Iran now peeved over PERSEPOLIS
It seems Iran's professional political complainers are not just annoyed at hyper-stylized fictional remembrances of 2000-year-old wars, they also dislike cartoon films made from autobiographical comics!:
Iran has protested to France over the screening at...
Ledger as Joker revealed
Quite a bit of viral marketing seems to be going on with the making of BATMAN sequel THE DARK KNIGHT underway. One such exampled is this site: I Believe in Harvey Dent which shows...
Why book folks have been turning to the comics
WaPo book reviewer puts it into perpective in this review of Haruki Murakami's novel After Dark:
Over the past 25 years, literary fiction has increasingly disdained the strict tenets of social realism. Our finest...
1988: Pekar on Letterman
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Here's an oldie but a goodie floating around on YouTube.
BTW, people tell us hey are addicted to YouTube and spend hours searching for this and that...well good for you. The first two...
Saturday Night Videos
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Before HOUSE M.D.
That reminds us, we hear the rumored Christopher Eccleston remake of THE PRISONER will be about a man who is transported to a strange village where people try to find out...
Last 10 seconds of every ST:TNG episode
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Comfortable or predictable? Or is there a difference?
PW on S&S rights “grab”
Some consternation this morning about budding GN publisher Simon & Schuster and their new rights policy which would seem to indicate ownership in perpetua. PW's Jim Milliot has more:
In a prepared statement sent out...
More animated PERSEPOLIS
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Jackson cast in the SPIRIT?
Samuel L. Jackson is apparently in talks to play the Octopus, the villian in Frank Miller's SPIRIT movie.
Samuel L. Jackson is in negotiations to star as a mysterious supervillain in the Frank Miller-helmed...
RIP Lloyd Alexander
Lloyd Alexander, 83, a critically acclaimed fantasy and adventure writer whose coming-of-age novels use vivid action and elements of mythology to depict contemporary struggles between good and evil, died May 17 at his home...
Koontz and Queenie Chan team for Del Rey
Note, this is an OGN not an adaptation.
Del Rey Manga, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group, announced today that it has acquired an original graphic novel starring Odd Thomas,...
Well, speak of the devil!
Go to the jump for the names of all the coics folk who are re-envisioning Lara.
GameTap, the first-of-its-kind broadband entertainment network from Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.), announced today the launch of a...
