Everybody in comics knows Alex Ross, right? Painter/artist and co-writer of things like Marvels, Kingdom Come, and so forth? But that’s not all Alex is up to, it seems.
Remember when you expressed interest in an artistic career and your parents told you to have a back up career, like accounting, in case the arts didn’t […]
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The Other Career of Alex Ross
May 10th, 2008 · No Comments
The Iron Man (Movie) Review
May 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Heard good things about Iron Man? You heard right, its an odd, but faith-affirming instance of a movie that lives up to the hype. I’m going to break this into two parts, the meat of the film, and the allusions to the Iron Man comics and cartoons (much of which is laying the groundwork for the eagerly […]
Tags: Comics · Eclectica · Film and Television
New York Comic Con 2008 Programming Notes
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Been to take a look at the programming for the 2008 New York Comic Con yet?
If not, get ready for a double take. This year, Sunday is designated “Kid’s Day.” Everybody agrees getting more kids involved with comics is a good thing and it appears the show is celebrating it with an appearance by… Captain […]
Giving Them Hell - Mike Mignola Sees His Major Creations Hit the Silver Screen
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Originally printed in New York Resident the week of March 29, 2004
“I remember having a giant grin,” Mike Mignola recalled of seeing the big screen debut of his decade-old comic book character, Hellboy, at a 1 a.m. screening in Austin. Mignola, a current Battery Park resident and on-and-off New Yorker for the past 20 years, […]
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Do Comic Book Anthologies Really Sell?
April 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Everyone talks about how the problem with comic books is how they’re too thin and a nice big thick anthology (ala Shonen Jump or another native manga magazine) is what we need to save comics.
That’s an interesting thought. After all, most comics were 64 page anthologies when comics started in the 1930’s and ’40s. […]
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The League of Extraordinary Gentleman: The Black Dossier - A Review
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier
By Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill
208 pages
ISBN-13: 978-1401203061
Buyer beware, if you pick up The Black Dossier expecting a similar product to the first two volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, you are in for a bit of a jolt, and I’m not sure everyone’s going to like […]
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Horror, Please… But Hold the Sorcery (Warren Ellis and Scars)
April 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Scars
Written by Warren Ellis, Drawn by Jacen Burrows
Avatar Press ISBN 1-59291-018-1
Warren Ellis is probably best known to the general public as the writer of Transmetropolitan, a satirical series of graphic novels about an outlaw journalist out to bring down a corrupt president in a particularly sordid future. In a few months he may be more […]