August 13, 2008 Johanna Oni Press / Lion Forge One comment

Salt Water Taffy

Matthew Loux has created a modern classic of children’s adventure with Salt Water Taffy, “The Seaside Adventures of Jack and Benny”. Jack and Benny are brothers, and their parents have taken them to a small town in Maine for the summer. The videogame batteries are dead, there’s no television, but Chowder Bay has other things to draw attention, like “The Legend of Old Salty”, a giant lobster. Loux draws with a thick line that gives everyone incredibly sharp chins and […]

August 12, 2008 Johanna PR: What Not to Do One comment

PR: What Not to Do: Excessive Pricing

Have you heard about the upcoming anthology volume Kramer’s Ergot 7 from Buenaventura Press? It’s a deluxe original hardcover — which has been done before, most often with reprint material — but due to publishing it at larger-than-newspaper page size, they’re pricing it at $125. For 96 pages. That’s quite a chunk of change to lay out for an experimental anthology. Maybe I’m the only one having trouble with that format lately, but I’ve pretty much quit reading multi-creator anthologies […]

August 8, 2008 Johanna Del Rey Manga Reviews 4 comments

Papillon Volume 1

Hana was raised in the city, and she’s pretty, popular, and outgoing. Her twin sister Ageha lived with their grandmother in the country, and she’s shy and plain … although, obviously, that’s more in her head, since they’re twins. She blames her upbringing and outside circumstances for her situation, dreaming of becoming a beautiful butterfly (thus the title) but either not knowing what to do or not sure she’s willing to take the steps to get there. Ageha has a […]

August 7, 2008 Johanna Comic News One comment

Interview With Tania del Rio on Sabrina Plans, OEL Manga

I asked Tania del Rio (Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Mangaka America) some questions recently about what she’s been doing. Q: In some of the coverage of the Tokyopop OEL situation, Lindsay Cibos said that she was the new artist on Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Is that the case? A: I’ve been writing and drawing Sabrina pretty much nonstop without a break for the last 4 years. When I moved from New York to Los Angeles, I realized the transition was […]

August 4, 2008 Johanna Manga News Leave a comment

Off*Beat on Indefinite Hiatus

I wasn’t crazy about the OEL manga/GN series Off*Beat, but I thought it had promise, and I really liked the characters. When I looked at what was going on with Tokyopop’s OEL manga titles at the end of June, no one knew what its future was. Now, the author has spoken: all i can say still at this moment is that i have expressed deep concern to my former editor that i wanted a means to finish the story and […]

August 4, 2008 Johanna DCU Original Animation One comment

Wonder Woman Original Animation Trailer

Out of the various original animation DVDs Warner Bros. has done, this is going to be my favorite, I can tell. The voice talent is amazing: not only are Keri Russell (Waitress, Felicity) and Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Waitress) the leads, but Oliver Platt is the voice of Hades; Rosario Dawson is another Amazon; and Alfred Molina is Ares (making for some odd crossover potential, since he was also the bad guy in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2). Wonder Woman is due out […]

August 2, 2008 Johanna Art One comment

Shorts Illegal? An Archie Flashback

I love popular history and culture, so I’m always thrilled when they put a really old story in one of the Archie digests. (I would be even more thrilled if they bothered to cite when and where it first appeared and said who wrote and drew it.) This month, it was “Leg Work” in Betty & Veronica Double Digest #162. It seems that Mr. Lodge (who for once drives himself, without a chauffeur) is scandalized and aghast that his daughter […]

August 1, 2008 Johanna Comic News Leave a comment

Darwyn Cooke’s Next Project: Parker

IDW will be publishing four graphic novels by Darwyn Cooke based on the early books in the series of Parker novels by Richard Stark (aka Donald Westlake). The first GN is due out in mid-2009. The announcement was made at a con press conference, a lovely idea that more companies should arrange. Only not necessarily at San Diego, since everyone is aiming to break news there (and since I don’t go). My husband KC and I are huge Darwyn Cooke […]

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