A week after election day, on the first tuesday in americas new, uncertain reality, the man who once symbolized a rebellions hope against a white supremacist empire is aghast. This is the second in a series of posts about our newest accession, the brian flota comic book collection. Each week adam and jeremy, both xmen and comic book fans alike, provide a running commentary of an issue of the xmen comic book. Interest may stem from nostalgia, an appreciation of the artwork, consideration of comics as a financial investment, or even just the thrill of the chase. Narrated by keith david, and has a great list of comic artists and writers being interviewed. This ambitious science fiction story its meant to be the first volume of seven is packed full of ideas and characters and great artwork. Beyond the comic book pages is an exciting new feature film documentary about the world of comic books told through the thoughts and images of the cre. The film features classic collectibles, such as barbie dolls, comic books, pop culture figures like star wars, antique china dolls, and more. Masters of comic book art eisner, kirby, ditko, adams, wrightson, miller 1987. Comix is a documentary about comic books and the comic book world, told. With 94,268 unique comics amassed over four decades and still growing. In season 1, new yorks alternate realities closed after 23 years in operation, a community united to say farewell, and a podcast was born.
In about 2030 years from now, will comic book collecting still be hot. Synchronize your comic data between the desktop software, mobile apps and the connect webapp. Check out the cbh facebook page for festival updates, etc and share the love. The future of comic books cgc comic book collectors chat. Brian flota is the english liaison librarian here at jmu libraries, and he previously worked as a rare book cataloger at the university of illinois at urbanachampaign. With donal logue, cary elwes, michael rapaport, natasha lyonne. He moved to california in 1981 to develop marvels tv and movie properties. Comic book heaven is a short documentary that tells the story of joe leisner, owner of the comic book store comic book heaven located in sunnyside, queens ny. Comic books have been published for more than a century, and collectors categorize them into five ages. In 2016, flota donated a collection of over 7,000 comics owned by his father, bradley flota, expanding the original collection to over 9,700 comic books.
The new 2d art is good across the board, as youd expect from a disney comic featuring cartoon animals, and they dont rely heavily on cinema stills. With john campea, halleta alemu, heather grace hancock, jeremy jahns. Today were counting down the top five most anticipated comic book movies of 2016. The series is being produced by robert kirkmans skydance entertainment, marking yet another collaboration with the walking dead creators company. Beyond the comic book pages all about the industry told by the people who make it what it is. Comic book confidential is a featurelength documentary that profiles twentytwo of the most significant artists and writers working in comic books, graphic novels and stripart in north america today. He received his ms in library and information sciences. Ben kaye predicts how a comicrelated topic will translate to film ranking the comic book movies of 2016 a look back at the movies that helped us fight through a pretty rough year. Recently just announced, the merc with a mouth will begin our long journey of comic book movies in 2016. In an entertaining and informative combination of interviews, historical footage and stateoftheart animation techniques, comic book confidential provides a positive answer to that burning. By interjecting himself so blatantly into the book, and by frequently making reference to what would look good in a comic book, he actually detracts from his own message.
We look forward to seeing all the amazing youth comics at our annual celebration in the spring. In addition to finding its way into 35 gold key comic books all collected by hermes press in five hardcover volumes, dark shadows was also adapted into one of the most striking comic strips of the 1970s, running for only one year, from march 14, 1971 through march 11, 1972, with stand out, eyecatching artwork by seasoned comic book and. Comic book documentary who the hell is alfred medley. An argument in the class was that sacco was very brave to do what he did, and while i agree i think that somewhat diminishes what.
Although 6 figures can be extremely rare, on occasion you may see a particular comic book valued at several hundred thousand dollars. Comic book confidential is an americancanadian documentary film, released in 1988. Disney zootopia graphic novel paperback october 11, 2016. Before fredric wertham and the seduction of the innocent soti, before the kefauver hearings, and before the infamous comics code the comic book racks at local drug stores and newsstands boasted a plethora of delights highlighted by the good girl adventures of the comic book version of brenda starr. Murray, the murray comic book collection has farreaching holdings, from mainstays like dc to smaller publishers like pacific comics. The ian levine collection, a comic book collection that includes every comic book published by dc comics from 1935 through 2016, including.
Comic movies have obviously brought new blood into the hobby. Indepth documentary about the history of the hellboy comic book, the history of the character and the making of the 2004 movie adaptation of the same name. Comic book database software, catalog your comic collection. It was the first comic book to introduce a super hero team, which included the green lantern, hawkman, the flash, hourman, dr. Interviews with the creators and fans of american superhero comic books. Sothebys selling most complete dc comics collection ever. Platinum 18971937, golden 193855, silver 195669, bronze 197079, and modern 1980present.
The most anticipated comic book movies of 2016 video cnet. A limited edition gift set collecting virtually the entire run of the original castcrew of star trek is coming this september to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its first release. Comic book collecting is a hobby that treats comic books and related items as collectibles or artwork to be sought after and preserved. Comix beyond the comic book pages 2016 movie hoopla. Stan lee was an american comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer. The book as it arrived is titled zootopia comics collection, with quite a lot of individual comics in addition to a condensed retelling of the movie plot. Koniditsiotis has been working on a documentary about a mysterious figure in the world of comic book collecting. In 1992, alternate realities owner steve oto embarked upon a journey from lawyer to comic book retailer. A selection of marveldc comic books pulled from a large private collection in ohio ed suba jr.
But as a comic book lover in 2016, mark hamill now has a harder time pursuing collecting. Log into facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know. Rarity, title, issue, and condition determine value, although often one of those variables is far more important than the others. Read about our first steps in processing the collection here. An exciting new documentary about the world of comic books told through interviews of the creators, artists, writers, collectors, store. There are quite a few interesting comic book documentaries thatll help you. Starting a comic book collection concept comic vine. More than a year after the british media decreed bob bretall owns the worlds largest comic book collection, its now official. Comic book collecting buy sell trade has 28,467 members. As with any hobby, collecting comic books can be expensive. Comics aficionados have been maintaining and preserving comic book collections for almost as long as the medium has existed.
Sometimes, your local comic book store might have a sale on for some really old comics. Amc orders history of comic books documentary miniseries. As far as i am concerned though, the highest value is what each comic book is worth personally to each owner. But waid also wrote the 2011 run really, the 2011 and 2014 runs are the same series, artificially broken up by one of marvels random renumberings and by the time i got on board, marvel was already putting out larger. Comic collector live buy, sell, organize comic books. We are kicking off the new year with over 30 afterschool programs in nyc working on the comic book project through the support of expanded schools and the nyc department of youth and community development. Every comic book documentary you must watch elongated man. An exciting new documentary about the world of comic books told through interviews of the creators, artists, writers, collectors, store owners, indie publishers. Directed by ron mann and written by mann and charles lippincott, the film is a survey of the history of the comic book medium in the united states from the 1930s to the 1980s, as an art form and in social context. A short documentary on comic book collecting, featuring an interview with the coowner of all star comics. Comic book superheroes unmasked documentary 1 mostly dc and marvel, but talks about their relevancy throughout history and politics. Instead, it features a widerange of comic creators, artists, writers, collectors, store owners, and.
Of course world events, economic events, political events ebb and flow markets and those affect all things money based. Today sotheby announced that is will auction dc complete. Film hq 2016 comic book movies tv episode 2016 imdb. The origins of the medium, the evolution of superheroes and all the other genres as they born in different eras. Being all but officially confirmed for a pg rating, deadpool will be directed by tim. My comic shop history is a podcast hosted by filmmaker anthony desiato my comic shop documentary, my comic shop country exploring the culture, business, and fandom of the comics retail industry. The future of comic book collecting is a bright one in my opinion. I got into him because of the netflix show, and started collecting the thenongoing 2014 mark waid run in trades. Glenn oleary since 1993 has owned the comic book palace, a mecca for area comic book aficionados and the subject of a 20 documentary that may soon become a. Nick allder, shadi almassizadeh, velvy appleton, kevin baillie. It also has stan lee, frank miller, neal adams, mark waid, john romita jr. To help celebrate this, amc networks is planning a history of comic books documentary miniseries that is tentatively titled heroes and villains. Luke skywalker boots from the original, mark hamill told inverse.
In other words, it takes a dealer time to sort, bag, board and price any comic book. Bay state comic book shop gets ready for prime time business. Values of a comic book collection can range from a few dollars more than face value to 6 figures. This collection contains a wide selection of comic book and magazine genres from major publishers such as marvel comics, dc comics, and dark horse comics, as well as independent publishers. John and the film hq crew discuss the hits and misses from the year in comic book movies, from smash hits deadpool and captain america.
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