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Posted in: Comics, Comixology, Current News | Tagged: comixology originals, Lee Loughridge, mark chater, Midstate, will dennisAs of next week, Lee Loughridge debuts as a comic book writer for a new Comixology Originals series Mindstate drawn by Mack Chater,Article Summary Lee Loughridge takes on dual roles in the new Comixology Originals series Mindstate. Mindstate, drawn by Mack Chater, is a psychological crime thriller with a psychic twist. The story follows a disgraced clairvoyant on a mission to…

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Celeste Barber is headed to North America. The multihyphenate, who has been nicknamed the “Australian Queen of Comedy,” announced this morning that she’ll be hitting the road in May with the Backup Dancer Tour across the United States and Canada. Produced by Live Nation, the 20-plus city tour kicks off with a performance at the Netflix Is a Joke Comedy Festival at L.A.’s Orpheum Theatre on May 2. She’ll continue with dates through June and stops in New York, Boston, Seattle, Atlanta, Toronto, Las…

Actor dies of heart attack after revealing a battle with Parkinson's disease last year Richard Lewis, a stand-up comic who achieved fame in the 1980s by turning his neuroses into comedy gold and later experienced a renaissance in recent years thanks to Curb Your Enthusiasm, died on Tuesday at the age of 76. The cause of death was a heart attack, his publicist, Jeff Abraham, confirmed to Rolling Stone. Last April, Lewis revealed that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s. “I’m under a doctor’s…

Posted in: Comics | Tagged: Wally Wood became a comic book legend for work on EC Comics, Daredevil and more, but his early Fox romance work is overlooked.Article Summary Explore Wally Wood's start in Fox romance comics before EC Comics fame. Discover his progression from a letterer to inker to artist at Fox. Wood's first signed work and cover art revealed in Fox's romance titles. Examine the controversial and collectible nature of Fox romance stories. Legendary comic book creator Wally Wood…

Posted in: Comics, Current News | Tagged: lfcc, london, London Comic FestivalFrom July 2024, the Comic Zone of the London Film and Comic Con run by Showmasters will be rebranding, as the London Comic Festival.Article Summary London Comic Festival launches July 2024, evolving from LFCC's Comic Zone. Key industry figures manage the comic-focused event with new initiatives. Awards and educational panels are set to enrich the London Comic Festival. Expect elite guests and additional attractions…

Posted in: Comics, Comics Publishers, Current News, Dark Horse Comics | Tagged: josh gad, writerEarlier today, Bleeding Cool posted that actor/singer Josh Gad was writing his first comic book called The Writer from Dark Horse Comics.Article Summary Josh Gad debuts as a comic writer with 'The Writer' from Dark Horse Comics. Co-written with Ben and Max Berkowitz, with art by Ariel Olivetti. 'The Writer' blends cultural folklore and high-octane adventure. Issue #1 of the four-part series will hit…

The Toxic Avenger is returning to the world of comics. Matt Bors, the Pulitzer Prize finalist who founded the daily online political comics publication The Nib, and artist and caricaturist Fred Harper, are collaborating on the what will be a five-issue comic book series. The publisher behind the revival is AHOY Comics, a Syracuse-based publisher dedicated to satirizing horror, space opera, social satire, sword & sorcery, and superhero stories. It is known for putting out Second Coming, a…

Neil Gaiman’s fantasy novel Anansi Boys is heading to the sequential art world of comics. The 2005 novel, a New York Times best-seller that won the Locus and British Fantasy Awards, is being adapted by Dark Horse Comics, which has set screenwriter and comics author Marc Bernardin to pen what will be an eight-issue miniseries. Shawn Martinbrough, perhaps best known as the longtime artist of the Robert Kirkman title Thief of Thieves as well as Marvel’s Luke Cage Noir, is drawing the book, which…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMadame Web is an $80m (£63m) film with the quality of an unlicensed superhero painted on the side of a carnival ride. It’s desperate and seems embarrassed of itself, the pained shrug of a creative team ordered by Sony executives to keep the wheels turning in their Spider-Man-adjacent universe, all while the actual Spider-Man is out on loan to Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe.Although…