American Comic Books

Profile in Excellence: Lauren Shuler Donner & Richard Donner: 'Superman' paved way for today's blockbusters -- Hollywood had put men in tights long before 1978's "Superman," but Richard Donner was the first to do so convincingly, effectively setting the model for the modern-day superhero movie...  

The buzz that surrounds the upcoming 'Iron Man 2' is highly representative of pop culture's fascination with silver-screen remakes of childhood superheroes.  

I guess we’ll have to get our superhero fixes from comic books for a while, though I’m not complaining, because isn’t that the way it’s supposed to be? My glances through the various newspapers and magazines that come to this house tell me that there are no superhero movies coming to a theater...  

Ryan Gosling, who deserves to be a bigger deal in Hollywood than he is, may play the Green Lantern, who, according to our calculations, is the third most famous green superhero, behind the Hulk and the Green Hornet. (Correct us if we're wrong.) Playing a superhero may seem like a stretch for...  

IESB.net talked to Watchmen director Zack Snyder about the proposed follow-up to his hit graphic novel adaptation, 300 . Snyder told the site he has spoken with the graphic novel's creator, Frank Miller, who will be writing and drawing the graphic ...  

Published for the first time as a trilogy, the form in which they were originally conceived, Will Eisner's comics instructional books - Comics and Sequential Art , Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative and ...  

Variety says that Mandalay Pictures has picked up film rights to Liquid Comics' graphic novel "Ramayan 3392 AD" for Mark Canton to produce. Liquid was spun off from Richard Branson's Virgin Comics, which shuttered last month, and its executives are ...  

Superhero Fashion Catalogues - Diane von Furstenberg's 'Wonder Woman' [Edit] 183 Views - Click for Gallery Fashion designer, Diane von Furstenberg is bringing out a superhero comic book to launch her latest ...  

Hollywood may have its share of onscreen superheroes like Batman, Superman and Spiderman, but the situation in Bollywood is different.  

By David Bentley on Oct 3, 08 12:05 AM in Film gossip THE director of superhero smash hit Iron Man has explained why he thinks some other comicbook movies ...  

We've had superheroes who actually hold some sort of power, and we've had normal folks pretending their super, but how about possible delusion, or secret superhero traits that lead you to spell poorly? As The Hollywood Reporter posts, Woody Harrelson and Sandra Oh are starring in a new film...  

by CBR News Team, Editor Comic book super star, Jim Lee, will help kick off the 9th annual Baltimore Comic-Con at Oriole Park at Camden Yards Friday, ...  

One of the biggest superhero movie news floating around right now are the plans to reboot the Superman franchise once again.  

A new poster for Frank Miller's film adaptation of Will Eisner's The Spirit has hit the net. by Larry_Chimp_Man I was initially excited for a Frank Miller-directed The Spirit. Miller is a visionary in the comic book world and I was interested to see how he would translate the iconic character...  

Through September, the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art is offering the “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy” exhibit, taking a look at the influence of comic book costumes upon high fashion and sportswear. The symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero are...