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With an estimated cost of a quarter of a billion dollars Superman Returns will easily be the most expensive comic book-based film ever made. Imagine what it would have cost if it had any big name stars? Well, actually the primary engine driving up the cost of Hollywood blockbusters today is not the star power of Tom Cruise or Julia Roberts, it's the cost of the elaborate special effects necessary to create those "gee whiz" moments by adding what Hollywood calls the "wow" factor. Fully 40% of Superman Returns' budget ($100 million) is the result of the film's special effects. The cast of Peter Jackson's new King Kong (Jack Black, Adrian Brody, Naomi Watts) doesn't include any A-list stars either, but King Kong will end up costing Universal $207 million (a figure which like the $250 million for Superman Returns doesn't include marketing costs). +++++ From The SCOOP! at http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/ Harvey Awards Move to the Baltimore Comic-Con Industry News, Scoop, Friday, November 04, 2005 The Harvey Awards, named for the late comics genius Harvey Kurtzman and developed to honor comic book industry professionals and companies singled out by their peers, will have a new home at the Baltimore Comic-Con. The 19th annual Harvey Awards will be held Saturday evening, September 9, 2006. Paul McSpadden, the awards' long-time administrator, Nellie Kurtzman, Harvey's daughter and family representative, and Denis Kitchen, consultant for the Kurtzman family, made the announcement on behalf of the Harvey Awards, joined by Baltimore Comic-Con promoter Marc Nathan. The Harvey Awards are one of the comics industry's oldest and most respected service organizations, and they are the only industry awards both nominated by and selected by the full body of industry professionals to honor artistry, artistic achievement and professional merit in a wide variety of categories. Beginning in 1986 at the Chicago Comic-Con, the Harveys enjoyed runs at the Dallas Fantasy Fair, Wondercon (then based in Oakland), the Pittsburgh Comicon, and most recently New York's Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA). The Baltimore Comic-Con, founded in 2000, has grown into one of the premier trade shows in the industry and has maintained comic books and the comic arts as its central themes since its inception. Held for the past four years at the Baltimore Convention Center within walking distance of the historic and tourist-friendly Inner Harbor, the Harvey Awards' new home is within a day's drive of almost the entire eastern seaboard of the United States. "On behalf of Nellie Kurtzman and the Kurtzman family, Denis Kitchen, and everyone involved in the Harvey Awards, we are pleased to announce the Baltimore Comic-Con as our new home," McSpadden said. "Just sampling the show's guest list over the past few years, it is clear that this show extends a welcome to the widest possible array of creative talent and publishers. From small press newcomers to established professionals to our industry's elder statesmen, Marc Nathan and his team are aligned with our mission to recognize and promote excellence in the comic arts." "It is a distinct honor to host the Harvey Awards at the Baltimore Comic-Con," Nathan said. "Harvey Kurtzman's wit, wisdom and unique ability to come up with a different take on just about any subject has long represented a pinnacle in the comic book world. The awards that bear his name have always been a symbol of distinction in our industry, and we're extremely happy to welcome that distinction to Baltimore." Additional details about the Harvey Awards and the awards ceremony will be released over the next few months. Harvey Kurtzman (1924-1993) was a cartoonist, writer, editor and comics genius. He is probably best remembered for MAD, which he founded in 1952. He created 28 revolutionary issues with such talent as Will Elder, Jack Davis, and Wally Wood but left after a falling out in 1956 with E.C. publisher Bill Gaines (for whom he also created Two-Fisted Tales and Frontline Combat). Kurtzman then created the short-lived satire magazine Trump for Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner in 1957. He followed with the comic-size Humbug in 1958, then Help! magazine. During his Help! tenure he discovered such diverse talent as Terry Gilliam, Gloria Steinem, Gilbert Shelton, and R. Crumb. In 1962 he and collaborator Will Elder began producing the long-running and elaborate "Little Annie Fanny" comic for Playboy. In the '70s he became known as the "father-in-law of underground commix" for inspiring a new generation of media-bending cartoonists. For additional information about the Harvey Awards, visit http://www.harveyawards.org. For additional information about the Baltimore Comic-Con, visit http://www.comicon.com/baltimore Mandela Comic Series Underway Industry News, Scoop, Friday, November 04, 2005 As part of a South African children's literacy effort, former South African president Nelson Mandela has launched a series of comic books based on his life. There will be nine books in all, full-color and illustrated. A million copies will be distributed free at schools and in newspapers. The first book, A Son of the Eastern Cape, deals with Mandela's pre-prison life, which includes a royal upbringing in rural Transkei. A Son ends with Mandela's arrival in Johannesburg, where he would set up South Africa's first black law firm and lead the armed wing of the now-governing African National Congress. The first edition of the comic book is in English, but Mandela's foundation plans to translate it into all 11 of South Africa's official languages. Publishing rights will also be made available to other countries. Columbia Shuttle Astronaut Gets Comic Tribute Industry News, Scoop, Friday, November 04, 2005 Indian-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who was killed in the 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster, has become the subject of an incredibly popular comic book in India. A household name in India, Chawla was 41 at the time of the shuttle tragedy. The 32-page comic covers Chawla's childhood, her pursuit of American citizenship, and her accomplishments as an astronaut. Her 1997 space flight was the first by an Indian-born woman. Said Padmini Mirchandani of India Book House, "We printed 10,000 copies and it normally takes six months to sell,'' she said. Mirchandani said Indians around the world have bought copies over the Web and most stores in India have sold out their stocks, prompting the company to start a second printing. The comic, priced at 30 rupees ($0.67), is the first of the Indian Amar Chitra Katha series - which usually retells mythological or historical tales - to chronicle a contemporary Indian. +++++ From Blair Marnell in his ALL THE RAGE Gossip Column at: http://www.SilverBulletComicBooks.com Write to him at: blairm@silverbulletcomicbooks.com RUMOUR BARRIER "I accept that the following material is rumour and gossip, intended to entertain only. I won't repeat the information inside as fact. I understand if I want the truth, I will go to Silver Bulletins. I enter freely with my mind open and my blinkers off." Now, on to the rumours . . . [NOTE: this column may be slightly edited for language. - D.L.] Only The Dead Can Hear Me By Blair Marnell Welcome back to another edition of ATR. It's the Eve before All Hallows, where even the Rage gives way to Terror. Or Horror if you prefer. Read on... Please, Don't Feed The Zombies Steve Niles is writing a new 48 page one-shot for Boom! Studios called Fear The Dead: A Zombie Survivor's Journal. As the title suggests, the book will be "guidebook of the undead" as told by one of the few remaining humans. Niles' narrative will tie together pinups and artwork from a number of different artists, including John Bolton, Guy Davis, Kieron Dwyer, Tom Mandrake, Eric Powell and Gus Vasquez. Expect this one to hit in January. This Has A "Flesh & Bones" Factor of Nine Out of Ten And Yet The Dead Still Walk We can't have a horror comics column without mentioning The Walking Dead, one of the best books out there, in my opinion. There's been a lot of speculation among TWD fans as of late about the solicitation for issue 25, which simply said, "Everything is different now." The following solicitations have also been sparse and the creative team of TWD has been keeping a pretty tight leash on spoilers. Though the first two pages of issue 25 are online now, and from what I can see, I'd say that we're looking at Morgan Jones and his son Duane, who were last seen in the very first issue of TWD. Now, as for the book's "bold new direction", I have my own theory about what's going to happen, which I stress is only a theory and not a rumor. But if I'm right it could be a SPOILER, so spoiler text below if you really want to read it: I think that Dale's prediction from issue 18 will come to pass... Robert Kirkman, ladies and gents... BUY HIS BOOKS. This Has A "Bite The Hand, Not The Foot!" Factor of Ten Out of Ten Afraid of The Dark Stuart Sayger checked in this week, with update on his creator owned book, Shiver in the Dark: I'm still working on Shiver in the Dark... The next issue is going to be a full color first issue with double the page count. The first three have sold so well for me that it is time to make the jump. I also am itching to get some new Shiver related goodies out. I just made some new buttons and I'm working on having a new T-shirt... this one will come in girlie sizes too (Now you don't have to ask me any more if I'm making baby sizes! Just one problem. I've been asked to work on so many other projects that I've found it hard to find time to get back to Shiver! I've been busy producing art for several sets of the DC comics card game "VS" and I'm also the new penciler and inker for the Bionicle comic based on that LEGO toys. ...And just yesterday I agreed to draw some wallpaper for cell phones! if you want Batman by me on your phone, your opportinity is coming! To make it easier to keep up with all my projects, I now have my own messageboards through BUZZSCOPE.... visit my boards! As always, I'm still traveling doing a lot of conventions. I should attend about 17 or 18 shows in 2006... This Has A "Dark Designs" Factor of Nine Out of Ten Masters of The House Those of you who have the Showtime Cable network may have had a chance to catch Masters of Horror, a weekly series one hour movies by noted Horror directors like Dario Argento, John Carpenter, Joe Dante, Stuart Gordon and John Landis. IDW is publishing the comic adaptation, which will debut in December. Each episode of MoH will be adapted into two issues of the comic, with rotating creative teams. Chris Ryall and Jeremy Haun will take the first two issues, which will adapt last Friday's debut episode, Incident On and Off a Mountain Road (which was directed by Don Coscarelli). Ivan Brandon (NYC Mech) and Dennis Calero will take over on issue three and adapt Stuart Gordon's Dreams In The Witch House, which is in turn, based on a H.P. Lovecraft story... This Has A "Sinister Forces" Factor of Eight Out of Ten Down The Drain C.B. Cebulski is making the most of his recent return to comics. He's writing a new Marvel Mangaverse miniseries and his creator owned Vampire epic, Drain has found a home at Image Comics, as Cebulski elaborates: When I decided I was going to come back to comics, I had two properties, Drain and Shiki, that I was going to be shopping around. And I was meticulous in my research, I looked into the deals that all the publishers out there had to offer, from the smaller publishers to the larger ones. It seems to me that there was always a give and take with most publishers, where for instance, if you wanted a page rate you had to give up some of the ownership, or if you wanted ownership you had to give up some of your film rights. There was always some kind of back and forth. I just wanted to own it completely and have complete creative control. That was something a lot of publishers want people to give up. I've heard some horror stories about that... After researching all of the deals, Image, who I've worked with in the past, was the best one. I knew Erik Stephenson, but I didn't know Eric Larsen, so we arranged a meeting out in San Diego. Eric couldn't make it unfortunately; (he stopped by briefly at the end). So it was me, Erik Stephenson and Brett Evans. We just went out, talked comics for a few hours over beer and I showed them the stuff. I told them what I needed from Image and they told me what they wanted and everything just seemed to line up. It was an easy decision for me. The origin for Drain came from fear: I've always been afraid of bats. When I was growing up in Connecticut, there was a barn on our property that was infested with bats. When you're younger, it's kind of fun to test a bat's radar sense by bouncing tennis balls off a wall. But then at one point, one of the bats came down low and got stuck in the hair of one of the girls we were hanging out with. It freaked all of us out. "Oh my God! Bats are actually dangerous!" So, for some reason in my mind, I became convinced that the Bats in our barn were vampire bats. Which they weren't, of course. But from that point on I've had an ingrained fear of bats. I used to hate to read about vampires because of that. But flash forward several years, a friend of mine got me addicted to the Ann Rice books, which helped me overcome my fear of bats. I became kind of saturated by the whole vampire culture. From classic to goth, to trend or tribal... There was so much you could do with vampires and I wanted to explore some of the essence of vampires that hasn't been explored yet and put my own stamp on it. The story takes apart a bunch of different genres and puts them back together again. It originally starts out as a Samurai/Ninja period story in Japan, about Chinatsu, a female ninja who gets involved in a conflict with another group of ninja and she is infected... bitten by a vampire. This is her story, how someone from that era, with more traditional Japanese beliefs (who hadn't even been exposed to foreigners yet) how she deals with vampirism, her purpose in life and how she travels from era to era, country to country, experiencing life through the eyes of an immortal. All of the art is completely done by Sana Takeda. She does layouts, pencils and then paints them digitally. The book is an ongoing, tentatively for Spring of next year. We've got a few issues in the can already, so we're well ahead of the curve. This Has A "Life Everlasting" Factor of Ten Out of Ten Let The Luv Shine In Keith Giffen and Benjamin Roman are coming out with I Luv Halloween v2 next March from TOKYOPOP. I'm told that the story involves wanton destruction by a horde of the undead as they rampage through the city... all of which is completely ignored by the main characters as they continue their hunt for candy... This Has A "Poopocalypse Now" Factor of Eight Out of Ten Blood Runs Cold I'm told that there will be a trade paperback collecting Grant Morrison and Mark Millar's run on Vampirella early next year. From what I've heard, the collection will also include an early Mark Millar Vampirella story called "A Cold Day In Hell", which places Vampi in an arctic environment for the first time... This Has An "Eternal Nightmare" Factor of Nine Out of Ten More To Speak Of Just a quick follow up to last week's Speakeasy story. Frank Espinosa confirmed that Rocketo will be moving to Image after issue six. He also mentioned that Image will be putting out the trade for the first six issues. Additionally, I've received confirmation that Hero@Large will be ending with issue 4. Also of note, Chuck Satterlee from Chimaera Studios refuted a rumor that previously appeared here: "We have not left Speakeasy at this time and unless someone offers me personally a much better deal, I am staying if Adam will have me." This Has A "Heard It Through The Pipeline" Factor of Seven Out of Ten And that's a wrap. Happy Halloween! Blair PS If anyone has any rumors, stories or news to share, please email me at blairm@silverbulletcomicbooks.com. Thanks to everyone who has been sending stuff in. It's greatly appreciated. +++++ Items found in Rich Johnston's "Lying in the Gutters" column at http://www.comicbookresources.com/columns/ which are all rumors or gossip so take any of it with a BIG bucket of salt! Rich was chosen Best Comics Journalist in the 2003 Usenet Squiddy Awards, his fourth consecutive win. Write to Rich at: richjohnston@gmail.com Rich heard rumors . . . Speakeasy Comics, has been sold to an as-yet unnamed entertainment company for big cash. Adam Fortier is staying as CEO of the company, which I presume was part of the deal. The new money will allow Speakeasy to expand into licensed properties, merchandising and provide opportunity for big name creators - guaranteed success bringers - but who won't work purely for post- publication payment. After-The-One-Year-Gap revelations - it appears, "Hawkman" is no more. The title will be renamed... "Hawkgirl." "Action Comics" remains the same. "Superman" is getting cancelled. "Adventures Of Superman" is then being renamed "Superman," keeping the AoS numbering. I think. While "Superman Confidential" starts afresh from issue 1. And two Batbooks are getting cancelled outright. Remember, we are also still waiting for official confirmation on LITG-mentioned-first, "Shadowpact," "Blue Beetle," "OMAC," "Batman Confidential," "Superman Confidential," "Wonder Woman" restarting, "Batwoman" (no, not with Gail Simone), "Brave And The Bold," "Atom," "Freedom Fighters," "Checkmate," "Creeper," "Shazam," "Ion," "Martian Manhunter," "Spectre," "Secret Six," "Herculoids" and "Terra" Avatar are publishing a Jason Vs Jason comic, featuring the character from "Friday the 13th" facing off against the character from "Jason X" - the far future self. Two issues, written and drawn by Mike Wolfer ("Strange Killings"), starting in February. Rob Liefeld's recent work on "Teen Titans" with Gail Simone was initially seen as a first foot in the door at DC and a chance for Liefeld to expand certain DC properties in ways that he has been successful with in the past. But this week, something changed and Liefeld was suddenly off any Titans project and DC as a whole. _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------- COMICS OBSCURA Mike Curtis shandafa@cyberback.com [COMICS OBSCURA are facts Mike Curtis has dug out during his 30 years of collecting Superman and writing about comics. His website for his comic imprint is www.shandafantasyarts.net ] SOMEHOW I HAVE TROUBLE IN THE HERO BUSINESS Former football star Mike Henry thought his film career looked great when he was signed to be the new movie TARZAN. The producers starred him in three films shot back to back before he was bit by his film Cheetah and quit the role (and the TV series to follow). Mike couldn't find much work since his films hadn't even been released yet and posed for pictures as BATMAN in an unsuccessful bid by DC to produce a TV series much as they had SUPERMAN in the 1950's. That didn't fly either, and Mike had to wait some time before getting a regular role as the son of Sheriff Buford T. Justice (played by Jackie Gleason) in the SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT movies. _________________________________________________________________ Thanks for subscribing to the Comic Book Network Electronic Magazine (CBEM) --------------------------->Disclaimer<--------------------------- This is an ANNOUNCE only mailing list, only the Editor can send messages to the list. No one else has access to the subscriber list. 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