When we hit NYCC last weekend, comics creator Jim Zubkavich was kind enough to take time out of his busy schedule amidst the chaos of the day to talk
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A few days ago, just over this past weekend as a matter of fact, pop culture blew a massive load across New York City for the four day New York Comic Con which took place in Manhattan at the Javitz Center from October 10th through the 13th. While these days, big comic conventions like this one and the annual San Diego event focus as much (sometimes more) on movies, toys, television shows and other things that aren’t printed and bound, there was still plenty of four color action to go around.
Panels and discussions were held celebrating everything from cartoons like The Venture Brothers and Bob’s Burgers to the 25th Anniversary of Chucky but so too were there panels on self-publishing, digital comics and the advent of social media. Of course, heavy hitters like Batman and The X-Men got their own forums as well. The show was sold out long in advance this year, which meant that once you stood in line outside to get in you got to stand in line some more to do… well, pretty much anything. But that’s part and parcel with an event like this, it just comes with the territory. Thankfully the staff was generally both polite and helpful and with information booths set up all over the place, it was reasonably easy to find what you wanted to find without too much trouble. This was a well-run show.
There were scores of cosplayers on hand this year, many sporting some pretty ornate costumes, and of course there were vendors and exhibitors as far as the eye could see, selling pretty much everything under the sun. But enough talk, if a picture
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King Conan: Hour Of The Dragon #’s 1 - 4
Released by: Dark Horse Comics
Released on: May - August, 2013.
Written by Timothy Truman, working from Robert E. Howard’s original story of the same name (first serialized in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in the 1930s), Hour Of The Dragon is a
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Dark Horse has not only been archiving the legacy of those glorious Warren Publishing Comics from decades past in lush hardcover collections but so too have they been carrying on that tradition of unleashing fresh
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As comic books embark on their technical evolution from four color printed staple bound booklets to hardcover collections to paperback style graphic novels to e-Books, somewhere along the way motion comics were born. While taking specific panels out of specific comic books and moving them around on a DVD or Blu-ray with some
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Released by: Shout! Factory
Released on: September 13, 2011.
Director: Joe Gibbs
Cast: David Blair, Daniel Thorn
Year: 2011 Purchase from Amazon
The Movie:
While motion comics have their detractors, you’ve got to hand it to the production team that brought writer Robert Rodi and artist Esad Ribic’s 2003 Marvel Knights limited series, simply titled Loki, to life
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The Weird World of Eerie Publications: Comic Gore That Warped Millions of Young Minds Written by Mike Howlett (with an introduction by Stephen R. Bissette) Published by: Feral House Released on: 11/30/2010 Purchase From Amazon
Hey kids, like comics? Of course you do. Remember Eerie Publications? No? That’s okay. No one would blame you if you didn’t, not even Mike
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