Tag: comic books
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Superheroes, Strip Artists & Talking Animals: Minnesota’s Contemporary Cartoonists Review
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in Book Reviews2011, Minnesota Historical Society Press Written by Britt Aamodt Beneath the colourful imagery, comic books have always held a certain tragedy. Behind every fantastical world and heroic individual rising against the forces of evil there’s some poor, solitary soul confined to a drawing board, wondering how they were ever naïve enough to believe that drawing/writing…
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Second Annual Fund-raising Drive Against Human Trafficking Goes Live
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in Comic News110+ Comic Creators Donate Art Press Release: Comic Creators Alliance announced today that their second annual fund-raising drive to raise funds to fight against human trafficking goes live on January 11, 2011. Lora Innes, a comic creator herself, started the yearly drive to coincide with National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in 2010. Last year’s drive raised…
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Stan Lee’s The Guardian Project Graphic Novels up for Grabs
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in Comic NewsStan Lee’s latest venture, The Guardian Project, has been unveiling its 30 new superhero creations – each based on a different NHL team – on a daily basis according to user votes on Facebook. Those voting in the daily match-ups are automatically in with a chance to win one of 10 Limited Edition Guardian Project…
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Spy Guy Creator Mike Kitchen to Appear in New Indie Comics Magazine
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Indie Comics Magazine Editor Gary Scott Beatty recently announced Canadian Mike Kitchen will appear in Indie Comics Magazine #2, available only through pre-order at your local comic book shop through February’s Diamond Comic Distributors’ Previews catalog. Mike Kitchen is the creator of Spy Guy, a hard-boiled funny book telling the story of an undercover Toronto…
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Stan Lee’s Guardian Project Line-Up Revealed January
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in Comic NewsFans of craptacular Marvel Comics creation NFL Superpro may soon have reason to rejoice. Stan Lee, in partnership with Guardian Media Entertainment and POW! Entertainment, has announced his new series The Guardian Project, an NHL-themed superhero title.
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MCM Expo Celebrates 10 Years As “London’s Comic Con”
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Press Release: 2011 will see the tenth anniversary of the London MCM Expo, London’s Comic Con – a decade in which the show has grown from a small collector’s fair to the biggest entertainment event in the UK, showcasing the best in comics, movies, video games, cosplay and anime. This year’s MCM Group events alone…
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Agent Zero Adventure Tale in the New Indie Comics Magazine
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Press Release: Indie Comics Magazine Editor Gary Scott Beatty recently announced New York state based writer, publisher and inker Anthony Cacioppo and writer/illustrator Chuck Foulds will contribute an eight page story to the new comic book, scheduled for preorder in Diamond Comic Distributors’ January 2011 Previews catalog and available only through Previews. The done-in-one tale…
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Indie Creator David Branstetter in the New Indie Comics Magazine
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Press Release: Indie Comics Magazine Editor Gary Scott Beatty recently announced Indiana writer and artist David Branstetter’s character Straw Man will appear in an eight page story titled Has Been in the new comic book, scheduled for preorder in Diamond Comic Distributors’ January 2011 Previews catalog and available only through Previews. “David’s work is quintessential…