• Viz Media sends word that Marc Weidenbaum, vice president of original publishing, and Eric Searleman, senior editor, will perform the publisher’s first Comic-Con portfolio reviews from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday, July 27.
• The Venture Bros. creator Jackson Publick reveals that production has begun on the show’s fourth season. [Publick's blog]
• Apple profiles Dark Horse Comics, with a focus on the company’s network of 145 Macs. The feature includes a sidebar that details the production process for an issue of Hellboy – from initial discussions between Mike Mignola and editor Scott Allie to lettering to press — and a publisher timeline. [Apple.com]
• Speaking of Hellboy, Mignola talks about his collaboration with Guillermo del Toro on Hellboy II: The Golden Army: “It’s my job to take del Toro’s idea, which nobody else can make heads or tails of unless he’s drawn it in his sketchbook, and decipher it. Even though I don’t speak Spanish, we speak the language of monsters and we have very similar tastes in artists so I can usually understand what he’s going for.” [Underwire]
• The talented artist Kristian Donaldson updates his blog with news that the second edition of the Supermarket trade paperback from IDW will get a new format — 6″ x 9″ — and a new cover (above). Also, he’ll be reteaming with Supermarket writer Brian Wood for Issues 35 and 36 of DMZ, which sport covers by John Paul Leon. [Donaldson's blog]
• I’m enjoying Kyle Latino’s illustrated summaries of the comics he reads each week. [This Week in Comics, via Super Punch]
July 12th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
Great news about the format change for SUPERMARKET… I was thinking the other day as I re-read NO HERO #0 that the art was just begging to be scaled up to a european-style Album format. I mentally zoomed in as I read and wow! the page composition just sings when you see it closer to the scale at which the artist originally drew it.
Of course, this begs the question of where the hell I would put a collection of books at that size. I’ll have to buy a bookshelf with a tesseract folded into it…
July 13th, 2008 at 8:55 am
Wow, thanks for saying something. I looked at my hits and thought something broke yesterday when I saw so many. You’re a real ace.