The Northlake Public Library, about 25 miles from Chicago, want the public’s help to smash illiteracy. And as part of an aggressive campaign to upgrade the library, its collection and its image, they’re hoping to bring an 9′ tall statue of Marvel’s Incredible Hulk to the library as the centerpiece...
With just days remaining in the hugely successful Jonathan Coulton/Greg Pak Code Monkey Save World graphic novel Kickstarter campaign, Pak has laid out some final stretch goals which, if they’re hit, could bring even more content to the fans of the already twice-expanded graphic novel. Currently, the campaign has generated...
With Silence & Co., a new black and white graphic novel, arriving on store shelves later this month, Crystal Productions has released the full-length animatic trailer. The story of a young hitman taking on the world’s most powerful criminal bank, the book is a 176 page, black and white, original...
Just a few minutes ago, Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton announced plans to add a children’s book based on Coulton’s song “The Princess Who Saved Herself” to the ongoing Kickstarter campaign for their upcoming Monkeybrain graphic novel Code Monkey Save World. If the pair can generate another $35,000 in the...
Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa, the writer and artist behind the forthcoming Code Monkey Save World graphic novel from Monkeybrain, will reunite to produce a digital-only children’s book based on Jonathan Coulton’s song “The Princess Who Saved Herself.” The story is being added to the existing Kickstarter campaign for the...
Filmmaker Vlad Yudin has brought together an anticipated graphic novel, tied into a screenplay he’s developing for next year, and came to the Chicago Comic and Entertainment Expo this weekend. The story revolves around Smash, an orphan who’s brought up by a powerful and corrupt man and who finds himself...
With more than $175,000 already generated via the crowdfunding site Kickstarter, Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa’s Code Monkey Save World, the original graphic novel based on the music of Jonathan Coulton, is officially a huge success. Originally designed to generate $39,000 — just enough to put together the comic, which...
Having surpassed their last stretch goal in less than 90 minutes and now sitting comfortably with more than $100,000 more in Kickstarter pledges than they had originally set out to generate, the Code Monkey Save World graphic novel seems to be in pretty good shape. Based on the music of...
Fred Van Lente and Ryan Dunlavey will contribute a story to Code Monkey Save World, the forthcoming graphic novel from Greg Pak, Jonathan Coulton and Takeshi Miyazawa that is being funded via Kickstarter. The book, which has already expanded once and will do so again (to a total of 96...
With a second volume of a planned trilogy on the way from writer Onrie Kompan and artist Giovanni Timpano, the recently-released hardcover edition of Yi Soon Shin: Warrior and Defender is truly a fascinating piece of comics literature. Not only is the book well-written and beautifully-rendered, but it’s accompanied by...
The Last West is the next big project coming from Evan Young and co-creator Lou Iovino. Currently being funded on Kickstarter, the project is a 220-page neo-Western graphic novel that the creators described to ComicBook.com as a Vertigo-style “what-if” comic. The book, set in a world where technological advancement has...
The premise of Michael May and Jason Copland’s Kill All Monsters! is simple and awesome: In a world brought to heel by an attack of enormous monsters, there’s only one hope for humanity: an elite group of soldiers piloting a small number of giant robots to fight them. They Kickstarted...
Jonathan Coulton, Greg Pak and Takeshi Miyazawa’s original graphic novel Code Monkey Save World has been fully funded after less than 12 hours, and is currently sitting at over $45,000 (from their $39,000 goal). The graphic novel was announced at just after 9 a.m. EST this morning, and is set...
Sadly, Marvel is not going back to collect comics previously published under the defunct Epic Comics. But what they are doing, under the name of Epic Collections, is reprinting good-sized stories from the days before trade paperback collections were commonplace, beginning with Iron Man: The Enemy Within, Thor: War of...
On April 23, Judge Dredd: Judge Death will be handed out as part of the annual World Book Night. It will be the first graphic novel ever so recognized. “It’s good to see it, as in too many quarters the comic strip is regarded as an inferior medium,” said Dredd...
