Brian Wood in the NYT
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDMZ gets the full-on Sunday Times treatment: What inspired Mr. Wood, 34, to create such a grim scenario? “Just living here,” he said during a recent interview near his Brooklyn home, where he lives with his wife, Meredith Gary, and their 9-week-old daughter, Audrey. “That makes it sound like I hate the [...]
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Marvel's 2007 prospects
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet ‘07 looks to be a banner year for Marvel, with bof-office smashdom for SPIDER-MAN 3 as sure a thing as is possible in the wild land of Hollywood; FF2, while bemoaned by purists, looks to have a solid audience base, as well. Ghost Rider looks…problematic, but at least nic Cage is [...]
Continue ReadingDetailed DC dolls
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Robert Tonner is a high end specialty doll maker, whose made collectible figures for Harry Potter and other familiar figures. He’s just turned his skills to the DC Stars Collection: Robert Tonner has long been a fan of the power and might of Super Heroes; each with its own fascinating story of [...]
Continue ReadingUFC champ hypes 300
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWarner’ is teaming with UFC light-heavyweight champ Chuck Liddell to promote 300: Kicking off the promotion, Warner Bros. will be sponsoring Liddell in his next Ultimate Fight in Las Vegas on December 30, 2006. In addition, Liddell will be making personal appearances and will lend his name and likeness to [...]
Continue ReadingLinks and thoughts
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet § Rafael Kayanan thinks the Silver Surfger would look better without eyeballs. § Jimm Rugg talks about PLAIN JANES, the lead title in the MINX line: “Obviously, I found the story captivating or I wouldn’t have considered drawing it. I find Cecil’s characterizations refreshing, articulate, and thorough. And the story was unusual compared [...]
Continue ReadingAnother Rockwell masterpiece drives family apart
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Regular readers will recall the tale of “Breaking Home Ties,” the Norman Rockwell painting that turned out to have been a forgery after HENRY cartoonist Don Trachte hid the original from his soon to be ex-wife. Well, the NY Times reports on another Rockwell-inspired family spat, this time among the [...]
Continue ReadingStan Lee on TO TELL THE TRUTH
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Back in the day! Link via Dino. UPDATE: Okay I am a moron and this is TO TELL THE TRUTH not WHAT’S MY LINE. Haste and idiocy…a deadly combination. In fairness, I never realized until this very moment that these were two different shows. I’m sure Mark Evanier is preparing a hangman’s noose [...]
Continue ReadingThe NRA Graphic Novel
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet We don’t have a lot of time to round up the reactions to this stunning piece of work here, but you can read the entirely of Freedom In Peril: Guarding the 2nd Amendment in the 21st Century here, thanks to Boing Boing. The artist is anonymous, but it’s groovy that he [...]
Continue ReadingThe "Occasional Superheroine" of Japan?
Share this link on Facebook!TweetComiPress translates a Japanese article called The Reason I Quit as a Manga Editor: wondered if I should ask him to redraw the manga, since that kind of work couldn’t be published in my magazine at the time. However, the act of denying an artist’s preference and going against his personality [...]
Continue ReadingEW on Year's Best comics
Share this link on Facebook!TweetYear’s Best lists are rolling in, and EW’s Ken Tucker weighs in with a fairly Catholic list, showing estimable taste by including Jason’s THE LEFT BANK GANG. We love Jason so much here at Stately Beat Manor that he’s in a Hall of Fame all his own.
Continue ReadingToon developments
Share this link on Facebook!TweetIt was a huge year for animated films — quantity was way up, while quality, depending on who you ask, was all over the place. Variety looks at the factors behind box office success for this years crop, revealing that timing was everything: Successful toons tend to have very strong legs, dropping [...]
Continue ReadingTeshkeel teams with UNESCO
Share this link on Facebook!TweetTeshkeel is teaming with UNESCO and Aramex, a Middle Eastern transportation company, to deliver comics to children in several nations, including Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq, to brighten this time of year. Kuwait based Teshkeel Media Group. today announced that they have joined with Aramex, the leading transportation company and UNESCO to help [...]
Continue ReadingA day that will live in infamy
Share this link on Facebook!TweetTom notes that Stan Lee and Chris Ware share a birthday, a fact that always struck us as kind of eerie. Blog @ links to a Stan interview on NPR that you can listen to to celebrate this special day.
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