We’re just two days away from the June 17-19 Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo, which looks to be a MASSIVE event this year, with guests coming from all over the world representing various areas of fandom — science fiction, anime/animation, horror… and most importantly COMICS. For all of the amazing details and to peruse the… Read More Happenings: Calgary Comic Expo & Joe Shuster Awards this weekend!
Yikes! Another month with less than stellar comics sales – no comic books sold more than 100,000 copies. The #1 book was Fear Itself #2 (drawn by Stuart Immonen!) at 96K. Flashpoint #1 debuted at #2 (~87K) Then it’s a morass of X-Men, Batman, Green Lantern, Avengers and Spider-Man related books. The graphic novel sales… Read More May 2011 not a good month for comics: sales down 17.3%
PREVIEWSworld.com New Releases Shipping 6/15/2011 Each week PREVIEWSworld.com provides a list of comics, graphic novels and other pop-culture merchandise arriving at your local comic shop. Please check with your retailer for availability, as not all releases may be on sale in all areas at the same time.
Yesterday Christopher Butcher, the director of the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and the manager at Toronto comic shop The Beguiling issued his wrap-up statement on TCAF 2011 and some details about TCAF 2012, including the dates. TCAF 2012 is scheduled for May 5-6, 2012. It will once again be held at the Toronto Reference Library.… Read More Butcher issues TCAF 2011 wrap-up and TCAF 2012 details
The Blackhawks are an elite group of mercenaries made up of brave men from around the world equipped with the latest in cutting-edge hardware and vehicles. Their mission: Kill the bad guys before they kill us. A set of contemporary tales that battle the world’s gravest threats, BLACKHAWKS #1 will be written by Mike Costa… Read More Ken Lashley returns to DC with the revamped Blackhawks
Announced yesterday: BATMAN, THE DARK KNIGHT will relaunch in September with a new first issue. Same creative team as before: David Finch (writer/artist) and Jason Fabok (art). They have a few issues of the old series to crank out between now and the end of August. Announced today: Jeff Lemire will be writing two DCnU… Read More More DCnU CanCon news… David Finch & Jason Fabok, Yanick Paquette and Jeff Lemire
With an exciting turnout in voting from April 1-30, The Inkwell Awards are now able to release for their fourth year the ballot results from the six categories targeting the exceptional 2010 work of ink artists. Scott Hanna took the winning slot for Favorite Inker this year for his work on Marvel titles Hulk and… Read More Congratulations to Francis Manapul and the other winners of the 2011 Inkwell Awards
According to Geek Tyrant and tweeted by creator Jeff Lemire, it seems that Essex County Book One: Tales From the Farm will be translated into a motion picture, entitled SUPER ZERO, to be directed by visual effects legend JOHN DYKSTRA. Follow the link for more details.
PREVIEWSworld.com New Releases Shipping 6/8/2011 Each week PREVIEWSworld.com provides a list of comics, graphic novels and other pop-culture merchandise arriving at your local comic shop. Please check with your retailer for availability, as not all releases may be on sale in all areas at the same time.
We are proud to announce the hosts for the 7th Annual Joe Shuster Awards, to be held on Saturday, June 18th, 2011 at the Calgary Comic & Entertainment Expo: AJAY FRY As the Host of InnerSPACE, AJAY FRY is no stranger to SPACE or the airwaves. Born in Toronto, Ajay attributes his bizarre and creative… Read More Announcing the 2011 Joe Shuster Awards hosts: Ajay Fry and Teddy Wilson!
To our comics retail partners, With The New DCU – the September launch of our 52 #1s – we have created an event that we believe will generate unprecedented buzz, and, more importantly, unprecedented sales results for you. This is a shock to the system, no question, but we have the quality stories and the… Read More Bob Wayne writes retailers to allay concerns about “New DC”
D+Q has posted the cover to the fall release hardcover collection of Kate Beaton’s “Hark! A Vagrant” webcomic strips:
The Flash will be both written and drawn by Francis Manapul (making his writing debut), with collaborator Brian Buccellato. It’s Barry Allen under the mask. Canadian artist Bernard Chang will be doing the art for Deadman, the first character to appear in the new DC Universe Presents title
There’s a lot of talk today about the news of the restructuring DC Comics is making to their line of DC Universe titles in September. There’s a lot we don’t know about the DC reboot, but there’s a few specific details which are a mix of good and bad for the foundation of local comic… Read More DC: Will they save the direct market or destroy it?
Newsarama’s Vaneta Rogers chats with Jeff Lemire about his upcoming Flashpoint mini-series: Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown And just to get to work with this character is great. When Grant Morrison’s Seven Soldiers stuff was coming out, I thought the Frankenstein mini-series the best part of it. I always wished that DC had… Read More Interviews: Jeff Lemire on Flashpoint: Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown
Coming up quickly is what has rapidly become the second largest pop culture event in the country: THE CALGARY COMIC & ENTERTAINMENT EXPO. This a big year for the Expo, as it is the first to run for THREE days, JUNE 17-19, 2011. I went to the event in 2009 and had a great time,… Read More Countdown to Calgary
PREVIEWSworld.com New Releases Shipping 6/1/2011 Each week PREVIEWSworld.com provides a list of comics, graphic novels and other pop-culture merchandise arriving at your local comic shop. Please check with your retailer for availability, as not all releases may be on sale in all areas at the same time.
For Immediate Release: In it’s second year, Sketches for Pledges will feature a group of talented artists aiming to raise funds and awareness by sketching original artworks for SickKids hospital on behalf of Royal Bank of Canada. Attending artists: Marcus To DC Comics Vince Sunico Spent Pencils Arnold Trinidad Spent Pencils Paul Limgenco Spent Pencils… Read More Happenings: Sketches for Pledges 2011 – June 2 in Toronto
If it seems quiet around here, it’s because we’re holding our breaths in anticipation of the decisions currently being made by our FOUR (yes 4!) Juries this year: “ART” : Artist, Cover Artist, Webcomics, Colourist “STORY” (bilingual jury required): Writer, Cartoonist “INDUSTRY”: Publisher, Self-Publisher, Retailer “KIDS”: Comics for Kids Everyone is supposed to send over… Read More The 11th Hour: Finalizing 2011 and Organizational Discussions
Some great comics being released this week featuring the work of Canadians — such as the penultimate issue of KILL SHAKESPEARE, and the second hardcover edition of THE ANTHOLOGY PROJECT featuring the work of many Canadian cartoonists (and edited, compiled and published in Canada!) as well as EVEN THE GIANTS the first distributed work of… Read More New Comics – In Stores 5/25/2011
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 