With the loose change found under the couch cushions of a third-tier Hollywood producer, France has launched its most expensive movie - sorry, “film” - ever: Asterix at the Olympic Games. TIME magazine tells us:
A Gallic national treasure, Asterix is revered and adored by the French far more than even Mickey Mouse is by Americans. [...]
WTF is THIS? He-Man, Master of the Belgianverse?
Glamourpuss. What’s it all about? Dunno, but it’s
The Haute Couture Magazine parody that’s so six months ago.
and it’s
An homage to the classic photorealism black and white “beyond noir” strips of the 1940s and 50s (Alex Raymond, Stan Drake, John Prentice, Al Williamson)
and it’s
The strangest superheroine comic of all time (”Do I have an origin? Certainly [...]
Golden Age Comic Book Stories has some great Frazetta art, here, here and here.
Amazing stuff.
Thoughts on some comics:
I noticed Becky Cloonan’s work a while back, while trawling around on DeviantArt. It took some hunting, but I eventually found myself a copy of East Coast Rising - her story about pirates off the Jersey shore after the sea level has risen enough to drown most of what is currently coastal [...]
Recommended: Kukuburi. Bright colors, bold outlines, cartoony… totally not my thing, and yet, I’m really liking it. Nice, Ramon!
Journalista’s Dirk Deppy interviewed:
What really makes me want to die? The way industry true-believers assume that comics not featuring capes and tights are seen as diversions that “hurt comics,” and that different and conflicting senses of aesthetics are some sort of personal attack. I realize that this contradicts the nonchalance that I affected in the [...]
The AV Club’s interview with Chris Onstad:
AVC: Can you get lost in your own head doing a job like this, working at home all day long?
CO: Oh, I’ve gone through periods where I’ve totally lost perspective on life. I’ve gone through mini-Brian Wilson periods, where I won’t answer the phone for like weeks at a [...]
A Paul Pope tribute to Ranxerox:
Love Ranxerox even if it is way too violent and gross for its own good.
Co-blogger JMD was a Ranxerox fan, if I recall (nothing’s too gross for him!). Slightly related, here’s a Liberatore tribute to Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese:
…pretty much making Pope’s point.
So, the other day I was talking to some folks who mentioned they didn’t particularly want to go to any comic conventions (I’m being deliberately vague here). For the life of me, I can’t understand why:
On Wednesday, the San Diego International Comic Con starts. Expect announcements of projects, exclusives, signing and deals all over the [...]
Paul Pope dreams:
Dreamt I was sitting at a place called Deacon Brodie’s waiting for a friend who goes there a lot and I felt really happy. It was a nice evening, the sun was setting, 46th street in the summertime.
My phone buzzes–I have a text msg. I open the flap to read this.
In the [...]
I recently read Mike Carey’s first novel - I thought it was pretty good, despite being a bit difficult to slog though for having been more richly imagined and described than anything I’ve ever read, and I’m thinking I’ll snag his next one from Amazon UK rather than wait for it to be released here. [...]
It’s been too long since I’ve posted about any “pixie jailbait” art, so: definitely go read Perils of the Uncommon Skyway.
Paul Pope is doing a limited edition exclusive THB story, to be published by AdHouse Press (who will also be publishing his PulpHope, the Art of Paul Pope in July), that will only be given away at the San Diego Comic Con.
Fuck!
This is interesting:
And like so many of Pope’s publications, the show exclusive will include [...]
Reading the introduction to a compilation volume of Modesty Blaise strips a couple of weeks ago, I learned that back in the day, syndicated cartoonists were basically rock stars: big bucks, a bunch of young hopefuls to do half their work for them, fancy sports cars, globe trotting vacations, etc. Must be true - check [...]
A funny xkcd that’s gone pretty far and wide. Much better than “A quick brown fox…”
TJIC spanks* loser academics for self-congratulation crossed with Bond fanboyism:
“This [ academic ] conference [ on James Bond ] is a revolutionary act,” said Luc Shankland, a lecturer on media and cultural studies at the Sorbonne
Tenured academics, you see, don’t really like revolution at all. They’re the biggest stasists on the planet.
What they like is [...]
I don’t know how I’ve missed Becky’s work, but I know what I’ll be looking for the next time I make it in to MYP.
Although I didn’t much like the first one (it didn’t have much to recommend it besides special effects*), I’m hoping one can’t go wrong with Galactus.
* I know, I know. But still.