CNN Money has done a spotlight on Ariell Johnson, the owner of Amalgam Comics and Coffeehouse in Philadelphia. Johnson is the first black woman on the East Coast to own and operate a comic book store. There’s only five comic shops owned by African-Americans in the country according to their article. Definitely read the article and check out the video above.
For their New Years celebration CNN got into a Broadway sort of mind having the Green Goblin from Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark abducting Anderson Cooper who was hosting for the channel. Check out the video below of the skit as well as the behind-the-scenes.
It’s worth watching just to see Kathy Griffin mock it all.
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Flashpoint has hit the stores and the tubes is lit up with discussion over DC comic’s big event. Who’s planning on picking it up?
Around the Blogs:
Kotaku – What’s the Batman: Arkham City Comic Hinting At? – The comic series which debuts this week bridges the gap between the two video games.
Salon – How I fell for the dark side of Marvel Comics – How one person come to become a fanboy. What was your first comic book?
Bleeding Cool – Geoff Johns On The Front Page Of CNN. And They Don’t Like It – My mission is to now get him to say “superstar” on video.
Film Buff Online – A Marvel Cinematic Universe Timeline – So awesome…
Spinoff Online – Fox Cancels Human Target, Passes On Locke & Key – Kind of surprised on the pass of Locke & Key, where’s the rush to find the next The Walking Dead?
ICv2 – ‘Spider-Man’ Turns on the Lights – First injury in 3…2…1…
Bleeding Cool – Could Clark Kent Be About To Defect To Marvel? – I can see him as a young Dr. Strange, how about you?
IGN – This Week In Digital Comics – 5/11/11 – Check out this week’s latest digital comic releases.
Around the Tubes Reviews:
Bleeding Cool – FF #3 And Hellboy: Being Human
Complex – Flashpoint #1
IGN – Flashpoint #1
Bleeding Cool – Journey Into Mystery #623 And Flash #12
The Adventures of Unemployed Man created by Erich Origen and Gan Golan got some mainstream coverage courtesy of CNN.
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Stan Lee’s hand has been dipped deep through 71 years of comic book and entertainment history. On Thursday CNN ran a piece on this legendary person who helped create and shape so many characters that we know and love.
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Yesterday we ran an editorial slamming CBS news correspondent Christina Ruffini over her slanted and rude coverage of Baltimore Comic Con. Well, color us happy that the Atlanta local NBC affiliate re-ran a very positive piece from CNN by Eve Chen about this past weekend’s Dragon Con.
While Ruffini in her piece for CBS made fun of the individuals having fun and dressing up in Baltimore, Chen instead took the interesting parallels between Dragon Con and that same weekends’ Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game.
The two events ran simultaneously, and while the football game brought in 20,000 attendees, Dragon Con was expected to draw upwards of 70,000.
Chen realizes there’s not much difference between an individual decked out in their school colors and those as their favorite character and also the two hobbies aren’t exclusive.
Where else can you find a place full of sci-fi and fantasy fans next to beer-guzzling football fans, all decked out in their school colors? It’s like everyone’s in costume for the weekend.
The days of the stereotypical geek are over. Many people who play D&D or immerse themselves in video games also are sports fans, participating in fantasy leagues, attending games and cheering on their favorite teams.
“The truth is, most of Dragon*Con attendees have a college football preference. It’s not the old style stereotype of someone who’s reading comic books and avoiding sports or not caring about sports. It’s someone who’s reading comic books while they’re watching sports. I’ve had a running e-mail chain for weeks with the chairman of DragonCon about ACC versus SEC,” said Dragon*Con spokesman Dan Carroll.
Nice to see at least one media outlet get it, and get it right.
I was there….
The day started off helping out the the women’s caucus’ morning event. Some great speakers but the highlights were Howard Dean and Michelle Obama. There were some Hillary protesters as well as some pro-life protesters as well. It was a nice event and I was glad I was there to see Michelle in person and its always great to see Howard Dean speak.
After that we grabbed lunch as a staff and headed off to Invesco field about 3pm. You take a bus to the field and then go through security. It was actually pretty quick considering. We then spent the hours waiting for the highlight of Obama who knocked it out of the park. The energy was fantastic and it was a great time. The trip back was a bit of a mess but I lucked out and found my way on a shuttle back to downtown.
As far as Obama though, well done future Mr. President…..
There’ll be more videos up this week, but….
I’m off to the Penny Arcade Expo! From a political convention to a video game one. Those posts start tomorrow.
Photos:
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A pretty chill day. I decided to head in to the city and just walk around for most of the afternoon. I met my boss Delegate Brian Moran at the Big Tent and helped Jerome Armstrong take him around to meet some bloggers. I then headed over to the convention center to watch the speeches. The place was packed, can’t imagine what Thursday will be like.
After I headed to the CNN grill and watched the CEO of Google and Bobby Kennedy Jr. treated really rudely by CNN staff which seems to be their m.o. at the place (though their van out on 14th street they were great).
Overall a relax and fun day, just getting ready for the craziness that is Thursday.
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A couple of weeks back CNN online posted an article taking a look at the comic book scare of the 1950, when some claimed comic books were corrupting our youth. A book, The Ten-Cent Plague: The Comic-Book Scare and How it Changed America by David Hadju, looks at this time of hysteria in American history and the Senate hearings it produced.
I recently purchased a copy and will be covering it down the road once I’m finished or if anything of interest pops up.
You can read about this part in American history at this Wikipedia article.
With comic book movies starting to open up the entertainment coverage focuses more on that forgotten form of story telling. CNN covers one of the artistic innovators, Jack Kirby.
It’s a decent article giving a nice background as to who he was and what he did. You can read the full article at http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/books/05/02/jack.kirby/index.html
