Linkage 10/30
§ Over at the The Forbidden Planet International Blog the artist known as Ilya is intervieed asbout a new brit anthology with the promising...
Daily Nerdpocalyse 10/28
http://www.youtube.com/v/jOIVOEmJKZ8
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...
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 --...
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...
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...
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...
New Kochalka video
http://www.youtube.com/v/9MWi7MPQBKQ
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...
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 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...
Spread You Evil Wings Video
http://www.youtube.com/v/Yqgz0Pf-syM
James Kochalka's video for the first hit single off his new album is up on YouTube.
