NYCC — Cosplay Galore (Part 3)
New York Comic-Con, October 17-20, 2024
Tag: Greg Goldstein
NYCC — Cosplay Galore (Part 2)
New York Comic-Con, October 17-20, 2024
NYCC — Cosplay Galore (Part 1)
New York Comic-Con, October 17-20, 2024
Another great (and exhausting) con, and some terrific Cosplay as well. Happy Halloween!
Batman Day, 2024
September 21, 2024
In honor of Batman Day — and the caped crusader’s 85th birthday — here’s a link to all the posts that have featured Batman and his cast of colorful allies — and even more colorful villains:
https://greggoldsteincomicartgallery.com/?s=batman
We’ve been celebrating the Dark Knight throughout the month of September; one more bat-post to load next week, and then it’s off to October and monsters and ghouls, et al.
Same bat-time, same bat-channel.
SDCC — With A Little Help From My Friends
San Diego Comic-Con, July 24-28, 2024
SDCC — Old School (Part 3)
San Diego Comic-Con, July 24-28, 2024
Even more cosplay…
SDCC — Old School (Part 2)
San Diego Comic-Con, July 24-28, 2024
Some more cosplay…
SDCC — Old School (Part 1)
San Diego Comic-Con, July 24-28, 2024
Somehow, another year SDCC has already come and gone, and again, I ask the simple question: How does it go by so quickly?
I can’t answer that, but I can say this: For better or worse, the convention is pretty much back to it’s pre-pandemic magnitude.
Minus, of course, the carpeting. Please, on behalf of feet (and backs) everywhere — bring back the carpeting.
Gabe Hardman — The Apes Go “Boom”
Betrayal Of The Planet Of The Apes #3, January 2012
True Confessions:
When I was at IDW Publishing, we chased the Planet of Thae Apes license hard. And I mean hard. (I’m a super fan.) We had some terrific story ideas, and some talented creators ready to come on board if we acquired it.
The challenge was, that Fox couldn’t provide us with a guarantee that they had proper clearances on the original Marvel material. Reprinting that material would help finance the creative costs on the new series, as well as help fund the licensing fees, so that ended up as a deal breaker for us.
So… Boom swept in and acquired those rights without the reprint guarantee. And did a great job on their new material. And the joke was on us, ultimately, because Boom did end up with at least some of those reprint rights.
Sigh.
That said, we did get to do a super fun Star Trek / Planet of The Apes crossover with Boom, which is mostly a story for another day. But one nugget: Boom asked me to negotiate the “Taylor” (Charlton Heston) likeness rights with the estate, and that was one of the more reasonable and rational Hollywood-style negotiations I have ever had. And even Marvel didn’t originally have those rights. So, there’s that.
Oh, and the great Gabe Hardman did this superb cover for an issue of one the Boom series. Did I neglect to mention that?
Interlude — OAX, Better Late…
Original Art Expo, January 2024
Somehow, four months passed, and these pics from the Original Art Expo haven’t made it to the blog.
Welp, better late than never.