Online media stuff
News of two new comics-related web-sites, one featuring two veteran bloggers; the other a weekly newsmagazine.
Continue ReadingGorillaz secret guest stars
Reader Maclaine Diemer alaerted us to this new Gorillaz video which, in addition to being just excellent, features a couple of guest stars. One is obvious -- the star of many comic-bookical movies. The other -- appearing at around the 4:00 mark -- could be an homage to another well known character? Since this is the first part of an evolving story, perhaps this mysterious figure will be back in future installments.
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 4/26/10
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet§ Ed Sizemore hosts the Manga Moveable Feast spotlight on Mushishi The concept is simple enough: for one week each month, bloggers and reviewers agree to write about one particular manga. By getting a diversity of opinions, we hope to challenge each other to see not just the featured manga, but all [...]
Continue ReadingSean Kleefeld’s Garfield mashups
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet A single gag is recycled in various settings. “What is it about Garfield that makes it so infinitely mutable? Seriously. You can’t do this so readily with, say, Beetle Bailey or Blondie or B.C.,” the author muses. Garfield’s universality and mutability are truly imponderables. What do you all think?
Continue ReadingLost: The Animated Series fan art
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Waitaminnit! That Slaterman23 is quite the busy bee — he’s also designed a Lost: The Animated Series poster. Click for larger image! Looking at this, it’s obvious that Lost is MADE for an animated spin-off…who will be the first to draw the model sheets for LOST BABIES? Speaking of Lost, shooting of [...]
Continue ReadingCool Vintage-style DC posters
Via Jill Pantozzi , yet more fan designed vintage style posters for comics stuff, this time various superheroes, via Slaterman23.
Continue ReadingCalling all WordPress experts
Share this link on Facebook!TweetAid The Beat and the Elite Beat Squad! We’re trying to import the old posts from the Old Beat, so we can shut down the site completely, but the old server won’t allow us to download the entire back-up file, either via the WordPress back-up plug-in or the MySQL database. I [...]
Continue ReadingThe scoop on Damon Albarn and Alan Moore’s John Dee Opera
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Is this the supergroup for our time? Even more super duper than the other Gorillaz superstar lineups on their new album? Over at Vulture, Gorillaz mastermind Damon Albarn has a bit more on his upcoming collaboration with Alan Moore for a new opera: it’s based on the life of John Dee, [...]
Continue ReadingMarvel movie news: Ant-Man, and other things, get smaller; GHOST RIDER’s empty saddle
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet • Yow, lots of Marvel movie news percolatin’ out there. Claude Brodesser-Akner reports that Columbia is the first studio to run up against the ticking time bomb of Marvel’s reversion clause. That is, rights to many of the film franchises Marvel has at other (i.e. not Disney) studios, such as Spider-Man, [...]
Continue ReadingLOSERS lost at B.O.
Share this link on Facebook!TweetJust to wrap things up, re our “Bad Week For Comic Book Movies” post, THE LOSERS was another blow to the Joel Silver empire, coming in at #4 with a tepid $9.6 million, behind the ancient HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON films. J-Lo’s comeback also failed, coming in a weak #2, [...]
Continue ReadingScandal: Portland Mercury disses comics! UPDATED WITH MORE OUTRAGE
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Speaking of Stumptown, we were recently alerted to a local brouhaha, namely, last week’s preview of Stumptown in The Portland Mercury. Shockingly, despite the mayor declaring Comics Month and Portland generally being Cartoon-town, USA, the Mercury ended up running this weird “comics are for losers” comic by Carolyn Main and Riley [...]
Continue ReadingA few more Stumptown memories
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet If you couldn’t be at Stumptown, you could follow along via Twitter, or check out the Portland Mercury’s photos, or Anna Faltermeier’s, or read Sara Ryan’s account of the Comics for Young Readers panel OR watch Jeff Parker transform into a Juggalo.
Continue ReadingSan Diego’s future still clouded; locals “ambivalent”
Share this link on Facebook!TweetComic-Con International held a board meeting yesterday, but a decision was NOT reached on whether to stay in San Diego or to move to one of the other cities ardently wooing the big show after the current contract expires in 2012. San Diego made a bold offer: In the hopes of [...]
Continue ReadingASTERIOS POLYP wins Los Angeles Times book prize
Share this link on Facebook!TweetDavid Mazzucchelli’s stunning ASTERIOS POLYP won the prize for the best Graphic Novel in the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, which as the judges note, is the “first major book prize in the United States to honor publications in this category, which is an expanding part of the book landscape, [...]
Continue ReadingStumptown Trophy, Kukoc Award winners
Share this link on Facebook!TweetThe Stumptown Comics Festival was held this weekend. Many folks attended the party where the awards were held, and even wrote extensive blog postings about it….but no one actually posted the winners. But Tom Spurgeon combed through Twitter like the Continental Op, and assembled a list: OUTSTANDING SMALL PRESS — BT Livermore, [...]
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