Tag Archives: Spider Man

Winners Revealed for Project: Rooftop’s Spider-Man: Webhead 2.0 Redesign Contest

Mike Dimayuga wins Project: Rooftop's "Spider-Man: Webhead 2.0" Redesign contest, with runners up including... Read more [...]

Actor Cliff Robertson Dies

Actor Cliff Robertson (1923-2011) won an Oscar and Golden Globe as Charly, and appeared three times as Spider-Man's Uncle Ben... Read more [...]

Film Producer Laura Ziskin Dies

Laura Ziskin (1950-2011) produced the recent Spider-Man movies and co-founded Stand Up to Cancer... Read more [...]

2011 Scribe Award Nominees Announced

The Scribe Awards honor media tie-in writing. In their fifth year, the awards will be presented during the San Diego Comic-Con, and will include Grand Master honoree Peter David. Other nominees include... Read more [...]

Axel Alonso replaces Joe Quesada as editor-in-chief of Marvel Comics

After ten years at Marvel, Axel Alonso is succeeding Joe Quesada as Editor-In-Chief of the publishing division, while Quesada moves on to larger projects within the company... Read more [...]

Comic-magician Carl Ballantine dies

Comic-magician/actor Carl Ballantine (1917-2009) built himself a career as a failed magician... Read more [...]

Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art institutes education department with two courses

New York City's Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art is expanding its offerings with the formation of its education department, headed by Danny Fingeroth. The first two courses will be... Read more [...]

Disney to buy Marvel, moving the superheroes into the House the Mouse Built

Mickey Mouse in a cape? Swing with Spider-Man above Main Street USA? Probably not, but with the Walt Disney Company's announced acquisition of Marvel Entertainment, some unexpected synergies are sure to emerge... Read more [...]

Actress Lucy Gordon Dies

British actress Lucy Gordon (1980-2009) died of an apparent suicide. She was best known for her role in Spider-Man 3... Read more [...]

The Chronic Rift #2 focuses on horror

The second episode of the podcast version of The Chronic Rift is entitled "The Evolution of Horror", and includes... Read more [...]

No Goody Two Shoes Superhero—a review of Hancock

Forget those nancy-boys like Superman and Spider-Man; a man with true superpowers is probably going to end up alone and drunk. But Will Smith makes him a heck of a lot of fun... (Warning: this reviews contains spoilers.) Read more [...]

Comics artist Jim Mooney dies

Comic book artist Jim Mooney (1919-2008) worked on Batman, Spider-Man, Elvira, Man-Thing, Omega the Unknown, Anne Rice's The Mummy... Read more [...]

Harris and Stein promoted at HarperCollins’s Festival

Jodi Harris has been promoted from executive editor to editorial director, and Erin Stein is now executive editor at Festival... Read more [...]

ASIFA’s Annie Nominees

The international animated film society, ASIFA-Hollywood, has announced the nominees for its 35th annual Annie Awards... Read more [...]

Strange & Stranger to be retrospective of comic artist Steve Ditko’s career

Blake Bell is writing, and Fantagraphics will publish, Strange & Stranger, a retrospective on the career of artist Steve Ditko, who co-created Spider-Man and... Read more [...]

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