Category: News

Studio Tours CBR has launched a new feature which looks inside the studios of some prominent comics creators. They’ve already done a complete tour of Scott “PvP” Kurtz’s studio. And, most recently, they showed the studio of Avengers artist Frank
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Site Features Time for the periodic review of the features of this site. If you’re a new reader, you’ll want to give it a quick skim. Blog: Register with Blogger, and participate in the discussion! It’s free! Google search engine:
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January Previews I just got my copy of the January Previews and I have to share it with you! Here’s the actual page with the first offering from my new production entity, Greystone Inn Comics. In case you missed the
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Philly Feed Here’s another exciting announcement for some great stuff that’s coming up in 2007: Phables, my long-form comic about life in Philadelphia, is going to begin updating every Monday starting later in January. It has been very successful in
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Comic Book Urban Legends From Comic Book Resources: Only one of these urban legends is false. Do you know which one? Batman had a brother! Blue Beetle gained weight as an homage to Nite-Owl from Watchmen. Archie cancelled a series
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January Previews I have some tremendous news to pass along, and I’m calling on all you thugs, goons, minions, and henchmen — er, henchpersons — to get involved in this and help make it a huge success. Diamond Distributing is
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Halfpixel on Newspaper Syndicates Leave it to Kristofer Straub to come up with a devastating comic on the state of newspaper syndication. It was posted on PVP Sunday, so if you missed it, be sure to go back and check
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Cartoon Archives: Christmas 1991 Here’s another project I’ve been batting around that I’d like some feedback on. See, I’ve been cartooning professionally since about 1991, and I’ve got a huge archive of cartoons that haven’t seen the light of day
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Greystone Inn archives: The Book Tour In 2001, my first collection of Greystone Inn comics was being published by Plan Nine Publishing. To promote this, I devoted a storyline to Argus and the gang going on a promotional book tour.
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Frank Cho Newsarama has posted part two of their interview with Avengers artist Frank Cho. It has some fantastic previews of his art. From the story: Now, before we move on to the best part of the interview where we
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Dan Didio looks back at 2006 Newsarama has an excellent interview with Dan Didio, Senior VP and Executive Editor of the DC Universe, in which he looks back at 2006. From the story: For both longtime readers, and relative newcomers,
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Diesel Sweeties Best wishes for success goes out to the talented R. Stevens, whose Diesel Sweeties is going to be syndicated to newspapers by United Media. [E&P] United Media will syndicate “Diesel Sweeties,” which began as an online comic, to
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I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a better compliment From a new blog about webcomics… Comics I Hate But Can’t Stop Reading God Help Me: Penny and AggieKevin and Kell Evil Inc.

Another Paul Southworth Masterpiece Fellow BLCer Paul Southworth has come out with another T-shirt submission for Threadless. Threadless holds competitions in which the winner gets a $1,500 cash prize. Paul has proven himself worthy of that honor once already, and
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Zanadu Comics Good news for fans in Seattle! Zanadu Comics will begin carrying a number of my books. They will have on hand the following: Evil Inc Annual Report vol 1, Courting Disaster vol 1, Counting Wrongs (the fourth Greystone
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Martin Nodell, creator of Green Lantern, 1915-2006 Sad news to pass along. Martin Nodell, who helped create both the Green Lantern and the Pillsbury Doughboy, has passed away at age 91. If you’ve been to a comic convention, it’s likely
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I’m Mister Heat Miser… Be sure to tune in tonight to NBC’s live-action version of one of my all-time favorite Rankin-Bass animated specials, The Year Without a Santa Claus (9 p.m. on the East Coast). I don’t expect this to
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Update: JSA 1 [CBR] Thursday afternoon, DC Comics held a press conference to discuss the first issue of “Justice Society of America,” the relaunched series from the mind of Geoff Johns and the pencil of Dale Eaglesham. The duo took
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PVP: The Animated Series — Update Scott Kurtz’s foray into animation may be one of the most exciting projects in webcomics history. I’m subscribing and you should, too. CBR has posted an excellent interview with Kurtz about the enterprise and
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Tobey to Hang Up His Webs? [THE SUN] Tobey Maguire has hinted he will hang up his superhero suit after the release of Spider-Man 3. The actor says he is keen to tackle more challenging movie roles and also wants
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A Man of Letters From Chris Eliopoulos’ essay about being a letterer in the comic-book industry: Let’s be honest here. Letterers are the scum of the industry. Everyone looks down on what we do—except maybe Augie De Blieck—and thinks that
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Paper Holds Contest to Replace Marrying Cartoonist for a Day [E&P] With Wisconsin State Journal freelance editorial cartoonist Phil Hands getting married this weekend, the Madison newspaper is seeking an artistic reader to fill in for him this Sunday. The
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Fox Trot going Sundays-only [E&P] “FoxTrot” cartoonist Bill Amend has been thinking of turning his 1988-launched comic into a Sunday-only strip since … about 1990. “The sense that this full-time pace wasn’t working well for me probably started about two
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Eisner Awards Call for Entries From Comic Book Resources… Entries are now being accepted for the 19th annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, to be given to the finest publications and creators of 2006. Publishers can submit any comic, graphic
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Comic Book Urban Legends Also from Comic Book Resources: One of these urban legends is false. Do you know which one? DC got the idea behind Brainiac from a “make your own computer� kit. Lex Luthor went bald due to
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Halfpixel What do you do when your mind is crowded with ideas and gags that just won’t fit into the two comics that you already produce? Where do you post that interactive Flash comic that doesn’t update often enough to
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JSA 1 [SBC] The first issue of DC Comics’ Justice Society of America appears in stores this Wednesday, December 6. Get in on the ground floor as the world’s first and greatest super-team returns to usher in the DCU’s next
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Tooncasting I need a little feedback from you guys. I’m thinking about making my comic available as a tooncast. In other words, for a small fee you would get some HTML code that would make my comic update on your
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The second Sheldon book is here From the Sheldon blog: THE BOOKS ARE HERE! And good Lord ‘n Butter, they look fantastic. I’ve always made it a priority that the Sheldon books look and feel awesome, and I was really
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GIfts for Graphic Artists If you have a graphic artist or designer on your holiday shopping list, I have a great idea for you: A matted print of one of the popular Gary the Graphic Artist strips. The most popular
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Another delay for Marvel’s Civil War [Newsarama] Marvel Comics has confirmed that the on-sale date of Civil War #6 has been moved to January 3rd, two weeks later than the previously announced on-sale date of December 20th, given when Marvel
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Wizard fires Editor-in-Chief [CBR] Wizard Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief has been fired, according to industry insiders. Multiple sources told CBR News Wednesday that Senior Vice-President/Editor-in-Chief Pat McCallum of Wizard Entertainment Group has been let go from the company. According to a 2002
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Another syndicated cartoonist bites the dust [E&P] The Silo Roberts strip is ending, according to DailyCartoonist.com. Rob Cabrera, who’s in his early 30s, told DailyCartoonist.com that he’s stopping the comic Dec. 10 to have more time for teaching and for
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Kyle Baker moves to Image Comics [Image Comics] Kyle Baker is making Image Comics his home. “Taking my books to Image was a no-brainer,” Baker says. “First of all, it’s a major publishing house run by cartoonists! And not just
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New Avengers #26 [CBR] She’s killed him twice, and twice she has brought him back to life. But what happens when Hawkeye confronts his long-time friend, former teammate, and killer, the Scarlet Witch, in New Avengers #26? New Avengers writer
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PhilCon 2006 Con Report PhilCon was my last convention appearance of the year and I can definitely say I went out on a high note. As you may remember from an earlier post, I was a little hesitant about this
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PvP: The Animated Series From Scott Kurtz’s blog: It is with great pride that we announce the first season of PvP: The Animated Series. Starting in February 2007, PvP will be offered as an animated feature via the Web. Each
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Miami cartoonist update [NBC] The cartoonist who allegedly stormed the Miami Herald building downtown on Friday remains in custody. A judge ordered Saturday that Jose Varela, 56, be held until experts can determine whether he is mentally stable. Varela is
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Dr. Strange: The Oath (2 of 5) I have to apologize. I’m awfully behind on my comics reading. In any event, I’m finally getting around to the second installment of Dr. Strange: The Oath. I’m still heavily into this series.
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O.J. Book, TV Special, Cancelled [YAHOO] After a firestorm of criticism, News Corp. said Monday that it has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and television special “If I Did It.” In the projects, Simpson speaks in hypothetical terms about how
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Lucy More Needs Less With holiday gift-giving season upon us, I want to call your attention to one of the best children’s books I’ve ever read. It’s a fantasic book about rampant consumerism and the perils of trying to buy
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Lulu is still Number One Here’s a little story from the Buckeye Book Fair a couple weekends back. I’m sitting there, signing copies of my Everything Cartooning Book book, and a guy comes up and mumbles some sort of half-hearted
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Sponsor of Evil: Binary Addiction Please welcome the newest Sponsor of Evil, “Binary Addiction” by E. Alexander Coolidge. It’s about two computer geeks. Matt — the logical one — is into programming and caffeine. Lots of caffeine. Josh — the
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Greystone Inn archives: Buffy the Vampire Slayer In 2003, I did a ttwo-week story arc paying tribute to the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It stands testiment to two things: (1) That was a darned fine TV show, and
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Buy Original Art You can buy original art from any of my comics — Evil Inc, Courting Disaster, Phables or Greystone Inn. The prices are very reasonable and they make excellent holiday gifts. E-mail me at bguigar(at)yahoo(dot)com to see if
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“I want my Western Burger!” And now, for your moment of Zen, here’s a 911-call from a woman who wants police dispatched to the fast food restaurant that keeps getting her order wrong. Snopes has labeled it as “Undetermined.” From
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Laying out 52 Newarama has an excellent interview with Keith Giffen, who has been doing the layouts for the weekly comic, 52. There are a few fascinating before-and-after shots. If you enjoy a peak behind the scenes, then you’re going
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Bite Me In case you needed one more reminder of why you stopped reading newspaper comics a long time ago, here’s another: United Media is sending an alert to editors who work at newspapers that carry Pearls Before Swine informing
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SEPTA Bingo Yesterday’s Phables was phenomenally popular — with Philadelphians and others alike. So I’m making the game board available as a letter-sized download. Download the PDF, print it out, and play on your next commute.

Evil Inc flyer For reasons that I will explain later, I would like to do a little readership push. That means I need you, my minions. 🙂 Print this flyer and post copies of it where you think people will
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Upcoming appearance I have a one last appearance before the end of the year. It’s here in Philly this weekend. I’ll be at PhilCon 2006, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. This event is hosted by the Philadelphia Science Fiction Society and
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Sponsor button If you’re looking for some effective, affordable Web advertising, you really owe it to yourself to check out my Sponsor Buttons. It’s a flat rate of $20 for one month. The button goes on the main page as
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Evil Inc Annual Report Volume Two Last week, I threw the doors open to the masses who have been hungering for the second installment of Evil Inc Annual Report. If you’re not a hungering mass, here’s the deal: Annual Report
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Evil Inc Annual Report Volume Two It’s finally ready! The Evil Inc Annual Report, Volume Two is available for purchase through Lulu.com! The book does not have an ISBN or a bar code yet, so if you purchase the book
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Viper Acquires Ugly Hill Great news for fellow-BLCer Paul Southworth. Viper Comics has added Paul’s Ugly Hill to their roster of webcomics. Before you ask, this does not mean that Paul is leaving Blank Label. It will mean increased exposure
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Midtern Report: DC’s 52 The popular thing to do right now is to evaluate DC’s yearlong “52” project at its halfway point. Personally, I’m giving it a solid B. It’s engaging enough to keep me coming back week after week,
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Daily News Archive Election Special In honor of Election Day, here’s a cartoon from the archive of the Philadelphia Daily News. It was an “Election Survival Guide” for the 2004 election. It was Bush vs Kerry, and long lines were
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Dave Kellett Needs Help BLC’s Dave Kellett needs your help. He’s moving his daily strip, Sheldon, to http://www.sheldoncomics.com tomorrow. He’s leaving United Media to go completely independent… which means he needs help spreading the word to as many people as
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Greystone Inn archives In early November, 2002, Keagan was still wooing Lightning Lady. Look for Philly tavern “London Grill” in one of the strips.

Archive: Simon’s Sausage Hee’s one from the archives that I stumbled over yesterday. It’s a cartoon that I did for the Philadelphia Daily News in 2003. The story was this: A baseball player, playfully batting at a mascot doing a
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2007 Convention Schedule Wizard Convention has just announced its convention schedule for the next two years. Looking at the calendar, there’s some really good news ahead — especially for everyone who has been trying to get me to come back
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Halloween Surprise In case you missed it, someone pulled one of the all-time greatest Halloween pranks ever. [ASSOCIATED PRESS] BOONE, Colo. – Nobody knows who, but someone with a lot of Halloween spirit decorated this small southern Colorado town with
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Spider-Woman’s Identity Unwebbed in Ultimate Spider-Man #102 [THE PULSE] The biggest threat to Peter Parker’s life and those he loves just gets worse in Ultimate Spider-Man #102. With Aunt May reeling from a heart attack and Gwen Stacy tearing through
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“URALOSER” mug Another offering from my CafePress store that you may be interested in is the URALOSER coffee mug. This features another perennial favorite comic strip, the URALOSER comic from Greystone Inn. If you have a comics geek on your
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Buckeye Book Fair: Sat., Nov. 4 I’ll be appearing at the Buckeye Book Fair in Wooster, Ohio, on Sat., Nov. 4. This appearance is to promote The Everything Cartooning Book. There will be no Evil Inc books or convention sketches.
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Gail Simone and Secret Six I think Gail Simone is quickly becoming one of the best writers in comics. OK. Maybe I’m biased. Her Secret Six series is a concept that I have a special affinity for — a cobbled-together
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“Photoshop it!” mug I just realized that I have a CafePress store that I haven’t thought of since I discontinued Greystone Inn! I’m not overly worried about pimping the site because I really don’t make much money through selling stuff
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Ailing ‘Dilbert’ cartoonist talks again [AP] DUBLIN, Calif. – A balding, bespectacled working stiff inexplicably loses his voice — except when speaking in rhyme or pinching his nose. It may sound like a farcical plot for a popular cartoon satirizing
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Buckeye Book Fair: Sat., Nov. 4 I’ll be appearing at the Buckeye Book Fair in Wooster, Ohio, on Sat., Nov. 4. This appearance is to promote The Everything Cartooning Book. There will be no Evil Inc books or convention sketches.
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VILF shirt contest: Deadline Nov. 1 Word to the wise: If you want to win over $100 in Evil Swag, you may want to enter this contest. The list of contestants is very short. Very. 🙂 Send me a photo
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Site Features According to my site stats, I’ve crossed another traffic milestone. That means new readers and new readers mean people who might not know about everything they can do here. Blog: Register with Blogger, and participate in the discussion!
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‘Peanuts’ Creator Is Third in Annual List of Top-Earning Dead Celebs Charles Schulz made more money last year than I’ve made my entire life. And he’s dead. [Editor & Publisher] “Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz is once again in the
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VILF shirt contest: Deadline Nov. 1 One more reminder about the VILF shirt contest. Send me a photo of you or someone else wearing the VILF shirt. Make it as funny or sexy or exciting as you possibly can. I’ll
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Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D Just a note for anyone who missed it, Disney is re-releasing one of my all-time favorites, The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D! It opens tomorrow!

From the Greystone Archive: The Super-Villain 12-Step Program This was one of my favorite storylines. It’s also a great look at what makes Lightning Lady so special. She’s truly evil about a lot of things — except her relationship with
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Plastic Man pilot I originally blogged about a Plastic Man pilot for Cartoon Network back in August. If you remember, I was pointing you to the blog of one of the storyboard artists who had posted some of his work
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I’m a Philebrity! My bi-weekly comic about life in Philadelphia, Phables, got a very kind mention at Philebrity, a Philly media / gossip / nightlife / culture / politics blog. Quoeth the scribe, it is a sweet and very cool
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Count Floyd I have say, finding that Commander USA clip yesterday really put me in the TV Horror Host mood. You’ll have to indulge me another one of my favorites: Count Floyd from SCTV.

The New Schlock Storefront Big news from Howard Tayler’s blog: If you live anywhere in North America, pre-orders for Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between will open on Tuesday morning. We’re throwing the switch at 8 a.m. Mountain Daylight Time, which
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Holy Cats! It’s Commander USA! As I’ve posted before, I was a faithful fan of Commander USA’s Groovy Movies in the 1980s. He is one of my all-time favorite TV Horror hosts — a subject that is close to my
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Andromeda Spaceways In-flight Magazine Please welcome the newest Sponsor of Evil, Andromeda Spaceways In-flight Magazine. Each issue of this popular science fiction & fantasy magazine contains over 40,000 words of fiction, articles, interviews, reviews and editorial. Published every 2 months,
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CBR Top 50s Comic Book Resources has announced two Top-Fity-Of-All-Time lists: One for writers and one for artists. Each lists includes a short bio of the person who made the list, a headshot, and an example of his or her
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Herblock Retrospective [Editor & Publisher] The Library of Congress is holding a Webcast tomorrow relating to editorial-cartooning legend Herblock, according to the ComicsDC blog. Sara Duke, the LOC’s curator of popular and applied graphic art, will speak during the online
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Doctor Strange: The Oath I blogged about this when CBR posted a preview, and I finally have it in my hands. I can readily say Dr. Strange : The Oath does not disappoint. The series opens with Dr. Strange being
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Worst Album Covers Ever This is one of those things that makes the Inbox rounds, but I have to admit, it’s one of the few examples of e-mail humor that cracked me up. They’re supposedly real album covers, and they’re
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Wizard magazine interviews Dave Kellett Wizard Magazine has posted an interview with fellow Blank Label Comics member Daave Kellett, creator of the daily comic strip Sheldon. Kellett discusses leaving United Media, launching a second comic strip in January, and quitting
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The New Schlock Storefront Howard has set up a new storefront for Schlock books. Before they can open pre-orders for Schlock Mercenary: The Blackness Between they need to run several more transactions through it — not just to test the
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Watchmen movie update Zack Snyder has announced news of another step towards a Watchmen movie: [EMPIRE ONLINE] “We’re getting ready to turn a script that we like into this studio,” says Snyder. “They’re pretty excited about it…I think the script
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Dave Kellett… on stage BLC’s Dave Kellett was part of a awesome comedic play called “Skirts & Flirts.” If you missed that sold-out run, you’re in luck: He’ll be doing two more performances to raise money for an LA-based homeless
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Greystone Inn archives Well over a year after I ended Greystone Inn, I’ve finally redesigned the site to make it clear that the site is no longer live. It is now the archive of the strip, holding close to five
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This week in Greystone History October 4, 2004, found Lightning Lady in the arms of her mysterious lover, a fanboy with a secret. Longtime readers will remember that she met him at Comic Con International earlier that year.

Fantastic Four 2 [Hollywood Reporter] Beau Garrett and Andre Braugher have been cast in “Fantastic Four: The Rise of the Silver Surfer,” which Tim Story is directing for 20th Century Fox. Ioan Gruffudd, Jessica Alba, Chris Evans and Michael Chiklis
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2,000 strips Today marks the posting of my 2,000th comic strip on the Web, not counting my other projects like Courting Disaster and Phables. I’ve been posting a comic strip every Monday-through-Saturday since February 2000 with few interruptions. I’m living
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Paul Taylor Fund-Raiser The Blank Label Comics Fund-Raiser for Paul Taylor has officially ended. Including BLC auctions, direct donations to Taylor, and non-BLC-affiliated auctions, over $10,770 in funds for the Taylor family. In August, Paul’s first child was born prematurely
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Paul Taylor Fund-Raiser Last Chance This is the last chance to participate in the auction to benefit Paul Taylor, whose sone was born pre-maturely with serious health problems last month. many of the auctions end today and tomorrow If you’re
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Robert Downey Jr. to Play Iron Man [Hollywood Reporter] Robert Downey Jr. is suiting up to star in “Iron Man,” the first feature film to be produced independently by Marvel Entertainment. Jon Favreau is directing the movie, which will be
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Starslip Crisis Technical Manual Kristofer Straub has a new book out that really has me jealous that I didn’t think of it first. It’s the Starslip Crisis Technical manual and it’s a 38-page guide to the science behind the fiction
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Paul Taylor Fund-Raiser Update Here’s an update on the fund-raiser for Paul. Many of the auctions close today and tomorrow. Donating directly to Paul: If you’re not interested in an auction item but would still like to help, feel free
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Evil Inc is not delivering a virus This week, I have received a couple of e-mails telling me that some anti-virus software is flagging the Evil Inc site on every load. First off, thanks to those people who alerted me.
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Mad Monster Party — LIVE! According to Animation Magazine, Warner Brothers has optioned the rights to one of my favorite Rankin-Bass animated features, Mad Monster Party. Mad Monster Party was a Halloween-themed stop-motion animation from the masters who brought you
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