Category: Independents

  • Best Christian Comic yet

    Today I was at the Source of Comics and Games (my fave comic shop up in Falcon Heights) and I grabbed The Lion Graphic Bible off of the New Books shelf. It’s 256 pages of many of the stories of the Old and New Testaments rendered in a beautiful painted style and retold clearly. You…

  • CGE Imprint offers Dragon’s Lair and Space Ace!

    Val Staples of MV Creations, which recently switched to CrossGen as producer for their comic line, discusses how MV Creations has the rights to the video game properties “Dragon’s Lair” and “Space Ace.” It’s been TWENTY years since those games came out. I wonder how many people know about them. They were laserdisk games that…

  • Is this the same Tony Moore?

    4-Color Review has an interview with Tony Moore [NOTE: Lots of profanity in the interview.] Tony is the artist on Battle Pope. And the name hits me: Tony Moore. Back in 1998, a Tony Moore submitted some artwork for Fanzing.com and we ran it in issue #3. One was of Lobo, the other of the…

  • Say goodbye to Crossgen Compendia

    CrossGen has released a press release today that they have canceled their Compendia. The Compendia were two large books, published monthly, which collected the individual titles into a cheaper format. Unfortunately, they found that many readers would begin reading the Compendia and then move on to the regular books. I have not bought the Compendia…

  • WHOOPS! CrossGen forgot!

    Mark Alessi has announced that CrossGen failed to submit materials to the Eisners. Mark publicly apologizes to the readers…I would imagine it’s to staunch any rumors that the Eisners were biased. I’m sure there was much gnashing of teeth at CrossGen, especially when Way of the Rat was the first new book to stand a…

  • Key Issues: A Great Idea

    Sigil and Ruse will be the first CrossGen books to try the new “Key Issue” program where one issue will be designated as a great jumping-on point for new readers. Newsarama interviews Scott Beatty and Chuck Dixon to talk more about the Key Issues idea.

  • Oh, not to make too much of this…

    Hey, my man Chuck Dixon has a birthday today! I think it’s one year away from five-oh. To post your sentiments, click the link above.

  • More free comic books?

    Ian Shires of Dimestore Productions has announced that a Free Small Press Day is in development in hopes that it may add to the “Free Comic Book Day” promoted by the major publishers. It will be the major focus of the Small Press Association’s upcoming Mighty Mini Con, in NY

  • CrossGen official name change

    CrossGen has officially changed its name from CrossGeneration Comics, Inc. to CrossGen Entertainment, Inc. Also in news on the same page: Lady Death #1 has SOLD OUT and Brath #1 and Chimera #1 are almost out. Chuck Dixon (who writes Brath) has a great quote: "After months and months of working on a new title,…

  • It’s a, uh, coffee table book

    I was just checking out ICV2 this morning and it announces that Calendar Girl: Pin Ups of Post-World War II with commentary by Max Allan Collins comes out in May. Looks cool to me! It has a $40 cover price, but Amazon has it for only $28 with free shipping. Hmmm…I may have just found…