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Gabrielle Bell’s San Diego continues
Wow, shit gets very, very personal in this installment.
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Girls like to buy stuff, Times claims
The New York Times has a story on how Comic-Con has become a venue to market to -- gasp! -- girls with lots of info on various toy and clothing lines, including gymnast Nastia Liukin's Supergirl line of clothing. [read more]
Women who went to Comic-Con and drew comic strips about it
Jillian Tamaki
And Gabrielle Bell — this one is an EPIC.
We could have SWORN there was a third…but can’t find it now. Readers?
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Charts of Note #2: Does Comic-Con KILL movie buzz?
Has all the Comic-Con hype actually TURNED OFF some moviegoers? That's what what a chart over at THR seems to show, Jay Fernandez reports: [read more]
SD10 the wrap-up: Eating scraps
Lesson #1 of San Diego Comic-Con 2010: You can’t live on breakfast from the Embassy Suites.
Or if you do, you will pay a fightful price.
It was Thursday morning at Comic-Con, the morning after Preview night and the day when things blast into high gear with a roar of [read more]
SD10: True Blood was EVERYWHERE
By Shannon O'Leary, Entertainment Editor<P>
Last week I said I’d turn in a late True Blood Recap after I got back from Comic Con. Last week I hadn’t actually gone to Comic Con yet. Going to Comic Con this year was not unlike attending The Fall of Saigon. It [read more]
SD10: The Final frontier
As images of SD10 filter out, the defining one has yet to manifest itself, but in this image of a woman helping her Iron Man-themed friend pee into a bottle, we have a fetish-palooza: water sports, mascots, bondage, superheroes. No wonder Comic-Con is all things to all people. But the [read more]
DC Comics announces “All-Star Green Lantern”
With little fanfare, right under the noses of thousands of Comic-Con attendees, DC Comics, in partnership with Converse, announced the creation of five unique designs. (Literally. Most of the DC booth staffers were wearing the new designs last weekend.)
Available in September from Journeys, the line will feature five different designs based on [read more]
How others cover Comic-Con
As we wait for the Beatrix to recover from her annual pilgrimage to San Diego, here are some other websites, and their consolidated reportage on Comic-Con International: San Diego.
These are some of my favorites, and some I could remember. The list is not comprehensive, merely a distraction while we wait [read more]
SD10: All the Marvel and DC news
While we’re gathering our thoughts, hydrating, and moving to a new secured location, Newsarama’s Lucas Siegel has all the bullet points news from Marvel and DC at the show. Discuss. We’ll wait.
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SD10: FBI and Disney team for Mickey Mouse reprints
Probably the biggest “classic comics” announcement at SD10 was a new series of reprints of Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse comic strip. Disney is partnering with Fantagraphics for the reprints, which will begin in 2011.
Gottfredson’s Mickey was far from the benign company spokesman we all know and love. Rather he [read more]
Image launches DAOMU
DAOMU, a hot Chinese graphic novel/”transmedai” series about a tomb raider, is coming to the US via Image. PR below.
Image Comics and Concept Art House announced plans to release a series of Daomu comics based on one of China’s best-selling novel series. This will be Daomu’s debut in the [read more]
SD10: The Mop-up
Today is getaway day. Saturday and Sunday always turn into frantic catch-up adventures with little posting time, and I won’t be able to get my final con thoughts up until tonight, but it was a pretty good show. No one lost an eye. The big question was whether the time [read more]
SD10: Sunday in a nutshell
DC
Peter David will be writing episodes of the upcoming cartoon Young Justice, which is based on the comic of the same name that he wrote for an almost five year run. [read more]
SD10: The Piracy panel
by special correspondent Bruce Lidl
Techland Presents: Comics and Digital Piracy
A “hastily thrown together” panel on the last day of the Con made for some lively discussion about the realities and moralities of pirated comics.
Moderator Douglas Wolk from Techland.com, a long time music critic, is concerned that the comics industry [read more]
There are many here among us
Once again, I’m on Watchtower duty here at Stately Beat Manor on Friday night. A tremendous thunderstorm rages around me, and I wonder, “Is this turret grounded?”
Heidi continues to report from the front lines, embedded with the various tribes attending Comic-Con International: San Diego.
It’s Raining On Prom Night
Entertainment Tonight reports [read more]
Some thoughts on the Eisner Awards
(National Cartoonist Society, Reuben Dinner, 1969)
Earlier, Heidi lamented that the Eisner Awards were not given more notice by the general public.
But there are ways. Why aren’t the Eisners a bigger deal? EVERYONE, it seems, has planned their party opposite the Eisners, and it’s understandable when the ceremony has evolved into [read more]
SD10: Big Two Saturday
Marvel
At the Saturday Cup o' Joe panel, Marvel teased fans with the hint that they would be doing something to do with Crossgen in 2011. After Crossgen entered bankruptcy, Disney bought up its creative properties. Now that Disney owns and operates Marvel Comics, it is seems natural for them to [read more]
SD10: Indie Comics Saturday
Dark Horse
Given that pretty much all of the Spartans died at the Battle of Thermopylae - which was sort of the point - people have been speculating for years about how Frank Miller would wring a sequel out of his hit Dark Horse graphic novel and movie 300. Today, at [read more]
Some thoughts on “Hell Hall”