Author Archives: Ray Sidman

The latest court decision in the Gordon Lee case has ended it, once and for all, announced the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The announcement was made by Neil Gaiman at a CBLDF fundraiser at NYCC, and later posted at … See More

April 17, Manhattan – When organizers of this year’s New York Comic-Con announced the show’s first New York Legends Comic Award, the legend of choice to inaugurate the honor was none other than Stan Lee. Fans, fellow comics creators, and … See More

This year’s committee for the 2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards has announced the nominees. This year’s selection panel consisted of John Davis of Bookazine, author Paul DiFilippo, Atom Freeman of Brave New World Comics in Santa Clarita, Calif., Jeff … See More

The creators behind the short-lived Fangoria Comics have returned as The Scream Factory, bringing with them — through a deal with Smashout Comics — the titles left incomplete by the cancellation of the Fangoria comics line. Scream Factory’s Scott Licina, … See More

Alternative rock singer Tori Amos has collaborated with Image Comics for Comic Book Tattoo, an anthology putting the ideas and themes behind her music into sequential art form. The volume — containing a massive 480 pages — will hit stands … See More

Ving Rhames, Radha Mitchell, and Rosamund Pike have joined the cast of Disney‘s The Surrogates, based on the Top Shelf Productions comic book by Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele, the Hollywood Reporter has reported. They join Bruce Willis and director … See More

Organizers of the New York Comic-Con have posted the show’s program schedule. The program PDF offers both spreadsheet schedule and a description of each event. Find it here. The third annual NYCC takes place April 18-20 at the Jacob K. … See More

Several products featuring Warren Ellis‘ Anna Mercury and Wolfskin will hit stands in June from Avatar Press. The barbarian saga of Wolfskin continues in Wolfskin Annual #1, available in three different versions: standard cover by Jacen Burrows, wraparound cover by … See More

Creative Impulse Publishing has announced the fourth issue of its JFH: Justice-For-Hire series, which will ship in June. It is solicited in the April Previews. As with the prior three, this issue comes with a DVD, the fourth of 12, … See More

If nihilism is your thing, if social entropy is your friend (well, the closest thing you have to a friend, anyway), if you don’t like purpose or order, then you should be reading Truth Serum. Whether he’s the Todd Solondz … See More