The Auburn Avenue Research Library in Atlanta is currently showing an exhibit featuring the work of the cult superhero hit Brotherman. It’s on the first floor of the Cary-McPheeters Gallery and runs through June 30. For more information, click here. (Thanks to Yumy Odom for the tip.)

Time article from 2002 on Ho Che Anderson’s King

HCA page @ Fantagraphics’ site

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Also this week:

The Brave and the Bold: Milestone TP

Nextwave: Agents of HATE Ultimate Collection TP

War Machine: Dark Reign TP

Escape from Wonderland #4 (of 6). Written by Gregory.

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Also notable:

Human Target #1.  With the TV show now revived, co-creator Len Wein relaunches the comic as well. (I don’t think this has any connection to Peter Milligan’s Vertigo version.)

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The Princess and the Frog won three Annie Awards this weekend.

A second Onyx Con has been announced, to be held in mid-August.

A couple of pieces by two of this year’s GCA judges: David Brothers talks about the history of Milestone on the occasion of the release of Milestone Forever, and Brian Cronin talks about an unused Barry Windsor-Smith Storm story that was remade with new characters.

Zapiro puts the shower head back on Jacob Zuma’s head.

Here’s an interesting look at how blackface is applied to other minorities in other cultures.

Check out this strip about boxing legend Joe Louis by Golden Age legend Irwin Hasen.

Milestone Forever

5-page preview

Dwayne McDuffie interview @ Comics Bulletin

Wikipedia entry on Milestone Media

The long-awaited mini-series that closes the book on the Milestone Universe (prior to the merger with the DC Universe, anyway).

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Also this week:

Buffy TVS #32. Pencils by Jeanty.

Authority #19. Co-written by Bernardin.

Gold Digger #114, GD Tech Manual #11. By Perry.

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Also notable:

Siege #2 (of 4)

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The submissions period for this year’s Glyph Comics Awards is now over. Thanks to everyone who submitted stuff. We’ll announce the nominees two weeks from today, including the Fan Award, in which you get to vote on the winner.

I totally forgot to post the trailer for Sylvain White’s The Losers, which looks like a lot of fun.

Animator Floyd Norman will be making an appearance at a northern California comic shop later this month. (Thanks to Pam for the tip.)

Darryl Hughes talks about his new webcomic The Continentals, which has landed a publishing deal.

Off-topic: To follow up on last week’s post about performance-capture acting, here’s an actors roundtable featuring a group of probable Oscar nominees for this year discussing the subject. Morgan Freeman calls it “cartoons.”

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Available this week:

Authority #18. Written by Bernardin & Freeman.

Siege #1 (of 4). The mini-series that reunites the classic Avengers. Art by Coipel.

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Also notable:

Image United #2 (of 6)

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Some more Avatar items for you (now that it’s passed $1 billion worldwide already): Here’s more support for Zoe Saldana getting a Best Actress nomination. Here’s an Oscar-related podcast in which her chances at Best Actress are discussed, among other things. Also, this column makes the argument that the movie is a way for white people to fetishize the Other. And in a related item, Saldana and Sam Worthington’s deleted sex scene will be included on the DVD.

Marc Bernardin will be a guest writer at IO9 this week.

In preparation for Iron Man 2, MTV’s Splash Page interviews War Machine co-creator Bob Layton this week.

ECBACC will host another comic book workshop in Philadelphia this coming March.

Pam has pics and video from the LA portion of last weekend’s worldwide Thriller dance event. (That’s Pam in the lower left in the glasses.)

Azrael

interview with writer Fabian Nicieza

4-page preview (plus cover) of Batman Annual #27, which you apparently need to read before the first issue of Azrael because the crea’tors can’t be bothered to begin a story with the first issue of the series, but that’s DC Comics for you, fanboys

Female Force: Oprah Winfrey

TFAW link to buy the books in Bluewater’s “Female Force” series, which also includes Michelle Obama and Condoleezza Rice

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Also this week:

Zero Killer #6 (of 6)

Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance #6 (of 6). Pencils by Chriscross.

The Question: Riddles TP. Art by Cowan.

Supergirl #46. Pencils by Igle.

Spawn #195

War Machine: Iron Heart TP

Escape from Wonderland #2 (of 6). Written by Gregory.

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Michael Jackson may be dead and gone, but this weekend people around the world are gonna do the Thriller dance in his memory.

Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze put together a short film with Kanye West in a supernatural misadventure of sorts.

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Justice League of America: When Worlds Collide HC

Dwayne McDuffie website

Wikipedia entry for Milestone Media

Amazon link to buy Icon: A Hero’s Welcome (new edition)

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Also this week:

Stormwatch PHD: Worlds End TP

Perhapanauts Halloween Spooktacular

Uncanny X-Men: First Class #4 (of 8). If only for this scene. (Thanks, Jon!)

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Also notable:

Green Lantern Corps #41. Blackest Night tie-in.

Act-I-Vate Primer HC. I saw a panel discussion at a Brooklyn book fair recently with these guys, and they do some terrific online comics. This collection is an all-new sampler of the creators in this comics collective. Good stuff.

Amelia Rules: A Very Ninja Christmas HC

Star Trek Countdown HC

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The Black Age of Comics Convention in Chicago was last weekend (which I totally forgot about). Here are some pics from the BACC blog, and some more from the Black Superhero message boards.

Congratulations to Kyle Baker, whose book Nat Turner won the Harvey for Best Graphic Album, Previously Published. Full list of winners here.

Olivier Coipel will be the artist for Marvel’s next big event, Siege. Writer Brian Michael Bendis talks about it here.

Foul Play is a San Francisco theater production who are currently putting on adaptations of “B-movies,” including the old Jane Fonda SF romp Barbarella. In this new stage production, a black actress takes on the lead role.

A whole bunch of news items on South African cartoonist Zapiro.

Jamal Igle video interview.

From a press release sent by Joseph Wheeler:

Be sure to get your copy of the latest International Review of African American Art (IRAAA), a journal published by Hampton University -  Vol 22, no. 4!!! ONYXCON Art Exhibit Co-curator Kevin Sipp, acting curator at Hammonds House Museum,  produced a wonderful article that covers ONYXCON’s  first ever event this past summer in Atlanta! IRAAA is the most widely recognized journal of African American visual Art in the US!  Hammonds House Museum in Atlanta, GA’s West End district carries copies of the journal if you wish to get a copy of this historical publication!  A collage and digital work from Brutha YAMZ issue #1 (page 24) by Joseph R Wheeler III, founder/president of ONYXCON,  was unfortunately mixed up and published with the label of Turtel ONLI’s Nubian of greatness Cover . While submitted, ONLI’s work did not get printed in the issue.  Still, his name was mentioned and credited in Sipp’s article for founding the first ‘Black Age’ conventions which inspired others and ONYXCON.  A request for corrections to the title under Wheeler’s Art  and hopefully publishing ONLI’s as well, have already been submitted to IRAAA officials for the next issue. IRAAA is released quarterly and there is a chance that a follow up issue will encompass a full feature dedicated to Blacks in Sequential and related Popular ARTS!

SO Stay tuned and support THE NAO/ ONYXCON , THE BLACK AGE, HAMMOND HOUSE MUSEUM, & THE IRAAA !!!

Hammonds House Museum  is in the historic West End, located at:

Hammonds House Museum
503 Peeples Street
Atlanta, Georgia 30310

http://www.hammondshouse.org/

IRAAA
Hampton University Museum
Hampton , VA 23668-0101

The Life and Times of Martha Washington in the 21st Century

War Machine #9

AOD: Ash Saves Obama #2 (of 4)

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Also notable:

Blackest Night #3 (of 8)

Captain America: Reborn #3 (of 5)

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New posts at Great Black Comic Books: Why I Hate Saturn and Aya.

The East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention is sponsoring a comics seminar in November.

Is there a new Vampirella in our future?

Losers director Sylvain White talks about his next movie, an adaptation of Frank Miller’s Ronin.

A report on the recent Morrie Turner exhibit in San Francisco.

New Shawn Martinbrough interview.

The secret history of Valerie from Josie & the Pussycats.

Hosted by Justin Tyler, Pete LePage, and Alex Zalben

Tuesday, August 25th @ 8:00 PM

Featuring:
Marc Bernardin (The Authority, The Highwaymen, Genius, Push)
Porter Mason (Bassist Wanted)

Tickets: $5
Online: ThePIT-NYC.com
Phone: 1-800-838-3006
Questions? 212-563-7488

The Peoples Improv Theater
154 West 29th Street, 2nd Floor
Between 6th and 7th Aves.

Onyx Con blog for a list of guests

Big props to my friend Joe Wheeler for pulling this off. His enthusiasm for comics in general and black comics in particular is something to see, and it comes as absolutely no surprise that he would be the one to bring a black comics con to the South. Here’s to the show’s success.

Escape From Wonderland

Raven Gregory interview

Amazon link to buy Return to Wonderland TP

Raven Gregory’s reimagining of the Wonderland stories continues with a new mini-series.

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Also this week:

Thor V2 TP. Co-pencilled by Coipel.

Gold Digger: Tiffany & Charlotte – Second Semester #2 (of 4). By Perry.

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Also notable:

Blackest Night #2 (of 8)

Green Lantern Corps #39. Blackest Night tie-in.

Ultimate Comics Avengers #1, Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #1. Marvel’s Ultimate line gets relaunched.

Stephen Colbert’s Tek Jansen HC

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Check out these video interviews Jon has posted from Comic-Con: two on Bayou and Jeremy Love, and one on Percy Carey.

More Princess/Frog items from Comic-Con: here’s a video of the pencil test of a scene from the film, along with an interview with directors John Musker & Ron Clements.

Check out these pictures from the Mayhem signing in LA’s Meltdown Comics.

AAA really wants to be the Black Panther.

Another Shawn Martinbrough interview.