Video: Bloomingdale's Partners With Warner Bros. Consumer Products to Celebrate 75th Anniversary of DC Comics
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
In a groundbreaking partnership, which brings the powerful world of DC Comics Super Heroes together with one of the nation's most prominent retailers, Bloomingdale's stores and Warner Bros.
Simple images in comic books can carry a powerful message
Times Online
We are continually reminded that we are living in a convergence culture, with meetings between old and new media creating new possibilities. It would appear that an early example of this was the emergence of comics in the late 19th century,...
Bloomingdales Joins Forces with DC Comics
NBC New York
To celebrate the 75th anniversary of DC Comics, Bloomingdales will join forces with the superhero purveyor on a series of holiday pop-up shops in its denim departments, featuring tees, scarves, bags, ties...
Graphic Traffic
The Boston Phoenix
A sweet crop of graphic narratives Comics. Graphic novels. Sequential-art books. Call them what you will, but there are more of them than ever. ASTERIOS POLYP David Mazzucchelli’s story of a curmudgeonly Greek-American architect manqué is t...
The 2009 Denver Post Comics Poll: Time to cast your vote
Denver Post
How do you like your comics? Sentimental like "The Family Circus"? Cynical like "Doonesbury"? Off-the-wall like "Scary Gary" or "F-Minus"? There's something for every taste on our comics pages. And everyone has an opinion about what they li...
Stephen King & Peter Straub Talk Comic Books
Newsarama.com via Yahoo! News
On Oct. 21, the first issue of Del Rey Comics' adaptation of Peter Straub and Stephen King's 1984 collaborative novel "The Talisman" hits comic book shops. The series is written by Robin Furth, King's former research assitant who also adapt...
McSweeney's Quarterly Morphs Into A Broadsheet
Arts Journal
Coming out next month, "San Francisco Panorama will be a fat fellow, Sunday-edition-sized, and include news features, sports, short fiction, arts coverage, original graphics and pages and pages of original comics. ...
Chinese "manhua" exhibited at Frankfurt Book Fair
People's Daily
An exhibition of Chinese "manhua," or comics, titled "Beijing, ten faces of one city," was launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair on Wednesday. The exhibition, hosted by the German branch of the U.S. publishing house Tokyopop, showcases the wo...
Book Fair plays it safe with 2010 Argentina theme
Reuters via Yahoo! News
The Frankfurt Book Fair has chosen to venture down a less controversial path in its choice of honored guest next year, picking Argentina after sparking debates with its past two nominees Turkey and China.
Comic Book Reviews for October 14, 2009
IGN Comics
Welcome to the latest IGN Comics review index. If you've been here before, you know the drill. If you haven't, here's how it works. We grade on a 100-point scale. Numerically this is represented as a 10 point system with 0.1 increments. The...
Rapid change in late-night viewing
Daily Comet
Leno last week talked about emulating comics such as Jack Benny and Bill Cosby to reach all of America. The transition of Andy Richter from a couch buddy to an Ed McMahon-like announcer indicates O’Brien has similar ambitions. Experience sh...
Comic book obsession is all in the family
Omaha World-Herald
I was buying extra comics for my kids before they were born,” Marc Seger said. A number of families showed up at the hotel for the Omaha Comic Book Convention. Several parents brought their children along to share a hobby they enjoyed as ki...
Live at the Edinburgh Festival: David O'Doherty and Sarah Millican
The Guardian
Live at the Edinburgh Festival: David O'Doherty and Sarah Millican Miles Jupp is back with another podcast, this time joined by last year's triumphant comics David O'Doherty and Sarah Millican, plus stellar standup Pippa Evans
Many Worlds, Many Comics [Uncertain Principles]
ScienceBlogs
The Digital Cuttlefish looks at the Archie comics , and waxes poetic: Two paths play out in a comic book, When Archie walks down memory lane "The road not taken" is the hook; So now, the writers take a look And re-write Archie's life again,...
Comics: DC Does DVDs
The Valdosta Daily Times
DC Comics has recently released two animated DVD movies starring major comic-book characters. GREEN LANTERN: FIRST FLIGHT. This animated feature follows how Hal Jordan became the Green Lantern. A fighter pilot, Jordan discovers the wrecked ...