PREVIEWSworld.com New Releases Shipping 1/25/2012 Every Wednesday, PREVIEWSworld.com provides a list of comics, graphic novels and other pop-culture merchandise arriving this week to your local comic shop. Please check with your retailer for availability, as not all new releases may be on sale in all areas at the same time. Note: Canadian covers and notations… Read More New Comics – In stores 1/25/2012
New identity designed to showcase DC Entertainment’s rich portfolio of brands, stories and characters across all media platforms. BURBANK, CA, January 19, 2012 – DC Entertainment, a Warner Bros. Entertainment company and home to iconic brands DC Comics, Vertigo and MAD, revealed today a new brand identity. The new identity is reflective of the company’s… Read More DC Comics confirms they have a new logo
Last night’s Industry Night was fantastic. Probably one of the best attended events we’ve held so far at the TCW space. All the copies Archaia sent up of A Tale of Sand sold out in under two hours and the reaction from those seeing it for the first time was priceless.Ramon’s art is stunning in… Read More Industry Night follow-up and Prophet 21 news
PREVIEWSworld.com New Releases Shipping 1/18/2012 Please check with your retailer for availability, as not all new releases may be on sale in all areas at the same time.
Just a quick note, Cary Nord (Conan) has been tapped to illustrate the new Valiant Comics summer relaunch of a 90’s favourite: X-O Manowar. Robert Venditti (The Surrogates) is the writer for the relaunch, which will feature the return of fan-favourite Aric of Dacia, the Visigoth warrior who returns to earth with a powerful alien… Read More Nord to illustrate relaunched X-O Manowar
Sorry about the lack of updates this week, so much has been going on with… well, everything this week. Between the announcement of the guest list for the March Toronto ComiCon, plans and coordination for Fan Expo Vancouver in April, the Dragon Lady closing and all of the related press coverage that has been getting,… Read More Friday the 13th Update
PREVIEWSworld.com New Releases Shipping 1/11/2012 Please check with your retailer for availability, as not all new releases may be on sale in all areas at the same time.
A limited quantity of the book will be available for sale at tonight’s event, courtesy of Archaia Press. Industry Night with Ramon Perez: A TALE OF SAND launch party! Industry Night returns in 2012 with Ramon Perez and his hotly anticipated adaption of Jim Henson’s unfinished screenplay, A Tale of Sand. The TCW gallery will feature a… Read More Happenings: TONIGHT TCW Industry Night – Jim Henson’s A Tale of Sand release party with Ramon Perez – January 18th (UPDATED)
Victor Ferreira of the Toronto Standard suggests strongly in his December 8th article that it will be. Guess we’ll have to wait and see… 442 Bloor Street West – Google Maps. Located at the NW corner of Bloor St. West and Howland Ave. Home of “The Futon Store”. If this is the case, and Victor… Read More Is 442 Bloor Street West the new home of the Silver Snail? (updated)
LINK ROUND-UP: The End of an Era: Toronto’s Dragon Lady Comics to Close in Early 2012 Igor Bonifacic, for BlogTO Laura Godfrey, for the Torontoist David Graham, for The Toronto Star Bryan Munn, for Sequential Spiltink Sue Carter Flinn, for Quill and Quire Rich Johnston, for Bleeding Cool UPDATE: Official closing date is February 1st… Read More Dragon Lady follow-up
Here’s Karl Kesel’s official statement: I could not be happier. SECTION ZERO is back. SECTION ZERO ia a comic Tom Grummett and I co-created in 2000 as part of Image’s Gorilla Comics imprint, along with some other titles by people you may have heard of: Busiek and Immonen’s Shockrockets, Waid and Kitson’s Empire, Perez’s Crimson Plague, and Dezago… Read More Kesel and Grummett resurrect Section Zero as a webcomic
George Todorovski of the The Bear Stories just sent us an update about the fact that he will be the new artist and co-writer of the Dungeon Crawler Adventures online comic strip starting this coming February: http://www.dungeoncrawler.com
PRESS RELEASE (Courtesy of Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources) 2011 was a breakout year for Koyama Press that saw the publisher win 2011’s Joe Shuster Award for Outstanding Comic Book Publisher, in a field of nominees that included Canadian publishing luminaries such as Drawn & Quarterly, and several of the publisher’s titles won major… Read More Koyama Press in 2012
A few people have been sending us recommendations for the Harry Kremer Canadian Comic Book Retailer Award, so it should be noted that in order to qualify for the award a store must meet two very specific criteria: the retailer must be in business for at least two years to be considered eligible previous winners… Read More Retailer Award Eligibility note
PREVIEWSworld.com New Releases Shipping 1/4/2012 Please check with your retailer for availability, as not all new releases may be on sale in all areas at the same time.
It’s not the best story to start 2012 off here on the blog, but it’s an important one: Back in early December I paid a visit to the 609 College Street West location of Dragon Lady Comics in Toronto, where it has been located since the mid-90’s (Prior to that it was based on Queen… Read More The End of An Era: Toronto’s Dragon Lady Comics to close in early 2012
TORONTO COMICON as presented by FAN EXPO CANADA™ has now grown to become a spectacular 2 day event! Located in the South Building of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, the show will be boasting unique exhibitors, presentations, workshops and many celebrity guests. Don’t miss out on spring’s #1 community event in Toronto! ********* That’s the… Read More Happenings: Toronto ComiCon upgrades in March 2012.
PREVIEWSworld.com New Releases Shipping 12/28/2011 Please check with your retailer for availability, as not all new releases may be on sale in all areas at the same time.
Two more days before Christmas, have you finished all of your Christmas shopping yet? I haven’t! I started wrapping some things this morning, so hopefully I’ll finish up all of the many little pre-Christmas errands tonight after work or early tomorrow morning before I start driving all around the GTA to various family events. *… Read More Happy Holidays
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 