Today’s the comic shop retailer deadline for orders for comics from the January Previews catalog. One of those items is a new miniseries from Boom! Box, Giant Days by John Allison and Lissa Treiman. I don’t know much about it, and I haven’t seen any sneak peeks, but I am in love with the way the publisher is describing it: Going off to university is always a time of change and growth, but for Esther, Susan, and Daisy, things are […]

It’s an unfortunate quirk of human nature that long-running quality projects are easy to overlook. A consistent good read doesn’t get the kind of press or attention a hot artist (who will do three issues) or a plot twist (reversed next year) or a crossover (a lot of sound and fury with no long-lasting results) or movie tie-in (because comics loves Hollywood validation) does. Which is my excuse for not noticing that it’s been three years since we’ve seen an […]

Looks like the good traffic at Friday’s Wizard World Madison bodes well for the future of the show — according to spokesman Jerry Milani, the show “will be back, dates pending.” “Thousands of fans” attended over the show’s three days. Sadly, I wasn’t able to get back, having caught a cold on Friday that kept me home the rest of the weekend. An article in today’s paper expands on the experience: “It’s been everything we were hoping for and more,” […]

The Sequential iPad app has some of the best-known graphic novel publishers in their catalog, and now they’ve added another: Dark Horse. Not all of the publisher’s titles will be available, but the first round of additions include The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story, Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, Will Eisner’s Fagin the Jew, Bryan Talbot’s Grandville Noël, and Canales and Guarnido’s Blacksad with “many more titles” to follow. Dark Horse also publishes Usagi Yojimbo and Sin City, which would be […]

KC and I went down to Wizard World Madison this afternoon, and there were more people than I thought there’d be. I wasn’t sure Madison was yet a town for a three-day show, but it seems a number of people came to the event, with more showing up as we got closer to after school and after work. This is clearly a first-year show. Registration was disorganized, taking place in a separate building from the actual show floor (except for […]

Following from Tuesday’s post, here’s more information on how the local media are covering the show. Wednesday’s paper has the Capital Times tabloid-format insert. The CapTimes used to be a separate publication, but now it’s a political/entertainment-focused addition. The back page looked like this: As you’ll notice, there are no women here. Although since the most-promoted female guests are the wrestling-associated Bella Twins, maybe that’s a good thing. There was also a full-page William Shatner interview in this section. Elsewhere […]

The Wizard World Madison convention launches its first show this coming weekend. It’s already getting a good amount of local press, like this two-page spread in the local free weekly, Isthmus, emphasizing how geek-friendly our city is. The numbers cited are a little out of date, since I believe the New York Comic-Con has surpassed Wizard Chicago as the second largest after San Diego, but I hope this prediction is true: Wizard World Madison is expected to bring in more […]

That’s a misleading headline, since Dork Tower by John Kovalic is alive and well as a webcomic. I hadn’t thought much about it since, oh, about 2007, though, when the last of the print comic book collections, Dork Decade, came out. Although Dork Tower is quite successful as a gag strip about gamers and related nerditry, I read the comic because the space allowed for longer stories, which gave the cast more character, particularly when it come to the never-quite-right […]