Tag: heavy metal

Shopping for something unconventional this Black Friday? In an interesting coincidence, several crowdfunding campaigns to revive / reprint well-known comic books launched within the same month, and they're all competing for Kickstarter dollars at the same time. If you recall...

Entertainment Weekly reports that artist Bernie Wrightson passed away on Saturday from his long battle with brain cancer, according to an announcement his wife gave on his website. He was 68. Wrightson, along with writer Len Wein, co-created the DC...

Variety reports that Heavy Metal and Weta Workshop's Pukeko Pictures are adapting the Image Comics series Rat Queens into an animated TV series. The comic (by Kurtis Weibe and Roc Upchurch) describes itself as a "sass-and-sorcery" story, centering on...

Cartoon Brew reports the passing of Jimmy Murakami at age 80, director of 1986's animated feature film When the Wind Blows and an instrumental figure in the development of Ireland's animation industry. Murakami was born in 1933 in San...