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Archive for June, 2008

Heroes Con 08 - State of the Industry Discussion

By Dollar Bin • Jun 29th, 2008

The Comics Reporter’s Tom Spurgeon moderates what’s sure to be one of the most fascinating conversations of the weekend, in this roundtable discussion featuring artist and Image publisher Erik Larsen, DC Executive Editor Dan Didio, writer/artist Jimmy Palmiotti (COUNTDOWN, JONAH HEX), and writer and Boom! Studios Editor-In-Chief Mark Waid.
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Heroes Con 08 - Rick Spears

By Dollar Bin • Jun 29th, 2008

At the very tail end of Heroes Con 08 Adam and Devin finally earned their chance to sit down (He was sitting. They were actually standing, buy whatever) with Rick Spears, writer of some of their favorite works including Pirates of Coney Island, Repo, and Dead West and ask the tough questions (ie. [...]

 
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Michael Turner 1971-2008

By Kris • Jun 28th, 2008

Michael Turner passes away at 37. After I fired up my news reader tonight and began sifting through many news articles and blog posts, one jumped out at me from Newsarama, WWC: Remembering Michael Turner in Chicago. At first I thought it was an award that Michael Turner won that was being announced at Wizard World [...]



Heroes Con 08 - The New Art Comics

By Dollar Bin • Jun 26th, 2008

From critical favorite his like MAGGOTS and POWR MASTRS, to prominence in influential anthologies like KRAMER’S ERGOT, “art” or “abstract” or “out” comics are pushing boundaries of the avant garde in comics. Join Tom Spurgen of the Comics Reporter as he sits down with Picturebox publisher Dan Nadel, KRAMER’S ERGOT editor Sammy Harkham and [...]

 
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Heroes Con 08 - Frank Cho with Jimmy Palmiotti

By Dollar Bin • Jun 26th, 2008

What could possibly be better than the Dollar Bin getting to interview Frank Cho? How about getting Jimmy Palmiotti to do it for us? As Saturday at Heroes Con 08′ drew to a close, we found Jimmy hanging around Frank’s table and had the opportunity to do just that. We think you’ll enjoy the results!
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Heroes Con 08 - Cemetery Blues

By Dollar Bin • Jun 26th, 2008

Recently at Heroes Con Adam had a chance to speak with the creators of one of his newest favorite titles Cemetery Blues. In this gathering of minds we learn much about Image publishing, the history of Cemetery Blues, the future of Cemetery Blues, and what else we might find from these creative gents.
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X-Men - Manifest Destiny

By Dollar Bin • Jun 25th, 2008

This summer, Ed Brubaker and Matt Fraction begin their run on UNCANNY X-MEN starting with its milestone 500th issue– but what happens next? From a move to San Francisco to the Hellfire Cult and the Sisterhood of Evil Mutants, get all the X-Buzz straight from the horses’ mouths, as it were. Though [...]

 
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Heroes Con 08 - Cliff Chiang

By Dollar Bin • Jun 25th, 2008

Even though we have interviewed him before, Heroes Con 08′ was actually our first time getting to meet artist Cliff Chiang. But with Adam and Brian not content with just recording his panels or sharing a beer with him at post-con events, Cliff was nice enough to take a break from sketching from fans long [...]

 
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Heroes Con 08 - Students of the Unusual

By Dollar Bin • Jun 25th, 2008

Our trip to Heroes Con 08′ would not have been complete without stopping by the Students of the Unusual booth. So on Saturday, Adam and Brian walked over to get the latest scoop from Terry and the gang about their company, contests and upcoming projects.
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Huggles for J. Chris Campbell

By Kris • Jun 25th, 2008

In what some will call a phenomenon and others call signs that the end of existence as we know it something enormously hilarious happened during the successfully proclaimed Heroes Con 2008. Brian and Tre decided to include free swag for the kiddies at the convention: plastic dinosaurs, gum, hard candy (obviously, these guys don’t have kids) and [...]