As we start to look ahead to 2011, let’s see what Marvel Comics has to offer in January. NEW AVENGERS #8 Written by BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS Pencils & Cover by STUART IMMONEN Epic in scale and fraught with danger at every turn, Luke Cage and Jessica Jones face their most challenging adventure yet…a date?! Plus:… Read More Marvel Comics in January 2011 featuring the work of Canadian creators
Hard to believe we are already looking forward to January 2011. These items are eligible for the 2012 Joe Shuster Awards (except for the collected editions which reprint comics that came out in 2010 that will be eligible for the 2011 Joe Shuster Awards). BATMAN INCORPORATED #3 Written by GRANT MORRISON Art by YANICK PAQUETTE… Read More DC Comics in January 2011 featuring the work of Canadian creators
NHL, Spider-Man creator Stan Lee join on new superheroes project. Okay, so Stan’s not Canadian, and I’m not sure the NHL is really Canadian either, but we Canadians sure love hockey (even though Lacrosse is our national sport) and there are many Canadian teams in the NHL (and a whole lot of Canadian players) so… Read More Stan Lee teams up with the National Hockey League
For immediate release: Beginning January 2011, DC Comics will implement a line-wide pricing adjustment, lowering the prices of all standard length 32-page ongoing comic book titles currently priced at $3.99 to $2.99, it was announced today by DC Comics Co-Publishers Jim Lee and Dan DiDio. “Today’s announcement re-affirms DC Comics’ commitment to both our core… Read More DC Comics to lower prices in 2011
Dave Howard of the books.Torontoist.com blog has posted an article rounding up a bunch of news items focusing on some of the comic news announcements, articles and interviews that caught his attention over the last month or so. It’s an interesting recap of the best non-mainstream superhero announcements of the last few weeks.
with a tip of the hat to Tom Spurgeon. D+Q announces the long awaited Chester Brown book Paying For It will be released Spring 2011. The follow-up to 2003’s wonderful book Louis Riel, Paying For It is a “200-page chronicle of his experiences paying for sexual services, which was produced with the assistance of a… Read More Chester Brown’s ‘Paying For It’ due Spring 2011
*** UPDATE: While full details are to be announced this week at San Diego Comic Con, Newsarama released more information on the project yesterday. *** Lucas Siegel writes: The project is ambitious for Stewart and Kerschl outside of the new city, era, and characters. The very way they’re constructing the comic book is unique to… Read More Kerschl and Stewart to create comic book based on videogame Assassin’s Creed *Updated*
Care of The Source: We’re also very proud to announce that Jeff Lemire has signed an exclusive contract with DC Comics, meaning only good things for fans of his mind-bending work on Vertigo’s SWEET TOOTH and his upcoming work on the ATOM co-feature in ADVENTURE COMICS and the ongoing SUPERBOY series.We got a minute of… Read More Jeff Lemire goes DC Exclusive
As with DC, Marvel only lists pencillers, cover artists and writers in the advance solicits. ASTONISHING X-MEN: XENOGENESIS #4 (of 5) Written by WARREN ELLIS Pencils & Cover by KAARE ANDREWS Something is causing the children of an African village to be born mutated. Something in the woodland outside the village. Something they don’t talk… Read More Marvel Comics in September 2010 featuring work by Canadians
Breaking news from Conundrum Press! The ink is still wet but conundrum press has just signed for the English rights to publish Philippe Girard’s next book Tuez Vélasquez. We are honoured to be Philippe’s English publisher and look forward to more books from him in the future. Details to come but here is the French… Read More Conundrum Press to publish translated edition of Girard’s Tuer Velasquez in 2011
THE JOE SHUSTER AWARDS 