Sook-Yin Lee rides the ShortBus
The New York times has a looong story about John Cameron Mitchell's new movie Shortbus. Mitchell is best known as the guy behind HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH. Shortbus is a film about...
COMICS AS ART review
Will COMICS AS ART: WE TOLD YOU SO, the oral history of Fantagaraphics be published, in the wake of the Harlan Ellison lawsuit? We sure hope so, especially after reading
this review in PRINT...
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...
5 Men in a Limo
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Too bad the sound is a bit wonky in this clip. Almost defeats the purpose. It's the trailer for the Hollywood Reporter Key Art awards, given to movie trailers. (Trivia: In our own...
300 trailer on line
Check it out quick,because it's up on some Greek website we can't even read.
The footage is toned down a bit from what we saw at Comic-con -- no topless women and decapitated heads...
PERSEPOLIS stills on line
Sony Pictures Classics has up some still from the PERSEPOLIS animated film which is due out in 2007. Creator Marjane Satrapi wrote the script and co-directed along with Vincent Paronnaud. The film is being...
Nelson on REX MUNDI
Yesterday we reported the unbelieveably thrilling news that Johnny Depp may star in a comic book movie and today the websites are all over REX MUNDI creator Arvid Nelson including this interveiw at ...
Johnny Depp to star in REX MUNDI?
An article on screenwriter Jim Uhls in the LA Times lets out a bunch of news about the potential movie adaptation of REX MUNDI by Arvid Nelson and Eric Johnson. It seems JOHNNY DEPP...
Otomo meets Cup Noodles!
Coolest thing ever for today. A site promoting Nissen for the 35th Anniversary of Cup Noodles presents an animated video by Katsuhiro Otomo (AKIRA.)
Ad Age explains (via sneaky Google cache):
Hence, the Freedom Project....
Are you older than 6? Do you have a spare $27k?
Have you been admiring the many stirring and awe-inspiring full-size Batmans made from Lego over the past year's convention season? Now one can be YOURS courtesy of FAO Schwartz:
At 6'6" tall, a Batman statue...
