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Avril Lavigne’s New Video Is The Best Comic of 2013

08/20/2013 2:10 pm by Steve Morris

Avril Lavigne’s New Video Is The Best Comic of 2013

If Heidi is allowed to post about Lord of the Rings, then I’m allowed to write about my passions too, and of course by that I mean Avril Lavigne videos. Her new video for ‘Rock N Roll’ is another masterpiece from the Canadian, a Tank Girl-styled piece set in the desert and featuring comic-styled artwork […]

Filed Under: Music, Top News, Videos Tagged With: Avril Lavigne, Comics, Music

Run DMC’s Daryl McDaniels teams up with Bronze Age Great Sal Buscema…and that was a real thing

08/02/2013 12:42 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Run DMC’s Daryl McDaniels teams up with Bronze Age Great Sal Buscema…and that was a real thing

Like many of the great rappers—and he is one of the old skool greats—Darryl “DMC” McDaniels grew up a big comics nerd. So after meeting up with a fellow comics loving music exec, McDaniel decided to get involved with his own “Darryl Makes Comics”, which will release a graphic novel called DMC in the fall. […]

Filed Under: Music, Top News Tagged With: Music, Top News

Henry and Glenn #1 sells 71,000 copies — to celebrate, here’s a preview of issue #2

06/19/2013 2:00 pm by Heidi MacDonald

Henry and Glenn #1 sells 71,000 copies — to celebrate, here’s a preview of issue #2

Tom Neely’s HENRY & GLENN FOREVER is a reinvention—totally fictional—of two rock icons combined with some razor sharp cartooning and the result is a comics classic. A POPULAR, comics classic: Publisher, Microcosm’s Joe Biel, lets it drop in this interview that HENRY & GLENN FOREVER has sold 71,000 copies. Given that it costs a mere […]

Filed Under: Art, Indies, Music, Top News Tagged With: Art, Indies, Music, Top News

REVIEW: Black Mask Studios Hits the Ground Running with TWELVE REASONS TO DIE

05/10/2013 4:00 pm by Hannah Means-Shannon

REVIEW: Black Mask Studios Hits the Ground Running with TWELVE REASONS TO DIE

Black Mask Studios is the ambitiously game-changing publishing company founded to bring out OCCUPY COMICS and much more, headed by Matt Pizzolo (GODKILLER, HALO-8), Steve Niles (30 DAYS OF NIGHT and much more), and Brett Gurewitz (Epitaph Records). In interviews when the company formally announced itself, they touted a new structural framework for comic book […]

Filed Under: Comics, Indies, Music, News, Reviews, Top News Tagged With: Adrian Younge, Black Mask Studios, Breno Tamura, Brett Gurewitz, Ce Garcia, Dave Murdoch, Ghostface Killah, Gus Storms, Jean-Paul Csuka, Joe Infurnari, Kyle Strahm, Matt Pizzolo, Matthew Rosenberg, Occupy Comics, Patrick Kindlon, Reviews, Soul Temple Music, Steve Niles, Twelve Reasons to Die

The Doors App Tells Morrison’s Tale through Haspiel’s Comics

05/08/2013 12:00 pm by Hannah Means-Shannon

The Doors App Tells Morrison’s Tale through Haspiel’s Comics

You might have caught wind of the fact that a multi-media iPad app has been released this week featuring The Doors as part of a “fan experience” that was created to coincide with the digitization of boxed sets by Warner Music Group. The app seeks to “tell the tale” of The Doors through a unique […]

Filed Under: Comics, Music, News, Top News, Videos Tagged With: apps, Billy Dogma, Comics, Dean Haspiel, Digital Comics, Jim Morrison, multi-media, Music, News, The Doors, Warner

INTERVIEW: Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton Team Up on Kickstarter!

04/15/2013 9:31 am by Steve Morris

INTERVIEW: Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton Team Up on Kickstarter!

Kick up the Kick-Watcher! Today sees the launch of Code Monkey Save World, a new 60-page graphic novel from Greg Pak and Jonathan Coulton, to be brought to life by the artistic team of Takeshi Miyazawa, Jessica Kholinne, and Simon Bowland. Wait – Jonathan Coulton, the musician, sir? Yes sir, that’d be him! The graphic […]

Filed Under: Crowdfunding, Graphic Novels, Interviews, Kickstarter, Monkeys, Music, News, Top News Tagged With: Crowdfunding, Graphic Novels, Greg Pak, Interviews, Jonathan Coulton, kickstarter, Monkeybrain Comics, Music, News, Top News

Meet your new Annie: Quvenzhane Wallis

02/25/2013 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Meet your new Annie: Quvenzhane Wallis

That sturdy comic strip-to-stage-to-movie warhorse Little Orphan Annie is getting a remake and now a star: Quvenzhane Wallis. he Beast of the Southern Wild star, the youngest ever Best Actress Oscar nominee, will star in a modernized remake of the stage musical. 9-year-old Wallis attended last nights Oscars looking fine, and appropriate and carrying a puppy purse.

Filed Under: Comic Strips, Music, Top News Tagged With: Quvenzhane Wallis

Shocker: superheroes are doing the Harlem Shake

02/22/2013 9:30 am by Heidi MacDonald

Shocker: superheroes are doing the Harlem Shake

What is the Harlem Shake? It involves gathering your friends in a messy room and jigging about merrily while wearing costumes and/or masks. Good old fashioned fun, really. Although the Harlem Shake is a real dance going back a decade or more and performed in Harlem, the new dance is for those too uncoordinated to do it Gangnam Style.

Filed Under: Fashion, Music, Videos Tagged With: Baauer, dance craze, Fashion, harlem shake

First Look: The Fabulous Killjoys comic finally coming out in June – UPDATED

12/18/2012 10:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

First Look: The Fabulous Killjoys comic finally coming out in June – UPDATED

One of the great comics from the Plane of Limbo, The Fabulous Killjoys is finally coming out this June, with a Free Comic Book Day preview. You may recall this collaboration between My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, writer Shaun Simon and artist Becky Cloonan is the print component of MCR’s 2010 SF concept album, Danger […]

Filed Under: Dark Horse, Music Tagged With: Becky Cloonan, Dark Horse, Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance

Video: Dash Shaw animates Sigur Rós

12/05/2012 9:00 am by Heidi MacDonald

Video: Dash Shaw animates Sigur Rós

Seraph from Sigur Rós Valtari Mystery Films on Vimeo. Describing the work of Dash Shaw as “unique” strains the meaning of the word: childlike and formalist, preoccupied with the physical body and and the larger body of the family. Since his books the massive family drama Bottomless Belly Button and eerie sci-fi Body World, he’s […]

Filed Under: Cartoons, Music, News Tagged With: Cartoons, Dash Shaw, News, Sigor Ros, Sundance

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