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The Four Color Media Monitor


Steve Ditko's "The Ever Unreachable"

A writer at Big Hollywood presents another essay written by famous artist Steve Ditko on the comic book world and philosophy.

Started in The Four Color Media Monitor • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: good artists
Boulder Daily Camera is also sugarcoating sales

The Boulder Daily Camera of Colorado follows the example set by the Boston Globe, and provides their own local fluff-coated coverage of store sales:In the comic industry, superheroes are saving...

Started in The Four Color Media Monitor • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: marvel comics, sales, msm propaganda
Flash Rebirth 5: finally, an explanation

The fifth issue of Flash: Rebirth has finally, after 3 months of delay, gone to press, and they belatedly give us an explanation for why the retcon: as the following review on Speed Force tells:We...

Started in The Four Color Media Monitor • 4 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: dc comics, violence, flash
October's double digit decline

Further signs that the industry is sadly weakening: ICV2 reports sales have dropped 14 percent since last year, and:Sales on the top 100 graphic novels dropped 30% vs. October 2008, producing an...

Started in The Four Color Media Monitor • 5 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: marvel comics, titans, dc comics, crossoverloading, sales
Boston Globe goes into freefall covering comics sales

The Boston Globe writes about the opening of a comics store in the city, and turn out the gazillionth whitewash of the industry and how it's doing:The publishing industry is in a freefall, but comic...

Started in The Four Color Media Monitor • 5 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: crossoverloading, sales, msm propaganda
More superhero physics

An article in the Chronicle Journal of Ontario, Canada, about another comics reader and physicist who's studying the physics of the superhero world.

Started in The Four Color Media Monitor • 7 days ago • 0 responses
Older fans come to Roanoke Comicon

In this short news item on WBDJ7 about the Roanoke Valley Comic-Con, they tell that:The promoter says over time he's noticed the comic book hobby is attracting an older age group.And that's another...

Started in The Four Color Media Monitor • 7 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: conventions
Should comics maintain their future on the web?

James Hudnall at Big Hollywood is talking about the death of the printed medium and how that's affecting even the comics business, not to mention the 4 dollar price they've already reached. He's also...

Started in The Four Color Media Monitor • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: marvel comics, dc comics, technology
NJ library promotes reading with graphic novels

Here's an article in the Cumberland County Daily Journal about the Newfield Library promoting readership with their growing expansion of graphic novel supplies.

Started in The Four Color Media Monitor • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: libraries
Sgt. Rock being sent into the future

So there's a movie in the works based on DC's famous WW2 army hero, as reported on the Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog, but it looks like they're about to commit another grave mistake, by...

Started in The Four Color Media Monitor • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: dc comics, politics, msm propaganda
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