Showing posts with label Colleen Coover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colleen Coover. Show all posts

Saturday, March 31, 2018

I Reads You Juniors March 2018 - Update #61

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From BleedingCool:  "The Amazing Spider-Man #798" speculator clown show continues.

From THR:  "Justice League: No Justice" is a four-issue, weekly comic book miniseries that will affect the direction of the DCU.

From CatholicUniverse:  Catholic comic book creators have started a Kickstarter to raise money for a 50-page, full-color, "pro-life" graphic novel.

From TheOuthousers:  Sherard Jackson talks about his webcomic, "Darbi."

From Syfy:  Jimmy Palmiotti talks about the Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign (which has already reached its goal) for a horror graphic novel, "Killing Time in America."

From Newsweek:  Marvel well begin publishing a "Fantastic Four" comic book again in August 2018 with writer Dan Slott and artist Sara Pichelli as the creative team.

From BleedingCool:  "Death of the Inhumans" in July.

From DCComicsBlog:  DC Comics signs Frank Miller to a five-project deal.

From BleedingCool:  Veteran comic book writer-artist William Messner-Loebs is currently homeless... and has one arm!

From BleedingCool:  Award-winning novelist Margaret Atwood and comic book artist unite for the comic book miniseries, "War Bears."

From BleedingCool:  Gail Simone talks about bringing together Tarzan and Red Sonja in a new comic book.

From ComicBookBin:  New Johnny Bullet episode #156 in English.
From ComicBookBin:  New Johnny Bullet episode #156 in French.

From PublishersWeekly:  DC Comics signs Frank Miller to an exclusive book deal that is part of a larger strategy to increase its presence in the bookstore market.

From BleedingCool:  Classic horror comics character, Swamp Thing, is getting a redesign for his appearance in the new "Justice League Dark" comic book series.

From BleedingCool:  Julie Benson and Shawna Benson will be the new writers on "Green Lantern" beginning with "Green Lantern Annual 2."

From BleedingCool:  Only the first issue of "DC Nation #0" will cost .25 cents.

From Vibe:  Comic Book Anthology "Puerto Rico Strong" To Donate Proceeds To Hurricane Maria Relief Efforts

From PBSNewsHour:  Opinion: Why ‘Black Panther’ and other comic books belong in the classroom

From BleedingCool:  Oni Press solicitations for June 2018

From ComicBookBin:  New web comic - Johnny Bullet episode #155 in English
From ComicBookBin:  New web comic - Johnny Bullet episode #155 in French

From BleedingCool:  IDW Publishing solicitations for June 2018

From ComicsBeat:  Your crash course guide to DC’s new SANDMAN UNIVERSE line

From BleedingCool:  Archie meets "Batman '66" in... what else... "Archie Meets Batman '66."

From MonkeysFightingRobots:  "Free Comic Book Day" is not free for the retailers that offer comic books.  Diamond Distributors is offering some relief on those costs for FCBD 2018.

From Newsarama:  Dark Horse Comics will publish comic books that tie-in with Pixar's upcoming 3D animated film, "The Incredible 2."

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics to translate and publish manga based on Batman and the Justice League.

From ComicBook:  The current "Marvel 2-in-One" will introduce new Fantastic Four costumes.

From BleedingCool:  Marvel Comics has a plan to make retailers over-order on "A Fresh Start."

From BleedingCool:  DC Comics launches a new line of collections called "Essential Edition."

From Newsarama:  Anne McCaffrey's "Dragonriders of Pern" returns to comic books via Dabel Brothers this fall.  Eclipse Books previously adapted the fantasy novel series into comics in 1991.

From BlackEnterprise:  Jazmin Truesdale has created Aza Comics, an all-female superhero comic book universe.

From BleedingCool:  There will be a new "Hawkman" monthly comic book written by Robert Vendetti and drawn by Bryan Hitch. [Good luck with that. - Editor]

From BleedingCool:  Chip Zdarsky Goes Marvel Exclusive

From SanDiegoUnionTribune:  With 'Black Panther' and 'Black Lightning' emerging, the 'Encyclopedia of Black Comics' is here to help

From Ohio: 23-year-old Jimmy Scott was killed in 1966.  His family hung onto his collection of over 1100 comic books, many of them key Silver Age issues.  Jimmy's family recently sold the collection to a comic book store in Canal Fulton, Ohio.

From Brightly: 12 Things Parents and Educators Should Know About Manga for Middle Schoolers

From BleedingCool:  100 most ordered comic books and 100 top graphic novels for February 2018.

From TheHollywoodReporter:  DC Comics announces a new imprint, "Black Label."  It will place the best creators with established characters for out-of-continuity stories.  "Superman: Year One" written by Frank Miller and drawn by John Romita, Jr. was one of the first announced titles.

From Newsarama:  February 2018 comic book sales are down, but with a caveat.

From Comicsverse:  Princess Leia manga arrives on "Star Wars Day."

From BleedingCool: Rich Tommaso giving us a really "special edition" of Clover Honey."

From BleedingCool:  Netflix acquires Rob Liefeld's "Extreme Universe" of characters.

From BleedingCool:   Former Marvel Comics editor and writer is now an editor at Valiant Entertainment.

From BleedingCool:  Chris Ryall steps down as Editor-in-Chief as IDW Publishing.

From TheHollywoodReporter:  Brian Michael Bendis has announced two new titles from "Jinxworld" (his creator-owned imprint), including one that reunites him with his "Alias" cohort, Michael Gaydos.  Both will be published by Bendis' new home, DC Comics.

From ComicBook:  Marvel will reinvent the origins of Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers.

From BleedingCool:  Mark Buckingham is adapting four Neil Gaiman stories for a graphic novel anthology from Dark Horse Comics.

From BleedingCool:  Illustrator J. Scott Campbell is the latest comic book star to express concern over the recent turns of events concerning legendary comic book creator and editor, Stan Lee.

From TheGuardian:  "Neil Gaiman is to oversee a new line of comic books set in the world of the Sandman, continuing the adventures of some of his best-loved characters including Dream of the Endless and Lucien the librarian."

From WCET:  Comic book store, "Memory Lane Comics and Toys" in Wilmington, NC, sees uptick in business after release of 'Black Panther'

From TokyoReporter: Manga artist Nobuhiro Nishiwaki fined for possessing child pornography

From Asahi:  Mongolians irate over manga showing penis on Genghis Khan

From BleedingCool:  To help alleviate the risk retailers take, Dark Horse Comics is expanding "returnability" of new titles.

From JapanToday:  In 2017, online sales of manga surpassed print editions for the first time.

From TheAtlantic:  Ta-Nehisi Coates explains why he is writing Marvel Comics "Captain America," with his first issue appearing Summer 2018.

From BleedingCool:  AfterShock Comics Sends Care Packages to Comic Book Stores

From BleedingCool:  Oni Press is publishing a new edition of Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover's all-ages comic, "Banana Sundays."

From BleedingCool:  Diamond Brings Spinner Racks Back to Comic Stores


STAN LEE MELODRAMA:

From TheDailyMail:  Stan Lee fires manager and his nurse who gave him naked showers over 'plot to estrange him from his daughter and sole heir' as cops probe missing millions and he battles pneumonia

From TheDailyBeast: ‘Picked Apart by Vultures’: The Last Days of Stan Lee


Friday, July 14, 2017

Review: JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS #1

JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS VOL. 2 No. 1 (2016)
ARCHIE COMICS – @ArchieComics

[This review was originally posted on Patreon.]

STORY: Marguerite Bennett and Cameron Deordio
ART: Audrey Mok
COLORS: Andre Szymanowicz
LETTERS: Jack Morelli
COVER: Audrey Mok
VARIANT COVERS: Derek Charm, Colleen Coover, Veronica Fish, Francesco Francavilla, Robert Hack, Gisele Legace, Alitha Martinez, Marguerite Sauvage,
32pp, Color, $3.99 U.S. (November 2016)

Josie and the Pussycats began as a 1963 teen-humor comic book entitled She's Josie (cover date:  February 1963).  Published by Archie Comics, it was created by Dan DeCarlo and focused on the fanciful life and times of a teenager, the sweet and level-headed redhead, Josie.  The title was renamed Josie with issue #17 (cover dated:  December 1965).

It became Josie and the Pussycats with issue #45 (cover date:  December 1969), in which Josie and her friend, Melody, formed a band called the Pussycats.  The two friends added bassist Valerie Smith, the new girl in school and one of the first major African-American comic book characters.  The trio donned leopard print band uniforms that came with long tails and cat-ear headbands.  Hanna-Barbera adapted this new-look Josie into the Saturday morning animated television series, “Josie and the Pussycats,” which ran for two seasons.

The comic book ran until Josie and the Pussycats #106 (cover date:  October 1982), but the characters made appearances in other Archie Comics after that and was even the subject of an American manga makeover about a decade ago.  Josie and the Pussycats are remade, redesigned, and re-imagined again, this time as part of Archie Comics new-look line of comic books.  This new Josie and the Pussycats is written by Marguerite Bennett and Cameron Deordio; drawn by Audrey Mok; colored by Andre Szymanowicz, and lettered by Jack Morelli.

Josie and the Pussycats #1 opens in the bar, “Win Some Booze Some,” in Riverdale.  The owner, Pepper, has allowed her pal, Josie, to try out her folksy vocals, but customers are not interested, and even Josie's frenemy, Alexandra, stops by to rub it in.  Josie would so like to perform at the charity benefit concert for the Riverdale Animal Shelter, but it is for bands only.  Despondent, Josie does not realize how close she is to having a band, but will she know how work it when she gets one?

I have to keep it real.  I only have a passing interest in the new-look Archie Comics, and that interest is not strong enough to make me read even the review PDFs I get from Archie Comics.  However, I have been in love with Josie and the Pussycats since I was a tyke, so I gave this new look a look.

It isn't bad.  Actually, this first issue is average, at best.  Honestly, my Josie is drawn by Dan DeCarlo and the other Archie Comics artists who mimicked DeCarlo's style for four decades of Josie comics.  New-look Josie artist, Audrey Mok, draws beautiful covers, but her interior art for Josie and the Pussycats #1 but does not rise to the level of her cover art for issue #1.  The story is OK, and I might come back for the second issue and maybe a third issue if the second issue entices me.

But this ain't my Josie.  This really isn't Josie, but to be fair, I won't grade this series, yet.

[This issue reprints the Josie and the Pussycats story, “Pussy Footing,” which was written by Dick Malmgren; drawn by Dan DeCarlo (pencils) and Rudy Lapick (inks); and lettered by Bill Yoshida.]

Now, these are my girls.  I think “Pussy Footing” was one of two Josie chapters in Josie and the Pussycats #45.  I love it.  Now, I need to get to eBay.

Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"


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Monday, November 21, 2011

Review: GINGERBREAD GIRL (OGN)



GINGERBREAD GIRL
TOP SHELF PRODUCTIONS

WRITER: Paul Tobin
ARTIST: Colleen Coover
ISBN: 978-1-60309-080-3; paperback
112pp, B&W, $12.95 U.S.

Colleen Coover is a Portland, Oregon-based comic book artist, perhaps best known for her erotic comic book, Small Favors (Fantagraphics Books). She has also drawn many titles for Marvel Comics, including various comic books related to X-Men: First Class, Spider-Man, and Power Pack.

Paul Tobin is the author of the comic book, Banana Sunday (Oni Press). He is also a frequent writer for Marvel Comics’ Marvel Adventures imprint. Tobin is married to Colleen Coover.

Gingerbread Girl is an original graphic novel from writer Paul Tobin and artist Colleen Coover. It is a mystery story (of sorts) about a captivating, 20-something who has a missing twin sister… or not.

Annah Billips is a 27-year-old single girl who likes vintage fashions, piglets, massages, extra spicy food, farting and puddles (among other things). Cute and charismatic, Annah is, however, totally exasperating for the guys and (yes) girls who want to date her. Annah believes that when she was nine-years-old, her scientist father extracted a part of her brain (the Penfield Homunculus) and grew it into a twin sister. Annah called this version of herself the “Gingerbread Girl” or Ginger.

Does Annah really have such a twin sister? Or is she just insane? A host of co-narrators and commentators, including a pigeon, a bulldog, a magician, neighborhood types, a boyfriend, and girlfriend, try their best to unlock the mystery called Annah. And her best friend, Chili Brandals, also wants to date her.

While reading Gingerbread Girl, I started to wonder if Ginger was just an excuse Annah made so that she didn’t have to ever enter a long-term committed relationship. Listening to the afro-ed Chili, you might even get the idea that Annah could be the doppelganger. Sometimes, writer Paul Tobin’s story is a bit too oblique and coy for the story’s own good, but for the most part, Tobin offers an interesting character in Annah. Much of what is interesting about this story comes from the fact that readers have to seriously engage the dilemma that is Annah without the reward of easy conclusions.

Artist Colleen Coover’s storytelling is like a blend of Seth and New Yorker cartoonists with the pastoral melancholy of Charles Schulz. The art is pretty, and Coover’s clean line discloses the story in an open way that makes the frequent interjection of different narrators not be jarring, but illuminating, in a small way. Gingerbread Girl is not a great work, but it is something good for comics. It’s something delightfully different.

B

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Friday, April 23, 2010

Alex Zalben Announces Fourth "Thor and the Warriors Four"

Thor and the Warriors Four #4

COVER BY: Gurihiru
WRITER: Alex Zalben
PENCILS:Girihiru
INKS:Collen Coover
GURIHIRU (NAOKO KAWANO)
COLORED BY: COLLEEN ANN COOVER
GURIHIRU (NAOKO KAWANO)
LETTERED BY: COLLEEN ANN COOVER
DAVID L. SHARPE

THE STORY:
Loki: triumphant! Thor: defeated! Power Pack: no more! Exclamations: And questions? Will Power Pack be able to save the life of their grandmother, or will the world be destroyed first? All this, plus a guest appearance by The Pet Avengers, and the moment you didn’t know you were waiting your whole life for: The League of Thors! AND the final chapter of Colleen Coover’s Hercules/Power Pack cross-over. An issue so big, so funny, so awesome, that critics are saying, “This solicit was actually written before the first issue came out, so there’s no press quotes yet!” All Ages …$2.99

PRICE: 2.99
IN STORES: July 7, 2010

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Alex Zalben Announces Thor and the Warriors Four #2

Press release from Alex Zalben:

COVER BY: Gurihiru
WRITER: Alex Zalben, Collen Coover
PENCILS: Gurihiru, Colleen Coover
INKS: Array

THE STORY:
Who are the WARRIORS FOUR? What do they want with THE MIGHTY THOR, and his alien pal BETA RAY BILL? And how does a no-holds-barred stone throwing contest feature in all of this? The answers: 1) They’re POWER PACK! 2)They want magical Golden Apples to save their grandmother’s life, and 3)who doesn’t like a good stone-throwing contest? The adventures of Power Pack continue as they reach Asgard, fight Dark Dwarves alongside Thor, and move one step closer to bringing about the end of everything they hold dear! All Ages …$2.99

PRICE: 2.99
IN STORES: May 5, 2010

Issue #1 hits stands on April 7th, 2010 - order info.

Issue #2 hits stands on May 5th, 2010 - order info.

Comic Rack interviews Alex Zalben.  Marvel.com article on the series. [END]

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