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Weekender: Brandon Graham, EgyCon, 'Stand Still Stay Silent'.
Weekender: Brandon Graham, EgyCon, 'Stand Still Stay Silent'.
Weekender: Brandon Graham, EgyCon, 'Stand Still Stay Silent'.
What a week! I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to sit back and read some comics. The weekend is finally here, and the world can relax and rest once more — but the comics industry has been busy too, you know, and the last seven days have seen a flurry of comics-based news and announcements fly past at high speed. ComicsAlliance has got your back, though: when it comes to comics, we never slow down, and so here’s a look back and just what’s been going on. New comics, new stories, new podcasts, new art being made — it’s all part of the ComicsAlliance Weekender!
25 Greatest Animated Comic Book Covers
25 Greatest Animated Comic Book Covers
25 Greatest Animated Comic Book Covers
Comic covers are meant to get their message across in a single striking image, with the implication of movement provided only by the reader's imagination. We see the single frozen moment; our brain tells the story. Yet some talented digital artists have discovered that there's some fun to be had in animating these images and providing just a little more movement to the moment. We've collected some of our favorite examples of animated comic covers from the past few years, from an endlessly recursive Batman to a lolling Hobbes; from a struggling Spider-Man to a spinning Justice League.
How Bill Watterson Did (and Didn't) Change Comics
How Bill Watterson Did (and Didn't) Change Comics
How Bill Watterson Did (and Didn't) Change Comics
In the golden age of newspapers, the comics pages were often a draw for readers — with the colorful palette of Robert Outcault's Yellow Kid being the source of the term “yellow journalism” — and so editors, acknowledging what they owed to the funny pages, made concessions to that. Works by such masters as Herriman and McCay were allowed room to breathe, and to display their ingenuity in full-page panoramas. By the time Calvin and Hobbes debuted in 1985, this was no longer the case. The comics pages were increasingly cramped, with cartoonists being forced by their syndicates to adhere to a strict format for their Sunday pages that would allow papers to cut panels to reduce space even more. But Bill Watterson dreamed of the beautiful vistas of Slumberland and Coconino County, and he fought for them.
Watterson's Pearls Before Swine Art Raises $62K For Charity
Watterson's Pearls Before Swine Art Raises $62K For Charity
Watterson's Pearls Before Swine Art Raises $62K For Charity
Even those of you who don't keep up with daily newspaper comic strips probably heard about Bill Watterson's secret return to comics earlier this year. In a storyline in Stephan Pastis's Pearls Before Swine, Pastis was briefly replaced by a second-grader named Libby, who claimed she could draw the strip far better than Pastis had been. While the strip was running, Pastis hinted at a "mind-blowing surprise" for readers, and he definitely delivered when he revealed that "Libby" was actually the legendary creator of Calvin & Hobbes, brought back to comics for the first time since 1995. As you might expect, this was a pretty big deal, but became even bigger this week when Watterson's three strips were sold at auction, raising $62,000 to benefit Parkinson's Disease research.
Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 06.11.14
Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 06.11.14
Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 06.11.14
Each weekday, ComicsAlliance brings you a carefully selected variety of links from around the web about comics and comics-related media, including movies, video games, toys, and whatever else might be worth noting. Quite frankly, these are items you may just need to know about to have a productive day. Take a look at today's hand-picked links after the jump.
Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 06.06.14
Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 06.06.14
Link Ink: Comics, Film/TV and Gaming News Links 06.06.14
Each weekday, ComicsAlliance brings you a carefully selected variety of links from around the web about comics and comics-related media, including movies, video games, toys, and whatever else might be worth noting. Quite frankly, these are items you may just need to know about to have a productive day. Take a look at today's hand-picked links after the jump.
Awesome 'Calvin and Hobbes' Exhibit Opens At OSU
Awesome 'Calvin and Hobbes' Exhibit Opens At OSU
Awesome 'Calvin and Hobbes' Exhibit Opens At OSU
Last Friday, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum at Ohio State University opened an incredible pair of exhibits featuring the art of Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson and Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson, and I don't think I have ever wanted to go see an art exhibit more. Curators Jenny Robb and Caitlin McGurk have assembled an incredible collection of original art from Calvin a
'Calvin & Hobbes' Creator Releases First Cartoon In 19 Years
'Calvin & Hobbes' Creator Releases First Cartoon In 19 Years
'Calvin & Hobbes' Creator Releases First Cartoon In 19 Years
Immense kudos to filmmakers Dave Kellett and Fred Schroeder, whose new documentary Stripped was apparently so awesome that it coaxed the famously elusive Bill Watterson to come out of retirement and create his first cartoon (that the public has seen, anyway) since concluding his work on Calvin & Hobbes nearly 20 years ago. The piece will serve as the poster for the film, which profiles the end
Bill Watterson Wins Grand Prix at Angouleme Festival
Bill Watterson Wins Grand Prix at Angouleme Festival
Bill Watterson Wins Grand Prix at Angouleme Festival
Hosted every year in France, the Angoulême International Comics Festival is the biggest comic con in the world, surprising even San Diego's mighty Comic-Con International by tens of thousands of attendees. But like the San Diego show and its Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, Angoulême comes with its own venerable awards celebrating sequential art from around the world, the most auspicious of whic

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