Comics A.M. | A case for Bill Finger receiving Batman screen credit
Bill: The Boy Wonder
Creators | While acknowledging the agreement that names Bob Kane as the sole creator of Batman, The Washington Post's Michael Cavna and Bill: The Boy Wonder author Marc Tyler Nobleman make the case for giving writer Bill Finger a screen credit on The Dark Knight Rises. [Comic Riffs]
Conventions | Although Comic-Con International is usually thought of as a stage for movie studios, major comics publishers and video-game developers, Mark Eades looks at the event as a showcase for small businesses, from artists to toymakers. [The Orange County Register]
Conventions | Robot 6 contributor Brigid Alverson reports on the kids' comics scene at Comic-Con International, including news that Papercutz will produce a comic based on the viral web phenomenon 'Annoying Orange.' [Publishers Weekly]
Digital comics | Alexander Añé covers the 'Digital Comics Price Fight' at Comic-Con International in which Mark Waid, Scott Kurtz, IDW Publishing's Jeff Webber and Top Shelf's Chris Ross duke it out over the right price for a digital comic as well as the place of digital within the comics realm. [The Beat]
Creators | Bryan Talbot has received an honorary doctorate of letters from he School of Arts and Social Sciences at Northumbria University. [Sunderland Echo]
Batman: Earth One
Creators | Conor Kilpatrick interviews Gary Frank, the artist for Batman: Earth One and Shazam! [iFanboy]
Creators | Kurtis J. Wiebe discusses his Image series Grim Leaper, about a dead guy who leaps from body to body; Wiebe calls it the 'final-destination rom-com you've been waiting for!' [Broken Frontier]
Creators | Cartoonist Justin Hall, creator of Glamazonia and author of No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, is interviewed by Chicago's GoPride. [GoPride.com]
Comics | Noting the irony of Daniel Clowes' work being shown in a museum setting, Greg Beato visits the exhibition 'Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes,' which has a few weeks left at the Oakland Museum before moving to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C: 'As deftly executed as the exhibition is, however, a central paradox informs it. It celebrates Clowes' work by presenting it exactly as what it was not intended to be: Hand-made originals tastefully displayed in the rarified space of a museum.' [Reason]
Comics | Kyrie O'Connor takes a look at Gary L. Watson's After Twilight, a self-published miniseries about Christian fundamentalism gone too far in a future dystopian Texas. Watson says 'It's not anti-Christian. It's not anti-religion. It's a story about extremism,' and in fact, a Christian comics website gave it the thumbs-up. [The Houston Chronicle]
- July 20, 2012 @ 06:55 AM by Brigid Alverson
- Tagged: Annoying Orange, Batman, Bill Finger, Bob Kane, Bryan Talbot, cartoonists, Comic-Con International, comics a.m., comics creators, Conan O'Brien, Daniel Clowes, DC Comics, digital comics, events, Gary Frank, Gary L. Watson, Image Comics, Ivan Brandon, Jeff Webber, Justin Hall, kids comics, Kurtis J. Wiebe, mark waid, Scott Kurtz, The Dark Knight Rises, warner bros.
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