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‘Daredevil’ and ‘Tale of Sand’ Lead Nominees for 2012 Eisner Awards
‘Daredevil’ and ‘Tale of Sand’ Lead Nominees for 2012 Eisner Awards
‘Daredevil’ and ‘Tale of Sand’ Lead Nominees for 2012 Eisner Awards
Comic-Con International has announced the nominees for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards -- popularly known as the Oscars of comics -- to be given out this year during the mighty San Diego convention. Categories range from Best Single Issue to Best Inker to Best Publication Design, and coming in with the most nominations of all is Marvel Comics' Daredevil...
Comics We Love: Jim Henson’s ‘Tale of Sand’
Comics We Love: Jim Henson’s ‘Tale of Sand’
Comics We Love: Jim Henson’s ‘Tale of Sand’
Before he became famous for his work on Sesame Street and The Muppets, Jim Henson was a veritable Jack-of-all-trades in the artistic field. During the '60s, Henson was not only a master puppeteer; he was a photographer, made television commercials, dabbled in music, created at-home animated movies, and crafted screenplays with writer and friend Jerry Juhl...
Archaia’s ‘Dark Crystal: Creation Myths’ is a Proper Prequel on an Epic Scale [Preview]
Archaia’s ‘Dark Crystal: Creation Myths’ is a Proper Prequel on an Epic Scale [Preview]
Archaia’s ‘Dark Crystal: Creation Myths’ is a Proper Prequel on an Epic Scale [Preview]
On sale this week from Archaia is The Dark Crystal: Creation Myths, the first of a three-volume prequel to the events of the cult classic Jim Henson film. Devised by Brian Froud, the conceptual designer behind the original movie, Archaia's Dark Crystal book is not just an unusually handsome and lavishly illustrated graphic novel (even by Archaia's typically high production standards), it's also in
Archaia’s ‘The Storyteller’ Honors Jim Henson with Top Talents [Preview]
Archaia’s ‘The Storyteller’ Honors Jim Henson with Top Talents [Preview]
Archaia’s ‘The Storyteller’ Honors Jim Henson with Top Talents [Preview]
On sale this week from Archaia is Jim Henson's The Storyteller Volume 1, a new hardcover anthology based on the Jim Henson television series of the 1980s and early 1990s. Created in full cooperation with the Jim Henson Company, the book features all-new comics by a veritable who's who of fan-favorite creaotrs like Katie Cook, Colleen Coover, Chris Eliopoulos, Roger Langridge, Marjorie Liu, Jeff
Jim Henson’s Lost ‘Tale Of Sand’ Screenplay Returns As Graphic Novel [20-Page Preview]
Jim Henson’s Lost ‘Tale Of Sand’ Screenplay Returns As Graphic Novel [20-Page Preview]
Jim Henson’s Lost ‘Tale Of Sand’ Screenplay Returns As Graphic Novel [20-Page Preview]
Written by Jim Henson and his frequent collaborator Jerry Juhl, Tale Of Sand was a completed 1974 screenplay discovered in the late master's archives. The dark and decidedly surreal story follows an unnamed man who finds himself in a tiny town that, even though it's in the middle of a seemingly endless desert, contains all manners of cultural anachronisms like swinging jazz clubs, monkeys playing
Link Ink: ‘Batman: Arkham City’ Gets 3D, The TARDIS Corset And Lunch From An NES
Link Ink: ‘Batman: Arkham City’ Gets 3D, The TARDIS Corset And Lunch From An NES
Link Ink: ‘Batman: Arkham City’ Gets 3D, The TARDIS Corset And Lunch From An NES
Gaming: Batman: Arkham City will support both stereoscopic and old-fashioned anaglyph (red and blue glasses) varieties of 3D at launch. International: Robert Kirkman's Skybound imprint at Image has inked a deal for distribution in Asia, taking Invincible, The Walking Dead, Witch Doctor and more overseas...
Jim Henson’s 1969 Take on ‘The Wizard of Id’ is Magical [Video]
Jim Henson’s 1969 Take on ‘The Wizard of Id’ is Magical [Video]
Jim Henson’s 1969 Take on ‘The Wizard of Id’ is Magical [Video]
Like a lot of nearly 50-year-old fixtures of the Sunday funnies, Brant Parker and Johnny Hart's syndicated The Wizard of Id comic strip has always resonated with me more as a snapshot of a cartooning era gone by than, say, an ambitious social commentary (I had to look up what a "fink" was when I was a kid)...
ComicsAlliance vs. the Fraggles of ‘Fraggle Rock’
ComicsAlliance vs. the Fraggles of ‘Fraggle Rock’
ComicsAlliance vs. the Fraggles of ‘Fraggle Rock’
This week, Archaia Studios is giving old fans and new readers alike a chance to get familiar with one of the best-loved properties of the '80s with their release of "Fraggle Rock" #1, hitting shelves on Wednesday with a special Free Comic Book Day story on Saturday...