Like last year, I’ll be commenting on all the various bits and pieces coming out of the San Diego Comic Convention (biggest anglophone comic book convention, I think Angoulême in France is biggest, although I could be wrong). This will be mainly things that I’m interested in or excited about.

A lot of crap comes out SDCC, which is billed as news, but is essentially rubbish. It’ll be fun to try and see how accurate Rich Johnson is in his predictions. He’s usually spot on in most of his predictions. He does like to add a bit of salt and pepper to his stories but I enjoy his writing to check out his column every week, without fail.

This one is directly from Newsarama (probably where I’ll be ‘stealing’ most of my news from).

E-VILLE PRESS

A group of artists from Pixar have formed a new publishing venture called E-Ville Press. “Basically, we're guys in the animation biz who formed a self ass-kicking group to put out our own comic books and stories,” Kevin O’Brien told Newsarama. “I think the general consensus is that forming a group with formalized meetings really helped insure we got this done. I know that I would have quit because of my 'real job' workload if it were not for the group. Afterworks (an anthology by Louis, Simon, Robert, Nate, Max, Kevin, Sanjay, and Jay Shuster) [is] the debut of a project I've been fiddling with for a long time and plan to continue on..."

Most interesting thing for me is as you would imagine that this is a bunch of guys from Pixar trying something different. I will be buying their first few projects for sure when it comes out. The break out projects for me are Colossus, Afterworks and Little India.