Author: Glenn Hauman
Check the Kickstarter for Ed Dunphy’s “Mongrel: S.O.B.” Graphic Novel
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1941044501/mongrel-sob-graphic-novel
A werewolf stalks the mean streets of Chicago, seeking vengeance in this full-color horror graphic novel.
Souvenir Book
http://www.comic-con.org/cci/souvenir-book
Information on Comic-Con International’s 2013 Souvenir Book, including our anniversary celebrations and how to submit art and articles to the book. The deadline for submissions is April 19, 2013.
Carmine Infantino: 1925-2013
Carmine Infantino, the legendary artist, editor, and co-creator of the Black Canary, the Barry Allen Flash, Elongated Man, Deadman, Human Target, and Batgirl, and onetime publisher of DC Comics has passed away at the age of 87.
Carmine was born in his family’s apartment in Brooklyn, NY, on May 24, 1925. He started working for comics packager Harry A. Chesler during his freshman year of high school at the School of Industrial Art. His early career included stints on Airboy, The Heap, Johnny Thunder, the Golden-Age Green Lantern and Flash, and the Justice Society of America.
In 1956, Julius Schwartz teamed Carmine with Robert Kanigher to attempt to revive superheroes by creating a new version of the Flash in Showcase #4, an event which marked a beginning of the Silver Age of Comics. Carmine designed the streamlined look of the series, down to the familiar red and yellow costume. He also had famous runs on Adam Strange and Batman, ushering in the “New Look” in Detective Comics #327, complete with yellow oval around the Bat-symbol on his chest.
In late 1966/early 1967, Carmine was tasked by Irwin Donenfeld with designing covers for the entire DC line. Stan Lee learned of this and approached Carmine with a $22,000 offer to move to Marvel. DC Publisher Jack Liebowitz confirmed that DC could not match the offer, but instead promoted Carmine to the position of art director. When DC was sold to Kinney National Company in 1967, Infantino was promoted to editorial director, where he made artists Joe Orlando, Joe Kubert and Mike Sekowsky editors. New talents such as artist Neal Adams and writer Dennis O’Neil were brought into the company, and in 1970, Carmine signed on Marvel Comics’ star artist and storytelling collaborator, Jack Kirby, to a DC Comics contract.
Carmine was made DC’s publisher in early 1971, during a time of declining circulation for the company’s comics, and he attempted a number of changes. In an effort to raise revenue, he raised the cover price of DC’s comics from 15 to 25 cents, simultaneously raising the page-count by adding reprints and new backup features.In January 1976, Warner Communications replaced Carmine with magazine publisher Jenette Kahn, and he returned to freelance work, doing Spider-Woman, Star Wars, and Nova for Marvel and numerous stories for the Warren family of comics magazines. He returned to DC in 1981 on the Flash, Supergirl, Red Tornado, Dial “H” For Hero, and the Batman syndicated newspaper strip.
In 2004, he sued DC for rights to characters he alleged to have created while he was a freelancer for the company, including Kid Flash, Iris West, Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang, Mirror Master, Gorilla Grodd, the Elongated Man, and Batgirl. He wrote and contributed to two books about his life and career: The Amazing World of Carmine Infantino and Carmine Infantino: Penciler, Publisher, Provocateur. He appeared at conventions promoting these books up to the end of 2012.
Carmine was often quoted as saying his favorite character was Detective Chimp.
He won numerous awards over the years, including the National Cartoonists Society Award in 1958 for Best Comic Book and eleven Alley Awards, plus a special Alley Award in 1969 for being the person “who exemplifies the spirit of innovation and inventiveness in the field of comic art”.
The 2013 Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament Winner Is…
…well, actually, there are a bunch of winners.
Looking at out server logs, we see that thousands of people have looked at the hundreds of nominated comics– we’ve counted over eighty thousand outgoing clicks over the last month, which we hope have turned into hundreds of new readers for each strip. We’ve gotten reports of lots of people discovering new webcomics, and creators have been telling us of traffic spikes as people do archive runs.
Then there’s the big winner of the contest, the Hero Initiative . Thanks to you, you’ve raised almost $4000 dollars for the organization. To give you an idea of the voting, here are the not quite complete funds raised for each webcomic:
A Redtail’s Dream Total $243.25
Ava’s Demon Total $525.00
Badnik Total $26.00
Bird Boy Total $25.00
Bittersweet Candy Bowl Total $1,075.00
Boumeries Total $3.00
Commander Kitty Total $171.00
Dominic Deegan Total $20.00
Earthsong Total $20.00
El Goonish Shive $2.50
Girls with Slingshots Total $11.00
Grrl Power Total $154.00
Homestuck Total $7.40
In His Likeness Total $20.00
Inhuman Total $7.00
LaSalle’s Legacy Total $17.00
Little Guardians Total $10.00
Modest Medusa Total $23.00
Namesake Total $3.00
Nerdoid Picture Diart Total $6.00
NIMONA! Total $0.50
Not a villain Total $21.00
Paranatural Total $11.10
Quantum Vibe $2.50
Questionable Content Total $51.00
Rusty & Company Total $10.00
Sakana Total $0.56
Sandra and Woo Total $416.50
Scary Go Round Total $1.00
Selkie Total $10.00
Shadowbinders Total $10.00
Simone and Ajax Total $100.00
Snow by Night Total $100.00
Table Titans Total $1.00
Twokinds Total $20.00
Unsounded Total $118.00
Unsounded and Paranatural – divide it equally Total $5.00
Weregeek Total $30.00
Widdershins Total $10.00
Will Save World for Gold Total $26.00
XKCD $50.00
Again, we thank all of the fans who voted and donated.
But the final winner of the contest, the last strip standing… making up a huge deficit at the end with $648 to $105.50 in paid votes, making the final score 2238-1018… the winner of the 2013 Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament is Bittersweet Candy Bowl !
Congratulations to everyone who played along, thank you all for voting, and don’t forget to check back in a few weeks when we start to take nominations for May Mayhem– the 2013 NSFW Webcomics Tournament, benefiting the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund !
Here’s a quick look back at the brackets…
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Related articles
- Mix March Madness 2013 Webcomics Tournament Round 1! Vote Now! (comicmix.com)
- Announcing Mix March Madness 2013 Seeding Round! (comicmix.com)
- 2013 Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament Nominations Are Now Open! (comicmix.com)
- Vote Now in Mix March Madness 2013 Webcomics Tournament Round 2! (comicmix.com)
- Cast Your Vote in Round 3 of the Mix March Madness 2013 Webcomics Tournament! (comicmix.com)
The 2013 Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament Finals: Sandra and Woo vs. Bittersweet Candy Bowl!
It’s taken all month, but after seven rounds of voting and over $3000 of donations, we’re down to the last two contestants in the 2013 Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament— Sandra and Woo
vs. Bittersweet Candy Bowl
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We received just shy of $720 dollars worth of votes for the Hero Initiative in the last round, with donations breaking down as follows:
| Title | Cash | Votes |
| A Redtail’s Dream Total | $115.75 | 463 |
| Ava’s Demon Total | $185.25 | 741 |
| Bittersweet Candy Bowl Total | $150 | 600 |
| Sandra and Woo Total | $268.5 | 1074 |
| Grand Total | 719.5 | 2878 |
The huge donation allowed Sandra and Woo to pull ahead in a neck-and-neck battle with Ava’s Demon, while letting Bittersweet Candy Bowl pad its lead against A Redtail’s Dream. Now it’s down to the final battle!
As always, we’re letting you support your favorite strips by paying for additional votes, with your money going to charity. Simply click on the Donate button below, and during checkout, click on “Which comic are you donating for?” and tell us who you’re voting for. The price for the final round is going up to 50¢ a vote, with a minimum of two votes purchased at a time. All proceeds from paid votes will go to the Hero Initiative , an organization that helps comic book creators in need. At the close of the round, we’ll add the paid votes to the totals and announce the winners who move on to the brackets. (And yes, your donations to Hero are tax deductible.)
Here are the updated brackets. Don’t forget to look at the brackets for Bradbury, Kubert, Sendak, and Washington divisions to see how we got this far…
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Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.
Voting ends at 9 PM EDT Saturday night, which is 6 PM PDT, so if you’re at WonderCon, make sure you vote early!
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Monday Mix-Up: Grandpa reads a different story…
Click here to view the embedded video.
Guess we got lucky that Grandpa liked S. Morgenstern instead of George R.R. Martin, eh?
Only a few more days left until Peter Falk wrecks Ben Savage’s childhood even more…
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This is just for testing purposes. Don’t buy it, you’ll just feel silly afterwards.
Final Four of the Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament! Vote now!
It’s Round 6 of the Mix March Madness 2013 Webcomics Tournament— the Final Four!
With your help, we’ve raised over $2400 for the Hero Initiative since the tournament started. Voting for this round lasts until 9PM EDT on Wednesday, March 27!
We’re restoring the previous brackets vote totals, so people can see how they voted– we’ll be adding the cash totals as well. We’re also adding additional information breaking down voters by gender, for additional demographic information. I don’t know what we’ll pull out of the data, but there’s some interesting trends. Take a look at Round 1 , Round 2 , Round 3 , Round 4 , and Round 5 .
Again, we’re letting you support your favorite strips by paying for additional votes, with your money going to charity. Simply click on the Donate button below, and during checkout, click on “Which comic are you donating for?” and tell us who you’re voting for. The price for this round is going up to 25¢ a vote, with a minimum of four votes purchased at a time, split any way you want. All proceeds from paid votes will go to the Hero Initiative , an organization that helps comic book creators in need. At the close of the round, we’ll add the paid votes to the totals and announce the winners who move on to the brackets. (And yes, your donations to Hero are tax deductible.)
Here are the updated brackets. Don’t forget to look at the brackets for Bradbury, Kubert, Sendak, and Washington divisions to see how we got this far…
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Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.
Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post’s poll.
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- Mix March Madness 2013 Webcomics Tournament Round 1! Vote Now! (comicmix.com)
- Announcing Mix March Madness 2013 Seeding Round! (comicmix.com)
- 2013 Mix March Madness Webcomics Tournament Nominations Are Now Open! (comicmix.com)
- Vote Now in Mix March Madness 2013 Webcomics Tournament Round 2! (comicmix.com)
- Cast Your Vote in Round 3 of the Mix March Madness 2013 Webcomics Tournament! (comicmix.com)
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