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Monthly Archives: October 2008

Golden Poe

Richmond, VA.. Just in time for Halloween and beyond, The Poe Museum’s highly successful exhibit, “Poe in Comics” has announced that the show will be on display for at least another month at their Virginia home. This first-ever museum exhibit devoted to Poe’s presence in comics and graphic novels opened to the public with a […]

SPAWN

PRESS RELEASE - TODD MCFARLANE AND WHILCE PORTACIO SPAWN AN IMMEDIATE SELL OUT!
SPAWN #185’s all-new direction completely sells out!
 
30 October 2008 (Berkeley, CA) - The comic book event of the season started off with a bang as SPAWN’s new direction, courtesy of Image Founders Todd McFarlane & Whilce Portacio, resulted in an immediate distribution-level sell-out!
 
“Obviously it’s good […]

Texeira & Golden

Well,if like me you are still trying to figure out how that Facebook announcement works and still can’t find the page,here’s a distraction!
Renee has been in touch with more news:
“Hi Everyone–
Just to let you know that Mark’s sketchlist is open for the Big Apple show, November 14-16th.  Write me for details.
Michael Golden will also be […]

Archibald Aardvark

A rather rude and ignorant publisher has been in touch.

PRESS RELEASE - CELEBRATE THE CHINESE NEW YEAR WITH ARCHIBALD!
Archibald Aardvark returns in an all-new noir mystery this January!
 
29  October 2008 (Berkeley, CA) - Image Comics‘ Shadowline presents an all-new mature readers adventure with the greatest unknown cartoon star of yesteryear, Archibald Aardvark, as ARCHIBALD CHASES […]

Cinebook -The 9th Art:Winter-Spring Catalogue

This is the Winter 2008/Spring 2009 Catalogue from Cinebook that you really ought to get.  Some 48 glossy paged gems of info on current and up-coming titles.
Just use the Cinebook link on the Blogroll and sign up for the online newsletter or to find out how to get this catalogue.

Cinebook Releases October

Time to look at the latest from Cinebook and a moment of confusion for me! 

  

Green Manor 2:The Inconvenience Of Being Dead  
Authors: Bodart - Vehlmann
Age: 12 years and up
Size: 18.4 x 25.7 cm
Number of pages: 96 colour pages
Paperback
Publication: September 2008
ISBN: 9781905460649
£9.99  A cup of tea? A drop of milk? A spoonful of poison? At first sight, […]

A Word From Baz

Baz at BICS 2008
Had this missive turn up at the Yahoo Independent Comics Group so thought it might be of interest to those CBOers out there.  Take it way,Baz:
“Hi all
Thought I’d throw this idea out there to the groups, see what people think.
Back in one glorious month of August 2005, a group of comic creators […]

Tis the season to be scarey

And you never know what I’ll do!
Image and Arcana back on CBO? “What?!” you may ask. No,rudeness and ignorance has prevailed I’m afraid and no responses to my emails.
 So why?
Because publishers have always tended to be rude jerks.  But by not promoting the titles that creators have worked hard on it is those creators who […]

SPAWN SECRETS

PRESS RELEASE - THE SECRETS OF SPAWN REVEALED IN THE BOOK OF THE DEAD!
Steve Niles, Ashley Wood and David Hine reveal Spawn’s secrets this December!
 
23rd October 2008 (Berkeley, CA) - The secrets behind the Spawn universe are revealed in this December’s SPAWN: BOOK OF THE DEAD, courtesy of 30 DAYS OF NIGHT creator Steve Niles, […]

The Girly Comic Book

The Girly Comic Book 1
Edited by Selina Lock – Book Design by Jay Eales – Cover Image by Des Taylor 
The first collection of stories culled from the pages of The Girly Comic, featuring the talents of industry professionals such as John Stokes, Mike Collins, Simon Fraser, mpMann and Martin Millar, veteran indy creators such as […]