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CCL Podcast #270 – Motor City Con 2010 Wrap-Up

May 19, 2010
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On the show this week, I talk about my adventures at the Motor City Comic Con including what I bought, what I should have bought and what I saw. Overall it was a good Con and even the kids enjoyed it.

Lots of other news this past week including, that hulking Woman of Marvel Omnibus, Big Ben Bolt and Batman/Starman/Hellboy. All this including the New Releases of the Week.

Chris

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May 14, 2010
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For a few years now I’ve been a fan of Dan Nadel without even knowing it. Not only is Dan the Editor of PictureBox but he is also one of the founders of Comics Comics – a magazine and blog that you should be reading. I’ve been picking up Comics Comics since I first heard about it on though my friends at 11 O’Clock Comics. It’s up to issue 4 right now and you can even get the first three issues as a free download. Dan is also an accomplished author and has just published Art in Time Unknown Comic Book Adventures, 1940-1980 (Abrams) which is a follow up to his 2008 book Art Out of Time Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969. I never put the author of the blog and author the books together until recently. I couldn’t be more happy that the two are the same. Dan has just posted a wonderful audio panel of himself along with Jeet Heer, Seth and Evan Dorkin from the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Readers of the CCL will love and appreciate the conversation on the ins and outs of editing/designing/publishing/consuming comics history with a great candid focus on talk on Collected Editions. It is a must listen to show. I hope to have Dan on the CCL Podcast soon. Keep and eye on the blog for more info.
Now on to a few links:

  • The Motor City Comic Con starts today and runs through Sunday. If you go, please support the real industry professionals in Artists Alley and say hello to Guy Davis and ask if he has any copies of his Modern Masters book from TwoMorrows. I should be there on Sunday.
  • Nest week, for one day only Saturday May 22 is the Summit City Con in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. As it stands right now I won’t be able to make it.
  • DC’s Wildstorm Blog has announced that it will be publishing WildCATS 3.0: Year One which is a double sized trade paperback collecting the first two long out of print trades (Brand Building #1-6 and Full Disclosure #7-12). A second book will follow shortly thereafter, but with so much disparity with the title after Volume 3 it’s hard to speculate just what it will collect.
  • DC’s Vertigo Blog, on the other hand, has announced a full slate of title coming out in Spring 2011. It’s nice to know these books are coming, but can we just all slow down?

CCL Podcast #220 – Motor City Con 2009 Wrap-Up

May 20, 2009
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On the show this week, I talk about my adventures at the Motor City Comic Con; who I saw, what I bought and what other convention was going on at the same time.

Also, I have some feedback and corrections from last weeks Star Trek show and some important Product and Shipping Changes to report on.

All this and the New Releases of the Week.

Chris

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May 11, 2009
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This weekend, May 15-17, I’ll be attending the 20th Anniversary of the Motor City Con. Over the years I’ve been to most of the Con’s including when they were held at the old Dearborn Civic Center and the Novi Expo Center. It’s always a good and well attended show and has always showcased excellent local talent. This year’s Guest of Honor is Princess Leia, herself, Carrie Fisher. Avatar Press will also be there along with comic book talent such as Guy Davis, Art Baltazar, Dave Aikins, Tim Bradstreet, Frank Brunner, Tom DeFalco, Ron Frenz, Russ Heath, Dwayne McDuffie, David Petersen, Billy Tucci and my very good friend Shawn Amberger. Please drop me an e-mail if you are attending and I’ll be happy to buy you a drink after the show. Now on to a few links:

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June 3, 2008
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    No messing around today, let’s get right to it:

  • Apparently over $10,000 in CGC-slabbed comics were stolen from the Graham Crackers Comics booth at Motor City Comic Con on Sunday, May 18th. I’m guessing all of the plastic covers will be opened and sold E-Bay or some other market. One good note comes out of this: these books will now be read and not covered in iron-clad packaging just so people can look at the covers. Don’t agree with me? Go watch Toy Story 2.
  • CBR is reporting that Cory Doctorow’s Futuristic Tales will be collected in hardcover format (144 pages, $24.99, June 12). IDW Publishing is proud to present six standalone graphic stories adapted from Doctorow’s short stories into comic books, each featuring cover art by some of the industry’s top talent. IDW continues to grow and is slowly becoming one of the premiere comic book and collected edition publishers.
  • CBR is also reporting that IDW has landed the license to GI Joe. I first heard this rumor back in November. I really hope it doesn’t spell doom for Devil’s Due Publishing, but I’m not sure what other big name property they have. Just looking at the Top 300 comics for April (thanks to John Mayo) no comic, not even GI Joe Elite cracked the top 100 (#116). In fact, only 3 of the eight books published cracked the Top 200. I still have yet to check out Golden Age Sheena: The Best of the Queen of the Jungle TPB, a book that I’m really looking forward to. On the flip side IDW promises to publish classic collected edition of GI Joe. Hopefully, they mean the old Marvel books. Cool news.
  • ICv2.com is reporting that the first volume of IDW’s collection of Little Orphan Annie, due for release June 11th, will include a previously unpublished strip from the first month, found in the Harold Gray Archives at Boston University. I told my daughter, Erin, about this book and showed her pics of classic Annie strips on the internet. She wants me to buy this book the day it comes out. Oh, one more thing — have I mentioned what a kick-ass company IDW is?
  • The Collected Editions Blog found this Dr. Fate book on Amazon.com. Check out the title. Perhaps Mr. T is under that helmet?!
  • Heidi MacDonald, The Beat, is reporting that Titan Publishing Group Ltd. has announced the acquisition of worldwide rights to a range of books celebrating the work of Golden Age comics legend, Joe Simon. The titles include: Joe Simon: The Man Behind The Comics, The Best Of Simon & Kirby, and The Simon & Kirby Superheroes.
  • Remember the Marvel Vault book from 2007? Now publisher Running Press is going to do The DC Vault: A Museum-in-a-Book ($49.95) in October. This chronicle of America’s oldest comic publisher contains more than 25 plastic-encased archival pieces for readers to pull out and examine. Included in the collection are exact reproductions of early sketches, covers, memos, press materials, a working model of a 1942 Junior Justice Society of America Decoder, plus original pencils and inks from Wonder Woman #63.
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  • Review: John Hodgman, New York Times, on Jack Kirby’s Fourth World Omnibus Volumes 1-4 (DC Comics).
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