news bits

A family emergency kept me from posting yesterday. Sorry for the delay. (I had a really good April Fool’s gag planned, too. Maybe next year…)

Voting in the Fan Award in the Glyph Comics Awards is now closed. Thanks to everyone who voted. The entire GCA ceremony is set for Friday, May 16 as part of ECBACC 2008. Throughout this month we’ll take a look at all the nominees for this year in all ten categories.

The Kids Comic Con was quite good. I believe I had mentioned here the possibility of an awards program to coincide with the show; unfortunately, that never got off the ground, at least this year. Thanks once again to Alex Simmons for all his work in putting the show together, and don’t forget - Sunday is Kids Day at the New York Comic Con, which Alex is also a part of. Publishers Weekly has a report on the KCC.

Mohawk Media has already announced an upcoming Mr. T graphic novel. Following this book will be a series of “Versus” crossover comics, the first of which will pit the 80’s TV icon against none other than Dracula:

Explaining the series, author Christopher Bunting says: ‘When I proposed these crossovers, Mohawk Media jumped at the chance and went to great lengths to make them happen. Who can blame them? Two legends … a living legend and an undead legend … going toe to toe. It doesn’t get much more exciting than that!’

Bunting continues: ‘Kicking – or should that be biting – off the series is Dracula. How is someone as devious as him going to handle someone as straight talking as Mr. T? And as powerful as Dracula is, he’s not met anyone as tough as Mr. T before!’

As Mr. T says in the story: ‘All these suckers with their fancy powers! They need a reality check, and only one guy can do that, and that’s me, Mr. T!’

‘Ain’t no difference if they’re a vampire, a dinosaur, a mutant, if they’re doing wrong, then it needs Mr. T to set things straight with a swift right!’

Although many details of Mr. T Versus are being kept closely guarded, Mohawk Media has offered an exclusive glimpse into the series at: http://www.mohawkmedia.co.uk/mrtversus.htm

The Mr. T Limited Advance Edition graphic novel is available at Mohawk’s site and will also be available on Amazon beginning this Friday.

More pics and a new website for Will Smith’s Hancock.

South African cartoonist Zapiro gets an honorary doctorate.

I can’t get the link to this Georges Jeanty interview to open for me, so you’ll have to go through Heidi to get to it. Scroll down about a little more than halfway.

Terrence Howard talks Iron Man.