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We’ve received an official statement on the changed plans for the roll-out of the new Morgan Spurlock Comic-Con documentary:
Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond our control, the COMIC-CON EPISODE 4 tour has been cancelled. However, the film will be released April 6 in theaters and on VOD and the good news is that it will now be in theaters in many more cities. Morgan will be making special appearances in many of these theaters and you can check the website closer to April 6 for updates.
Also, as one of our commenters sussed out, the film DOES have a
website and
a twitter.. As soon as we get any more info we’ll let y’all know.
Only days ago we were speculating with an industry pal on what had ever happened to Morgan Spurlock’s documentary about the San Diego Comic-Con, which was filmed with some fanfare in 2010, had a splashy tie-in book last summer, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and then went silent.
Well, details of the release have now emerged, along with a poster and a trailer. The film will go out in limited release on April 6, with simultaneous theatrical/VOD release. The film will go on a tour of “con-like” openings, complete with costumes and portfolio reviews, in various cities, including Atlanta, Orlando, Miami, Rochester, N.Y., Albany, N.Y., Philadelphia, Wallingford, Conn., Cincinnati, Chicago and Detroit.
Directed by Spurlock, the production crew includes nerd icons Joss Whedon, Stan Lee and Legendary’s Thomas Tull. The blurb goes like this:
Have you ever imagined a place where Vulcans and vampires get along? Where wizards and wookies can be themselves? Welcome to Comic-Con San Diego. What started as a fringe comic book convention for 500 fans has grown into the pop culture event of the year that influences every form of entertainment, now attended by over 140,000 strong. COMIC-CON EPISODE IV: A FAN’S HOPE- a film by Morgan Spurlock explores this amazing cultural phenomenon by following the lives of five attendees as they descend upon the ultimate geek mecca at San Diego Comic-Con 2010.
Only three of the five are shown in the trailer. The fans followed are artists
Skip Harvey and Eric Henson, designer
Holly Conrad, collector
James Darling and Mile High’s
Chuck Rozanski. 2010 was a pretty good year to decide to make a con movie—they had the face-hugger fans everywhere and security was particularly tight, both events shown in the trailer.
The trailer looks decent enough—but we’re genetically inclined to watch this movie so don’t go by us. The poster is a bit…generic and uncredited, but we’ll forgive everything for the Rozanski-as-Kenobi head floating over it all.
UPDATE: here are the tour dates thus far. More will be added:
April 5th – Atlanta, Cobb Energy Center http://www.cobbenergycentre.com/
April 6th – Orlando, UCF Arena http://www.ucfarena.com/
April 7th – Miami Beach, The Fillmore Miami Beach http://fillmoremb.com/index
April 12th – Rochester, Rochester Dome Arena http://www.fairandexpocenter.org/
April 13th – Albany, Palace Theatre http://www.palacealbany.com/
April 14th – Philadelphia, Girard College http://www.girardcollege.edu/page.cfm
April 15th – Wallingford, CT, Toyota Presents Oakdale Theatre http://oakdale.com/index
April 19th – Cincinnati, Taft Theatre http:/
Repaneled is a newish blog that recreates classic comics panels in new art styles. Up today:
Anthony Vukojevich’s reimagination of a key panel from Gabrielle Bell’s San Diego ComicCon Comicumentary
BTW, 2010 was my first time experiencing the unfettered party insanity that is the Indie Comix Embassy Suites Happy Hour. Long will it haunt my dreams.
BTW part 2: this blog post title was my official entry into the all time hardest to spell blog post title darby.
The definitive account of SD10, just as great as it began. Can’t wait for the Uncivilized Books version of this epic of epicness.
It’s official, via a press release. After long, complex negotiations that involved serious offers from Los Angeles and Anaheim, Comic-Con International: San Diego has just announced they will stay in the city they are named for.
With the Con’s contract with the convention center expiring in 2012, and the facilities MAXED out for space, everyone has been wondering if the con would move to a different city that offered more perks, The city of San Diego has been seen as indifferent to the biggest civilian convention of the year, although that has changed in the last couple of years.
This is good news for those who like continuity. You can renew that frequent shopper card at Ralphs!
A press conference is being held tomorrow. PR below:
Comic-Con International: San Diego (Comic-Con), the largest comics convention of its kind in the world, today announced it will be staying in San Diego for the foreseeable future.
Comic-Con reached a self-imposed attendance limit at the San Diego Convention Center (SDCC) in 2007 and has had to cap attendance at approximately 125,000 people each year since. In looking at ways to better accommodate the growing demand from attendees and exhibitors, the nonprofit organization considered proposals for a move to larger facilities in Los Angeles or Anaheim after the expiration of its SDCC lease in 2012. This decision keeps Comic-Con in San Diego through 2015.
“We are grateful for the tireless efforts all three cities put into to their proposals,” said David Glanzer, Comic-Con’s director of marketing and public relations. “In the end, we feel this decision is the best for all those who attend Comic-Con and for the organization itself. We are happy that the community has worked with us to ensure that we remain here.”
Comic-Con was first held in 1970 at the U.S. Grant Hotel, where it attracted 300 people. As the event grew, subsequent homes included the downtown El Cortez Hotel in the 1970s and the San Diego Convention and Performing Arts Center in the 1980s. Comic-Con moved to the then newly built SDCC in 1991. Comic-Con celebrated its 41st year in 2010.
The San Diego Convention Center Corporation has scheduled a press conference for Friday, October 1 at 11:45 a.m. at Lobby E of the convention center.
More later.
S gets very, very personal in this installment.
The New York Times has a story on how Comic-Con has become a venue to market to — gasp! — girls, with lots of info on various toy and clothing lines, including gymnast Nastia Liukin’s Supergirl line of clothing.
And marketers, including publishers, toy manufacturers and Hollywood’s entertainment giants, used Comic-Con 2010 last month to promote products for girls and to build anticipation for new ones. Mattel, for example, used Comic-Con to promote several toy lines for girls, offering an exclusive set of its Polly Pocket dolls dressed as superheroes and promoting Monster High.
I was actually interviewed for the piece by author
Gregory Schmidt, who was very smart and nice and did a fine job on the story, but everything I said got cut out in editing. I was nonplussed by this, not so much because I didn’t get my name in the
NY Times again, but because it leaves the article with
just men quoted about selling to girls.
So yet again it’s a story about girls and women and what they like without a single woman expressing an opinion on the matter. Thanks, guys! We’ll just keep shelling out the money — no need to actually listen to us.
Jillian Tamaki
And Gabrielle Bell — this one is an EPIC.
We could have SWORN there was a third…but can’t find it now. Readers?
By Shannon O’Leary, Entertainment Editor
Last week I said I’d turn in a late True Blood Recap after I got back from Comic Con. Last week I hadn’t actually gone to Comic Con yet. Going to Comic Con this year was not unlike attending The Fall of Saigon. It was a crowded combat zone littered with hundreds of thousands of nerds elbowing each other out of the way so they could get their pop culture freak on until one of them got stabbed in the face with a pen!
I’m not saying it wasn’t fun. I had a blast! But after all that madness, chaos and immersive viral marketing I just don’t have it in me to properly recap the sixth episode of Season Three: I Got A Right To Sing The Blues. Sorry to not live up to my commitments to you, the fang faithful, but I’ve been to war and back and I’m going to save my recapping jujitsu for episode seven on Sunday. What I can do now is tell you a little war story.
It started off on the 2nd day (for me) of the con. On Friday morning, I waited in line for an ungodly amount of time to get into Ballroom 20 to see, among others, the True Blood panel. I was not alone. I was there with hearty individuals like my new friend, Jennifer, who kindly held my place in line while I got a coke and a grody overpriced bagel dog. She was good peeps. And she had her peeps (who’d waited in line since 8:00 AM just to see the cast and creators of True Blood) save me a seat on the inside.
Jennifer (left) and her friends waiting for the SDCC 2010 True Blood panel to start after waiting in lines for hours to get in
The panel itself turned out to be well worth waiting for. Series creator, Alan Ball, was there along with Charlaine Harris, writer of the Sookie Stackhouse series, and cast members Nelsan Ellis (Lafeyette!), Sam Trammell (Sam Merlotte), Rutina Wesley (Tara Thornton), Deborah Ann Woll (Jessica Hamby), Kristin Bauer van Straten (Pam), Denis O’Hare (Russell Edington), Joe Manganiello (Alcide), Stephen Moyer (Bill Compton), and Anna Paquin (Sookie Stackhouse). Bauer Van Straten immediately lightened the mood up, showing how she makes the character of Pam such a fan favorite by saying, “Hello, Daddy,” when Paquin and Moyer dragged out a cardboard cutout of Alexander Skarsgard.
Sookie and Bill place a cardboard cutout of Eric next to Alcide and Sookie Stackhouse Series Charlaine Harris
You could tell the cast had an easy familiarity with each other. They all seemed to be having an easy going, good time together. Except for Nelsan Ellis, who seemed a little tired and recalcitrant, but, good god, Comic Con could do that to anyone and he must’ve had people up on his jock left and right during their ubiquitous Con PR blitz.
As images of SD10 filter out, the defining one has yet to manifest itself but in this image of a woman helping her Iron Man-themed friend pee into a bottle we have a fetish-palooza: water sports, mascots, bondage, superheroes. No wonder Comic-con is all things to all people. But the one message that this image inspires is the one that all of Con should remember: friendship. When a costume restricts arm motion to the point you can’t unzip your fly, may you always have a buddy to hold the bottle, if you know what we mean.
With little fanfare, right under the noses of thousands of Comic-Con attendees, DC Comics in partnership with Converse announced the creation of five unique designs. (Literally. Most of the DC booth staffers were wearing the new designs last weekend.)
Available in September from Journeys, the line will feature five different designs based on the iconic Chuck Taylor All Star Hi-Top.
Journeys also offers an All Star shoe with a generic comics design.
For those who prefer a more light-hearted, youthful design, Converse has partnered with Dr. Seuss Enterprises and offers Seuss-inspired designs for both children and adults!
Visit the websites for more information and multiple viewpoints.
As we wait for the Beatrix to recover from her annual pilgrimage to San Diego, here are some other websites, and their consolidated reportage on Comic-Con International: San Diego.
These are some of my favorites, and some I could remember. The list is not comprehensive, merely a distraction while we wait for Heidi to return.
So first, Wired. It’s one of my favorites, as I know every day there will be one or two articles which will catch my interest. It is the Comic-Con of websites, offering geeky goodness as well as serious reportage. There’s a variety of blogs and topics covered, even an automotive blog! However, Wired’s search engine is useless. You would be better off using Google to search their site.
Underwire
GeekDad
(That’s an actual Darth Vader mask, sold at CCI:SD`09 to raise funds for the Susan G. Komen Foundation.)
Game Life
Comic Book Resources was out in force at Comic-Con, and did an incredible job of reporting on all stuff comics! (Although even they missed the DC Writers panel on Thursday.)
Comic Book Resources main page
Robot 6
Spinoff Online
(No tag for CCI:SD, but their posts are preceded by “CCI: ”)
Newsarama was also there!
As well as traditional media!
Associated Press Images (lots of great photos, mostly of celebrities in Hall H, but some excellent cosplay photos as well, like the one at left. Remember, it’s fun until somebody loses an eyeball, then it’s funny. And if you’re a hip comics fan, you’ll use a fulchau.)
Associated Press News
Reuters
USA Today has an easy-to-use Comic-Con banner which breaks coverage down by day, but I can’t link to it. Try either link below, it will probably show up.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/livefrom/index
http://www.usatoday.com/life/comics/default.htm
The New York Times
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Probably the biggest “classic comics” accnoucnement SD10 was new series of reprints of Floyd Gottfredson’s Mickey Mouse comics strip. Disney is partnering with Fantagraphics for the reprints, which will begin in 2011.
Gottfredson’s Mickey was far from the benign company spokesman we all know and love. Rather he was a bold, dynamic adventurer, fighting real bad guys like the Phantom Blot and Peg-Leg Pete. According to this piece by Douglas Wolk, the deal was cemented at Comic-Con. Jacob covey will design the series. Like much entertainment of the era, the strip has some racial overtones that are very unfortunate, which have never been reprinted, but according to Gary Groth this will be unexpurgated:
I think I’ve persuaded them to allow us to reprint it in its original form. There’s some sensitive material–material that would be considered racist today, and should have been but wasn’t considered racist then. My plan and my hope is to reprint it exactly as it was, with some explanatory text for a modern audience. I want to keep it intact.
David Gerstein has
a fuller account of the strips history and importance here.
Today is getaway day. Saturday and Sunday always turn into frantic catch-up adventures with little posting time, and I won’t be able to get my final con thoughts up until tonight, but it was a pretty good show. No one lost an eye. The big question was whether the time economy of con — people coming just for the entertainment stuff — and the economy of the Real World — it’s a recession! — combined to slow sales on the floor.
For a show that gets “bigger and bigger” every year, no publishers we talked to were experiencing bigger and bigger sales. That’s the real problem.
Odin’s throne at the Marvel booth was a real hit, however. The actual prop taken from the film, the great doors opened to reveal the Destroyer armor behind it. The display was so popular that even the Teamsters and convention personnel who were quickly breaking down the hall wouldn’t let the throne get taken down until they all had their picture taken with it. It was a new benchmark for a comics publishing booth at Comic-Con — in an environment that is one big theme park, it’s getting to be the only way to stand out.
More later from the road. BIG, BIG ups to Kate and Torsten for manning the home internet.
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Peter David will be writing episodes of the upcoming cartoon Young Justice,which is based on the comic of the same name that he wrote for an almost five-year run.
Also in comics to screen news, Geoff Johns will be writing an episode of the live action TV series Smallville, featuring Booster Gold and Blue Beetle. Meanwhile, the other way around, the popular Smallville character Chloe Sullivan will enter the DCU as a character in the new Jimmy Olsen backup series in ACTION COMICS, starting in #893.
DC brought the prop corpse of the alien Green Lantern Abin Sur from the upcoming GREEN LANTERN movie to Comic-Com and put it on display at the show. Pictures are available here. By the way, DC has unveiled the new GREEN LANTERN movie logo.
Marvel
Not to be outdone, Marvel has unveiled the first look at the movie logo on its new THE AVENGERS site.
Four anime series produced by Mad House and based on Marvel comics titles will come out on G4TV next year. The Iron Man, X-Men, Wolverine and Blade anime series were announced last year at Comic-Con, but this is the first time that anyone has learned which American television channel would be airing the cartoons. Iron Man will appear in Japan on October 1.
It was announced Sunday that Joss Whedon’s THE AVENGERS movie has added Mark Ruffalo as the Hulk and The Hurt Locker’s Jeremy Renner as Hawkeye to its cast of superheroes. In other movie news, Marvel also announced they have regained the film rights to their comic THE PUNISHER.
COWBOYS & ALIENS
Jon Favreau announced that this upcoming movie will be filmed and shown entirely in 2-D, despite being based on a comic! A revelation, I know. Are they even allowed to do that?
Dark Horse
Hot on the heels of its successf
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Techland Presents: Comics and Digital Piracy
A “hastily thrown together” panel on the last day of the Con made for some lively discussion about the realities and moralities of pirated comics.
Moderator Douglas Wolk from Techland.com, a long time music critic, is concerned that the comics industry will fall into the self-destructive pattern that the music industry pursued, spending enormous sums of money to try to get the digital genie back in the bottle, without doing much of anything to slow file-trading down and instead alienating many of its most ardent fans. Wolk also observed that there is now a generation of comics fans that is accustomed to having a digital copy of every new comic released each week, in an open format, on that Wednesday, for free. Not to mention the fact that essentially every comic book ever published in the US is just a few mouse-clicks away from a free download.
Jake Forbes and Deb Aoki discussed in detail the particular permutations of the large “scanlation” community of Manga readers that grew specifically out of the unavailability of so many Japanese comic books in English. While things are changing, the overall situation remains as the huge output of the Japanese comic industry only trickles out slowly to non-Japanese readers. As hard-core manga fans themselves, Forbes and Aoki claimed they could understand the passion of the fans, but at the same time, as editors, they were dismayed by the arrogance and short-sightedness of “scanlators” that self-righteously ignored the desire of creators to make their own decisions about the distribution of their work.
David Steinberger from comiXology, the provider of the technology behind both Marvel and DC’s iOS offerings, diagnosed the situation primarily in terms of the disconnect between the speed of technological developments online and the business pace of the large companies and their licensing requirements. He would love to do more day and date releases, he said, but the fear of cannibalizing direct market sales, and the “bottle neck” of his small start-up’s capabilities continues to slow the trend in that direction. Steinberger considers those fears to be “irrational” as his best sellers tend to be comics that have a higher mainstream profile from movies, such as Wanted, Hellboy, Kick-Ass, etc. To him that demonstrates that digital sales come from non-traditional comics fans, precisely not the people in their local shop on Wednesdays. The non-US component of his customers (over 40%) would also seem to argue against a corollary between digital purchasers and hardcore weekly fans. Steinberger also contends that unauthorized downloads should not be equated simply with lost sales, as in his experience, people tend to grab a great deal of free stuff without ever actually consuming all of it, or certainly ever thinking of buying it. Steinberger does betray an acute understanding that his business exists in a challenging position, having to work within the often byzantine restrictions from publishers while at the same time competing with free. comiXology’s answer is overwhelmingly based on quality of experience, or their ability to create a digital version of the comic pamphlet that is qualitatively better than what a pirate can provide, and that requires far less technical know-how.
None of the panelists directly responded to Wolk’s concerns about the wisdom of maintaining an adversarial relationship with down-loaders, as in his view, strict enforcement has proven utterly ineffective for slowing unauthorized distribution, A punishment based approach can also be problematic because it overlooks the possible positive effects of widespread unauthorized distribution, particula
Many years ago (2007?), Heidi described the new “normal” in Hall H. Reading her reportage, I pictured a United Nations refugee camp, people packed into the space, tarps and tents laid out at the back of the hall.
Perhaps it is not that dire, but it seems to get worse each year. Last year, ire was directed towards fans of Twilight who camped out to get the best seats for the big panel.
This year, an attendee was assaulted by another con-goer over space issues, with the alleged attacker stabbing the victim near the eye with a ballpoint pen.
Next year? Heat stroke? Riots?
Currently, Comic-Con International takes a laissez faire approach to Hall H and to all panels. From the home page of their website:
Important Information Regarding Programs and Autographs
All event and program rooms have limited capacity as set by the Fire Marshal. Even though your badge is needed to get into all events, it does not guarantee you access to any event if it has reached its capacity. We do not clear rooms between events. Most autograph signings are of a limited nature. Your badge does not guarantee autographs at any event.
Hall H is not cleared after each event, resulting in “squatting”–arriving early in the day, sitting through other panels, so that you have a guaranteed seat for the panel you want to see. This results in non-fans filling seats and attending panels while the actual fans of that particular panel are left outside.
An extreme example could be that the entire hall is packed with people waiting for an afternoon panel of The Next Big Thing, so that the panels preceding it are completely ignored by everyone squatting in the Hall. Or imagine Marvel Studios scheduling a panel a few hours after DC’s movie panel. Marvel packs the Hall with squatting True Believers, who then actively heckle and belittle DC’s presentation (or completely ignore it).
Given the amounts studios and publishers spend in setting up booths, scheduling celebrities and press interviews, and producing freebies, given that a tepid reaction from fans at Comic-Con can hurt the success of an upcoming movie, it becomes quite obvious how serious the current situation in Hall H is to the companies involved.
So, here are some suggestions. The convention staff are quite good at improving how CCI is run, and I’m sure they are considering alternatives.
1) Ticket all Hall H events. Book Expo America has done this for decades. They have a robust autograph area, where attendees can meet authors and receive free copies. For the most popular authors, they issue free tickets each day of the trade show, starting at Seven AM.
CCI could do the same. The easiest way: rubber wrist bands.
Here’s a possible scenario:
Every morning, starting at Six AM, the event “box office” is opened. This box office is actually a row of tables set up in the Petco Field parking lot. Each table is a specific panel scheduled for that day, and each table is staffed by the studio, publisher, or organization responsible for that panel. This method of staffing reduces the demands of CCI volunteers, and having the companies’ promotional staff present reduces any problems which might arise. Attendees line up at whichever table they most want a ticket for.
Each person in line is allowed two wristbands to that event, and is allowed to pick up wristbands for four events total, moving from one line to the next. Each attende
Once again, I’m on Watchtower duty here at Stately Beat Manor on Friday night. A tremendous thunderstorm rages around me, and I wonder, “Is this turret grounded?”
Heidi continues to report from the front lines, embedded with the various tribes attending Comic-Con International: San Diego.
It’s Raining On Prom Night
Entertainment Tonight reports that Jerry O’Connell, promoting Piranha 3D, is alone at Comic-Con. His wife, Rebecca Romijn, is attending her 20th high school reunion, meeting her Berkeley (California) High School prom date!
Somehow, I don’t think she need worry about her figure.
Jeff Smith Presents!
Since this is still Comic-Con International, the entire shebang commenced with comics legend and trailblazer Jeff Smith. Comic Book Resources covers the action!
So, what’s new? How about, not one, but TWO! new Bone series from Scholastic?
First up is a new comics series, written by Tom Sniegoski, drawn by Smith, titled “Bone: Tall Tales“, which is a reworking of “Stupid, Stupid Rat-Tails” with extra stories (and color!) added. It should ship sometime in August, but is on sale at the Cartoon Books booth.
Then, there’s a new series of Bone stories, chapter books titled “Quest for the Spark”. The first book is due February 2011, and features new Bone characters returning to the valley years after the original Bone series.
Smith was asked about the movie in development at Warner Brothers, but replied there is not much to show. Expect a panel next year, he suggests.
Jeff Smith also asked his fans for help:
Continuing his power point presentation, Smith said that next year marks the 20th anniversary of the creation of “Bone.” As a result, he’s asking fans of the series to offer suggestions on how to celebrate the anniversary. Smith said he’d like to receive feedback on his official website from fans within the next six months.
An Infinite Canvas?
Threadless, purveyor of fine t-shirts and other graphics, presents a four-issue comic book story, on four t-shirts!
Comics Alliance has the story about the story, and features images from all four Ts.
The designs — which will be on display at a special after party hosted by Threadless tonight in San Diego — all follow a storyline written by Thompson, and can eit
(National Cartoonist Society, Reuben Dinner, 1969)
Earlier, Heidi lamented that the Eisner Awards were not given more notice by the general public.
But there are ways. Why aren’t the Eisners a bigger deal? EVERYONE, it seems, has planned their party opposite the Eisners, and it’s understandable when the ceremony has evolved into such a chore even for the nominees. But that’s not how it should be. Why isn’t EVERY media outlet covering the Eisners? The ceremony is caught between the Old Ways and the Newfangled. It wants to be the last ceremony of the Olden Days with the Russ Manning award and Sergio and retailers — but it also wants to have nerdlebrities — Jane Wiedlin and stormtroopers. We say — make the studios pony up! If they want to keep competing with their poker pals to have the biggest display in the parking lot outside the Gaslamp Hilton, make ‘em spend some money to make the Eisners party the Governor’s ball! Make it THE place you have to be before you go off to your studio/agency soiree.
I typed a blazing rant in the comments box, but then decided to let the topic simmer.
So, here are my thoughts on the Eisners, and how to improve upon an awards program which has been running since 1988. These are not recommendations, because nobody is paying me to think about this, nor do I possess any professional expertise in this topic. I merely offer perceptions, and hope others will offer their opinions as well.
Here’s what I’d like to see in the future:
1) An awards banquet. The Harvey Awards has followed this format for the past few years. Attendees pay for a ticket, receive a gift bag from the event sponsors, and then are assigned a place setting. Certain tables would be located near electrical outlets to accommodate journalists. A secondary ballroom, sponsored, would be reserved for general attendees, and have a closed video feed to monitors.
For the Eisners, there could be a cocktail reception from 4 to 6 PM, allowing people to congregate, chat, and if necessary, pose on the red carpet for media. Companies can purchase tables, and there can also be “open” tables for the general public. A percentage of the ticket sales could be donated to charity. The ballroom foyer bar remains open throughout the event, allowing attendees a venue for private conversations or other needs.
At 5:30 PM, the ballroom opens, allowing guests to find their seats. At 6, the event starts with the usual festivities. Dinner is served during the ceremony.
By 10 PM, the event is done. The ballroom is cleared and an after-party is scheduled with a cash bar, preferably somewhere epic and picturesque, adding to the buzz and glamor of the awards. It is open to all convention attendees.
2) Awards anthologies. Other literary awards publish anthologies. These anthologies serve to promote the awards and the winners, generating exposure for both. (This is the fundamental reason why awards exist.) These anthologies are also an excellent introduction to the best of a specific category, format, or subject.
Some publishers are guarded when it comes to anthologies… they so
Marvel
At the Saturday Cup of Joe panel, Marvel teased fans with the hint that they would be doing something to do with Crossgen in 2011. After Crossgen entered bankruptcy, Disney bought up its creative properties. Now that Disney owns and operates Marvel Comics, it is seems natural for them to take advantage of the fact. A number of the most respected names in comics worked or created for Crossgen, including Mark Waid, Chuck Dixon and Greg Land.
Eisner-winning comics writer Brian Michael Bendis has just announced that he will be a writer and producer on the new Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon.
Meanwhile, over at the Disney end of the business, it has been announced that Disney’s new videogame Epic Mickey will have comic and minicomic accompaniments including a 60 page graphic novelization of the game’s plot written by Peter David.
DC
DC has announced that they will be debuting a new computer animated Green Lantern animated series on Cartoon Network next year.
Kate Fitzsimons writes for Publishers Weekly, Publishers Weekly Comics Week, and her personal comics and geek culture blog geekiferous.com.
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Given that pretty much all of the Spartans died at the Battle of Thermopylae – which was sort of the point – people have been speculating for years about how Frank Miller would wring a sequel out of his hit Dark Horse graphic novel and movie 300. Today, at Comic-Con, the answer came out. The sequel, Xerxes, will actually take place at exactly the same time on another battlefield of the same war. 300’s director Zach Snyder revealed he is already working on a film script based on Miller’s upcoming graphic novel.
Meanwhile, Dark Horse released a never before seen clip from the in-progress animated movie based on Eric Powell’s The Goon. The clip, which is several minutes long and contains a complete comedic scene, can be seen here. The movie’s producers are still seeking a studio to support the project.
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At the Image panel it was announced that Marc Guggenheim is starting a new imprint, Collider Entertainment, for comics written by Hollywood scriptwriters without intending them to become movies. For extra novelty value, the projects are supposed to be original, and not repurposed spec scripts as is often the case. The first two comics from this line will be Utopian, written by Guggenheim and his wife Tara Butters, a scriptwriter for Reaper, about a world in which heroes have become obsolete. The second is by Erich and John Hoeber, the screenwriters of the upcoming comics movie Red, is called The Mission, and is about a man commanded by possibly divine voices to kill people.
It was also announced that the upcoming Walking Dead television show based on Robert Kirkman’s hit Image comic will feature writing from none other than Kirkman himself.
Top Shelf
A sequel was announced for Jeffrey Brown’s cult classic giant-robots parody The Incredible Change-Bots. The Incredible Change-Bots Two will come out from Top Shelf and feature an amnesiac villain and lots of intentionally disposable new characters.
Also, art was revealed for the much anticipated League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Vol.3: Century #2 1969 from Kevin O’Neill and Alan Moore.
Fantagraphics
Fantagraphics has announced it will be publishing Floyd Gottfried’s classic Mickey Mouse comic strips in full.
IDW
IDW has announced a new Rocketeer anthology featuring comics from big name creators including Darwyn Cook, Bill Willingham, Kurt Busiek and Mike Mignola among many many
Embargoed until the Top Cow panel happening right about now, we can now share all the latest Top Cow news.
Top Cow is reviving Minotaur Press as an imprint for its more “independent-styled series”. Upcoming Minotaur projects are Echoes by Joshua Hale Fialkov and artist Rahsan Ekedal, the story of a man whose father may or may not have been a serial killer, who may or may not be a serial killer himself, and Last Mortal about an immortal petty criminal, written by Filip Sablik and John Mahoney with art by Thomas Nachlik. Previous Minotaur comics include Greg Rucka’s Felon and Obergeist from Tony Harris and Dan Jolley.
Top Cow’s Pilot Season project, in which “pilot” issues of potential new comics are published and fans vote for their favorites, is coming back this fall. Six pilot comics will come out in total, one a week for six weeks. Unlike last year they will not all be by Mark Silvestri and Robert Kirkman, and each comic will be done by a different creative team.
And now for a gratuitous PR quote! The six contestants are:
Created by Matt Hawkins and written by screenwriter Brad Ingelsby with art by Thomas Nachlik with a cover by Bagus Hutomo of IFS, Pilot Season: Forever #1 focuses on a pharmaceutical company, Longevity, and their development of a drug that extends human life and counters the debilitating effects of aging almost indefinitely.
Created and written by William Harms and debuting art from Jerry Landon with a cover by Rafael Albuquerque, Pilot Season: 39 Minutes #1 turns a heist story on its head when a bank robber’s only solution to getaway from a surrounded bank full of customers and employees is to kill everyone in town.
Created and co-written by Marc Silvestri and co-writer Jeff Katz with art by Allan Jefferson, Pilot Season: Crosshair #1 centers on former assassin for the CIA, Justin Weller, who just settled into the life of a loving husband and devoted father in the suburbs, coping with the discovery that he has been brainwashed to kill the President of the United States.
Created and written by Filip Sablk and debuting art from David Marquez with a cover by Jenny Frison, Pilot Season: The Asset #1 redefines the femme fatale for the digital age when you’re matched with the woman of your dreams; the same woman who’s trying to get you killed.
Created and co-written by the team behind Broken Trinity: Pandora’s Box, Bryan Edward Hill and Rob Levin, with jaw dropping art from industry legend Brian Stelfreeze, Pilot Season: 7 Days from Hell #1 finds ex-pat turned mercenary John Bishop mortally wounded, but spared from Hell by a renegade demon seeking redemption.
Created and co-written by Marc Silvestri and David Wohl with art from Stjepan Sejic, Pilot Season: Midway Earth #1 sees our home planet as the strategic prize in a brutal war between two alien races.
Other Top Cow news includes …
Rest, an unfinished comic miniseries that originally came out from Devil’s Due, will now be published by Top Cow. Issues 0-2 will be rereleased in digital format, and the new issues 3-5 will come out individually in exclusively digital format before the graphic novel collected edition hits print this fall in time for New York Comic Con.
Jason Rubin, the mind behind the videogames Jak and Daxter and Crash Bandicoot, will be writing a new comic for Top Cow entitled Mysterious Ways. With art by Green Lantern Corps artist Tyler Kirkham, Mysterious Ways will be com
We’re back! And we have had no dinner and nothing to eat, so this may be very very rocky.
The evening gala starts with the introduction of host Bill Morrison who lets on that “Somewhere there is a very small area that sells comics, look for it search it out and find some of the fantastic projects that have been here tonight.” Good advice, Bill even if we need a microscope and a Foursquare account to find those comics.
Bill introduced the other co-host, voice actor Maurice LaMarche, who comes up and admits he’s a comics book geek who shops at Golden Apple and Earth 2. After running through a vocal medley of his best known characters– like the Brain — he then introduces the “Queen Mother” of the Eisner Awards, Jackie Estrada.
Jackie runs through the history of the award from the great Olbrich/Fantagraphics Kirby Awards rift of the 80s that gave rise to the Harveys and Eisners. She also explains the rules, introduces the judges and explains that this is her 20th year doing the Eisners. Congrats to Jackie!
Denis Kitchen announces that A CONTRACT WITH GOD will be made into a movie with four stories being adapted by four directors including Alex Rivera, Tse Tung and two others whose names we didn’t get. Among the group of producers is one Bob Schreck! The main producer dude comes up and gives a humble speech about how cool it it is to be doing this.
Morrison and LaMarche introduce the 13 stars of Scott Pilgrim with some awkward schtick — but is there ever any other kind at an awards show? Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Ellen Wong introduce The Best Publication for Kids and the winner is…
• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz HC, by L. Frank Baum, Eric Shanower, and Skottie Young (Marvel)
Eric Shanower and Skottie Young come up to accept and thank Marvel and everyone. Eric is well dressed.
GIANT BEAUTIFUL HUMAN Brandon Routh comes up to give the award for Best Publication for Teens to
Beasts of Burden, by Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson.
Jill comes up and jokes that she’ll be holding on to Routh — you and everyone else, MEORWWWR. Jill thanks the fans for making this unlikely blend of animal, detectives and the supernatural a success.
Satya Baba is up to present Best Humor Publication. Baba has an awesome accent and delivery and everyone is thrilled to present it to Bryan Lee O’Malley for Scott Pilgrim vs. the Universe, a popular win. O’Malley inexplicably calls up Thomas Jane which really makes the night complete. O’Malley is also humble and surprised and says he isn’t funny. We say different.
The beautiful young movie stars leave the stage, taking their innocence and wonder with them and we are left with Jillian Tamaki and James Sturm who bring us back to the warm and familiar world of comics and present Best Cover Artist J. H. Williams III for Detective Comics, a pretty good choice. James Sime accepts with a natty look.
They also present Best Letterer to David Mazzuchelli. Stephen DeStefano accepts with another natty look. He says David told him to deliver the message “Who is Bryan Lee O’Malley.” De Stefano also lauds Mazzuchelli’s wife Richmond who is a fine artist and inspiration in her own right.
Best Digital Comic goes to Sin Titulo, by Cameron Stewart. Who is thrilled with his win and thanks his other Transmission-X Canadian cohorts.
Jerry Robinson and Mark Evanier come out to present the Finger Award to Gary Friedrich who is very excited and humble and a bit hard to understand.
The Reno 911 guys are up and feign
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For those who love Guardians of the Galaxy (and who doesn’t), Rocket Racoon and Groot are getting their own four issue miniseries this January entitled (wait for it)… Rocket Racoon & Groot. Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning will be writing it with art from Timothy Green. Mike Mignola will provide the cover art for issue 1. How the team will manage dialogue for a comic that gives second billing to a character who can only say “I am Groot” is open for speculation.
Mark Waid will be reimagining Captain America’s return from the ice for a modern era with a five issue miniseries Captain America: Man Out of Time with Arthur Molina beginning this November.
Joss Whedon is not only directing The Avengers, he’s writing the entire script.
Also, in a move that has surprised no one who uses google or has watched anything Joss Whedon has made in the past eight years, Nathan Fillion has been confirmed as playing the role of Ant Man. Or maybe Joss was joking.
DC
First off, Batclan news. Grant Morrison will be following his The Return of Bruce Wayne miniseries with a one shot entitled Batman: The Return. Following this, he will be writing a Batman-centric team book called Batman, Inc. Morrison told the audience at today’s DC panel that the book will be about “What happens when Bruce is more in the equation and what he does with the Batman idea and turns it into a franchise”
Turns it into a franchise? That sounds, er, interesting.
Paul Cornell, late of the award-winning Captain Britain and MI13 series, will be writing Knight and Squire, a new ongoing series about Batman and Robin’s British counterparts.
Paul Dini will be writing a long story arc on Streets of Gotham entitled “House of Hush” in which an older villain wants to kill Bruce for being a Wayne, not for being Batman. The storyline will explore the Wayne family backstory of the generations before Bruce, and will be quite long, beginning soon and extending into December or January.
According to Vertigo editor Shelly Bond, John Constantine will be walking down the aisle in a super-sized Hellblazer #275. Whether the commitment-phobic magus will actually end up married or not, of course, is unconfirmed.
Also, Executive Editor Karen Berger confirmed that all Vertigo characters originating in the DCU would be returning to that division from Vertigo, including Swamp Thing and Madame Xanadu. Speculation – and Previews – suggests that John Constantine will not be joining them.
The cast of the upcoming Young Justice animated series has been revealed! The main cast will be Jesse
• From what we’ve seen this year’s show is running very, very smoothly. The improved security has led to a slightly more mellow mood, or at least not increased the misery factor. This year’s crowd, from the bit we’ve seen of it, seems to be composed mostly of professional freebie scoopers, sometimes whole families of them. The Alien face hugger mask, Galactus helm and Clash of the Titans shield are frequently seen, along with the ubiquitous over sized bags which EVERYONE is giving out. Seriously how are you supposed to humanly drag all that stuff around? On a person of The Beat’s stature, the bag all but drags on the ground.
• We sort of avoided the show floor yesterday. Maybe today after our stomach settles. Kind of mixed word of how things were selling — some said it was gangbusters like usual, others said it was slowing down. Guess we’ll have to get down there and find out ourselves.
• The panel with Van Jensen and Dusty Higgins which we moderated yesterday had a very modest attendance — yes there are still open spaces at Comic-Con — but provided nice insights into what it’s like to be at the indiest end of the comics spectrum. Jensen and Higgins talked about the sequel to the book, Pinocchio, Vampire Slayer and the Great Puppet Theater which spins off of the Collodi original with a whole world of magical wooden puppets and the vampires they hunt. Jensen also mentioned briefly his earlier career as the homicide reporter for Little Rock. “I was really glad to leave that job,” he summed up.
• The Hyatt is really weird this year. It’s all set up for the healthers, with registration booths, signage and all, as if Comic-Con wasn’t even taking place. (Something they surely wish.) In early evening the place is dead. Sadly, despite the Hyatt’s poor track record and sometimes surly staff, and the availability of a far superior alternative, everyone still goes there every night for wee hour shenanigans. People, do the Hilton!
• The douchey movie parties continue to be douchey. Even high ranking people at Image couldn’t get into the AMC’s Walking Dead party at the Omni. That’s ultra lame, people. Similarly, there was a distinct lack of passes for the big Scott Pilgrim party to comics types. Oh well.
• On the other hand, the CBLDF terrace party was all kinds of awesome and full of the kinds of creative, smart people that everyone likes to hang out with.
• Also cool, the Ape Entertainment party at the San Diego Children’s museum. Fresh from Vegas, Cheap Trick played a short set that included “Surrender” so you can check that off the bucket list. The Museum itself is a very cool venue that isn’t much used for Comic-Con events, so if you’re looking for something a little more unique next year, put it on your list.
• Having a broken toe isn’t slowing us down too much, it’s the awful blisters from the (oops) new shoes we bought to protect the broken toe that are the problem.
• THE NUMBER ONE TIP ABOUT GOING TO COMIC-CON? Forget about all that drink water plan ahead crap. The #1 rule about Comic-con is NEVER EVER LEAVE THE HALL AT 7 PM ON THE DOT. The buses don’t move, the people don’t move and it takes an hour to get anywhere anyway.
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What does “circumstances beyond our control” mean? Is someone ill? Was there a tornado? This was a very ambitious marketing strategy which crashed and burned before it even began. Morgan Spurlock has to know that this will be the number one question he’ll be asked at his next convention appearance.
I imagine the logistics of such an undertaking were ridiculous. I doubt Spurlock had much to do in the planning… it was probably the distributor working with Spurlock to launch the tour. Speaking from experience with similar situations, I can only imagine that Spurlock is happy to travel all over the planet to promote the film… but that Joss Whedon and Stan Lee are not so easy to wrangle.
I’m sure Whedon and Lee agreed to do it, but once it was handed off to their “people” it probably became a logistical nightmare for the distributor. Happens all the time. We’ve all heard about the ridiculous appearance fees Stan Lee has been getting from conventions. Do you think his handlers were going to let this go down without a huge payday? And based on how he’s looked at the last few events he’s attended, how could he even do a tour on the road like this?
As for Whedon…where would he find the time? Doesn’t he have a $200+ million dollar Avengers picture to push? The Avengers opens on May 4th… i imagine that would have to be a priority.
So…you’d be left with Spurlock and Harry Knowles…and really, is Harry Knowles even relevant in 2012. 2002 maybe… but i doubt he and Spurlock would warrant paying $50 – $60 for a ticket to meet them.
And the kicker for all this… they were planning to release the film day and date on demand so you could watch it at home… so really, the only justification for paying to see it at one of the venues would be to meet Joss and Stan. Which I was totally willing to do, even though I had doubts that could pull it off.
So to answer the question by the previous poster “circumstances beyond our control” probably means that Stan and Joss were committed to something that they had no ability to follow thru with, and the distributor (not being in the comic biz), probably had no idea until it was too late.
That’s just one man’s opinion :)
Whatever it was sounded like a very complicated and expensive promotion…and the movie can be marketed just as well on all these blogs and tweets.
Too bad the tour was cancelled. Can’t wait to see the movie. How about making a movie about hard it is to buy Comic Con tickets? It would be a really depressing movie!