Archive for February, 2007
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Catalog typo
In our new catalog, you may have seen listed a book called Mego 8″ Super-Heroes: World’s Greatest Toys! This is one stunning, full-color book, already being hailed by such pros as Brad Meltzer and Chip Kidd for its graphic design, and obsessive coverage of the Mego toy line of the 1970s and ’80s. Remember our […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
More NY
Yep, the Blue Beetle was at our New York Comicon booth as promised! Chris .R. Notarile, fan filmmaker extraordinare, is in the BB costume, and needed some company at the NY con. So Christopher Irving, author of our upcoming Blue Beetle Companion book, threw on the Flash costume. (But hey, shouldn’t BB be hanging out […]
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
Friends
They may not be as pretty as Rachel, Ross, and the others from the hit sitcom, but I’ve got my own batch of really special friends, that are the absolute best perk of doing this publishing thing. When I was unable to make it to the New York Comicon literally at the last minute (don’t […]
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
NY Signings
If you’ll be in the Big Apple for the New York Comicon this weekend, be sure to stop by our booth (#975) and meet our editors. Here’s the signing schedule for Saturday:
Noon-1pm: Roy Thomas
1-2pm: Danny Fingeroth
2-3pm: Bob McLeod
3-4pm: Mike Manley
I’ll be at the booth most of the time Friday-Sunday, except on Saturday from 4-5pm, when […]
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2007
Pete Von Sholly Cartoon of the Week
I normally post these on Friday, but I’ll be in New York the rest of this week, so here’s one Pete likes to call:
Ambition, but not much imagination…
If you love Pete’s work like I do, don’t forget we’re now offering a Von Sholly Bundle, containing Comic Book Nerd, his parody of the comics fan press […]
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Just confirmed at Emerald City Comicon
We’ll be exhibiting at this year’s Emerald City Comicon in Seattle, WA on March 31-April 1. So fans in the Northwest, get ready, as Christopher Irving will be manning our booth for us (and loony-bin escapee Tom Stewart will be on hand to help out).
Also there will be Back Issue magazine editor Michael Eury (also […]
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
Remembering Bob Oksner
It’s a busy week, getting ready for the NY Comicon, but I didn’t want to miss mentioning the passing of Bob Oksner. He drew the absolutely cutest girls in comics, and I’ve been a fan since I was a kid. Roy Thomas has an outstanding issue of Alter Ego (#67, below), dedicated to Oksner, due […]
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
Our Free Comic Book Day entry
Any minute now, our own web-savvy Rand Hoppe will be adding a PDF preview of our upcoming COMICS 101 giveaway to its description page on our website. We just show a couple of pages from each section, to give you an idea of what it’s like.
So, how did Roy Thomas boil down 30+ years of […]
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
Bundle up!
While parts of the US are being hit by massive snow and cold, apparently some of you have decided it makes sense to stay inside and do a lot of reading. I’m talking about the numerous crazoids out there who’ve ordered our Ultimate Bundles! When I decided to offer complete runs of our mags for […]
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
Alter Egos in the mail!
Through the diligence of one Christopher Irving (our shipping manager), all 500 free copies of Alter Ego #64 (from our Valentine’s Day giveaway) were dropped at the post office today! So after Monday’s President’s Day holiday, they should be speeding (?) their way through the US Postal Service to their lucky recipients.
A lot of people […]
