I found this column very hard to write. For while I agree that creators should be well compensated for their work, I also feel that the large companies do a lot of work in promoting and marketing characters as well. This isn’t about dumping on the little guy, nor is it about going on a...

A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days. Great stuff by Watterson, Mignola, Miller, Rude and many more!

A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days.

Frank Miller’s rant on his blog about the Occupy movement is all the talk this week on the comics interwebs.  It immediately brought to mind a 52Q about whether creator personalities and views affect enjoying their work. Miller was and is a big name in the comic world, but he’s...

Being one of my favourite origin stories I was anxious to see Batman Year One translated to the big screen. A classic story by Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli, focusing on Bruce Wayne and James Gordon as they adapt to their new lives in Gotham. In a nutshell this is the most faithful...

A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days.

A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days.

It’s been heavily promoted by Legendary Pictures, as only a movie studio can do.  Preview pages, an animated short, press releases and coverage everywhere.  For it’s first foray into comics Legendary has published Frank Miller’s Holy Terror, his response to 9/11. ...

A trailer has been released for Batman: Year One animated direct to DVD feature film. Based on the clip I have two impressions: it’s very close to the comic and I don’t care Batman’s voice. But that’s just...

Frank Miller is publishing an original graphic novel this September through Legendary Comics.  Made available this week are pages and a trailer in motion comic style. Here’s the official press release: Burbank, CA – July 21, 2011 – Legendary Entertainment today...

Courtesy of MTV’s Splash Page we present the first trailer for Batman: Year One animated film. It looks to match the classic Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli comic in tone and colour but the animation has that manga look to...

On May 5th 2011 Heritage Auctions sold the original art from Batman: The Dark Knight Returns issue three page ten for $448125.  That’s right, just shy of half a million dollars for a piece of comic book art. Recorded as the highest price ever paid for original comic art, including...

It’s Elektra and rebirth week at Comic Book Daily so I’m going to provide some insight on Elektra Lives Again from Epic Comics and Graphitti Designs. This was a huge book for 1990: Frank Miller had collaborated with Janson and Mazzuchelli to produce epic runs on Daredevil and...

1996 was the tenth anniversary of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns.  It’s hard to believe twenty-five years have passed since Miller brought his dark future to comics; I haven’t heard of DC doing anything to celebrate this year but in ’96 they had big plans. There was a...

Few people need an introduction to Frank Miller’s seminal take on Batman in his 1986 series Batman: The Dark Knight.  It’s heralded as the birth of the modern comic, along with The Watchmen, and exposed a lot of people to comics through its massive sales in a collected volume. ...

It was 1989 and DC comics was celebrating the 50th anniversary of Batman.  They had started slowly publishing reprint material in softcover trade paperbacks but hardcover editions were left to Warner Books, Graphitti Designs and with these volumes Longmeadow Press. The Complete Frank Miller...