Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Today(ish) in Twitter is a regular column wherein our staff troll through the best of the 140 letter updates of the comic book world. ComicBookDaily is not responsible for the content of these tweets, but we will admit to laughing…
Torchy #5, Quality Comics, July 1950. Artist Bill Ward is one of the most popular ‘good girl art’ cartoonists of the 20th century. His most famous creation is Torchy Todd, the goodhearted naïve young blonde whose...
I’m not really that big into Deadpool – he’s an interesting enough character, but I don’t think he’s interesting enough to support that many titles. However, that said, I will probably pick up Deadpool #1000. Why you ask? Well, check…
Matt Kindt has quickly become one of the more dynamic comic book creators working today. Over the course of three books Super Spy, Two Sisters and the recently released Super Spy: the Lost Dossiers – He has given us intricately…
Over on his blog, artist Sean Phillips teases the next Incognito series by posting a cover sketch for the first issue. The follow-up to Phillips and writer Ed Brubaker’s Eisner-nominated series is actually subtitled “Bad Influences,” Brubaker said on Twitter,…
Whenever we get an excellent trailer, such as the one for Inception last week, people tend to get creative and mix it together with other movies. It happened with 300, The Dark Knight and Watchmen, and it’s happened again with…
DC Comics announced this morning that Jeff Lemire will launch a Superboy ongoing series later this year with artist Pier Gallo. A one-off co-feature in August’s Action Comics #982 will kick off the new title. Lemire, an award-winning cartoonist best…
Legendary artist Frank Frazetta passed away early this week. I thought we’d take a look at whether the market has...
The newest webcomic to join to the Comic Book Daily family is Dressed For Success. Written and Drawn by Egesta Comics‘ Chris Howard and Jeff Wasson. We’ll be updating Tuesday and Thursday until we catch up with their current run.…
I’ve developed somewhat of a love-hate relationship with Grant Morrison’s writing. Although I openly admit that both his New X-Men and more recently his runs on the main Batman title as well as Batman and Robin are fantastic, at any…
Where and When: August 27-29, 2010; Metro Toronto Convention Centre, baby! Fan Expo has just announced the guest list for the Comic Book Expo portion of the event! In addition to Adam West (Batman, Family Guy), William Shatner (Star Trek,…
For those of you who like your graphic novels infused with a plethora of content comparable to H.P. Lovecraft and set in a rich world of insomnia-inducing science fiction, read on about the highly-anticipated series, Silent Leaves. Christopher Shy is…
Have you seen Iron Man 2 yet? Good chance most of you have. Don’t worry, nothing even remotely spoilerish here but I will say I rather enjoyed it. So given the occasional retro appeal of subject matter that comes and…
This week Comic Culture’s hosts Walter Durajlija and Chris Owen discuss whether Grant Morrison is over rated, pay tribute to the great Frank Frazetta and touch on a bunch of other comic book related topics. Click on the link below…
Remember that oh so true quote from that great fictional San Francisco Police Detective, Harry Callahan? Comic book fans are never short of opinions...
BRAMPTON (ON) – Brampton native Michael Cera has made quite a name for himself in Hollywood, having starred in several popular movies and television shows. It’s his latest movie, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World that has one local business extending…
If you know anything about me at this point it’s that I am absolutely head over heels in love with Frank Quitely’s art. I think he’s the most dynamic and exciting artists today. So in saying that I’ve become completely…
I’ve been a fan of Pasqual Ferry’s art since I came across it through he and Andy Diggle’s Adam Strange mini-series. It was bold and beautiful and filled with dynamic pages. Seriously – every single panel looked like it could…
When I mentioned the other day that I had been listening to a Blaxploitation mix that I had picked up in Paris made me think about my trip (done in September 2007) to Berlin, the south of France, and Paris.…
Deadline NY is reporting that the long-planned Judge Dredd reboot has just gotten financial backing. This is good news for fans of 2000 AD’s version – bad news for the two guys who loved Sly Stallone’s version. Dredd is set…