Comic-Con 2010 Pictures!

Hey IITS Readers,

Just sharing the pics we managed to snap of the customers at our Comic-Con 2010 Small Press table. Those of you who picked up something but did not get your picture taken...sorry about that, we try to get pictures of everyone but sometimes I forget to ask. Enjoy!

- Joseph

First, two bonus pics of Genevieve's art...the first is a commission done for a sweet gal named Mary and the second was done for Dan Mendoza of Zombie Tramp! Thanks, guys...Genevieve had lots of fun with both of them! =)

Update: Here's the commission Genevieve created for Nick, a long
time follower of IITS and all around nice guy. Hope ya like it, Nick!

...and here's the wonderful folks who supported IITS!

Annnd we end the post with a super coot pic of Mary and Genevieve!

Thanks everyone for making IITS at Comic-Con 2010 so much fun!

Comic-Con 2010 is over...

...but Genevieve and I had lots of fun meeting and talking to our past readers and new ones alike. Thanks to all the folks we met at other shows who came by to see us again and thanks to all the people we met for the first time at Comic-Con 2010!

Check back here later tonight for an update that will include the pictures we snapped of people who picked up our stuff (thank you!).

P.S. Those of you who got a free commission from Genevieve for picking up the mouse pad and did not receive it at the show, rest assured...Genevieve is working on them and we will be mailing them out to you as soon as we can. Thank you for your patience! =)

- Joseph

Monkey Covers

Sunday is Monkey Covers day here at YACB. Because there's nothing better than a comic with a monkey on the cover!

Jerry orders an unusual pizza for his friend King Klonk on the over of The Adventures of Jerry Lewis #86 (1961).

(Standard disclaimer about giant tower-climbing purple gorillas not really being monkeys applies.)


Image courtesy of the GCD. Click on the image for a larger version.

3-fer Saturday

Bizarro is brought to you today by Religious Interpretation.

Today's extra special 3-fer is a jam packed full of various things that are sure to amuse somebody somewhere for some reason for at least a few seconds. I hope you're one of them.

The first comic includes a reference to Tarzan's Hollywood sidekick, a chimp named Cheeta. Cheeta's shirt is a satire of the popular middle-American saying, "WWJD?" which stands for "what would jesus do?" Popular with Christian teens, I suppose it was invented as a way to keep reminding teenagers that a vengeful god is watching them and they'd better not try to get away with anything. I didn't see this cartoon as a slap at religion but one reader did, telling me I owed him an apology and that my cartoon likely angered Jesus, which he insinuated was not a good thing and something I should be afraid of. I'm not inclined to believe that if some kind of god does exist, it would be so petty and insecure as to be insulted this easily.

Cartoon #2 is a simple illustration of a different meaning for the common claim that something or someone is huge in Japan. Nothing much to say here except that googling images of sumo wrestlers for reference reminded me of how utterly weird humans are.

Our final cartoon today is a Sunday panel and employs one of my favorite cartoon gimmicks – leading the reader to think one thing at first glance only to reveal after reading the caption that the picture is not what it seems. Here, most people's first assumption is that the horse is running when in fact, he is hovering in place. I particularly like the way the drawing came out on this one. The looks on both horses' faces adds to the joke and the cowboy on the hover-horse looks appropriately goofy. I also love doing this kind of desert background. Be sure to click on the image for a larger view.

Enjoy your weekend. That's an order.

AMAZING Animation

Here's something sent to me by Heather M. from Indianapolis. It's a truly amazing animation by an amazing artist and crew. Keep in mind this is not done with computers, all of it is stop-motion animation and actual paint. I can only imagine how long this took to produce. The concept and storyboards alone would take months.

BIG BANG BIG BOOM - the new wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Amazon Top 50

Here are the Top 50 Graphic Novels on Amazon this morning. All the previous caveats apply.


1 (-). Scott Pilgrim Volume 6: Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour
2 (+5). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life
3 (+5). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 2: Scott Pilgrim Versus The World
4 (+2). Scott Pilgrim, Vol. 3: Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite Sadness
5 (-). Troublemaker Book 1: Alex Barnaby Series 3
6 (-4). Blackest Night
7 (+2). Diary of a Wimpy Kid 5 *
8 (-5). Green Lantern: Blackest Night
9 (+1). Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
10 (-3). Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps Vol. 1
11 (-7). Blackest Night: Green Lantern Corps
12 (+5). Blackest Night: Black Lantern Corps Vol. 2
13 (+3). Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
14 (N). The Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide Volume 40 *
15 (-1). Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
16 (+3). Odd Is on Our Side *
17 (N). Siege *
18 (N). Penny Arcade 6: The Halls Below
19 (+3). Blackest Night: Rise of the Black Lanterns *
20 (+4). Absolute Planetary Book Two
21 (-6). Walking Dead Volume 12 *
22 (-10). Cover Run: The DC Comics Art of Adam Hughes
23 (+2). Twilight: The Graphic Novel, Volume 1
24 (-13). Batwoman: Elegy
25 (+2). Irredeemable Vol 3
26 (+8). Watchmen
27 (N). Invincible Iron Man Vol. 4: Stark Disassembled *
28 (+2). Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps *
29 (+13). V for Vendetta
30 (-12). Star Wars: Legacy Volume 9 - Monster
31 (N). Lost at Sea
32 (-3). Absolute Planetary Book One
33 (-12). The Walking Dead Compendium Volume 1
34 (+10). Prince Valiant: 1939-1940 (Vol. 2) *
35 (+4). The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
36 (-1). Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
37 (-11). The Walking Dead Book 5
38 (+2). The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
39 (-11). Kick-Ass
40 (+1). The Long Way Home (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 8, Vol. 1)
41 (-18). Blacksad
42 (-5). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
43 (R). The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks
44 (-13). Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Eight Volume 6: Retreat
45 (-13). Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
46 (R). No Future For You (Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season Eight, Volume 2)
47 (R). The Flash: Rebirth
48 (N). Warriors: Ravenpaw's Path #3: The Heart of a Warrior *
49 (R). The Arrival
50 (-14). The Sandman Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes


Items with asterisks (*) are pre-order items.

N = New listing appearing on list for first time
R = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks


Commentary:

* It's a good week to be Brian Lee O'Malley. Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour, which presently sits at #9 on the Amazon overall chart, reached at least as high as #6 earlier in the week. I don't ever recall there being a comic book that had successful midnight release parties. Sales on par with pre-Watchmen movie levels; hype/excitement like a Harry Potter or Twilight novel. O'Malley's only other previous major work, Lost at Sea, even pops up onto the list.

* If you're wondering where Scott Pilgrim vols 4 & 5 are? It appears that a few weeks back Amazon decided to no longer classify them as Comics & Graphic Novels...! Just another indication about the size of the grain of salt with which you should be taking these charts.

* People still care about comic price guides? Apparently so, as the pre-order for the 40th Overstreet Guide is the highest debut of the week. Also debuting are pre-orders for two Marvel hardcovers: Siege and Iron Man; and the latest Penny Arcade and Warriors volumes.

* The Blackest Night hardcovers start to show a bit of softness in the face of the Scott Pilgrim onslaught, but they still occupy seven of the top thirty slots on the chart.