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2003 Eisner Comic Industry Awards Announced
CBR’s Comic Wire has posted all of the details on the nominations for the 2003 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards. DC Comics and their imprints have 23 nominations, Fantagraphics has 18, Marvel has 7, Dark Horse and Image have 4 each. CrossGen has only one nomination, for best coloring. I think there were some serious…
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Are you watching Adult Swim?
I hadn’t been watching Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim (their late-night line-up of more mature content programming), but once I started downloading the episodes of Home Movies from the Digital Archive Project I was hooked! The Adult Swim F.A.Q. has a good summary of their shows, but let me highlight a few in particular: Home Movies…
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Sorry about that!
I think everyone on the Monitor Duty board was busy watching the Saddam statue being pulled down yesterday. We’ll try to get more posts out today!
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It’s the King Of Days!
Today is Wednesday, the King Of Days, the day when the new comics hit the shelves of our local comic book vendors! Everyone do the King of Days dance and shout, “Huzzah!” I encourage my fellow commentators to put up links to reviews of the new comic books. And if you, stout reader, would like…
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Best theme song ever?
Jonny Quest, in my opinion. You may have a different opinion. (It’s wrong, but you’re entitled to have it.) NEVER MIND – THIS LINK IS DEAD –Discuss!
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I fixed the Bloglet!
My apologies to our Bloglet subscribers. I couldn’t figure out why we hadn’t received our Bloglet updates for the last five days; turns out I hadn’t updated the settings for the Bloglet since switching from our test site location. Not signed up for the Bloglet? Just input your e-mail address over on the right side…
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Wednesday is the King of Days!
Now that Monitor Duty is reaching a sizeable audience, I think it’s time to expand upon a tradition that was started by poster “Therealtony” over at Chuck Dixon’s message board. It’s called “The King of Days.” Wednesday is the King of Days, the day when the comic books appear at our comic shops! So…everyone do…
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Stan Lee Does Pamela Anderson
Humanoids To Publish Stripperella One-Shot No, honestly! Stan Lee is doing a comic book about an animated series featuring Pamela Anderson. I guess that gives new meaning to the term “cover enhancements.”
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Entertainment Weekly’s comic book section
According to NEWSARAMA: THE EW EFFECT, “Smaller publishers and individual creators who were plugged in the [first Entertainment Weekly issue featuring comic books] report seeing a nice bump in their sales” Every little bit of advertising for this medium helps.