Posts Tagged ‘Image Comics’
Happy Star Wars Day, Ol’ Hornhead & City of Heroes
May 4th, 2009 by Riff
Yes,
Tags: City of Heroes, Daredevil, FCBD, Image Comics, Star Wars, webcomics
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Warren Ellis’ contribution to Free Comicbook Day
May 2nd, 2009 by Riff
Here’s something from Warren Ellis and Image to celebrate FCBD: The first issue of Fell online Talk about creepy, and Ben Templesmith’s art is suitably dark and mysterious. Check this, and the rest of FCBDs offerings
Tags: Free Comicbook Day, Image Comics, Warren Ellis, webcomics
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Oeming launches new site
February 26th, 2009 by Riff
Michael Avon Oeming has just launched his new site. Looks cool. I love this guys work both his art and his writing. I’m guessing he’s best known for his work with Brian Bendis on Powers, initially published by Image but now part of Marvel under their Icon imprint. He’s also written a great run on [...]
Tags: art, Brian Bendis, comic art, comicbooks, comics, Cross Bronx, Icon, Image, Image Comics, Mice Templar, Michael Avon Oeming, Oeming, Powers, Thor
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Art or Artifact: Comics as Commodity or Entertainment.
February 22nd, 2009 by Riff
Comicbooks aren’t for kids any more it seems. Hell some of them aren’t for grown-ups either. For many they seem to be a cash cow, an investment, something to be stored in vaults, in plastic (or better still foil) bags, in acid-free cardboard boxes in low ultra-violet light, never to actually be read or enjoyed, [...]
Tags: art, Azrael, Batman, Brian Bendis, Captain America, comic artists, comic books, comicbooks, comics, crucial, Daredevil, DC, Ed Brubaker, Free Comicbook Day, Gene Colan, Greg Ruka, Hellboy, Image Comics, Jack Kirby, John Le Carre, Len Deighton, Marvel, Michael Turner, Powers, Punisher, Queen & Country, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Superman
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Savage Dragon – Image invites you to get on board!
February 18th, 2009 by Riff
Image comics are overprinting the latest issue of Savage Dragon, Issue #145 CBR reports. Erik Larsen, SD’s creator and Savage Dragon himself has appeared – check out our earlier posts. In fact Image Comics web site gives the full story: IMAGE COMICS PRINTS PLENTY FOR THE BEST JUMPING ON POINT EVER, NEXT WEEK’S SAVAGE DRAGON [...]
Tags: comicbooks, comics, Erik Larsen, Image Comics, Obama, Savage Dragon
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Image Comics, As Big As They Wanna Be?
April 5th, 2008 by Eblison
In 1992, there was upset in the industry of comic books. Seven of the biggest artists in the field formed Image Comics, with its fully “creator owned” line-up. Their big titles at the time were Spawn, Youngblood, Wild C.A.T.s, Cyberforce, Savage Dragon, ShadowHawk, and Wetworks; and these fresh new titles and the flashy stylized art they had to back them up, quickly pushed [...]
Tags: comic art, Erik Larsen, Image Comics, Savage Dragon
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