July 2012
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March 2012
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Moving Out →
see you there!
October 2011
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August 2011
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February 2011
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January 2011
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Best Comics Covers of 2010 (according to Robot 6) →
Sorry to be so busy, but here’s a link I couldn’t pass up sending your way: CBR blog Robot 6’s rundown of their favorite comics covers from last year. Some genuine loveliness in there. Mostly from Diamond’s Big 5 publishers.
December 2010
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September 2010
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The Imp →
Daniel Raeburn has made all four issues of his zine about comics, The Imp, available for free download. This is a swell resource. Back in the day, this was the most information on Daniel Clowes & Chris Ware I could find. When the Chris Ware monograph came out, it was by Raeburn, and much of it was repurposed from his Ware issue of The Imp. He’s also a good, fun writer about comics,...
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August 2010
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WatchDave McKean’s hour-long talk/presentation at OFFSET 2009. McKean’s one of the best artists full stop. Not just in comics. Even within comics he’s known more for his illustration work on covers, but seek out his books Cages and Pictures That Tick if you can. Amazing stuff. And, of course, his work with Neil Gaiman like Violent Cases, Signal To Noise and Black Orchid. Most...
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teaching comics →
Recording of a panel from the recently concluded San Diego Comic-Con called “Understanding, Making and Teaching Comics” with Scott McCloud & James Sturm. Definitely the two best people to talk about this topic. McCloud is the medium’s eminent theorist and literally wrote/drew the books on the topic, and Sturm founded the Center for Cartoon Studies.
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scott pilgrim's finest hour
is finally in Sputnik. My guess is if the first batch hasn’t sold out by this Friday’s big Manila Design Week shebang, it’ll all go that evening, so hop to it! Resolution!
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“A graphic novel without graphic design is like a building without girders....”
– Taken from this article on comics artists and graphic design. Sturm’s excellent books include James Sturm’s America and Market Day. He also wrote the excellent Fantastic Four book Unstable Molecules with art by Guy Davis.
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July 2010
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WatchThe full Goon clip from Comicon. Apparently it’s still not greenlit, and they’re looking to get so. That’s ridiculous to me. Fincher productions can struggle to get a greenlight? What kind of world are we living in?!
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WatchComic-con trailer for Scott Pilgrim VS The World: The Video Game.
I love that they got Paul Robertson for this.
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WatchConcept teaser for the adaptation of Eric Powell’s The Goon. Looks amazingly faithful. Produced by David Fincher. Paul Giamatti as Frankie, and I believe Clancy Brown as the Goon himself. I like the lighting.
Details at the end are for its Comicon panel.
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June 2010
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brandon graham residency →
Brandon Graham has started posting stuff on the Inkstuds website, based on a slide show he presented at Savannah College of Art & Design. Graham’s an entertaining writer when talking about things he loves, and it shows here. He presents some of his favorite comics that inspired him to become a cartoonist, and some narrative tricks and tools. Check it out, lots of interesting finds.
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“Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be...”
– - Neil Gaiman
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making love to your eyeballs →
I made a separate Tumblr for imagedumping, which I’ve been doing on Twitter, but this affords a semblance of permanence (and searchability). Since I love comics so much a lot of what I post there is from comics artists, so some of you may be interested, but I’m going to keep the comics-centric material on this Tumblr.
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May 2010
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“The power of art is that it lets us see, in someone else’s work, an idea...”
– Alan Moore - 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom (aka Bog Venus VS Nazi Cock-Ring)
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scott pilgrim theatrical trailer →
The new full trailer, chock-full of awesomeness, revealing the twin DJs and Knives! From this point on it’s a matter of trying to contain ridiculous expectations.
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close reading →
Ken Parille’s one of my favorite writers about comics, and he’s here handily indexed 35 “essays” he’s posted on his group blog Blog Flume. Check ‘em out, eye-opening stuff. I especially appreciated his appreciations of Daniel Clowes & Chris Ware. He’s even got one on Alex Nino!
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the snap and crackle of pop →
Short little gem of a comic linked by Corey Lewis. I’m not familiar with the creators, though the art style reminds me a bit of Aaron Renier crossed with a more “readable” Michael Deforge. Like Corey Lewis’s stuff (Sharknife, Peng), it gives off that crazy energy and sheer gosh-wow that I love to see in a go-for-broke, anything-goes way. It crackles with life and fun, and...
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return of a master
The comic I’m most looking forward to reading right now is Daniel Clowes’s Wilson. Book-wise we haven’t seen anything major from one of the masters of the form since Ice Haven, way back in 2005! He’s been doing a lot of interviews recently to promote the book, which is great because he’s always smart and you could learn a thing or two, but no one seems to be asking...
