November 5, 2009 – 12:04 pm
ARCHIE COSTUME CONTEST VOTING!
Kids of all ages have entered the 2009 Archie Halloween Costume Contest and now we move into Phase 2: The Voting!
This is the only Comic Costume Contest where fans pick the winner and we need you to go to www.archiecomics.com/dyn/contests/2009/halloween/index.php and vote today!
There are twelve great prizes this year:
2 Grand Prizes: One year free subscriptions to
www.ArchieDigital.com!
10 Runners-up Prizes: 30 day subscriptions to
www.ArchieDigital.com!
It’s all up to you! So click, www.archiecomics.com/dyn/contests/2009/halloween/index.php NOW and VOTE!
November 5, 2009 – 9:31 am
Sad news from Jon:
due to mounting debts and pressure from the bank and taxman ,i’ll be selling my private art collection on my blog next week , i’m looking for collectrors to pay cash and to pick up the art from my house as a added bonus i’ll draw a sketch as well free of charge,no postage due to postal strikes etc
i’m very sad to do this but needs must ,please pass this info on to any u.k art collectors you know this will be only for U.K collectors time is not on my side for interest from over seas,i’m taking digital photo’s this weekend
art by ALAN DAVIS, MIKE PERKINS, KEVIN WALKER, SIMON COLEBY,GLENN FABRY, KEN REID, R.T.NIXON,JOHN M BURNS,GEORGE PEREZ,RODONDO,JOHN STOKES, PHIL JIMENEZ, MIKE WESTEN, MIKE WHITE
more news and images next week
Jon’s blog link is on the Blog Roll to the right of this page.
November 5, 2009 – 4:46 am
BETTY & VERONICA DIGEST #199
“The Fame Game”: The “Goodwill Girls” have become the “Green Girls!” They’ve set their sights on ways to conserve energy at Riverdale High and free up costs for school supplies. But Veronica’s too busy trying to become a star and can’t pitch in. Wait until her friends end up in the spotlight! This timely tale highlights the movement toward “no tray days” at schools across the country.
SCRIPT: George Gladir
ART: Jeff Shultz
PLUS: Other new and classic tales!
SCRIPT AND ART: Various talents
BONUS: Puzzles, games and pin-ups!
Shipping Date: November 4th, 2009
On Sale at Comic Shops: November 11th, 2009
Newsstands: November 24th, 2009
88-page, full color digest
$2.69 US
November 4, 2009 – 11:32 am
Paul Ashley Brown
orderable via :paulashleybrown@googlemail.com
A5
20pp
b&w
£3.00
For the first time in,quite literally,years,Paul Brown has produced a “sequential art” zine [or comic strip as we call it.
Oh the angst! I was not depressed until I read this. Damned if I can find the Wilkinson Sword razor blades,though. Play Billie Holiday singing “Gloomy Sunday” while reading [NO–DON’T!!!].
Erm,anyhow,the strip follows artist “Benedict” who is totally frustrated and depressed by all the absolute common crud being praised as “new art” and he’s hit a dry-spell or,as we call it,”artist’s block”. It doesn’t help that his drinking gets in the way. But then -ta-daaah!- along comes Rachel Amber. One of the new artists and a relationship develops. Problem is that Rachel is a new high flying success while Benedict still cannot paint a toffee.
But he finds happiness and learns to just paint when he can -NOT!
Ultimately Benedict destroys his new relationship. You really need to buy the book to see how it goes -but don’t hold out for that happy ending.
If you like slice-of-life and some slick black and white work then this is for you –but remember copies sell very quickly and there are limited numbers!
I’d like to see the unpublished “Outlaws 4029″ by Brown and his buddy Darron Northall but this isn’t going to happen [yet].
There are plenty of goodies that you can see/order over at Mr. Brown’s website:
www.paulashleybrown.co.uk/
Give it a visit and appreciate the Marlon Brando of Bristol Art Culture!
November 4, 2009 – 11:11 am
ARCHIE & FRIENDS #137
PART ONE OF A TWO-PART STORY THAT REINTRODUCES SOME OF THE MOST MEMORABLE CHARACTERS ARCHIE EVER PUBLISHED!
“Cosmic Cosmosis Part One”: Working at the Pep Comics shop to get a discount on comics and a place to store his collection, Chuck is visited by his friends as he bags and boards. Suddenly, glowing meteors from the MLJ Nebula rain down in Riverdale, including one that crashes into the shop and morphs into a door to other dimensions! This cosmic portal leads to a world that Chuck, Archie and his friends have only ever seen in comics… a world of talking ducks and bears, super-powered heroes and oddball beings from other planets. It doesn’t take them long to realize they are in the presence of a veritable “who’s who” of some of the greatest comic book characters ever published by Archie and its earlier incarnation, MLJ Comics: Captain Sprocket, Cosmo the Merry Martian, Squoimy the Woim, Gloomy Gus, Judge Owl, Ginger, Suzie and more! The trouble is, now that the “fantasy world” has invaded the “real world,” the “fictional” characters seek as much a taste of reality as possible: Wilbur and Seymour want to meet “real” girls to date, Pat the Brat realizes there’s a whole new potential audience to pull pranks on, Cubby the Bear wants to see how earth bears live, and more. On top of it all, Super Duck and Reggie get into a no-holds-barred shouting match! Realizing the veritable “Pandora’s Box” situation they’re in, Archie decides it would best for the comic book characters to go back through the portal to return to their own worlds… but the characters have other plans. Namely, they plan to stay indefinitely!
SCRIPT AND ART: Fernando Ruiz
Shipping Date: November 4th, 2009
On Sale at Comic Shops: November 11th, 2009
Newsstands: November 24th, 2009
32-page, full color comic
$2.50 US
November 4, 2009 – 4:17 am
Fellow comic fans–
The book “Secret Identity The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe
Shuster” by Craig Yoe comes to life this Saturday at the famed Dr.
Sketchy’s Live Drawing event in NYC! Top fetish model Darenzia and her
partner Nicholas will recreate scenes inspired by Joe Shuster’s erotic
art that inspired murders by neo-Nazi juvenile delinquents and lost a
Supreme Court freedom of the press case in the 1950s. Shuster’s art
looks uncannily like his characters Superman and Lois Lane.
Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster” is being
represented by the Gotham Group for a major motion picture.
Yoe will give a short slide show and autograph books before the scintillating drawing session begins.
Saturday November 7th, 4-7 pm,
The Slipper Room, 167 Orchard NYC.
18 and over only.
Thanks much for publicizing this exciting event! Whip it good!
Craig Yoe
P.S. Visit the book site: http://secret- identity. net/
November 3, 2009 – 10:35 am
This just in from Nicole Damon:
“I am extremely excited and pleased to announce that I will be working
with Fantasy Artist Extraordinaire Larry Elmore at IlluXCon next week!
On My lucky day, Friday the 13th!
Check out his amazing fantasy art on his myspace page
<http://www.myspace. com/larryelmore> , and his website
<http://www.larryelm ore.com/> !
Tell him I sent ya’!
Thanks!
Ciao,
Nicole~”
November 3, 2009 – 7:42 am
This has just been posted to a group and I think it worth adding after yesterday’s snippet.
“Hi Jean-Paul and everyone else,
I’ve held off posting on this because it appears to be a political move
by the city to try and get financing from other sources. I don’t think
anyone seriously wants the Festival to leave Angoulême, especially since
they’ve just built a new comics museum. I think it’s unlikely the
upcoming Festival will be canceled on such short notice, but you never
know. Current news indicates the mayor’s office is backpedaling on
their statements. The mayor is scheduled to make a statement today
(Tuesday) which might or might not clear things up.
The Comics Reporter and Journalista sites have been covering the story
(http://www.comicsre porter.com/ and http://tcj.com/ journalista/), mostly
getting info from the local paper at http://www.charente libre.com.
Comics Reporter also has the intrepid Bart Beaty on the case.”
November 3, 2009 – 4:58 am
…Hooper IS Here!
Yup,just been finishing off the latest book between trying to get Krakos:Sands Of Terror printed off so I have been a little less concerned about CBO like most people [yes,I know of the few regulars but that’s about ten of the 450-600 hits a day].
I think things have been running smoothly,though?
News,my dears. That’s what we need. Oh,and you did read the Nicole Damon interview…didn’t you??
November 3, 2009 – 4:53 am
Dave is the guy who looked after Jimi Gherkin’s table while he went on his Long March at the Small Press Expo last May. Some interesting stuff on offer but no website yet,there is,however,a MySpace site:
http://www.myspace.com/decadenceb
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