At Comic-Con, my employer, Top Shelf, and a fellow comics person with Arkansas ties, Nate Powell, had a very good night at the Eisner Awards as Powell’s Swallow Me Whole took the best new graphic album award.
The book is just excellent, and I’d say certainly among the best — if not the very best — [...]
Entries from July 2009
July 28, 2009
Congrats to Nate Powell on his Eisner Win!
July 23, 2009
‘Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer’ at SDCC ‘09
I’m not making it to San Diego Comic-Con this year, as my upcoming graphic novel, Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer, won’t be out in time for the show.
However, just because I won’t be there and the book isn’t out till this fall, that doesn’t mean you lucky souls going to SDCC have to come away with hands [...]
July 14, 2009
Mini-comic ‘Nebraska #1,’ Now Free Online
The first mini-comic I’ve drawn — and really the first serious illustrating I’ve done in more than a decade — is Nebraska #1, the first in a series of planned mini-comics about my hometown in western Nebraska.
You can read it all online by clicking over to my Flickr slide show.
By the way, anyone know why [...]
July 10, 2009
Mark Waid: ‘Pinocchio’ is ‘The Greatest Thing I’ve Read All Year’
On the Slave Labor Graphics blog, editor/awesome blogger Jennifer de Guzman just posted a pretty cool note about Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer (my graphic novel with Dustin Higgins).
Mark Waid — who in addition to being evil is Boom! Studios editor in chief and writer of Kingdom Come, among many other awesome books — gave a pretty [...]
July 10, 2009
Recommendations: ‘Hurt Locker,’ ‘Wednesday Comics,’ ‘The Unwritten’ and Dr. Dog
Here’s a random sampling of stuff — comics and otherwise — I’ve enjoyed lately and would recommend you check out:
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My friend Derek and I caught The Hurt Locker last night in a preview screening, and it’s so far easily the best film of the year that I’ve seen (missed Gomorrah in the theaters, unfortunately). Jeremy [...]
July 9, 2009
Are Marvel’s ‘Foilogram’ Covers a Joke?
Marvel PR just sent over a breathless announcement about a new invention, “foilogram” covers, to debut on the revamped Ultimates line. Here’s the text:
Part foil, part hologram, these reflective covers will jump at you from shelves! Watch as Spider-Man’s webbing catches the light! Examine the intricate technology of Tony Stark! And, yes, that’s Captain America’s [...]
July 9, 2009
io9: ‘Pinocchio’s New Vampiric High Concept = Win’ and More Pinocchio News
Thanks to my old pal Billy, who pointed out that io9 had picked up on the Slave Labor Graphics official press release about Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer, my debut graphic novel with art from the amazing Dusty Higgins.
Read the post right here. Seems like they’re excited about the book (which comes out in September), so that’s [...]
July 8, 2009
PWCW Interview With Mark Chiarello on ‘Wednesday Comics’
DC’s big summer splash/experiment Wednesday Comics comes out today, and I talked with the man behind the newspaper-comics-page-formatted superhero stories about the project in this week’s Publishers Weekly Comics Week.
Mark Chiarello, the DC editor behind such projects as Solo and Batman Black & White, had much of interest to say about how Wednesday Comics came [...]
July 6, 2009
Doomkopf.com ‘Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer’ Interview
I forgot to post this last week, but I did an interview with my pals at Doomkopf.com about Pinocchio: Vampire Slayer, but most of it is just old friends joshing each other.
You can read the interview right here.
Also, Dustin Higgins, the artist on the book, just did a really phenomenal “making of” post on Comicmonsters.com. [...]
July 4, 2009
Sarah Palin Doesn’t Understand Basketball
You may have heard that yesterday Sarah “Barracuda” Palin stepped down as governor of Alaska. It did bump the Michael Jackson drug rumors off the CNN lead.
I watched her press conference, which was pretty bizarre in general (though not quite “I was actually in Argentina banging my mistress” bizarre), but one point stuck out. About [...]
