What a whirlwind! At the start of the week, Geek Native had news of Graphic.ly’s $1m funding and supersizing waiting list of comic fans. Just yesterday Mashable then had news that Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, yes – that Steve Ballmer, had raved about how awesome Graphic.ly was on stage at CES 2010. Yes – that CES […]
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DC Comics not actually a nemesis to, er ‘Nemesis’
Yesterday, it was reported that Marvel Comic’s forthcoming ‘Nemesis’ series by ‘Kick-Ass’/’Wanted’ creator Mark Millar was being met with legal action by DC Comics. Apparently not according to comments Millar made over at Comic Book Resources: “There is no issue at all here. Someone simply saw that the image we had planned for the first cover […]
Solaris re-signs Eric Brown for Guardians of Phoenix series
Eric Brown’s first series (Necropath, Xenopath and Cosmopath) started life as Games Workshop books and concluded as Rebellion books. Judge Dredd fans know Rebellion as the publishers of 2000AD. The key to the deal is the imprint publisher – Solaris. It was a Games Workshop company when Necropath was published. Games Workshop got rid of […]
Iron Man stars in Cowboys & Aliens movie
The guys over at Whiskey Media’s ComicVine have noted that Cowboys & Aliens will start filming in July. It’ll be directed by Iron Man’s Jon Favreau. This is kinda cool because it had been rumoured for a while that the Iron Man duo of Robert Downey Jr and Iron Man would do another comic movie […]
Marvel and DC to re-start the Exclusivity Saga?
A few years back there was an all mighty tussle between Marvel and DC over talent. Each giant would try and sign an artist or writer in an exclusive deal. Work for us, they’d say, and no one else. David Finch has just signed an exclusive deal with DC Entertainment and their new management. It’s […]
Will the Fantastic Four Survive 2010?
Marvel’s latest news update on the Fantastic Four contains one line of text only. Will the Fantastic Four Survive 2010? The question accompanies this impressive panel from the current Hickman/Eaglesham run.
What if… Nemesis got Mark Millar sued?
It might be cool to be Mark Millar right now. It might be very cool to be Mark Miller given that the Kick-Ass movie is about to come out and it looks like it’ll rock. But all is not well in the Millar world. Bleeding Cool is reporting that DC Comics are taking legal action […]
The rush to wait for Graphic.ly (@graphicly)
Graphic.ly looks like it’s about to explode with potential. Right now (ie today; 4th of Jan, 2010) if you rush over and sign up for the beta using the code ‘TECHCRUNCH’ you might get jumped to the top of the waiting list for beta access. First off; Graphic.ly simply looks awesome. Secondly; it’ll run on […]
Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan trailer
Scott Westerfeld is perhaps best known for his book “Uglies” but this trialer for Leviathan caught my eye. The book’s out now in hardback and ebook and will be out in paperback late in 2010. Leviathan features a war between the machine building Austro-Hungarian and German empires (the Clankers) against the British Darwinists who grow […]
The 2009 Broken Frontier Awards
Comic site Broken Frontier have announced the winners of their sixth annual awards. The award process tooks votes from fans and professionals to select winners from BF compiled shortlists. Best Writer: Mainstream Geoff Johns Best Writer: Independent Terry Moore Best Artist: Mainstream Steve McNiven Best Artist: Independent Gabriel Ba Best Publisher Dark Horse Best Ongoing […]
