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The top comics-related news stories from May 18 to May 24, 2013: 1. Michael George, the prominent Pennsylvania retailer and convention organizer convicted of murdering his then-wife in his then-Michigan comic book store, lost an appeal round. One imagines he'll keep on filing, although I guess there's a chance he won't. 2. More content restrictions concerning a very specific way to receive digital comics content, all focused on sexual content. 3. Regional language dispute causes portion of comics art page in French to be covered up for display in region where many folks apparently prefer Flemish to the point that even seeing French in a sponsored exhibit could be deeply upsetting. An artist withdraws their work in protest over the treatement of the art. Winners Of The Week Your 2013 Glyph Awards winners. Losers Of The Week Fans of Drawn!, as the iconic illustration and comics imagery site calls it a day. Quote Of The Week "Annie is adopted again, this time by a slave-driving couple who make her life miserable. She runs away, accompanied by her only friend, a large orange-colored dog named Sandy, whom she acquired in January 1925. The two eventually take refuge at a farm owned by the poor but kindly Mr. and Mrs. Silos. But Annie is no burden to them: through hard work and her own ingenuity, the eleven-year-old waif is able to contribute to the couple's welfare and happiness. After a few months, though, 'Daddy' Warbucks finally locates Annie and takes her and Sandy back to live in splendid comfort with him. Thus did Gray inaugurate the cycle of separation and hardship, rescue and reunion that framed Annie's adventures and the quest motif that animated them throughout the strip's run. Separated from 'Daddy,' Annie must find the means of survival; through her unflagging perseverance, she always does." -- RC Harvey ***** today's cover is from the all-time series Classics Illustrated ***** *****

Tweet We hope you’re enjoying our cornucopia of webcomics from our big 24 Hours of Webcomics event. If you’re in New York City and want to pick up some print versions of these comics—or even some non webcomics—the store once known as “Hanley’s” is now called JHU Comic Books is having a sale. The New York comic institution recently moved from from its large but old school location on 33rd street to a new one two blocks away at 32 E. 32nd Street, between Madison and Park. We visited the other day and snapped a pics of co-owner Ron Hill at the new digs. The new JHU Comic Books offers everything the old store did plus this weekend they’re having a 20% off everything in the store AND a special May 40% off one item discount. While the old location was an institution for us old timers, it also looked like the veteran of retail wars that it was. The new space has face out racking, and modern lighting and carpeting to match the current crop of more family friendly comics shops. (The kids comics are right up at the front.) Hanley’s/JHU has had a lot of ups and downs in its storied career—founder Jim Hanley was one of the pioneers of comics retailing, but a flood at the Staten Island store and the death of a co-owner dealt it some blows too. They’ve always bounced back, though, and the new location is a good way to kick off a new era following the retirement of Hanley and former managers Hill and Nick Purpura taking over as owners. Next week has Brian Wood signing, and more events are scheduled. More info here. #call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;} #social-essentials {margin: 0 0 10px 0;}

Louis Falcetti writes; It’s important to look beyond the obvious when we’re reading the books we love or watching the shows we adore. It’s not our fault that we get excited and miss the forest for the trees. Or maybe just glade for the clearing? We’re definitely missing something a lot of the time (sometimes). How’s that for clarity? What’s going on on the cover of Occupy Comics #1? There’s a nude woman and she’s standing on the world and she’s poking at the moon. It’s by someone called “ALL-RED” who, if you ask me, has a pretty good career in comics ahead of him (KNOWING WINK). But what does it mean? This is the cover to an Occupy comic, shouldn’t it be a boot stamping on a human face forever? Or a bunch of kids with bandanas hurling molotovs into the windows of Madison Avenue Suitbags? (Suitbags is a new term I just came up with for douchebags who wear suits!) It’s an image that gives off an immediate calming effect, the sun is glowing blur and her ghost like hair blows on impossible space winds, her face might be sad, it might be knowing, we can’t really see. What is clear is that Occupy Comics did not come here to rough you up, scream in your face or beat you with slogans. They’re here to reach out to you, to poke you like a giant naked space girl, tagging the moon “it”. (I don’t know what’s going on, just because I brought it up doesn’t mean that I’m privy to the inner workings of the artist mind. So I’m calling it an intergalactic game of tag.) That pairing of unassuming beauty with surprising earnestness sets the tone for the book which picks up and sheds sequential art appearances like COINTELPRO agents at a Yippie gathering. Joshua Hale Fialkov, who most fans would probably associate with horror comics kicks off the book with a strip about a different kind of horror, the horror inflicted upon workers during the tumultuous birth of the labor movement in the United States during the late 19th century. The strip is laid out to look like it came from 100+ years ago, yellowed and frayed pages over intense and exhaustive linework from Joseph Infurnari that definitely and defiantly beats back against the “all digital all the time” feel of so many modern comics. J.M. DeMatteis pairs with Mike Cavallaro for a personal and spiritual walk through the occupy movement. The tone is friendly and unassuming and the art simple yet expressive. Douglas Rushkoff & Dean Haspiel present a history of exploitation, delivering in one page a succinct and stirring trip through time. The reader is treated to the overlords of each epoch from Pharaoh to laptop, blurry workers and focused enforcers. Ben Templesmith’s “Clever” shows that the scariest creations to come from Templesmith’s dark art worlds might be the least fictional as his skeleton bankers move across a poisoned landscape. “Occupy Shadows” is a lighter note, a story from Ronald Wimberly about how the different sides of the class line react in a crisis. One of the more hilariously depressing side effects to come out of the mass-brainwashed, mass media, wave of the future, unperceptive present has to be the way in which the professional cheaters and liars adapted the behavior of those they had been fucking. So while we suffer years of constant streams of lies coming from our leaders and the liars they employ, the second someone brings up a subject that counters their stance, they turn on the “Well lets see the proof” card. The very card they’ve built careers learning hours of spin and lies to avoid ever answering. Global warming? Let’s see the proof! Oh but foreign enemy weapons? Trust us. Well Occupy gives you your proof and more thanks to the efforts of Joshua Dysart, Kelly Bruce, Allen Gladfelter, Alan Moore and Hannah Means-Shannon. The teams that are in charge of the “wordy bits” (as I like to call ‘em

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I like the Abbey Road one.  So we’re getting a new X-Men #1, courtesy of Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel. Which naturally means variant covers. Here are a few, including one from Limited Edition Comix in the UK, raising money for The Sick Children’s Trust, from Ed McGuinness limited to 3500 copies. Most-Read Comic Stories Friday: A Few X-Men #1 Variant Covers On A Friday Morning (UPDATE) So we’re getting a new X-Men #1, courtesy of Brian Wood and Olivier Coipel. Which naturally means variant covers. Here are a few, including one from Limited Edition Comix in the UK, raising money for The Sick Children’s Trust, from Ed McGuinness limited to 3500 copies. Major Comic Pirate Site, Hank Scorpio, Closes Down Hank Scorpio was one of the major comic book piracy sites in the industry. It didn’t host any files, but it linked to a series of download sites such as Hotfile,  SendSpace and the like. Grant Morrison’s Ulysses Sweet Is Coming Back, Without Grant Morrison  I’ve heard that Grant Morrison‘s 2000AD character Ulysses Sweet will be coming back later this year, to either 2000AD or The Megazine. Morrison won’t be writing, however, with Guy Adams taking over those duties. Sweet was billed as A Maniac For Hire. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Friday: It’s On. Marvel Vs. Fox As Both Avengers 2 And Days Of Future Past Will Feature Quicksilver Bryan Singer announced tonight, through his Twitter account, that the character of Quicksilver will be appearing in X-Men: Days Of Future Past. It’s undoubtedly the biggest film news break of the day. Human Centipede 3 Casting Notice May Have Revealed Its Big Idea HUMAN CENTIPEDE 3, a horror film, is looking for gentlemen of all ages, sizes, and ethnicities to play PRISON INMATES starting THURSDAY – MAY 16 in LOS ANGELES. Green And Red Band Trailers For We’re The Millers – Playing Happy Families To Smuggle Drugs We’re The Millers was in development for years. Years. And now it’s finally going to come out and, before I know it, I’ll be actually be able forget about it. Phew. Covering The X-Men – Friday Trending Topics

Matthew Price[img]2107219[/img] The final film in the original Star Wars trilogy, “Return of the Jedi,” opened on this day in 1983.Read more on NewsOK.com

At the IDW panel at MCM London Expo, it was announced by editor Dirk Wood that Tony Lee will indeed be returning to the Doctor Who comic in September as we surmised, replacing Andy Diggle for a four part story called ‘Dead Man’s Hand’ that runs from issue #13, through the 50th anniversary period. According to Tony Lee it involves the Doctor and Clara visiting Deadwood in 1882, and has guest stars Oscar Wilde, Calamity Jane and Thomas Edison in an adventure that pits them against undead masked wearing gunfighters, including Wild Bill Hickok, zombies that can kill with a pointed finger, and (of course) an alien invasion. Art duties will be filled by Mike Collins, best known for his work on the Doctor Who Magazine strips. Tony Lee And Mike Collins Take Doctor Who Back To The Wild West

Thirty-six questions. Six answers. One random number generator. Welcome to Robot Roulette, where creators roll the virtual dice and answer our questions about their lives, careers, interests and more. Joining us today is Natalie Nourigat, who you might know from such works as Between Gears, My Boyfriend is a Monster: Wrapped Up in You, Husbands, A Boy & a Girl, It Girl & the Atomics, Over the Surface, The Thrilling Adventure Hour and her awesome movie review comics. Now let’s get to it … ***** 15. What’s the least pleasant part of your job? Definitely the administrative stuff. Staying on top of e-mails, updating my website, invoicing, quarterly estimated tax payments, etc. 16. What’s the best part of being a creator? I get a little thrill every time I’m doing something fun, and I realize that I’m not even goofing off — it’s just a part of my job. Like, Googling “George Clooney suit” for reference for a character or going to see a blockbuster on a weekday. I also love that I get to be AROUND creators. I’m grateful that my office and my work events are full of fun, passionate people. IT’S REFERENCE. 22. What’s your morning routine like? I wake up without an alarm (helps me remember dreams a bit better), throw on my Uggs and fleece jacket, trip over the cat all the way to the kitchen, feed her, feed me and then check email with my coffee. If I’m feeling very ambitious I might go for a run, but I usually surf the web and take it easy until 10 or 11 when I clean up and head downtown to Periscope Studio for the day. 27. What are you most proud of so far in your comics career? So far nothing beats holding my first book (Between Gears) in my hands. My “comics career” didn’t feel real until I opened a box from Image Comics and took out a book with my artwork in it and name on it. 32. Is there a particular song, band or style of music you listen to when you work? It depends how much thought the day’s tasks require. If I’m writing or thumbnailing, I need to keep it to instrumental music or music in another language so that I’m able to focus. If I’m penciling or inking, I can listen to anything. I love La Roux, Santigold, Muse, Robyn, Sia, The Blow and Neko Case. 35. What is your all-time favorite TV show? Parks & Recreation. There are many days when my soundtrack is P&R streaming on Netflix. I can quote … a lot of that show. Try me sometime.

Alex Wilson writes; Phoenix Comic Con is happening right now this weekend and guess what? I’m here covering the convention for all of you. I picked up some great little treats at the convention. In the order of what I purchased: Supurbia by Grace Randolph (Rich Johnston has a nice little quote on the cover), Ghost Projekt because I’m a sucker for anything Joe Harris writes, and Rachel Rising by Terry Moore (TV show in the works and I thought I should see what everyone is talking about.) I also picked up a small little print from Agnes Garbowska. I love her style so much and she was a treat of a person to meet.   The convention was exciting Friday. A girl’s dress became entangled in the escalator. She was a good sport about the whole ordeal and kept a smile on her face. If my dress had been caught in the gears of an escalator, I would have been crying my eyes out. (I’m kidding. I’m a guy. Why would I wear a dress in public?) Security was trying to get the dress unhinged without tearing it. I always find security at conventions funny as well. They make everyone form a line so they can look in their bags but they really don’t look, do they? You open the bag up, they see you have opened the bag, and the exchange ends there. It seems the checking inside of the bags is glossed over for the most part. Although, I have seen a huge number of Phoenix police officers walking around the convention floor. Every time I see them, for a second, I think they are just great cosplayers. The Bleeding Cool fan awards took place and Saga did very well (I was hoping Revival would get a nod.) Fiona and Brian were not there to accept, though. They had another conflict with another award show I was told. Everyone seemed to have a good time, though. People laughed and gave acceptance speeches for Saga. Scott Snyder and Rob Liefeld won best feud of the last 12 months. Snyder also walked away with best comic writer of 2013 so far. I’m sure everyone who wasn’t there to accept their awards wishes they could have been. The big award of the night, most attractive (fanciable) in the industry, went to Grant Morrison, and what a sexy beast he is. I was surprised to see publishers like Boom, Oni, and Valiant at this convention. Phoenix Comic Con, to my knowledge, is about 30,000 people. I’ve never been to a convention of this size, and what I mean by that is I’ve been to conventions like C2E2, NYCC, and SDCC but also small conventions of no more than a few thousand. This was an in between number and I had no idea what to expect from this con. Needless to say, I have been pleasantly surprised this weekend. There has been some great cosplay this weekend as well. I know everyone loves cosplay photos and I love taking them. Here are a few convention fans that dressed to impress. I have to say my favorite is the Avatar Aang followed by the Halo Spartans. The Umbrella corporation soldiers did a dandy job by coming in a group. The girl in a pink bikini, I can’t say I know what she’s exactly from but she was kneeling over someone’s chest and had prop gun pointed at him. I thought it wasn’t a bad idea to take a photo. Friday, Phoenix Comicon, Cosplay And Swag

The signal in this afternoon’s MCM panel for Edgar Wright‘s new movie, The World’s End, was woeful. I wanted to liveblog, but nothing I had could connect to any kind of signal at all. I couldn’t even have called you up and repeated it all to you. So I’m going to not-live blog it instead. Patrick and I are sitting in the pub, trying to remember what we heard, and as it comes to mind, we’ll pop it up here. Some of it was quite interesting, yes. And there were conversations about Star Wars and Ant Man. Sort of. But not quite. Not Live Blog: Edgar Wright And The World’s End Panel At MCM London Comic-Con