Pose Maniacs 3D now in English - comic artists saved from drawing impossible women

From drawn.ca, it’s reported that Pose Maniacs has been translated from Japanese to English.  This makes navigating the site much easier.  Pose Maniacs offers hundreds of poses viewable in 360 degrees.  The models, both male and female, are without skin to show the muscular underpinnings making this site an invaluable reference

I’m sure comics artists everywhere are referencing it now.

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Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe: Fight!

All the cool news is happening at NYCC this year. This is what Warner Brothers comes up with when they can't put together a decent Justice League film. Nothing like a slick game-play trailer of Batman beating the snot out of sub-zero to make you forget all about the Marvel Capcom crap. I call dibs on Catwoman. She might be getting cancelled in the print world, but she's going to have the best fatality move.

What's with the photo? Are they playing gay chicken? Let's sub-title this baby.

"C"

"At"

"Cat"

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Dallas Honors CAPE for 3rd Year

Dallas proclaims May 3rd Free Comic Book Day in a Dallas in honor of CAPE.

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James O’Barr CAPE 4 T-Shirt

James O’Barr designed this year’s t-shirt for CAPE!

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Ben Templesmith Exclusive to IDW, new comic Welcome to Hoxford

Ben Templesmith singed with IDW this week and gave some insight to his new comic, Welcome to Hoxford

Going Exclusive with IDW: Ben Templesmith signs exclusive contract with IDW The award-winning artist/co-creator of 30 Days of Night will create new comic book series and art books for IDW San Diego, CA (April 4, 2008)—Artist Ben Templesmith, whose professional comic book debut, 30 Days of Night was made into a major motion picture in 2007, has signed an exclusive contract with IDW Publishing. (Via Ben Templesmith)

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Kristian Donaldson in your pants

Through a random friending on Flickr (and who can blame anyone for this), I discovered Kristian Donaldson’s artwork has been slapped on some snazzy wallets!  Kristian Donaldson is a comic artist with Vertigo and currently working on 99days.

The wallets are from TinyMeat who make wallets, iPod cases, and accessories from vinyl and can be purchased through etsy.

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Chainsaw Suit Webcomic Debuts

Kris Straub kicks off a new webcomic this week called Chainsaw Suit.  It stems from what can be recalled as an experience with mini comics.  Well that experiment has been nurtured and grown into its own webcomic with matching domain name.

Check out Chainsaw Suit

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Fans angered over Siegel Ruling

Last week, the Siegel family won a major court battle over the rights of Superman. The details of which are too big for my tiny brain to grasp, so it comes as a shock to here that fans of Superman are upset over the ruling.

Occasional Superherione gives us the best hits.

Fans Bash Siegel Superman Ruling:

It has never occurred to me that there might actually be comic fans who are against creator's rights. But, the reaction by a selection of fans on the Blog@Newsarama boards regarding the recent Superman copyright ruling educated me otherwise. Their basic opinions, to sum up:

1) The Siegels are "greedy"
2) It was Siegel & Schuster's own fault for losing the rights
3) Time Warner is being victimized
4) The Siegels are "stealing" Superman

(Via Occasional Superheroine)

Then they immediately went back to torrenting New Frontier.

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Fun Home protested as pornographic

From Pornographer Eisner award-winning author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel’s blog, a school in Utah is trying to figure out how to teach literature using books without “teh sex” in them.  Sorry, Color Purple, take your smut elsewhere! 

Actually, the book in dispute is Fun Home and the school is the University of Utah.  The biggest mouthpiece against the book is Thomas Alvord from the group No Porno, But Guns I’m Totally Cool With. In another article he laments that Utah is no.1 for google results for pornography.  Ironic now that this story is getting more press.  Keep up the good work.

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Birds of Prey, NOT written by Gail Simone

No, Gail Simone is not writing Birds of Prey anymore. We're actually really excited with Tony Bedard taking the helm after Sean McKeever's run. Ya, sometimes typos happen. Maybe it was typed as a reflex.

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