Sunday Snippets Issue 4

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A regular roundup of interesting bits and pieces from the comic industry worldwide. If you’ve got an event or other piece of news to share, please drop us a lineYou can view previous issues right here.

There’s been an ongoing battle for who ‘owns’ Superman and the latest instalment in that battle is covered very nicely over at CBR. They also have a piece on Neil Gaiman’s return to Marvel, bringing the Angela character with him.

Interested in geners issues and how they are played out through comics? Then have a look at this.

Marvel wants to add dynamic soundtracks to your comics via its Marvel Gamma service, although it sounds like it has some work still to do.

If you like a good historical graphic novel, then this one on the Normandy Landings may interest you

 

 

Sunday Snippets Issue 2

sunday-snippets

A regular roundup of interesting bits and pieces from the comic industry worldwide. If you’ve got an event or other piece of news to share, please drop us a lineYou can view previous issues right here.

Digital Spy has a great roundup on superhero movies that never made it to the screen.

Superhero comics aren’t renowned for their ability to stick to one continuity. Here’s a nice summary of the stupidest examples of characters being bought back from the dead.

Some previously unpublished Tarzan stories are set to be published in a graphic novel.

The Huffington Post has an article called ‘The 11 Most Controversial Comic Books‘ and although it has some inaccuracies based on a number of comments on the article,  it’s still worth a look.

Sunday Snippets Issue 1

sunday-snippets

A regular roundup of interesting bits and pieces from the comic industry worldwide. If you’ve got an event or other piece of news to share, please drop us a line!

John Romita Sr’s artwork for The Death of Gwen Stacy issue of Amazing Spiderman has hit close to 300K in bids – there’s an interesting paragraph on Stan Lee’s blindspot with blondes and comic plotting.

Sad news of Scott Clark suddenly passing away at the age of 43

Issue #3 of the UK street press comics magazine Off Life is available for free right here. Some very nice work in it that’s worth checking out.

The London Super Comic Convention is on this weekend – it’ll be interesting to see what announcements come out of it.

If you like old Marvel comic art, it’s hard to go past this little blog.