io9 (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Not content with being a Comics Destroyer (or accidentally creating The Dark Knight's Bat Pod), artist Paul Pope is now moving into the role of fashion designer with the new line from DKNY, NYC 2089.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Pop Candy (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
I'm not a very fashion-forward person, but if all of these comic-book artists keep making clothes, this aspect of my personality may change. First we had Fables cover artist James Jean with his wonderful (though incredibly expensive) designs for Prada....
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Last Thursday Paul Pope celebrated both his birthday and the launch of his “2089″ clothing line for DKNY Jeans at THE HAPPY CORP headquarters in Soho for a comics/fashiony bash. Guests included Dean Haspiel, Molly Crabapple, Seth Kushner, Arlen Schumer, Josh Bernstein (Royal Flush), Lindsey Reiman & Anna Van Slee (Devil’s Due), Michel Fiffe, Laura [...]
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
DKNY Jeans has launched a sub-site for the line of clothing comics creator Paul Pope designed for them, DKNY 2089. It includes some of his sketchbook as well as an “inspiration” section with art by Moebius and Jack Kirby, among others. Pope talks about the clothes on his blog: The 2089 line has hit the stores and [...]
PulpHope (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
The 2089 line has hit the stores and is now available anyplace DKNY and DKNY Jeans clothing are sold. Internationally, an alternate 2089 line is available through Club 21 and features additional style and prints not seen in the North American 2089 line, including a pair of black jeans with a silkscreened grasshopper print. I did four window displays for four separate Asian markets (Hong Kong, Shanghai,...
B o n e v i l l e (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
I’m still waiting on a firm in store date for RASL #3, but Oct. 8th or the 15th are currently in the running. It depends on when it arrives at Diamond Comics Distribution, and then when they can turn it around. I’ll check in with them on Monday… Meanwhile, Paul Pope always has interesting things up [...]
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Every day this month I’m going to feature a current comic book art “star,” someone whose work I absolutely love. I’m mostly going to try to keep from the biggest names as much as possible, because, really, do I need to talk more about the awesomeness of JH Williams, Frank Quitely and Darwyn Cooke? Here’s [...]
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 16/09/2008
Because the hate thing wound up outnumbering the love, and that’s not right. Well, that and it didn’t sit well with some of the bloggers I said I didn’t like, and I feel bad about that. Who knew that people don’t like being told that you make them hate comics? Took me by surprise. Really, [...]
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA (MARKET WIRE) Omnitrol Networks announced today that it has entered a strategic teaming agreement with Canada's leading Auto-ID integrator Ahearn & Soper. "With this agreement we intend to offer leading edge, highly cost-effective deployments of RFID and Barcode-based solutions to Canadian enterprises," said Paul Pope, vice-president and General Manager at Ahearn & Soper.
JoshSpear.com (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Kidrobot has just dropped word of their releases for October, and the theme is dark. With toys spanning sex, death, nightmares, zombies and psychos, there’s officially something for everyone. The month opens and closes with 8-inch Dunnys: the kickoff figure is a dystopian Dunny by Australia’s Jeremyville on October 2nd. A week later, Kidrobot tips [...]
io9 (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
In the Mars of the future, almost everything is automated - so much so that a class system has arisen for robots, or Meks. The big scary mek above? That's a supermek, as created by Feroze. Under the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
PulpHope (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Jack Kirby, born today, would've been 91 years old right now. He believed the Earth was visited by flying saucers. He was also the king of comics.
PulpHope (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
The THB heirarchy of synthetics goes like this: tools, machines, robots, meks, supermeks, super-com-meks, and finally, megameks. This is a supermek , courtesy of the incredible Feroze .
Journalista (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
“Why should we trust our Elvis Presleys? After all, they all seem to want to be Colonel Parkers.” - Rich Johnston Slow news day, it seems. Here’s what I found… Above the Fold [Top Story] Publishers Weekly reports that bookstore sales fell by 7.1% in June, breaking a five-month growth streak. [Publishing] Franklin Harris looks at the history [...]
