Marvel may have stolen the spotlight this week, but DC has a few tricks up their sleeve, too. Let’s see what’s on the horizon:
Interview with Trevor Mueller from Reading With Pictures: Comics That Make Kids Smarter
Kids love comic books. Kids love to learn. Introducing comic books to the classroom is a sure-fire way to hold students’ interest and help them retain the information being taught. There are so many ways to incorporate comics into education, and Reading With Pictures is an organization devoted to tackling this idea. Their main focus is…
Where Do We Stand — June Comics and Graphic Novel Sales
Each month,Diamond Comics Distributors releases data on the top selling products from single issue comics, to graphic novels and trade paperbacks, to toys. Their sales data represents items sold through comic book shops.
Murdoch’s Bid for Time Warner Rebuffed… for now.
Murdoch wants to own things, all the things! Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch, owner of 21st Century Fox (Fox News) has already had an offer rebuffed once to buy Time Warner, which owns popular channels TBS, TNT, CN and HBO. But he’s regrouping to try again. This move would make a mega-corp, in competition with Comcast,…
Reading Diaries: Super Spies, Sexy Witches, and Shakesdude
Megan: This month I’ve been reading Bill Bryson’s Shakespeare bio. My reading time is still more constrained than I’d like, so I’ve been reading it on my Kobo whenever I can get a few minutes to myself. I’ve not read much Bryson but I’ve been told that this book is the Brysoniest. It feels like…
Alert! Dames Making Games in Toronto Is Looking for Volunteers
Dames Making Games (DMG) is looking for gaming pros to make short presentations and some general helping out for a four week game-making summer camp at the Rexdale Community Centre. Ten youths will learn about game-mechanics, art and visual design, programming, and sound design and effects. The camp will wrap up with an August 26th…
The Thursday Book Beat: The Problems With Traditional Publishing
Marvel & Little Brown Team Up on MCU Kids Books Marvel is collaborating with Little, Brown & Co on kids books that will act as tie ins to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. They’ll start off with five Guardians of the Galaxy novels that will come out before its release in August. Titles include Guardians of the…
Kacy Catanzaro Dominates American Ninja Warrior Course; Is Coolest Person Ever
Please take seven and a half minutes out of your day to watch 5 foot tall, 100 lb. former competitive gymnast and current total badass Kacy destroy this insane obstacle course (she’s the first female competitor to ever scale this crazy 17 foot tall curved wall), and then join me in fancasting her as a…
Rebecca Sugar’s Steven Universe Gets A Comic from KaBOOM! Studios
Steven Universe Created by Rebecca Sugar Written by Jeremy Sorese Art by Coleman Engle KaBOOM! Studios Good news for fans of Cartoon Network’s newest series, Steven Universe. The show is the first CN property created by a woman — Rebecca Sugar.
Disney Drops new Big Hero 6 Trailer
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD5OA6sQ97M] Disney just dropped a new trailer for the upcoming Big Hero 6, and it is worth a watch. With humor, action, and a fast paced pop song, the new trailer is hitting all the right beats to pump up audiences for this new animated feature. This is Disney’s first animated Marvel franchise film,…
The Illegitimates—A Legitimate Comic Attempt
The Illegitimates Taran Killam, Marc Andreyko, Kevin Sharpe IDW I know you’ve all been waiting with bated breath for my thoughts on The Illegitimates, a miniseries conceived by Taran Killam (of Saturday Night Live fame) and Marc Andreyko (of Batwoman fame), and drawn by Kevin Sharpe (of Army of Darkness fame). I have to say,…
I’m Loving: Masterplasty Coming From Image in October
Back in December I reviewed the pile o’books I’d managed to squeeze into my low, low Thought Bubble budget. One of them was a wee previews-style leaflet from James Harvey. Here’s a little of what I said: Ugh, geez, I really like James Harvey’s work. I’m 95% new to it, (I’d peeked at Bartkira) and…
