Daily Nerdpocalyse 10/28
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ROBOT CHICKEN animates Weird Al song.
Short random items
§ The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal rounds up the grueling life of the daily strip cartoonist, and looks at notorious drop-outs like Watterson, Larson and now McGruder.
§ The Detroit News updates the William Messner-Loebs story,...
Coffee opera boffo in Portland
An excited Shannon Wheeler writes to tell us that the world premiere of the Too Much Coffee Man opera was a big success -- the run has sold out and been extended. Two city...
If cartoonists were celebrities
Bob Fingerman's new book Recess Pieces is gory horror fest about kid zombies, but Bob admits he's squeamish about violence, and was even grossed out by Monty Python as a kid. "I remember being...
Comics at the Opera
The long awaited TOO MUCH COFFEE MAN opera opens tonight, and The Portland Tribune has a preview:
They sing another ode to coffee, and thatâs it.âIn the comic there were three locales, but I cut...
Kibbles, Bits 9/19 matey
ITEM! Kingdom Come: Superman supplants Jesus as icon for rappers returning from retirement wilderness, or in Jay-Z's case, retirement wonderland.
ITEM! Colleen Doran plans to turn long out of print GN into webcomic:
A...
New Kochalka video
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The second video from James Kochalka's new album is out, and it delivers the timeless message "Wash Your A**."
Over on the TCJ message board (now with editing!) Kochalka revelas that the...
Movie tidbits
Variety parses the Comic Book Movies/Itochu pact, boiling it down to a wish to make films based on Shotaro Ishinomori's work.
Itochu's interest in the deal mostly derives from CBM's plans to make live-action...
The Too Much Coffee Man Opera
When one mentally totes up a list of comics characters who could be turned into an opera, Shannon Wheeler's Too Much Coffee Man probably isn't one of the first one begging for an aria....
Spread You Evil Wings Video
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James Kochalka's video for the first hit single off his new album is up on YouTube.
Todd McFarlane, video director
Speaking of Todd McFarlane, in addition to his other feats, he's also a Grammy-winning video director, and he has a new animated video out for Disturbed's cover of Genesis' "Land of Confusion". Watch here.
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