Creating comics (or aspiring to create comics) can be a solitary way to spend your time.
Local comic creator Tom Bonin is hosting a regular monthly meetup for local (and visiting) comic creators to get together, network, share ideas and just enjoy being into comics. The meetups are at The Wig & Pen on the first Sunday of the month at 2pm.
Check out Tom's Blogspot here.
Check out the meetup Facebook page here or search Facebook for Canberra Comic Meetups.
2009 is over. No point on dwelling on it, unless of course we are talking about comics!
The top selling graphic novels for 2009 makes for some interesting reading. The number of older volumes, and first volumes of long running series that are still ranking shows many new readers are trying comics and graphic novels for the first time.
Alan Moore's influential 1980s masterworks Watchmen and V for Vendetta take the first and fourth spots on the back of the release of the feature films.
The 80s was a great time for influential American comics, it also saw Frank Miller putting his stamp on Batman with Batman The Dark Knight Returns. 20 years on and this story is still popular, taking the number 10 spot on the 2009 bestsellers list.
The comics in the rest of the top 10 for 2009 were much newer, in fact, all of seven places belong to the creation of just one man, Joss Whedon!
That's right, all five volumes of the Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight comic - expanding on the seven seasons of the TV series - made the top 10, outselling manga and super heroes across the board. Whedon gets two more top 10 spots with BOTH volumes of the Serenity comic series, based on his cult favourite space western Firefly TV Series and Serenity Movie.
While manga titles - comics from japan - didn't feature in the top 10, they populate the top 100 with such regularity that if you combine sales of all volumes of a single series, Naruto would take the number one spot!
Other top selling manga titles include Death Note and Bleach.
Most of the rest of the paperback list is filled with titles from DC Comics Mature Readers fiction imprint Vertigo demonstrating the Canberra comic reader's pallet extends well beyond super heroes and cartoon characters.
The hard cover list also makes some interesting reading with the graphic novel adaptations of Pride & Prejudice and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz both muscling in on spots usually held by super heroes!
I know this is really really late, but here are some photos from this year's OtakuFest cosplay contest in October.
It was great fun with some people putting a huge effort into their outfits and some travelling long distances to join us.
All capped off with Madman anime screening until midnight! Click here to see the photos.
If you have any more photos of the day that you'd like to add to the collection, please forward them on to us.
On sale 17th July. Stocks will be limited!
Every copy of Blackest Night #1 will come with a free Black Lantern Ring!
(this is a toy plastic ring and will not grant the wearer any ability to raise the dead or any control over otherwise raised dead.)
Throughout the decades, death has plagued the DC Universe and taken the lives of heroes and villains alike. But to what end?
As the War of Light rages on, the prophecy of the Blackest Night descends upon us, with Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps at the center of it all. Start a standing order today so you don't miss this 8-issue epic taking the DCU beyond the grave!
And be sure to put your name down for all of the tie in issues as well so you get the full story!
Fallout Toy Works
5 monthly issues, starts September 2009. Click here to start your standing order now!
A brilliant young robot maker risks his entire company for his factories newly produced android named Tiffany, but when his new concept fails to work fixing her soon becomes his greatest passion and potentially his own destruction.
Inspired by the ideas and lyrics of Fall Out Boy, Fallout Toy Works brings the magic of innocence to life as both a toy maker and his invention set about learning the true secrets of life.
This is THE product for all of the collectors out there.
A limited edition 12 inch single vinyl picture disc record featuring My Chemical Romance covering Bob Dylan's Desolation Row from the Watchmen soundtrack. Due for release in mid March (one week after the Watchmen movie opens.)
Let me go over that again:
- My Chemical Romance
- Covering Bob Dylan's Desolation Row
- 12 inch single vinyl record
- Picture disc featuring the Comedian's bloody Smiley face and Rorschach
- from the Watchmen movie soundtrack
- Limited Edition (edition size TBA)
Impact Comics will be stocking this limited piece of vinyl history in the making, but supplies are limited so orders will be filled on a first in first served basis. Watchmen 12 inch single Picture Disc $32.99 inc. GST
Due for release mid March 2009 contact us today to order yours.
Part One: 1910 - $14.60 IN STOCK NOW!
With all of the recent talk about Watchmen, it is easy to forget that Alan Moore has other comics.
The long awaited League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III: Century starts Friday 8th of May (this week) with Part one: 1910.
Now working with a new publisher, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill are making the latest chapter of the League in a new way. Each issue will be longer than a regular comic book, and there will several months between each issue so you have plenty of time to pour over the fine detailed references this will no doubt be filled to the brim with.
If you haven't jumped on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen train you can start here.
Start a standing order today so you don't miss a single issue!
DC Comics have made it easy for you to get a little taste of the most talked about graphic novel of the year!
Before you go and see the movie in March, be sure to get your hands on the ground breaking graphic novel that started it all. Head over to ReadWatchmen.com and you can read the entire first chapter, read teases of the other chapters, download wallpaper for you computer and sooo much more!
Play the MinuteMen Arcade game in Old School 8 bit side scrolling style at www.minutemenarcade.com
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The new President of the USA is a total comic book geek!
Barack Obama has let the whole world know that he loves Spider-Man and Conan comics! And now comics love him!
As you've no doubt heard Barack Obama appeared in amazing Spider-Man #583!
And as the Canberra Times reported, fans love this comic! We are now taking orders for the5th printing of the Spider-Man comic that features Obama on the cover, don't miss out this time! contact us today to get a copy reserved of the the cool FIFTH printing that features Barack on the cover when it is released Friday 13th of February!
Check out our top selling 100 Graphic Novels, Trade Paperbacks and manga of 2008.
Find out what book was #1
(It was Watchmen!)
But What was #2 I wonder??!!
On shelves Friday 9th of January
Buffy's Back on schedule!
With a story written by TV writer Jane Espenson(Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica) and starring Harmony, the bubblegum cheerleader from Sunnydale High whose ambitions include blood sucking and stardom.
On shelves Friday 28th November
Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá return with a story as American as semiautomatic weapons.
The Umbrella Academy has saved the world, but the house they were raised in is destroyed. One member is bedridden, the side of her head held together with tape; and another has lost her voice, the source of her power. Now that they’ve fulfilled their destiny, does the Umbrella Academy have any future at all?
The Umbrella Academy returns for a second six-issue series -- Dallas, where we put the term -- hero -- to the test.
* 32 pages No ads!
* The acclaimed series from Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá returns! 2008 Eisner Award winner -- Best Limited Series!
If you had a standing order for the first series of Umbrella Academy, you will automatically have a copy of this new series put aside for you, drop in soon to collect it!
If you haven't got a standing order it isn't too late!
There is also a very limited number of variant cover copies available with art by comics legend Jim Lee!
Also available UMBRELLA ACADEMY APOCALYPSE SUITE TPB
Pixar story supervisor Ted Mathot created a huge stir with the release of Rose and Isabel, the two part tale of two sisters discovering an amazing and disturbing side of themselves when their brothers' letters stop coming from the front lines during the American civil war.
Well Ted has more tales to tell!
Cora Part 1 picks up years later. The war is over and Cora is starting to feel that same restlessness that swept her mother and aunt of for an adventure in Rose and Isabel.
I'm not going to spoil this for you, Cora Book 1 is in stock now, full colour for $28.95. contact us to reserve your copy today!
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Creating comics (or aspiring to create comics) can be a solitary way to spend your time.
2009 is over. No point on dwelling on it, unless of course we are talking about comics!
The comics in the rest of the top 10 for 2009 were much newer, in fact, all of seven places belong to the creation of just one man, Joss Whedon!
While manga titles - comics from japan - didn't feature in the top 10, they populate the top 100 with such regularity that if you combine sales of all volumes of a single series, Naruto would take the number one spot!
I know this is really really late, but here are some photos from this year's OtakuFest cosplay contest in October.
Fallout Toy Works
The new President of the USA is a total comic book geek!
On shelves Friday 9th of January
On shelves Friday 28th November
Otakufest 08 cosplay Photos!
Pixar story supervisor Ted Mathot created a huge stir with the release of Rose and Isabel, the two part tale of two sisters discovering an amazing and disturbing side of themselves when their brothers' letters stop coming from the front lines during the American civil war.
