A couple more pictures from the National
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe National, a comics show here in NYC, was like it always was: a very very old school show that includes low ceilings and lots of long boxes. Val Kilmer felt poorly and went home early so we didn’t get to get a picture with him. We ran into Richard Howell [...]
Continue ReadingYoe is looking for dirty cartoons!
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe also ran into Craig Yoe at the National, and he showed us a mockup of his upcoming book, Clean Cartoonists’s Dirty Drawings, and it was an eye-opener and no mistake. What was Ernie Bushmiller’s obsession with dogs sniffing each other’s butts? And man, did Carl Barks draw sexy girls. [...]
Continue ReadingWomen at the Jewish Museum
Share this link on Facebook!TweetElayne has an excellent write up of last week’s panel on women in comics at the Jewish Museum: Other topics touched on in the too-brief discussion portion were bizarre breasts, how male artistic preferences tend to be more confrontational, whether the panelists have a specific audience gender in mind when they work, [...]
Continue ReadingLevitz on Transmedia
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We told you about that MIT Convergence Culture Consortium thing that took place over the weekend, and if you really want to delve in they have transcripts and what not, including that panel that DC’s Paul Levitz took part in. You can read a transcript here and here. It’s a little [...]
Continue ReadingType-casting: guy who plays nerd on TV is a nerd in real life
Share this link on Facebook!TweetMasi Oka has become a hero to geeks around the world. Once a mild-mannered effects guy at ILM now he’s starring in TV smash HEROES as Hiro, a nerd who gets superpowers. In an LA Times profile, Oka visits Kinokuniya Books and points out his favorite mange: Playing a comic-book-obsessed character has [...]
Continue ReadingCartoonists around the world
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Aline Kominsky Crumb talks about her husband vi his self-portraits in the LA Times: As a child, my husband, Robert, already felt like an alienated old man (top left). He longed for the past, never having actually known what he was nostalgic for. It was as if he were born in [...]
Continue ReadingJackson not gonna make the HOBBIT
Share this link on Facebook!TweetOneRing.Net has a letter from director Peter Jackson where he explains that due to his not being able to work on THE HOBBIT until his lawsuit with New Line over the profits of FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, New Line has told him they don’t want him to make THE HOBBIT…or a [...]
Continue ReadingLovable 'toon penguins defeat James Bond
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet “Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger?” “No, Mr. Bond, I expect you to waddle over to that ice floe and guard your eggs fiercely.”: A cadre of singing and dancing penguins beat out the monkey-suited international superspy James Bond at the B.O. this weekend, as Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow’s CG-animated “Happy [...]
Continue ReadingShake hands with danger…again
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Screw those celebutantes. Angelina Jolie is the MODERN heroine. Off in some remote part of the Third World, she zips off in a speed boat, holding a baby, wearing a Lara Croft wife beater AND she has Brad Pitt for a sidekick. Where are they going? Bust up a spy ring? [...]
Continue ReadingWar and Peace: PS3 and Wii
Share this link on Facebook!TweetViolence broke out around the nation as crowds scrambled for the new Sony PlayStation 3 which has been released in limited quantities; a Massachusetts man was shot while waiting in line to buy one: At 3:15 a.m., two armed robbers shot Michael Penkala, 21, of Webster, Mass., outside a Wal-Mart store in [...]
Continue Reading"Saturday Morning Art" show opens tonight at MoCCA
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe public reception runs from 8 to 11 — tickets are $15 — but for the toon heads out there, this should be an awesome show. âSaturday Morning: Art and Artifacts from a Golden Age of Television.â? The exhibition, which opens on November 18th, 2006 will celebrate nearly sixty years of television [...]
Continue ReadingOddball movie news: THE TRIPPER, LINDA LINDA LINDA
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet THE TRIPPER is a horror film whose villain is an axe-wielding former president. It was directed by David Arquette and co-written by Arquette and former comical type Joe Harris (DARKNESS FALLS) which is why we’re mentioning it here. The film also stars comics writer Thomas Jane as well as Jaime King, [...]
Continue ReadingThe Three Act Structure
Share this link on Facebook!TweetChris Butcher has a long important post spinning off from Queenie Chan’s comments on making her Tokyopop OEL/OGM THE DREAMING. First quote is from Chan: âFrom this perspective, it’s almost inevitable that “The Dreaming” is structured in a Three-Act Structure. Does that mean that the three-act structure suits the 3-book format? [...]
Continue ReadingThis weekend…The National in NYC
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet It’s time for THE NATIONAL, the Big Apple Con’s biggest show of the year. You can see all the media type guests in the above graphic, but there are also many cool comics folks: Joining a list that already includes Neal Adams, John Romita Sr. and John Romita Jr. are ground breaking [...]
Continue ReadingLevitz speaks to eggheads
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIf you like think tank talks about the future, you would probably like the MIT CMS/C3 Futures of Entertainment Conference taking place this weekend. Registration is closed, alas: As advertisers look for new ways to engage audiences, content creators search for new audiences, and audiences quest for new ways to connect with [...]
Continue ReadingOur Sponsors
CLASSIFIEDS
RECENT COMMENTS