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Image Expo Announces Full Programming Schedule
Filed under: Image, Conventions, News
Wednesday might have been Image Comics' actual 20th birthday, but the publisher won't be throwing their party until later in the month, when the Image Expo kicks off at the Oakland Convention Center in downtown ... [read more]
Walking Dead: Something to Fear
Via Image Comics a teaser for...something involving a chainsaw. And it probably doesn't mean clearing brush. [read more]
Image Expo programming schedule announced
Despite its single publisher focus, the just announced Image Expo (Feb. 24-26, Oakland, CA) schedule is pretty wide ranging, with workshops (with Todd McFarlane and Jonathan Hickman, among others) announcements and comics to TV. [read more]
Spawn 20 Years Later: Looking Back at the Quintessential ’90s Comic Book
Filed under: Image
In stores this month is Spawn Compendium Volume 1, a gargantuan tome collecting the first fifty-ish issues, marking the 20th anniversary of Spawn's creation. At 984 pages, this collection may even be as heavy as the subject of To... [read more]
Happy Birthday Image Comics
Wow February 1 is a banner day in comics history. It is also the day that IMage Comics was created -- 20 years ago. Via Facebook co-founder Jim Valentino Shared a photo of the founders and one pal on that fateful day, from left to right Erik Larsen, Hank [read more]
Teaser of the Day #: PATIENCE
And also from Image...this Shep Fairey-influenced teaser for..something. Guess we'll have to be...calm until we find out what it's all about. [read more]
Happy 20th Birthday To Image Comics
Filed under: Image, News, Culture
Image Comics celebrated today its 20th birthday today, truly a milestone year in the life of an independent comics publisher. The company was founded on February 1, 1992 by Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Todd M... [read more]
Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson Photographic ‘Experience Creativity’ Campaign
Filed under: Image, Culture
Readers of Image Comics have no doubt noticed some conspicuous new house ads across the indie publisher's diverse line of mostly creator-owned titles. The promos feature not artwork or anything else that we're used to see... [read more]
Neil Gaiman And Todd McFarlane Settle Legal Dispute Over Co-Spawned Characters
Filed under: Image, Indie, News, Culture
As comic book battles go, the legal conflict between Neil Gaiman and Spawn creator Todd MacFarlane was as huge, sprawling and intense as any involving super-powered titans trading punches, and even more lon... [read more]
ImageExpo adds Brubaker
The first ever Image Expo is shaping up for the end of next month with the addition of Ed Brubaker, whose FATALE recently launched and has sold out. This is really looking like a zeitgiesty kind of show -- Image is scooping up formerly exclusive mainstream writers like a rescue [read more]
The Week In Creative Differences: John Rozum and Rob Liefeld
In comics, were one privy to what goes on in the editorial suite, you could probably do "The Hour In Creative Differences," not "The Week." That said, there have been a couple cases of creative differences that have bubbled to the surface in the last week or so: the [read more]
The Glory (Image / Extreme) Relaunch: an 80s Take on a 90s Book
In many ways, Rob Leifeld's old Extreme line was the epitome of the Direct Market in the mid-90s. Imagine my surprise when I'm reading the relaunch of one of those books at realize it's very much a mid-80s comic.
As with the Prophet re-launch, the Glory re-launch is something a [read more]
Joe Keatinge and Ross Campbell’s ‘Glory’ Lives Up to the Name [Review]
Filed under: Image, Reviews
When Image Comics announced last year that it was doing a full-on relaunch of Rob Liefeld's Extreme Studios comics, the most surprising thing for me wasn't that this was something that was happening in the year 2012, bu... [read more]
Jennifer de Guzman moving over to Image
Over on her blog, former SLG Publishing editor-in-chief Jennifer de Guzman reveals she has left SLG. Word on the street (and Twitter) is that she's joining Image Comics, in a yet-to-be announced position. [read more]
Coming Attractions: January 2012: Image, IDW, Dark Horse
The March of Coming Attractions continues, like a North Korean state funeral! This installment: Dark Horse! IDW! Image! [read more]
‘Who is Jake Ellis?’ and ‘Activity’ Writer Nathan Edmondson Teases ‘Dancer’ [Exclusive]
Filed under: Image, Previews
Nathan Edmondson has quietly become quite the comic book spy master. His stylish espionage adventure with Tonci Zonjic, Who is Jake Ellis?, has received accolades from all the usual suspects like our friends at iFanboy, ... [read more]
Conan director stays in the “Hack and Slash” genre with Hack/Slash movie
The long batted about Hack/Slash movie, based on the Tim Seeley/Stefano Caselli comic of the same name, now has a new helmer attached: Marcus Nispel, who's previous slashing and hacking efforts include the disappointing Conan movies, Pathfinder, and outings in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the [read more]
Watch Ben Templesmith Paint Warren Ellis’ ‘Fell’ with Beer [Video]
Filed under: Image, Indie, Video, Culture
Ben Templesmith is one of the most idiosyncratic artists in mainstream comics, with pages whose figures and settings often seem much more dreamlike (or nightmarish, as the case may be) than anything like the... [read more]
Mark Millar and Frank Quitely Conceive ‘Jupiter’s Children’
Filed under: Image, Indie, News
It's been an entertaining week for fans of the carnival barking-as-comics-promotion stylings of Mark Millar. The bestselling writer of Marvel's Civil War and Icon Comics' Kick-Ass has been rolling out new artwork and ... [read more]
Millar and Quitely present JUPITER’S CHILDREN in September
Mark Millar is announcing a slew of Millarworld projects this week, exclusively on CBR, and here's the long-rumored project with Frank Quitely: Jupiter's Children, a 12-issue maxiseries. [read more]