Jeffrey Catherine Jones: “The fear has left me”
Filmmaker Maria Cabardo has posted a really poignant video of Jeffrey Catherine Jones talking about dying, and her acceptance of it. I know the word poignant is overused, but it truly applies here -- the content is sad, but it is also peaceful and in the end comforting.
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Share this link on Facebook!Tweet -The Norse God continued to bring the hammer down at the North American Box Office for the second weekend in a row, contradicting industry buzz that Thor’s premiere would herald the comics movie bubble end times (via HitFix) -Not Comics Behold, the first images of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen [...]
Continue ReadingRIP: Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Jeffrey Catherine Jones, the fantasy artist who helped introduce fine art and illustration influences to comics in the '70s and beyond, has died of complications from emphysema and bronchitis, according to numerous reports. She was 67.
Continue ReadingGreen Lantern exhibit at Cartoon Art Museum
It's getting very green around here. SF's Cartoon Art Museum has a gala opening for a Green Lantern exhibit on Thursday, June 9th -- it's a "green tie" event we're told. We want in on that!
Continue ReadingELFQUEST to be on iPad/iPhone?
It's funny how something that has been around forever can still get a blog boost -- as we reported yesterday, some 6500 pages of ELFQUEST comics are online, to read, for FREE -- but they have been up for more than two years. Our post got Boing Boinged, and Richard Pini, WARP graphics co-everything, wrote in to answer some questions in that thread, especially complaints about the Flash interface (one wag posted a link to the complete Elfquest on a bit torrent site.) First, thanks for putting this "old news" back in the news.
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits: Thor puppet, new readers, more Comic-Con secrets
ECKS Vs. SEVER! WTF...?
Continue ReadingAmazing, Beautiful, Amazing: Who will win American Idol???
This is so not comics, but the Final Three go at it tonight and we'd been saving up some notes. We started watching American Idol a few years ago because we felt the need to pay attention to a least one thing that wasn't nerdy but instead reflected the more mundane and/or inane side of culture -- something universal, just so when we had to hang out with normal people we wouldn't be entirely defenseless. Plus former judges Simon and Kara talked about music a little and it was interesting. But that was then. This season's judges, Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez excel at nothing but praise, blather and administering something called the "amazing" scale:
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Prepress Hulk tells puny amateur designers where it’s at
There are many Hulks on Twitter -- feministhulk, DRUNKHULK, and HIPSTERHULK -- but it is only PREPRESS HULK, who rampages into uncontrolled rages when faced with a improper PANTONE number or lo-rez file, that is a hero in the production world.
Continue ReadingThe online library: The Complete ELFQUEST
Speaking of fantasy, one of the pillars of the fantasy comics genres is now available in its entirety to read online. ELFQUEST, Wendy and Richard Pini's saga of homeless elves and their passions and battles, first published in 1978, was one of the foundational hits of the emerging indie comics scene, and after many publishers, movie options and assorted dramas, it's still a good story.
Continue ReadingAMULET movie still in the works with Edwards to write
Share this link on Facebook!Tweet Kazu Kibuishi’s AMULET series has been a strong seller for Scholastic and also a strong candidate for the next graphic novel series to get a big movie bump — IF the movie gets made. But it still seems to be in active development. Variety reports that hot writer Rob Edwards has [...]
Continue ReadingKibbles ‘n’ Bits, 5/18/11 — those snoopy Canadians!
An update on what you can and can't bring into and out of Canada, and how to avoid getting your comics seized by the Canadian government. Also, Gahan Wilson and why hotels in San Diego will soon cost even more.
Continue ReadingMeta: It’s official! Spammers love the Beat!!
Every once in a while, we have to clean out some spam comments that have wormed their way past the Wordpress interface, and sometimes cleaning them out is a difficult task, because, more than any other group, spammers seem to really GET what we're trying to do here. For instance, Kidney Disease wrote:
Continue ReadingGene Luen Yang on LEVEL UP: Career or video games?
Gene Luen Yang's new book, LEVEL UP, covers some territory that may be familiar to many people -- a young man whose parents want him to make something of himself, while he just wants to play video games. Drawn by Thien Pham, it's Yang's latest exploration of growth and personal identity, especially as it relates to Asian Americans. But the book isn't just about video game addiction. At Wired's GeekDad, he explains where the book is really coming from in his own experience.
Continue ReadingFree Comic Book Day 2011 by the numbers: $1.5 million in publicity
Free Comic Book Day founder Joe Field looks back on this year's event (no permalinks) with some numbers:
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