What do you do after becoming one of France’s highest-paid male models? You become a fashion photographer, of course. Or that’s what Robert Jaso did, anyways, and by looking at the fruits of his work, we think his change of career was a wise choice.

A nice article at Twitxr Is All About Fun.

This month was the celebration of the 2nd aniversary of the Eisner-winning webcomics anthology “MySpace Dark Horse Presents”, but  due to the problems that Myspace has faced, the antology wasn’t published there, instead  this month it’s available  at Dark Horse e-comics section.

CBR News has confirmed that following a very public round of layoffs that saw over 400 people lose their jobs last month – including every single person associated with comic book content – MySpace.com is presently unable to accommodate Dark Horse’s latest virtual issue of “Dark Horse Presents,” which includes new work from Gilbert Hernandez as well as Joss Whedon & Jo Chen, who debut this week a brand new “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” story created exclusively for the online anthology.

Series editor Sierra Hahn doesn’t expected this move to be permanent:

However, Dark Horse hopes the move away from MySpace is only temporary, and that if and when the wounded social networking giant stabilizes, “Dark Horse Presents” will return to the site. “We’ve been spending the last few weeks trying to figure out what our relationship with MySpace would be from here on out and what we wanted to do with the anthology,” Hahn said. “It’s really important to us to keep it alive. Once they have reestablished the roles and we have a secure contact there, we want to continue that relationship and see where it will go.”

But nevertheless:

Should the MySpace arrangement resume, Dark Horse intends to supply the site with this month’s issue of “Dark Horse Presents,” as its particularly enticing contents were designed to celebrate the project’s two-year anniversary. “If that isn’t going to happen, which we should know in the next coupe of weeks, then we will be looking for the next best option of keeping ‘Dark Horse Presents’ alive and online, not necessarily through our site but through something else,” Hahn confirmed.

While DH tries to figure out the future of DHP, this month issue is online with:

• Buffy, The Vampire Slayer by Joss Whedon e Jo Chen
• The Secret Files of The Giant Man by Matt Klind
• Dreamstar by Gilberto Hernandez
• Tickets by Mike Lawrence

Wednesday Comics #01 cover

I’m excited with WEDNESDAY COMICS, first is the kind of superhero project I like and the fanboys hate, a reader friendly project that doesn’t requires a degree in advanced DC Chronology to enjoy,  it’s just good stories by good authors, and then there’s the format, it’s huge. Being used to the metric system I didn’t realize how big 14″ x 20″ was until I saw the picture of Bob Wayne with a mock up. It’s just 4 times the size of a regular comic.

We still have to wait more than one week for the comic to hit the comic shops, but there’s plenty of samples spread out, so I decide to colect them all in one place.

This is the final version of Batman, the color of the preview image that was released when the project was annouced were done at DC’s offices, so it could be sent out quickly for press releases, etc. The final colors by Patricia Mulvihill where done later.

ADAM STRANGE, by writer/artist Paul Pope (BATMAN: YEAR 100)

This is a VERY rough color guide, for the first page or Wonder Women by Ben Caldwell. this is a strip with 50 panels per page, it’s one of the stories that I’m more interested to see  in print. Caldwell has been posting a lot of preleminary work in his blog and the work is gorgeous.

From the Wednesday comics there’s still 2 strips of wich I wasn’t able to find some art samples:

• THE DEMON AND CATWOMAN, written by Walter Simonson (Thor, MANHUNTER) with Art by famed DC cover artist Brian Stelfreeze
• DEADMAN, written by Dave Bullock and Vinton Heuck, Art by Dave Bullock

WEDNESDAY COMICS will arrive in stores folded twice to 7″ x 10″, with the first issue set to reach stores on July 8. One week…

Dynamite and Barrucci have learned with the delays of American Flagg!:

We won’t solicit the material before it’s ready. For those who choose to believe us, we’ve learned from that mistake. As we construct/reconstruct the material, and rebuild the audience, the new series/chapters will come out. In a perfect world, we will have Power and Glory come out this year, and either Black Kiss or a new chapter of American Flagg! hit the first half of next year, and then the other the second half. Then either the end of next year or year after, Midnight Men and the final two Chaykin chapters of Flagg! There may be more to be discussed, but I want to take this in bite sized chunks. Not just for our sake, but for Howard, the retailers and for fans sake. We want to be fair to all

The Power & Glory trade which collects the four issues of the original miniseries is due in stores in September and will run over 120 pages with a $19.99 cover price. In September DC is also releasing a new printing of Chaykin’s Blackhawk. It’s a good month for Chaykin’s fans. Now the only thing that bugs me is the fact that the Power & Glory trade doesn’t include the Special!?

Newsarama has a quick interview with Chaykin about the upcoming Dynamite releases.

“As a child of the Space Age, I’ve always had a deep passion for the space program and science in general, and often reflect on what happened to the sense of can-do optimism I remember people having when I was a kid. I wanted to write about that: how the mood of society changed from optimistic and a bit naïve to pessimistic and cynical. I grew up in a time when people thought science and technology could make tomorrow better than today. These days, all the cool people seem to believe the opposite. I wanted to make the argument that even though we don’t have Moon colonies and flying cars–and maybe in our maturity realize we shouldn’t have expected or even sought them–there is still value in believing in and working toward a better future. Sure, we’ve got problems, but people have always had problems. I think there’s at least a decent chance that tomorrow actually could be better than today, and science and technology could still help it along.”

Brian Fies talking with Comic Book Resouces about is new graphic novel: “Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?”. The book is now available from Abrams ComicArts.

[TIME magazine] was contacted by a resident of the capital, who asked for anonymity. He or she reported that “Iranian television usually treats its viewers to one or two Hollywood or European movie nights a week. But these are not normal times, so it’s been two or three such movies a day. It’s part of the push to keep people at home and off the streets, to keep us busy, to get us out of the regime’s hair. … Channel Two is putting on a Lord of the Rings marathon as part of the government’s efforts to restore peace.”

Full article at Time, via ScifiWire.