ARCHIE COMICS CREATORS ON THE ROAD: FERNANDO RUIZ at DEWEY’S COMIC CITY
Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E.artistFernando Ruizwill atDewey’s Comic CityonJuly 10th! From1:30-3:30pmhe will be signing comic books and drawing sketches! (Copies of the first issue of The Man from R.I.V.E.R.D.A.L.E. series,Archie #610, will be available for sale.)
Dewey’s Comic City will be running a sale on Archie comics:
ARCHIE collected editions will be 25% off!
Plus, get $1 off all ARCHIE digests!
Located in Madison, where Park Avenue and Main Street divide, about 1/4 mile from the entrance to Drew University and about 1 mile from the entrance from Fairleigh Dickenson University.
Dewey’s Comic City
13 Park Avenue
Madison, NJ 07940
July 10, 2010
1:30pm-3:30pm www.deweyscomiccity.com
Faber signs “next generation” Tarzan series
The Bookseller ~ June 29, 2010
UK publisher Faber has signed a new children’s series featuring the “next generation Tarzan”, with the full backing of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate. Set in modern Africa, the series will be written by Andy Briggs, author of the Hero.com books and the Villain.Net “anti-series” . The first title will be released in 2011, with the second book launched during the official Tarzan centenary celebrations in 2012.
Aimed at 9-to-11+ readers, Tarzan: The Greystoke Legacy follows a re-imagined Tarzan designed to appeal to a contemporary audience. Faber said he would be “edgier, untamed and feral while remaining the iconic hero, raised by apes and protector of the wild. However, living in the 21st century Tarzan has more perils to face than during his original conception: warring guerrillas, poaching of endangered animals, illegal logging and the decline of the environment to name just a few”.
The original characters will remain, albeit in a slightly different form: Jane is a 14-year-old girl, used to “technology and civilisation” , while Robert Canler is a runaway with a mysterious past, who sees Jane as a replacement sister; the cannibal tribes have been replaced by rebel guerrillas.
James Sullos, president of Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc,: “Our desire to bring the Tarzan legend into the 21st century matches perfectly with Andy Briggs’s imagination and talent for adding adventure and suspense to the Greystoke legacy. We are anxiously awaiting the first instalment.”
Bill Hillman
Editor and Webmaster for the
Edgar Rice Burroughs Tribute Websites and Webzines
Now,after the May Comic Expo I wrote how quite a few Small Pressers and Indie publishers were stopping me and saying that they could get no one to review their books. And no shops would bother stocking them.
So,I gave my cards out,exchanged emails with some of them and….nothing.
I have followed up those emails a couple times and there is a promise of review books -”we really need to get our books reviewed and noticed!”. Same thing every year.
So,please,don’t feel I’m being insensitive. I’ve tried to help as best I can but these publishers need to decide whether they are serious or playing about.
Excelsior! Comics in Bristol took some Small Press titles,and some really good quality items,too. Nothing. People look and say “that looks interesting” then walk away. There are some David Gordon books in stock,Ganjaman,Malcolm Magic and others. So,please,like those publishers,do not bleat to me about how you cannot find Small Press comics in Bristol!
I spent the whole Expo connecting Excelsior! Comics with publishers and publishers with publishers. I may as well have just sat on my bum and whistled.
No more.
From now on I don’t miss out on events at the Expo:I go back to covering them and leave the time-wasters alone. You want a book reviewed go to the Submissions Reviews Policy category on the right.
Hi All– Michael Golden, Mark Texeira and myself will be attending the SDCC this year, July 21-25th.
Golden and I will be at the “Naked Fat Rave” booth. Tex will be at the booth across from us.
If you are interested in ordering a sketch for the show, please let me know in advance by e-mailing me at: evaink@aol.com for details.
Golden will probably take a break from this convention next year, as may Tex, so come on by and see us. Golden will be offering his new sketchbook “MORE Heroes & Villains,” while Mark will have his sketchbook “Babes & Brawn.”
New York, NY (June 28, 2010): Archie Andrews and Geoffrey Giraffe are teaming up to launch the brand new LIFE WITH ARCHIE magazine debuting this August! Until recently, Toys Я Us carried a limited selection of magazines and comics. Now, through the combined marketing efforts of Kable News and Select Media Services, Archie Comic Publications, Inc. will have a huge presence in ALL 585 USToys Я Us stores!
“The partnership with Toys Я Us is a perfect fit. We both focus on providing high quality entertainment to children of all ages,” remarked Archie Comics Publisher, Jon Goldwater. “There is no better combination anywhere than America ‘s Favorite Teenager and the World’s Greatest Toy Store!”
The ARCHIE comic book and both Sonic titles, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG and SONIC UNIVERSE, will be in a special rack to be located in the Collectors section of every Toys Я Us store. The brand new magazine LIFE WITH ARCHIE will be featured at the checkout, also in all Toys Я Us stores.
The already wildly popular LIFE WITH ARCHIE magazine presents the married life of Archie Andrews to both the rich and vivacious brunette, Veronica, and the beautiful blond girl-next-door, Betty. The two new series spring out of the acclaimed “The Archie Wedding: Archie in Will You Marry Me?” storyline. Both stories are available exclusively in the LIFE WITH ARCHIE magazine along with extra star-studded bonus features!
“This is great additional newsstand exposure for the comics and a great platform for the launch of the LIFE WITH ARCHIE magazine. We are thrilled to have Toys Я Us join our other retail partners,” said Archie Comics Director of Circulation, Bill Horan.
Archie Comics’ magazines and comic books will be available in all US Toys Я Us stores beginning August 2010
D-Gruppe,the German super hero team I created while living in Germany years ago,is long overdue as a Black Tower book. Things have gotten in the way but this week I’m dedicating all my time to the book. That means lettering.
Imagine my shock and horror when I pulled the file with the artwork [in a dry place on a shelf] to find that it suddenly has yellow coloured stains over some pages! It seems to be from the Pritt Stick I used for paste-ups. Luckily,having worked on cleaning up Golden Age UK comics I’ve picked up a few tricks that should make those blobbies vanish!
So if I’m quiet,you have not offended me. I’m just trying to get a book ready.
I really do need to track down Helge “Herod” Korda to see if he has a copy of “DiSuppe”!!
I mentioned the other day that Jon Haward was selling some of his art off [see link below]. Just to show that you ain’t getting a piddly A4 sketch,Jon is seen here demonstrating the size of the Alan Davis/Mark Farmer piece -Jon is 6 feet 4 inches tall.
Seriously,don’t miss out because these pieces should be worth far more!!!
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