News Osamu Tezuka Erotic Drawings Found The daughter of the late Tezuka, frequently called “the god of manga,” unlocked a desk belonging to the artist which contained “a half-eaten piece of chocolate, a handwritten essay about Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo and a bag of sketches, including a stash of erotic drawings by Tezuka.” ECC’s Broadening Comics Readership…
News & Things: Days of Future Past *heavy breathing*
News X-Men Days of Future Past Official Trailer Sentinels! 70s Fashion! Mystique! Xavier and Magneto glaring intensely at each other! Is it May yet? G. Willow Wilson, the Muslim Woman Revolutionizing Comics Vulture talks to Wilson about the new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan. Commentary How BOOM! Studios is Utilizing Today’s Top Webcomics Talent Deadshirt on…
Review: Young Romance 2: The Early Simon & Kirby Romance Comics
The tall, chiseled man takes his love into his arms: “Toni—I love you so much! Do you think you can marry a bum who’s gone straight?” The woman—red-lipped, her jet black hair cascading over her shoulders, swoons, “Of course I’ll marry you—you sweet wonderful palooka!” This is the world of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby’s…
News & Things: Movies, Movies, Movies
News Marvel Reveals Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch Concept Art The Marvel Studios: Building a Universe tv special revealed concept art from upcoming films, including art that may reveal what Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch look like in Avengers: Age of Ultron. Fittingly, it looks like Scarlet Witch’s favorite movie is The Craft. Sofia Coppola to Direct…
News & Things: BOOM! Black Widow!
News Hot Toys Unveils New Black Widow Figure The new 1/6 scale Black Widow figure features the likeness of Scarlet Johansson as she appears in Captain America: The Winter Soldier. BOOM! Studios Signs First-Look Deal with Cartoon Network The deal allows BOOM!, the publishers of the official Adventure Time and Regular Show comics, to option…
News & Things: Non-Oscar Edition
News Marketplace Spotlights Jackie Ormes Nancy Goldstein, author of Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist, on why Ormes is important and unique. Lena Dunham to write 4-Part Archie Story Dunham, the creator and star of HBO’s Girls, will make her comic book writing debut in 2015 with a story set in Archie continuity. X-Men:…
News & Things: Days of Future Dirtbags
News Dirtbag Hamlet Totally Rad, Also a Dirtbag Mallory Ortberg and Matt Lubchansky re-imagine Shakespeare’s troubled prince as a skateboarding, bird-flipping douchebag, and it is glorious. “im going to the cemetery to touch skulls” College Could See Funds Cut for Choice of Fun Home A South Carolina university faces massive budget cuts after including Alison Bechdel’s…
Friday Poll: Most Anticipated Comic Movie of 2014?
It’s a new year, and that means a new year of comic book movies! The Lego Movie‘s already given us the joys of Lego Batman and Lego Wonder Woman, but what other big screen adaptations do you want to see? Cap versus the Winter Soldier? X-Men: Days of Future Past? And hey, someone has to…
News & Things: iZombie, Yuu Watase
News Marvel Comics API Launches Marvel is unveiling a new programming interface that gives developers “the tools to create their own Marvel-based apps and digital offerings.” iZombie Pilot Greenlit The CW has greenlit a pilot for a series based on Chris Roberson and Michael Allred’s iZombie, about a zombie named Gwen who gains the memories…
News & Things: Saga(s) of the Swamp Thing
News Gal Gadot Signs Three Picture Deal, Including Wonder Woman Solo Film Though the upcoming Superman/Batman flick has been pushed back to 2016, Gadot has signed for at least three appearances as Wonder Woman, including a proposed Justice League film and a solo Wonder Woman film. From Swamp Thing to Saga with Brian K. Vaughan…
News & Things: Holy DVD Release, Batman!
News 1966 Batman Television Series Coming to DVD Conan O’Brien (of all people) broke the news: the 60s Batman television series, starring Adam West and Burt Ward, is finally coming to DVD sometime in 2014. No Amazon for Wonder Woman The CW confirms that Amazon, the in-development television series about Wonder Woman’s early adventures, is…
News & Things: A Space Odyssey
Read of the Week The Dissolve’s Noel Murray examines Jack Kirby’s 1976 adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, a comic where “two sorts of genius collided:” “There’s a stream-of-consciousness quality to Kirby’s storytelling. This is a man who once created an entire comics series for DC—one of his best, Kamandi: The Last Boy On…