Newsarama has confirmed the rumor that has been going around for a while now that CrossGen is in serious financial trouble. Yesterday, CrossGen laid off of up to 25 employees, from both the creative and business side. They also restructured their much heralded salary program. UPDATED with information about the wide spread layoffs , including comic book legend George Perez. Well,...

Sandman is and was a big deal. Back when it started, right up to when it ended, there was nothing like it and there hasn't been since. That is until Vertigo released The Sandman: Endless Nights last week. It's a collection of seven all new Sandman stories which marks the first time Neil Gaiman has returned to the characters in quite a while. CNN thought it was worth a mention....

George Perez is crazy . That's an incredible undertaking.

09.17.2003 - Wolverine #5

WE REMEMBER JOHNNY CASH 1932-2003 An American Icon. He was the Man In Black. Love. God. Murder. The world will not be the same.

09.10.2003 - New X-Men #146

Newsarama has reported that Warner Bros has announced that Christopher Nolan has finally cast the lead role for his in-development Batman film . Christian Bale, of American Psycho and Reign of Fire fame, got the part over current It-Boy Ashton Kutcher. My little Bat-fan heart is all a-twitter. I am excited because Bale is an excellent casting move, I've been a fan of his since 19...

Recieved yesterday in Warren Ellis' e-mail newsletter Bad Signal : *************************** Press release issued today by publisher HarperCollins, New York: "Senior Editor Josh Behar has just acquired rights from Lydia Wills of Writers and Artists to the first novel by best-selling comic book writer Warren Ellis, who has authored two of DC's hottest franchises; The Authority and Tran...

Yesterday it was announced that Ed Brubaker would be leaving scripting chores on Detective Comics , and today we meet the new writer, Andersen Gabrych, an actor whom editor Bob Schreck met at a party who has never had a regular gig in comics. It pays to network. Still Schreck insists that he read much of Gabrych's work, and he's a fine writer. Gabrych will be assisted by artist Pete Woods...

Today The New York Times finally paid homage to Jack Kirby , recgonizing him as the artist that created so many of the characters that are bursting their way through Hollywood. I've always thought that Stan Lee took too much credit for the work he and Kirby did at Marvel in the early days. Kirby drove a lot of the storytelling and I shouldn't need to explain how much of an influence he was...