Could this be the start of an online paradigm shift? IDW Publishing announced this week of the creation of their very own storefront app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, in conjunction with iVerse Media. iVerse has helped translate a lot of comics to the iPhone, including Atomic Robo, Frank Frazetta’s Death Dealer, Neozoic, Proof, and, [...]
Hey folks! The much-anticipated documentary The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, Bone and the Changing Face of Comics , is now in stock at The Beguiling. We just got it in so unfortunately I haven't seen it myself yet, but I've heard good things and Jeff Smith himself seems pretty pleased with it. The 76 minute documentary is an extensive profile on Smith including interviews and other footage, and also includes...
Marvel's Joe Quesada and comics writer Brian Michael Bendis have been tweeting about the sets they visited for Marvel Studios' Thor . Quesada wrote : I could listen to Branagh talk about Thor all day long. Cast is in place, sets are being built and screenplay is brilliant. Marveldom rules! Bendis added the following in two tweets: Broadcasting live from marvel west. Thor movie meeting with Ken branagh...
Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo: Yokai is an original 56-page watercolor graphic novel done to mark Usagi's twenty-fifth anniversary. There, that ought to be sufficient recommendation. Well, OK, just a bit more. It is Oborozuki-yo, the night when yokai, haunts and...
Like Jack Kirby? Like Nazi-killin’? Like Quentin Tarantino? Then check out this image from Superpouvoir: That’s right, some covers to Inglourious Basterds, Kirby-style. Over on CHUD, Martin Duhovic has claimed authorship for the images — no word yet if these covers are actually going to a real project. What do you think?
Artist/Cartoonist/Professor Phoebe Gloeckner will be the featured speaker at the Penny Stamps Lecture Series this Thursday, 5pm at the Michigan Theater in downtown Ann Arbor. If like me you are unable to attend (I have a prior commitment at the Serious Games Expo ), the Penny Stamps lectures are available via podcast a few days after they occur.
Cartoonist Peter Bagge did a funny one-pager about Ayn Rand for the December issue of Reason. Peter Bagge on Ayn Rand Previously:Richard Metzger on Ayn Rand - Boing Boing Young Conservative rappers explain Jesus, Ayn Rand, and ANWR ... Ayn Rand institute "shocked" by Harvard Medical School prayer ......
Cartoonist Peter Bagge did a funny one-pager about Ayn Rand for the December issue of Reason . Peter Bagge on Ayn Rand Previously: Richard Metzger on Ayn Rand - Boing Boing Young Conservative rappers explain Jesus, Ayn Rand, and ANWR ... Ayn Rand institute "shocked" by Harvard Medical School prayer ...
“Each cartoonist has a unique sensibility but was bitten by this comics bug, and sees things through that particular prism. The only common denominator is that it takes a lot of patience and craft.” - Art Spiegelman Now free and online for your reading pleasure: The Comics Journal #300. Click here and dig in! Yes, you heard right. [...]
found this after Harry Knowles' tweeted pictures of Jack Kirby-esque covers for a possible Inglorious Basterds comic book series. http://www.examiner.com/x-25720-Orlando-Pop-Culture-Examiner~y2009m11d15-Inglorious-basterds-comic-book
Crumb seems to be doing no wrong as of late. The cartoonist is the elder representative of cartoonists of the world. His recent book, The Book of Genesis, Crumb seems to have landed on the right foot literally with his recent explosion of success. Now he has shoes bases on his first creation Fritz [...]
It was Joe McCulloch who really sold me on the idea of DC’s First Wave series. In his regular preview of the week’s releases, he wrote of Batman/Doc Savage Special #1: [W]riter/mastermind Brian Azzarello seems to have a pretty great concept brewing: a matured, shared universe of pulp magazine fixtures, upset by the arrival of the [...]