Month: September 2017
Valerian and Laureline Disclosed Event – Saturday 30th September
Valerian and Laureline comics!
* Valerian & Laureline Disclosed at 4.30pm: £7, conc. £5
* Film screening and Q&A at 6pm: £12, conc. £10
* Double bill: talk Valerian & Laureline Disclosed at 4.30pm + screening and Q&A at 6pm: £15, conc. £13
4.30 PM – 9.00 PM
17 Queensberry Place, London, SW7 2DT
Update For Yah’ll
I notice that a lot of people are still visiting CBO, well, there is a lot here to read so why nopt?
However, as the books are not selling and I am having to find other ways to make money, I still have no plans to update regularly. Sorry but that’s how it goes. I cannot afford to spend hours working on a post for no “thank you” or even comment.
If the books sell I’ll be back but until then let me leave you with this thought: Larger companies send me books to review ~and they will be reviewed because I review any book I get~ while, and I still hear and read this daily, smaller publishers bleat and whine “No one will review my books!!” I DO NOT accept pdf or share files. You want a book reviewed you zsend a copy. I tell you this, politely, and you start whining that it’s unfair and will mean you have to spend money on postage….you get blocked. Grow up.
Toy companies: No. No. No. I am NOT giong out your press releases to an international readership say how great the figures are. You can go elsewhere for that, You point out “great blog stats” but think I’m dumb enough to just post your stuff? Get real: review products.
DVD companies: same thing. YOU say your movie is great. Never seen it myself and I am not false selling to CBO readers (even if they don’t care). Again: get real. Review DVDs.
Thank You
Graphic Novels, Comic Albums and Books!
T-Shirts, Mugs, Caps, Comics and more -Black Tower Stores
BTCG has specialised in presenting original material covering super heroes, crime, adventure, sci fi, horror as well as illustrated prose -not to mention ground breaking books on “world mysteries” and wildlife. Oh, and even a huge book of interviews with comic creators and publishers.
All the books are, naturally, available for overseas licence -but we cannot translate work: that will be up to any licensed publisher.
What follows is a brief glimpse at some books but you can visit the online store to see more details and books at:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/hoopercomicsuk
To contact me please check out “About” at the top of the page -thanks!
The Hooper Interviews!
To celebrate, at the time of publication, over 25 years of interviewing comic creators -writers, artists and publishers- this 365 pages book was produced.
Interviewees included Yishan Li, Marv Wolfman, Dave Ryan, John Cooper, Mike Western, Donna Barr, Roberta Gregory, Sonia Leong, Emma Vieceli, Pekka A. Manninen, Alan Class, Karen Rubins, Kate Glasheen, Ron Fortier, Jon Haward, Franco Francavilla, Rick Geary, Tania Del Rio, The Etherington Brothers, Olivier Cadic (Cinebook the 9th Art), Holly Golightly and MANY others.
Profusely illustrated with art and photographs!
Reduced in price until October to £16.80 -an odd price but it’s what the printer and lulu.com earn -I get zilch!
http://www.lulu.com/shop/terry-hooper-scharf/the-hooper-interviews/paperback/product-22078000.html
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Black Tower Comics began in 1984 as a Small Press publisher of A5 (US -Digest size) titles such as Adventure,Presents,Windows and Hanley’s Garage. Then came the news, reviews, previews and interviews publication backed up by the mart and mail order service –Zine Zone (later Zine Zone International).
In 2009, with the innovation in publishing of Print On Demand (POD), Black Tower jumped in head first!
One of the first titles to see print in the new comic album format (A4) was The Bat Triumphant! This saw the complete story, begun in Black Tower Adventure vol. 1. William A. Ward’s long lost 1940s character once again saw print as he fought a host of enemies in an attempt to reclaim his homeland.
And while The Bat may have fought fist and nail to reclaim his homeland, another 1940s Ward creation, Krakos the Egyptian, seemed far from willing to claim a new Egyptian Empire as promised to him by the Gods. Tackling a number of foes and even encountering the Many-Eyed One, Krakos turned his back on the gods and the final panel of Krakos -Sands Of Terror, delivered a true twist!
Of course, the flag-ship title had to return! And so Black Tower Adventure -eventually reaching new heights when the legendary Ben Dilworth jumped on board! Volume 2 consisted of ten issues. Just look at these covers….
And, with something like 40 years worth of files and investigation reports could all that much delving into UFOs, lake and sea creatures and many other mysteries not result in a book or two…or three? Some Things Strange & Sinister, Some More Things Strange & Sinister as well as Pursuing The Strange and Weird: A Naturalist’s Viewpoint set a precedence.
Whereas for decades those involved in “UFOlogy”, “Cryptozoology” and “Forteana” declared many mysteries, that photographs were lost “to history” and so on, these three books swiped away the false claims. Alleged lost photographs -found. ‘Mysteries’ solved by doing actual research work and reading the sources -something others had never done.
And, of course, mention natural history and Black Tower Books broke new ground with that in The Red Paper: Canids.
But not all the prose books covered mysteries and wildlife.
And if there is one thing “Herr Professor” loves it is discovering and presenting long lost UK Golden Age (1939-1951) comic strips and characters from publishers such as Gerald Swan, Foldes, Denis M. Reader, Cartoon Art Productions and others.
Scanned and restored as best as can be considering the poor print quality of the rationing years -especially red, orange, yellow, blue and purple ink printing!
Ace Hart The Atomic Man! The Tornado! TNT Tom! Dene Vernon! Acromaid! Cat-Girl! Bring ‘Em Back Hank! Robert Lovett:Back From The Dead and so many other action heroes and humour strip characters -William A. Ward, Jock McCaill and a host of known and unknown creators contribute -either in single volume ” Black Tower Gold” albums or all six collected into the 400+ pager –The Ultimate British Golden Age Collection!
Another great love is Centaur Comics from the United States. Right at the very start of the American Golden Age of Comics Centaur had creators who were ahead of the others! Before Plastic Man there was Plymo! Before The Human Bomb there was TNT Todd! Before Green Arrow and waaaaaaay before Hawkeye there was the mysterious red hooded archer called The Arrow! And, to just break your comic mind world there was even a Black Panther -decades before Kirby came up with his character of the same name.
The Eye Sees All. The Owl. The Iron Skull. Amazing Man. The King of Darkness. The Invisible Terror. The Blue Lady. The Shark. Mini Midget & Kitty. Mighty Man. Super Anne. The company may have been short-lived but it’s characters -oh boy!
The two volume Centaur Heroes Collection has been compiled into one sweet 140 page comic collection!
Horror. Ghost stories. The twist-in-the tale. Did you think that a publisher who is a big horror comic/film fan would ignore these?
Nope. Each year since 2010, BTCG has published a Tales Of Terror anthology album and 2014s included some fun and spooky lost Swan Comic strips. I mean how can you go wrong -even Ben Dilworth is in these!
The Church Of England has it’s own basher of dark forces in the Reverend Merriwether -“God’s Demon0-Thumper” as the press billed him. From an ancient Egyptian demon to a village of the damned and Varney the Vampyre, werwolves and a final confrontation with Satan himself -Merriwether pulls no punches and offers no compromise. And in those last few seconds between life and death, Merriwether’s mind recalls past cases -thanks to Ben Dilworththe Tall Man of Osaka.
Merriwether: God’s Demon Thumper and Merriwether: The Test Of Satan are available as individual comic albums or in one swanky book The Collected Merriwether: God’s Demon Thumper.
I libri "in ogni senso", Gilles Bachelet, Isabelle Arsenault: tre grandi mostre di Hamelin
Inaugurazione martedì 4 aprile ore 19.30
mr dilworth package received
Apparently Image Comics REALLY Do Hate Me
I was willing to just let the first THREE times go. But I got this:
We have received a DMCA complaint for your blog, COMIC BITS ONLINE. An email with details of the complaint was sent to you on 11-Sep-2017 and we have reset the post status to “Draft”. You can edit it here. You may republish the post with the offending content and/or link(s) removed. If you believe that you have the rights to post this content, you can file a counter-claim with us. For more on our DMCA policy, please click here. Thank you for your prompt attention.
And the offending post was Jonathan Ross & Ian Churchill Signing Revenge #1 from February, 2014!
Yes, a four year old press release FROM……..Image Comics.
The company that hit me with three other DMCA complaints recently because they did not like mild criticism. Mild criticism outweighs all the positive things I wrote about them.
This seems to be a tactic used by Marvel and Image if you say anything they do not like or criticize them.
Like the trolls and the flamers ~those who are mentally inadequate~ you don’t normally see these things but Image Comics wants to target me and this blog then they get a shout out. They seem to be aiming at getting this blog shut down.
Normally I would ask if you have a blog to mention this or pass it along social media but I’m guessing the response would be nothing again after all who cares if a comic company is attempting to stop free speech?