Tag Archive | "John Romita Jr"

Romita speaks!

Thursday, February 17, 2011

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Good chum of the blog Chris Marshall, host of the weekly Collected Comics Library, has a gem for us – in 2008 he stepped in to record an interview with the great John Romita Jr for Tom Spurgeon‘s The Romita Legacy book and has been given permission to post it online. It isn’t often we [...]

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John Romita Jr does Dredd – and five others who should

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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As some of you may already know Rebellion is making a serious effort to push 2000 AD more in the American market. Despite the fact that the US comics industry has cherry picked a diverse array of writers and artists who served their time on 2000 AD, from Bolland and Ennis to Morrison and Moore [...]

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Kick Ass Trailer

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

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New trailer for Mark Millar/John Romita Jr’s Kick Ass, soon to be a Sun baiting, Daily Mail “ban this filth” headline generating movie from director Matthew Vaughan. Obviously you’re not stupid, so you realise it’s an 18 trailer, adults only, gratuitous swearing and gore throughout. And, rather bizarrely and brilliantly, soundtracked by The Banana Splits. [...]

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Image Comics and the CBLDF – Giving you Liberty

Sunday, September 20, 2009

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(Detail from a Frank Miller CBLDF T-shirt) The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) has been tirelessly fighting censorship and defending the first amendment rights of comic book professionals in the United States for the last 23 years. And the latest CBLDF benefit book is really shaping up to be something of a special event. [...]

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