your…
Undervalued Spotlight #159
Classic Comics #33, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Gilberton Publications, (January 1947) I’ve often looked to Classic Illustrated (it was called Classic Comics for the 1st 34 issues) for a Spotlight but for some reason never posted one. I was…