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Link Ink: ‘G.I. Joe 2′ Delayed, ‘Building Stories’ and Toonami’s New Shows
Link Ink: ‘G.I. Joe 2′ Delayed, ‘Building Stories’ and Toonami’s New Shows
Link Ink: ‘G.I. Joe 2′ Delayed, ‘Building Stories’ and Toonami’s New Shows
Movies: G.I. Joe: Retaliation won't be coming out on June 29 as originally planned. Paramount is moving its opening to March 29, 2013. You know, for the 3D that the kids like. Sing it with me, "G.I. Noooooooooo!" Theme Parks: China's forthcoming One Piece theme park is totally unsanctioned, in true pirate form...
‘Law & Order: SVU’ Takes On Real-Life Super-Heroes and… Chris Ware’s ‘Jimmy Corrigan?’
‘Law & Order: SVU’ Takes On Real-Life Super-Heroes and… Chris Ware’s ‘Jimmy Corrigan?’
‘Law & Order: SVU’ Takes On Real-Life Super-Heroes and… Chris Ware’s ‘Jimmy Corrigan?’
It is a truth universally acknowledged that whenever the subject of comic books shows up on a police procedural, the result isn't exactly going to be the most positive portrayal a medium could ask for. Such was the case with this week's episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, in which the cops of the SVU took on a serial rapist, a group of real-life super-heroes called "Justice Lea
Link Ink: Improv-Style ‘Forest For the Trees’ Webcomic Launches, A Catbus Cometh and Chris Ware’s Charlie Browning
Link Ink: Improv-Style ‘Forest For the Trees’ Webcomic Launches, A Catbus Cometh and Chris Ware’s Charlie Browning
Link Ink: Improv-Style ‘Forest For the Trees’ Webcomic Launches, A Catbus Cometh and Chris Ware’s Charlie Browning
Webcomics: Artists Kevin Mellon and John Bivens have launched Forest For the Trees, a new weekly webcomic that forces each creator to respond to the other's work on the fly, unaware of what's coming next. Museums: An adult-sized catbus replica from My Neighbor Totoro is coming to the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka, Japan in June...
Four Indie Comics Variant Covers for ‘The New Yorker’
Four Indie Comics Variant Covers for ‘The New Yorker’
Four Indie Comics Variant Covers for ‘The New Yorker’
Indie comics creators like Chris Ware, Adrian Tomine, Ivan Brunetti, and Dan Clowes are no strangers to "The New Yorker" magazine, but for the upcoming 85th anniversary edition of the magazine they're all going to be illustrating variant covers, comic book style...
Hulk Conan Fights Superman Jay Leno in Bizarre Taiwanese Animation
Hulk Conan Fights Superman Jay Leno in Bizarre Taiwanese Animation
Hulk Conan Fights Superman Jay Leno in Bizarre Taiwanese Animation
His days as host of NBC's "The Tonight Show" may be drawing to a rapid, $45 million close, but Conan O'Brien's legacy as a comic book fan shows no signs of slowing down. Granted, Conan didn't make this hilarious CGI superhero showdown where he turns into the Incredible Hulk, while Jay Leno turns into some kind of Superman analogy, and then Captain NBC/America jumps in for an all-out, dra
Chris Ware’s ‘New Yorker’ Cover, ‘This American Life’
Chris Ware’s ‘New Yorker’ Cover, ‘This American Life’
Chris Ware’s ‘New Yorker’ Cover, ‘This American Life’
Lots of Chris Ware everywhere: The indie artist drew the cover of the most recent "New Yorker," along with a typically melancholy Halloween feature. Boing Boing also reminded us of an episode of "This American Life" (below) that Ware animated for Showtime about a fad at an elementary school where kids started making cardboard cameras and pretended to film the events around them
The 2009 Eisner Award Winners Announced at Comic-Con
The 2009 Eisner Award Winners Announced at Comic-Con
The 2009 Eisner Award Winners Announced at Comic-Con
The Eisners, a.k.a. the Oscars of Comics, were announced last night. Here's a rundown of the winners in case you didn't make it to the Indigo Ballroom section of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront for the festivities. Best Short Story -- "Murder He Wrote," by Ian Boothby, Nina Matsumoto, and Andrew Pepoy, in The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror #14 (Bongo) Best Continuing Series -- All Star Supe