Archive for June, 2007

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Start your day with Kirby Krackle!

Last weekend at Heroes Con, uberfan Charlie Underhill unveiled his own version of Kirby Krackle, in the form of a new breakfast cereal. As you can see, it made the rounds of the convention hall. (Boy, I’d like to see what kind of books we could come up with if I started every morning with […]

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Thursday, June 21st, 2007

Another Image preview

If you’re a fan of Robert Kirkman (and having just started reading his INVINCIBLE comic, I am now!), check out this preview of his interview from our new book IMAGE COMICS: THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE.

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Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Heroes Con wrapup

Had a blast Saturday at Heroes Con. Though I was there for just the day, our own Eric Nolen-Weathington was there the full three days (Friday-Sunday) manning our booth, doing his usual superb job of answering people’s many questions about our products. Highlights for me:
• Seeing Erik Larsen walk up to the booth to chat. […]

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Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Michael Eury signing

If you’re in the Greensboro, North Carolina area, Back Issue! editor and Companion author Michael Eury will be Doing a signing at one of my favorite comic book shops from 2-5 pm this Wednesday, June 20th at:
Acme Comics
2150 Lawndale Drive
Greensboro NC 27408
336-574-2263

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Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Image book previews

Wanna see some previews of what’s in store in the aforementioned new TwoMorrows book IMAGE COMICS: THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE? Check out this Todd McFarlane preview:
Or how about this Marc Silvestri preview:
Or this Dale Keown preview:
George Khoury really covered Image Comics from beginning to now in his most exhaustive book to date. Check it out!

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Thursday, June 14th, 2007

Heroes Con’s a’comin’ tomorrow

Our able Modern Masters editor Eric Nolen-Weathington dropped by today, to pick up a load of our books to take down to Charlotte, NC for this weekend’s Heroes Convention. It’s a great con, and right in our own backyard (about a 2.5 hour drive), and Eric and his wife Donna are manning the booth for […]

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Monday, June 11th, 2007

Never too early for San Diego!

Comicon International: San Diego is still about 6 weeks away, but here’s a list of the TwoMorrows related panels:
TWOMORROWS PUBLISHING PANEL
THURSDAY, JULY 26
12:00-1:00pm
ROOM 3
IMAGE FOUNDERS PANEL (hosted by George Khoury, author of TwoMorrows’ new IMAGE COMICS: THE ROAD TO INDEPENDENCE book)
FRIDAY, JULY 27
10:30-11:30am
ROOM 5AB
ALTER EGO MAGAZINE PANEL (featuring Comicon guest of honor Roy Thomas)
FRIDAY, JULY […]

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Monday, June 11th, 2007

Kirby documentary is out!

The long-completed documentary JACK KIRBY: STORYTELLER is finally available, as one of the extra features on the Fantastic Four - Extended Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition) DVD which was just released in advance of this week’s debut of the new Rise of the Silver Surfer FF movie sequel. It’s an hour-long celebration of the King of […]

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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Khoury on Image Comics

Why, some may ask, is TwoMorrows doing a book on the history of Image Comics? Besides the fact that we’re committed to documenting ALL of comics history, I admit I wasn’t a big fan of the early Image Comics output. Heck, I was completely out of comics altogether when Image first launched. It took Jack […]

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Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

The big Kirby book

While at Book Expo last weekend, I got a chance to stop by the Abrams Books booth to see a preview of Mark Evanier’s upcoming book KIRBY: KING OF COMICS. The dummy copy on display only had about 8 pages of actual content (the rest of the pages were blank–a common practice for exhibiting books […]

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