Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Comic Round-Up: January 27, 2015

Saga by Riley Rossmo

"Saga" by Riley Rossmo


Interview: Fantastic Four Director Josh Trank Talks Film and Comic Influences

Interview: Kelley Allen explains What’s Up with Archie Comics and Humble Bundle

Interview: Mark Millar interview: Kingsman, Fox's Marvel films

Interview: Steve Aoki Interviews Stan Lee of Marvel Comics: Watch

News: 8,669,000 graphic novels were sold in bookstores in 2014

News: The Japanese manga industry also had a strong 2014, with sales up 4 percent, which is impressive because the rest of the industry had a down year.

News: Sales were down in 2014 for Diamond Book Distributors, despite the fact that the overall industry overall had an up year largely to losing Dark Horse to Random House.

10 Memorable Superhero Events (And Their WWE Royal Rumble Counterparts)

Flash at 75: the 20 Greatest Flash Stories #10-1

Graphic Novel Reporter posts its picks from the winter 2015 releases.

How’d A Cartoonist Sell His First Drawing? It Only Took 610 Tries

Jake Blumgart posts a guide to Philadelphia comic shops.

Mike Re provides a quick guide to the various iterations of Star Wars comics.

Secret Wars II, for the uninitiated, came out in 1985.  Ralph Macchio was around then, and apparently he’ll be involved in the new Secret Wars this time around, too.  Otherwise, it’s a whole new ballgame.  Steve Morris has some predictions for what will happen, and I like Steve’s version of the future.

Todd McFarlane came out on FB and said he would never draw Marvel or Dc corporate characters again, not because of dislike but because of duty

WGN TV pays a visit to the International School of Comics Chicago and talks to faculty member Jill Thompson as well as alumna Sara Pichelli. The school is the only U.S. branch of an international institution that started in 1979 in Italy.

Wim Lockefeer plans ahead, with a look at the featured shows at next week’s Angoulême International Comics Festival: a Bill Watterson retrospective that will devote particular attention to the settings of his Calvin and Hobbes cartons.


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