Showing posts with label pop culture roundup. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pop culture roundup. Show all posts

Pop Culture Roundup: Superman, Archie, Edgar Rice Burroughs, More!


ITEM! A bunch of Superman comics creators visited the set for the new Man of Steel film.

ITEM! Following DC and Marvel's lead, Archie is launching a line of facsimile comics.

ITEM! An exhibition of illustration art for Edgar Rice Burroughs stories is going on display New York.

ITEM! Check out the Mego "Love Boat" play set

ITEM! The 300 best movies of all time, according to Rotten Tomatoes.

ITEM! SNL will mark its 50th anniversary with a three-hour, ready-for-primetime special on Feb. 16.


Pop Culture Roundup: Ditko, Spider-Man, Asterix, More

 


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Check out Atlas Comics' the Destructor from 1975 - art by the great Steve Ditko.

ITEM! About that Spider-Man reference in Zendaya's new movie.

ITEM! A new Asterix live-action film is in the works, as is an animated series for Netflix.

ITEM! Seth MacFarlane and Martin Scorsese have teamed up to preserve classic animated shorts.

ITEM! Netflix plans a live-action Scooby-Doo series.

Pop Culture Roundup: Fantastic Four, Earl Norem, 'Down Cemetery Road'


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Study up on Marvel character Shalla-Bal ahead of the upcoming Fantastic Four film.

ITEM! A tribute to illustrator Earl Norem

ITEM! Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson are set to star in "Down Cemetery Road," Apple TV+ orders series based on a novel by "Slow Horses" author Mick Herron.


Pop Culture Roundup: Flash Gordon, Trina Robbins, Naked Gun


ITEM! A new Flash Gordon comic book series will launch in July.

ITEM! Veteran comics reporter remembers the late cartoonist Trina Robbins

ITEM! Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson are set to star in a "Naked Gun" reboot.

Pop Culture Roundup: Doctor Who, Trina Robbins, More


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Actress Varada Sethu ("Andor," "Jurassic: World Dominion") is joining the cast of "Doctor Who."

ITEM! Meanwhile, former Doctor Who Peter Davison doesn't understand the bi-regeneration that brought back his son-in-low, former Doctor David Tennant. 

ITEM! How deregulation destroyed indie rock across America.

ITEM! Read a vintage interview with the Trina Robbins, the legendary cartoonist and comics historian who passed away earlier this week.

Pop Culture Roundup: Trina Robbins, Irv Novick, Melrose Place, More


Sad News: 
Pioneering cartoonist and comics historian Trina Robbins is dead at age 85. Here's a look at some of her best comics covers.

ITEM! The handwritten manuscript of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes story is expected to sell for $1.2 million at auction.

ITEM! Sign of the apocalypse, or... "Melrose Place" is set for a revival.

ITEM! Spotlighting the groovy Flash art of Irv Novick.



Pop Culture Roundup: Mac Raboy, Ramona Fradon, More


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Spotlighting the Captain Marvel Jr. art of the great Mac Raboy.

ITEM! Comics artist Rob Leifeld is publishing an autobiography

ITEM! Christopher Eccleston is starring in a BBC Radio 4 adaptation of "The Man Who Fell to Earth."

ITEM! A tribute to the late, great comics artist Ramona Fradon appears in copies of DC's titles out today.

Pop Culture Roundup: EC Comics, Monty Pyton, Roald Dahl, More


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Get the inside skinny on the Oni Press revival of the EC Comics imprint.

ITEM! "Bear" star Jeremy Allen White may star as Bruce Springsteen in a new biopic.

ITEM! ITV in England has located four thought-to-be-lost episodes of a pre-Monty Python series created by by Michael Palin and Terry Jones.

ITEM! Was Atlas Comics the original Image Comics?

ITEM! New books featuring Roald Dahl characters are on the way. 

ITEM! An innovative documentary about the founder of the Tiki trend uses animation to tell its talk.

Pop Culture Roundup: M3Gan, Superman, KISS


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You can buy a life-size version of the spooky doll from the film "M3Gan."

ITEM! A copy of Action Comics #1, which contains the debut of Superman, sold for $6 million

ITEM! Wendell Pierce didn't grow up reading comics, but is excited to play Perry White in the upcoming Superman film.

ITEM! A Swedish investment company now owns the "intellectual property" that was the band KISS.

Pop Culture Roundup: Sandman, Silver Surfer, Felix Mas, More


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A "Sandman" cast member will have a cameo in Neil Gaiman's "Dead Boys Detective" series coming to Netflix.

ITEM! How literary magazines pioneered a new kind of graphic design

ITEM! Spotlighting the work of Spanish comics artist Félix Mas.

ITEM! Isn't everything? Spotify subscription prices are going up.

ITEM! Julia Garner will play the Shalla-Bal version of the Silver Surfer in Marvel's upcoming Fantastic Four film.

Pop Culture Roundup: 'Doctor Who' Episode Titles; Who Created Wolverine?; Cryptology Mag Debuts, More


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The BBC has announced episode titles for the new season of "Doctor Who." 

ITEM! Legendary Marvel Comics editor Roy Thomas is controversially claiming co-creator credit for the character of Wolverine. 

ITEM! Take a peek at TwoMorrows' new horror-themed mag, Cryptology.

ITEM! Gail Simone is scripting a revival of British horror comic Misty. She's also writing a new run of Marvel's Uncanny X-Men.