Web Arted Jul 20th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Young, Miller, Steranko, Schultz, Gottfredson, Buscema, Rude, Kamen, Dodson, Harris and more!
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Market Trends – Movie Later, Cash Now
First there was The Thanos Effect and now we have the Panel Effect? Last week at a San Diego Comic Con panel Marvel announced plans for a Summer 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy movie release. I quickly scanned the market…
Captain Canuck Movie Gets Writer
Canadian screenwriter Arne Olsen has been chosen to write the script for Richard Comely’s still on track Captain Canuck big screen feature film. Olsen’s screen credits include Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and Cop and a Half. Regina, Saskatewan’s…
I Miss Renee Montoya (and other thoughts)
San Diego has come and gone and it’s been a while since I managed to get a column up (anyone want to come to Hamilton and fix my internet? I’ll bring you many sandwiches) so there is a ton of…
The Importance Of Panel Layout
Panel layout is one of those features, or more accurately functions, of a comic that goes completely unnoticed unless it breaks out of the established boundaries. The other function that slips by is lettering but that’s a topic for another…
Writing for Comics
Following on from last week’s Drawing for Comics post, I’d like to continue with my thoughts on creating comics… or more specifically, writing them. Just like we all drew our own comics as children, we’ve all attempted to write our own comics at…
New Comic Book Price Guide
The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide 42nd Edition by Robert M. Overstreet has just hit the stands. The guide is simply the best tool we have in the hobby! I always get excited when the new guide comes out. The…
Comic Con 2012 Recap
Well, another San Diego Comic Con is in the books and I thought I'd mention some of the news that I got excited about.
Undervalued Spotlight #127
Famous Funnies #1, Eastern Color, July 1934 I’ve started writing up this Spotlight many times over the past couple years and have always abandoned it for one reason or another. Looking back at my notes I can see why I’ve…
My thoughts on Marvel Now!
So the big announcement came down the pipe last week that Marvel is going to relaunch, not reboot all of their comic books starting this fall (gee… where have we heard that one before). Essentially every title is going to…
The Walking Dead #100
When any book hits a milestone, it's routinely momentous and deserving of a measured amount of fan fare. With its 100th issueThe Walking Dead, co-created by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore, hit such a milestone with its July 11th release, accompanied a wealth of media hype, fan hype and more covers than can possibly be necessary. Yet in a case like this, what matters is the comic itself, as regardless, in the end, a book needs to stand on its own.
Dirty Laundry! (watch until the end)
Watch the following YouTube video with Tom Jane and Ron Pearlman.
Congrats to The Dragon & Jennifer Haines: Eisner Winner!
A hearty congratulations to Jennifer Haines and her comic shop The Dragon in Guelph Ontario. We’re previously featured The Dragon as one of our Progressive Comic Shops and now they’ve won the 2012 Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Award.…
Where Have All The Buyers Gone?
O.K, let’s all sing together (sung to “Where have all the Flowers Gone?”): “Where have all the buyers gone, long tiiiiime passing, where have all the buyers gone, from long time ago???” O.K, I admit it, I collect those cheesy…
Sotheby’s Bande Dessinée July 4th
As part of Comic Book Daily’s look at auction highlights of original comic art we’re taking stock of Sotheby’s recent bande dessinée auction held in Paris on July fourth. This was the first Sotheby’s auction dedicated to comics work. Here’s…
2nd Quarter 2012 Review
Right now comic fans are descending upon the San Diego Comic Con. By all accounts, the industry is doing very well. Year-to-date orders by Direct Market shops in North America are up 18%. This time last year, sales were down…
Crash! Part 8
Dennis De Pues presents Crash!!! Full size.
I could’ve been Captain Canuck
To celebrate Canada Day this year, Captain Canuck’s creator Richard Comely toured Southern Ontario visiting Big B Comics three locations. On July 7th, Big B Comics Barrie was the final stop on the Captain Canuck tour. Richard Comely was on…
Web Arted Jul 13th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Davis, Ross, Adams, Ba, Staples, Sook, Ditko, Cox, Stokes and many, many more!
There are more of us than you think
I was chatting with a client at work the other day, and the conversation turned to video games and comic books (as it tends to do when I talk to people). And, the gentleman I was talking to pointed out…
The Intrepid Girlbot
I met Diana Nock at TCAF. Sadly, it was late on the second day and I was pretty much spent out. But she offered to take my last cash for a copy of her first collection of The Intrpeid GirlBot and I’m…