Zenescope’s popular Grimm Fairy Tales comic books, which feature edgy, violent and sexy versions of popular fables, will be released online as an animated series after the project met its $175,000 funding goal today via popular crowdsourcing site Kickstarter. Kickstarter, which began as a way to give amateurs a leg...
DC Entertainment today announced an aggressive initiative to get their all-ages DC Nation-branded material in front of more eyes, with a new app for tablets and smartphones and an anthology magazine meant for the bookstore and newsstand market. “DC Nation has already proven to be an extremely popular kids’ franchise,” Hank...
The first teaser trailer for Cartoon Network’s upcoming CG-animated Batman series, Beware The Batman, hit the Internet today. The series isn’t due to make its way to TV until 2013, but it’s been in development and teased at conventions for a while, so it’s no surprise that they’ve got footage...
Kevin Smith, the filmmaker behind Clerks and Dogma, has a new book out this week and has been making the rounds this week, doing book signings and podcast appearances at an even higher pace than usual. But it’s on Twitter that he’s surprised fans by announcing that he and the...
The Warner Archive, a print-on-demand DVD service operated by Warner Brothers Home Video which has in the past featured such fanboy-friend films as Steel, Legends of the Superheroes and Doc Savage, has made The Centurions: The Original Miniseries available for purchase at their website. The 1986 cartoon and its toy...
Cartoon Network has DC Nation, and now Disney XD has a Marvel Universe programming block beginning on April 1st, with Ultimate Spider-Man as its centerpiece, according to a press release from Marvel Entertainment. Today at the Television Critics Association Press Tour in Pasadena, California, Gary Marsh, President and Chief Creative Officer of...
Adventure Time, the hit comedy currently gearing up for a third season on Cartoon Network, will be coming to comic stores in February courtesy a new, ongoing comic series from BOOM! Studios. Written by Dinosaur Comics‘s Ryan North and featuring art by Boom! regular Shelli Paroline, the series will present...
Many authors have unreleased work published after they die, but typically for authors known for novels, poetry, plays, etc., it’s more of the same. That’s certainly not the case with American author Flannery O’Connor. Known for her novels Wise Blood, and The Violent Bear it Away as well as her...
Over the course of our pop culture history, there have been projects that have soared, such as Batman: The Animated Series, that seemed to hit on a good combination of timing, packaging and opportunity. In the case of B:TAS, a successful run at the box office for the Batman film...
In reading comic book icon Joe Simon’s book My Life in Comics, there was one line that struck me as encapsulating not only Simon’s residency in New York, which is what the line was referencing, but his status in comics as well. Succinctly and to the point the line reads,...
Press straight from DC about their new, upcoming shows! Have you heard the news? Today Cartoon Network announced not one, but two new shows sure to bring a smile to regular readers of THE SOURCE. Here’s the skinny: MAD MAGAZINE is an animated sketch-comedy series produced by Warner Bros. Animation...
The recently announced stamp honoring humanitarian Mother Teresa will have some interesting company when it is released later this year in August. The United States Postal Service listed Mother Teresa’s commemoration along with another interesting group, those based on the Sunday funnies of the newspaper. Debuting in July 2010, the...
Just like various “very special episodes”, can’t miss events and other TV specials, a Christmas episode of beloved television shows was, for a long time, a staple of the fall TV schedule, and the episode was sometimes repeated year after year during the show’s run. Comic book related shows, of...
Following recent news that IDW Publishing, home to titles such as Dr. Who and several Transformers books, would publish collections of the satirical comic strip Bloom County comes an announcement that another comic strip is on the way to a collected volume near you! Classic comic strip Bringing Up Father...
Zipping into stores near you on August 25th is the buzzworthy video game Batman: Arkham Asylum. Playable on the Playstation 3, XBox 360 and Microsoft Windows, the game has received some good early reviews, even though not that many are published yet, and many are praising the new features of...
