“Garbage Truck” by Sex Bob-Omb
Call me crazy but I still love this. Music by Beck Hansen.
Continue ReadingSANDMAN in development as a TV show
Set your TiVo for the Dream King! After years of limbo for a proposed SANDMAN movie, the hugely popular Neil Gaiman fantasy comics series is now in development as a TV series, THR reports. Warners is trying to get the property going, with Supernatural producer Eric Kripke, on the short list to develop.
Continue ReadingStumptown 2011 announces dates and bigger venue
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Portland’s Stumptown Comics Fest, an increasingly popular stop on the indie comics festival circuit, is moving to the Oregon Convention Center, a bigger venue that will allow for growth. it has been announced. Initial guests were also announced: Carla Speed McNeil, Molly Crabapple, Kurt Busiek, Larry Marder, and Barry Deutsch. Details [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits — 9/2/10
From the past to the future with Brian Wood, Hope Larson, Brian Hibbs and so on, true believers,
Continue ReadingMark Waid: What he meant to say about the digital reality
Mark Waid has reconstructed his controversial Harvey night speech and made what he was getting at much clearer: “Yes, Professor Waid, you hippie freak, sharing is all well and good, but how does that pay my bills?”
Continue ReadingPekar legacy under dispute
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet When Harvey Pekar died on July 12th, he was revealed in death to be a figure more influential and revered than he would ever have dared hope in life. He left a literary legacy as well as a wealth of projects in the pipeline. And he also left some awkwardness, as [...]
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Download this: The Imp by Daniel Raeburn
Daniel Raeburn has made the entire four-issue run of his 1997-2002 fanzine The Imp available for PDF download. Single topic issues on Dan Clowes, Jack Chick, Chris Ware and Mexican historietas generally defined the direction of all future scholarship on such topics and this is one of the finest and most influential bits of comics scholarship/criticism of the last 20 years. So go download for your iPad or whatever.
Continue ReadingBriefs & Boxers! 09/01/10
In his “Emanata” column at Techland, Douglas Wolk looks at the promotional efforts for an upcoming Marvel story by Jonathan Hickman, singling out Fantastic Four as a series that particularly finds itself in the shadow of its creators: “As Lee and Kirby established the FF, their premises are inflexible: they're a family. They're explorers. They have adventures together. […] If you stick to those axioms, you're not just making a Fantastic Four story, you're making one in the Lee/Kirby tradition […]. If you ignore any of those axioms, then it's not really the Fantastic Four any more, and the question becomes how, and how quickly, it's going to get back to being the ‘real’ Fantastic Four.”
Continue ReadingOnly you can make Jim Woodring’s giant steel pen dreams come true!
The great fantasist/cartoonist Jim Woodring has only raised 49 percent of the $4500 he needs to construct a Giant Steel Dip Pen and Penholder which he will use to demonstrate art, cure cancer, open a portal to Vhoori, save Social Security and make kittens fly out of rainbows. In this dimension, Woodring's plans for the giant pen are equally noble:
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