Lulu Awards move to Long Beach, nominations open to public
Friends of Lulu president Valerie D'Orazio announces that this years Friends of Lulu Awrds will have a new home -- the Long Beach Comic Con. Nominations are open to the public, and can be made here -- but hurry the deadline is August 23rd. After nearly shutting down just a few weeks ago, Friends of Lulu has reemerged with an interim volunteer board. In addition, missing financial records have been recovered, and the organization is moving forward once again.
Continue ReadingBriefs & Boxers! 08/08/10
This week: Brevoort and Alonso redefine "distinct"; Kirkman talks turkey; get your very own 2.5' adamantium souvenir; collections we need; and more.
Continue ReadingWolverton’s PLOP covers
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Via Sam Henderson, a gallery of art by fabulist Basil Wolverton, from PLOP! In case you are wondering what PLOP! was, it was a humor/satire magazine published by DC in the ’70s that was sort of a companion to MAD, even though it spun out of the horror line and included Cain [...]
Continue ReadingThe Mysterious World of Mr. Mark Millar
Could this be a cover subject for CLInT Magazine? And why is Mr. Millar wearing ear goggles? Developing.
Continue ReadingThe Alcott Analysis: Batman Begins
WHAT DOES THE PROTAGONIST WANT? Bruce Wayne, orphaned at eight, wants to overcome his fears and honor his father. This turns out to be rather more complicated than he suspects it will be. Batman Begins presents a radically new vision (for the movies, anyway — this stuff had been around the comics and the animated series for many years beforehand) of the Batman story, grounds it in a startling new sense of reality, presents not just a caped crusader and a wacky new villain but a whole wealth of good guys and bad guys, all following their stars in increasingly complex and interconnected ways, all of it bound together with the one fantastic conceit of a young billionaire who dresses up like a bat. It strongly reminds me of the Casino Royale re-boot, which brought the James Bond character to a new level of immediacy while retaining enough of the series’ fantastic hallmarks to still qualify as escapism. There is still enough silliness in Batman Begins to make it a recognizable "superhero movie" (grand, outsized villains with colorful personalities and an ambitious scheme to destroy an entire city, spectacular action sequences that teeter at the brink of believability, production design that borders upon science-fiction) but it’s presented with a sober, straightfaced earnestness that’s nothing less than shocking after the garish camp of Batman & Robin. The Dark Knight would successfully develop all of Begins‘s good ideas into an even more complex, startling vision of modern urban justice.
Continue ReadingTo Do Tomorrow: Fred Van Lente at Governor’s Island
Share this link on Facebook!TweetJust off the southern tip of Manhattan lies Governor’s Island, formerly an Army and Coast Guard base. Decommissioned in 1996, it was sold to the City of New York for $1, with the only restrictions being no permanent housing or casinos. Since 2003, the city has opened it to visitors during [...]
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Tony Scott to direct NEMESIS for Fox
You could learn a lot from Mark Millar. Seriously. Not content to let his movie option deal announcement go live and get covered everywhere, he got a full three days of publicity out of it! And made such a big deal of it that Bleeding Cool literally wouldn't sleep until they scooped Deadline on the news -- which everyone we talked to seems to have known for days. So a big deal becomes a Bigger Deal. That is how you market it, Mark Millar, and we salute you.
Continue ReadingTonight To Do: Callahan and Broth at Secret Headquarters
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Continue ReadingTonight To Do: Gene Yang at Boutiki in San Jose
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet SLG Boutiki 577 S. Market St. San Jose, CA 95113 408-971-8929 MORE INFO HERE
Continue ReadingColleen Doran’s sites hacked, but will return
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Both of artist Colleen Doran’s sites — A Distant Soil and Colleendoran.com — have been hacked, she confirmed in a phone call. Luckily, all her sites — which host her webcomic serialization of A DISTANT SOIL and her popular, pithy blog– had been backed up and have been moved to a [...]
Continue ReadingGregory Noveck leaving DC
Share this link on Facebook!TweetWe won’t slap a “Tolja!!!” over this, but a memo this afternoon confirms what many had been predicting since DC’s new regime took over last fall: SVP of creative affairs Greg Noveck who for six years had been DC”s main man in Hollywood, is leaving to go back to producing. A [...]
Continue ReadingMan of Action gets more action with Spider-Man
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet While folks like Mark Millar, Mike Mignola, and Robert Kirkman have been deservedly marked by the success of their creations in Hollywood, one hard-working studio of writers has a pretty significant run of hits behind them — without getting too much in the way of recognition. We’re talking about the Man [...]
Continue ReadingDC Comics Month-to-Month Sales: June 2010
Share this link on Facebook!Tweetby Marc-Oliver Frisch After unleashing a deluge of new titles in May, DC Comics’ lineup of major periodicals was fairly restrained in June. There were oversized “milestone” issues of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman, the latest Green Arrow relaunch and, following up on a 2008 event, a second wave of Joker’s Asylum [...]
Continue ReadingYogi Bear stars in new horror film about deviant sex
Or at least that's what the poster says. Click for the full size version so you can see the single sinister spot of moisture on Yogi's nose—mucus? phlegm? or...something else???—and the light glinting off his vampire fangs. Brrrrrr. "Good things come in bears." How much did the people who sat around coming up with this slogan get paid?
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