Or, all the stuff I meant to tell you about last week but ran out of time (damn eye infection) …
–The second part of Eddie Campbell’s interview with LAT is up on the First Second website. I believe there will be a part three. Oh, and part one is still here. LAT’s Town Boy and Eddie Campbell’s Black Diamond Detective Agency are both due in June, which is a nice segue into …
–Larry Young posted a piece of art from The Black Diamond, a six-issue series written by Young and drawn by Jon Proctor due this summer. Which is also when Campbell’s book, with a similar title, is due. Poor Larry; it wasn’t that long ago that AiT’s Seven Brothers project changed its name to Seven Sons, so it wouldn’t be confused with the Virgin title of the same name. A preview of Young’s title came out in, I believe, 2005.
–The Top Shelf blog had a link earlier this week to Loaded Blanks, a set of comic-like greeting cards that let you fill in the speech bubbles. Very cool stuff!
–Via the Midtown Comics email newsletter, the Big Apple Convention is celebrating its 10th anniversary by offering free admission to fans. Guests include, among others, Soupy Sales, Bill Sienkiewicz, Alex Maleev, Dan Slott, Jamal Igle, Mark Texiera, Max Brooks (whose World War Z is an awesome read and highly recommended to Walking Dead fans) and King Kong Bundy. Gimme a five count, ref …
–Tank Girl creator and Gorillaz frontman Jamie Hewitt is interviewed by the Sound of Young America on their latest podcast. (Thanks, Matt).
–And finally, D.J. Coffman, the creator of Hero by Night, has posted an 11-page preview of the title, which is due in March from Platinum/Image. Coffman writes:
“Hero By Night” is pretty much my love letter to the super hero genre of yesterday. The ones that were packed with fun, and not too much heavy adult stuff.
Platinum has been the subject of a lot of discussion around the blogosphere lately, specifically about the recent sales chart from Midtown Comics that appeared in Entertainment Weekly. It showed Platinum’s Cowboys & Aliens as the top-selling graphic novel spot, and the controversy is around whether or not Platinum bought their own way to the top spot. Earlier this week Dirk Deppey posted an in-depth report on conversations he had with Jerry Gladston of Midtown Comics and Brian Altounian of Platinum. Gilead Pellaeon at the Webcomicker also discussed it, and Heidi at The Beat published a response from Entertainment Weekly on the chart; they’re going to publish a clarification in an upcoming issue.
Coffman and the colorist for the book, Jason Embury, meanwhile, have been very vocal about online criticism of the company and have defended it in their own blogs and in the comments section of Journalista, among other sites.
–I think I’m caught up now.
January 15th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Yes, Black Diamond On Ramp came out in 2005, and I thought it was rather enjoyable, in that sort of weird 70s-early 80s sci fi premise sort of way, like Damnation Alley or if you wanna get really obscure, The Last Chase.
January 15th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
Thanks, Dan; just what we were going for. Unlike the common 7 BROTHERS/SEVEN SONS Chinese folk take source material, I’m not sure there’s going to be many people mistaking our VANISHING POINT vibe for Campbell’s steampunk.