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Saturday Runaround – Middle Class Batman
DoctorWatch: On eBay right now…
ShopWatch: A comic book store in Astoria Queens is celebrating its 20th Anniversary – and wants a young lady to dress up as a superhero. That's their excuse anyway and they're sticking to it. $150, you bring the costume.
MangaWatch: The Blu Ray and limited edition DVD release of anime Trigun: Badlands Rumble will be released in Japan with the two-part manga Gekijoban Trigun Bangai-hen: Dodongo Kyodai Honeycombed Village no Ketto which originally appeared in Shounen Gahousha's Young King Ours magazine. Creator Nightow has also drawn the cover illustrations for the discs especially.
This is The Bleeding Cool ComicChron Robot speaking. I come for your women. But for now I merely collate comic-related bits and pieces online. One day I will rule. Until that day, read on.
I thought it would be fun to do a Middle Class version of Batman. He has the same life story as the one we all know, but he didn't grow up with all the riches.
THE BRIAN WOOD PROJECT (Part 1)
The way I've broken this project up is… wait, back up, let's talk about that. I ended up calling the extended essay THE BRIAN WOOD PROJECT. That was originally just a simple self-explanatory working title that Ryan and I used casually without any thought whatsoever. As in, "hey man, I have this idea for a Brian Wood project," or "dude, maybe this will help you with that Brian Wood project you mentioned." I toyed with other titles that I won't embarrass myself by mentioning, but they all seemed too precise and too exacting. They felt clinical and acute, when I wanted to invoke a broader sense of this powerful creative force. It's no "Theories & Defenses," but THE BRIAN WOOD PROJECT just rolled off the tongue and sounded like a band to me, for what that's worth.
"THE ASTRONAUT'S BIRTHDAY" – Redmoon at the MCA by Redmoon Central — Kickstarter
Employing creative new technologies, live performers, and hand-illustrated shadow imagery, the audience can view 80-foot-tall comic book-like images on the MCA's façade. The performance is presented in the windows of the MCA's front façade while audiences of up to 1,000 a night are seated outdoors in the MCA Plaza. Event launch begins September 9th through the 26th!
2010 Lit Awards | PEN Center USA
GRAPHIC LITERATURE Winner: Matt Fraction: For His Outstanding Body of Work
Zuda: The Collective » Blog Archive » Top 5 Mistakes Made in Starting a Comics Career
No one will give you an assignment unless you've shown that you that you can actually make comics — regularly. Even if you are mindbogglingly talented, there are others who are less so, but have shown that they can do the work.
Agent M Loves Tacos -> tagged/MRVLCATS
The obligatory #MRVLCATS link.
Artist Gives VAMPIRELLA Pants For Dynamite
Vampirella's always had the looks, the powers, the mystique. But thanks to Wagner Reiss, she's got something that she hasn't had before: Pants.
14 Celebrities Who Appeared on Comic Book Covers
comics creators have never been shy about reaching into the wider universe of pop culture for cover subjects. DC's main rival Marvel Comics has gotten in on the act on occasion as well. Here are 14 examples of surprising, unexpected, downright unusual celebrities who have found their way onto comic book covers through the years.
Nealy completing screenplay about Image Comics and the 90's. Can't wait to cast this baby!
Tower Prep, the live action series created and written by Paul Dini (Batman: The Animated Series, Tiny Toon Adventures, Ultimate Spider-Man), will debut on the Cartoon Network at 8pm (ET, PT) on Tuesday, October 19th. The protagonist of the one-hour drama series, which is a clever sort of "The Prisoner meets the X-Men" mash-up, is Ian Archer, a rebellious teen who wakes up one morning in a mysterious academy for students with special abilities.
Traveling exhibit at the James A. Michener Museum focuses on unique art form | NJ.com
"LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel" comes to the James A. Michener Museum, 138 S. Pine St., Doylestown, Pa., from Sept. 25 through Jan. 10. Special programs and lectures, demonstrations and classes will be held throughout the exhibit's stay at the museum.
Though we are in the rather unique position of monitoring, reporting and editorializing on comic book storylines and the comic book industry, we're fairly confident that many of you have the same feeling we do – comics aren't all that exciting at the moment. Though the cynical side of us (and you) would likely dismiss this sentiment as jaded overexposure, we can't help but notice the lack of momentum in the industry – and it seems sales to reflect that to some degree.
The Knife's Silent Shout is one of the most innovative albums I've ever heard. Ranging from very atmospheric, almost ambient songs like "The Captain", to synthpop songs with a focus on vocals such as "Marble House", this album is all over the electronica map. It's dark, it's pop, it's dance, everything. Karin Dreijer Andersson is probably the best vocalist in the electronic scene right now. That voice will be in your head for days to come. Although her and the other half of The Knife – Olof Dreijer – are both Swedish, this album is sung entirely in English. Even so, I can't quite tell you what all this album is about. I've heard that the album is based off of the Black Hole comics by Charles Burns. The extent of what I know is that it has to do with a fictional STD that causes it's victims to become mutated… quite strange, I know. The album definitely portrays that strangeness, no doubt, in a whole new light.
The Last Convenience Store of Krypton. on Twitpic
So that's where that bottle came from.
Comics That Should Vanish – Techland – TIME.com
When it comes to the profusion of comics and the ever-expanding bulk of Previews, I am generally a "let a hundred flowers bloom" kind of guy; I'm very happy that American comics have reached the point where there are so many different kinds of publications for so many different kinds of readers. But every explosion is followed by an implosion, and as someday it may happen that a victim must be found, I have a few suggestions for more or less common varieties of comics that I would be happy to see quietly disappear.
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