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Wednesday, May 16, 2001
...Eh? UK music mag (basically a tabloid, but we won't quibble) NME is reporting that Marilyn Manson has been brought in to score FROM HELL. We take everything we read in the UK entertainment press with a grain of salt, and perhaps you should too.
posted by Chris at 10:54 PM EST
Thursday, May 10, 2001
A preview of Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's NEW X-MEN #114 is now available. Go.
And have you been to Morrison's website lately? It's been updated with a new column and a new letters page. Excellent reading material. And he even mentions who the artist of THE FILTH, his upcoming creator-owned series, is... HINT: He's made a name for himself lately drawing planes and working with UK writers whose last names begin with "E"...
posted by Ross at 10:56 PM EST
Monday, May 07, 2001
The newest comics-crit website, the long-delayed Ninth Art, has arrived. Let my extremely unbiased :::coughing fit::: self recommend them to you heartily.
posted by Chris at 3:21 AM EST
Friday, May 04, 2001
Sigh. The fine folks at Newsarama say good-bye... for now, at least. Check out the good-bye messages from Mike Doran and Matt Brady (the head Newsarama newshounds), Randy Lander and Don MacPherson (the crack review duo), and Patrick Kellar (the wily humor columnist) and lament the demise of one of the 'net's best comics resources...
And, while you're there, check out Grant Morrison's still-brilliant column, "The Revolution is Now".
An excerpt:
Comics.
Just when you think you�ve managed to leave them behind, there they are, fuming like Saigon under a rotten haze of sour ink-smog. Those streets thronged with freakish, child-eyed cartoon-men making stuff up, under their breath, �for money.� Pimps of the imagination with their druggy beards and shaved heads and funny voices and the stupid, self-important opinions they bray down every witless ear. This city twisted backwards, haunted by the bright, the damaged and deranged, where the word �genius� is daubed on each garbage sack regardless of what�s inside.More>>
posted by Ross at 9:46 PM EST
Thursday, April 26, 2001
You may have noticed some slight tweakage in the sidebar. This may be a precursor to bigger and better things, or it might just be a small fix. I can never predict how my initiative will run. Stay tuned.
(thanks to Soon and Jason for suggestions and bug-catching)
posted by Chris at 9:13 PM EST
Monday, April 23, 2001
I'm a few days late by now, but you need to read Newsarama's interview with Warren Ellis, in which he discusses, among other things, his upcoming creator-owned limited series (DOWN and RED), creator ownership, format, decompressed storytelling, and heroes in Ellis' stories. Plus, there's a brief chat with RED artist Cully Hamner at the end of the Ellis interview, too.
Also worth mentioning: Newsarama's STARMAN retrospective and word on the new ongoing DAREDEVIL creator line-up and what Brian Azzarello might be doing with THE AUTHORITY. (For the last two bits of news, you'll need to scroll down a bit.)
posted by Ross at 2:39 PM EST
Wednesday, April 18, 2001
Ben Katchor, creator of the acclaimed JULIUS KNIPL, REAL ESTATE PHOTOGRAPHER comics, has received a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award of $500,000. Oh my.
(via ComicGeek)
posted by Chris at 1:26 AM EST
Tuesday, April 17, 2001
I find myself praying that Dave Sim does not know two things: (1) How to make a bomb, and (2) Gail Simone's home address. Dave Sim's Guide To Getting Chicks, in this week's YOU'LL ALL BE SORRY!
posted by Chris at 9:48 PM EST
The fantastic folks at Newsarama have DC's July 2001 solicitations up; go give them a look. By far the most interesting thing there is the INVISIBLES: ENTROPY IN THE UK TPB collection, which collects issues 19-25 of INVISIBLES, volume one, leaving volume three as the only volume yet to be collected. I think it goes without saying that Chris and I are both absolutely ecstatic about this; the name of this blog alone should clue you in as to how much we dig THE INVISIBLES...
That said, it's not as though that's the only interesting thing coming out from DC that month. There's also BATMAN: EVOLUTION, the first collection of Greg Rucka's fine work on DETECTIVE COMICS; a preview of THE ESTABLISHMENT (the upcoming Ian Edginton/Charles Adlard "spinoff" of Ellis' STORMWATCH/AUTHORITY) in THE AUTHORITY #24; CYBERNARY 2.0, which features art by the stunningly good Eric Canete; WILDCATS: SERIAL BOXES, a the second TPB collection of Joe Casey and Sean Phillips' fine work on that series; a second PROMETHEA hardcover collection; the "season finale" of TOP 10; and more of that "Our Worlds at War" mega-event story, which, I admit, is starting to pique my interest a bit... not enough to buy the individual chapters, but if they come out with a TPB collection or two, I might be tempted to give it a try...
(Note: For more information on some of the above-mentioned comics, click here. There are more detailed descriptions and more art samples for some of the above-mentioned comics. )
However, if you buy only one thing from DC in July, make it the ENTROPY IN THE UK trade. Unless, of course, you haven't already bought the preceding v1 trades, SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION and APOCALIPSTICK, in which case you should buy those now so you're good and ready for ENTROPY IN THE UK when it comes out in July...
If you're looking for more information about THE INVISIBLES, I doubt you'll find a better site than The Bomb, though those unfamiliar to the series might want to be a bit cautious when visiting, as it can be a bit spoiler-heavy (it's perhaps best visited after one has read the series; it's a fantastic place to go to find the answers to nagging questions or just to simply discover new bits in the series that you missed on the first few reads...).
Also, forgot to blog this earlier, but the Newsarama folks also have a fairly interesting interview with Joe Kelly up, wherein he discusses the "controversial" ACTION COMICS #775; you know, the "Superman vs. The Authority" one.
posted by Ross at 1:38 AM EST
Monday, April 16, 2001
I was puttering around Image's website (because I live to put off homework...), and discovered a press release detailing their July-December '01 schedule, which contained a number of interesting tidbits. Including:
This August, Image is proud to release the first softcover edition of KABUKI: METAMORPHOSIS, Mack's most ambitious graphic novel to date. Mack utilizes a wide variety of mixed media fine art techniques to create this poetic meditation on identity, psychology, gender, and culture.
In September:Picking up where the classic 80s series left off, this all-new series will feature the classic Joe characters and concepts fans remember and a bevy of new surprises to engage a new generation of readers. Written by Josh Blaylock and drawn by Steven Kurth, the first issue of GI JOE ships in September with a cover by DC/Cliffhanger star J. Scott Campbell!
Wow. 'JOE is coming back to comics... Marvel's 'JOE series was the very first comic that I bought and read on a monthly basis, and for that reason it'll always hold a special place in my heart. (Plus, the toys were just too cool...) So, for reasons of nostalgia alone (I don't have the faintest who Blaylock and Kurth are or what they've done...), I might check this out...
Also in September:...Image is proud to release the POWERS SCRIPT BOOK by Brian Michael Bendis.
Any resource that can be of assistance aspiring comics creators is a Very Good Thing. Plus, I'm interested in seeing Bendis' scripts. (And, yes, I know that the script for POWERS #1 was included in the recent POWERS: WHO KILLED RETRO GIRL? collection... but, hey, the more scripts the better, right?)
And, in October:Minotaur Press gets DOWN with a new series by two of the most respected creators in comics. Award winning writer Warren Ellis and fan favorite artist Tony Harris join forces for this gritty six-part series.
There's more, of course - including Marc Silvestri's return to drawing a monthly (well, in theory...) comic, Kevin Smith's BLUNTMAN AND CHRONIC graphic novel, Jay Faerber's upcoming projects (which include a graphic novel and a creator-owned ongoing series), and, of course... the project I know that you're all hotly anticipating: October's WITCHBLADE/LADY DEATH crossover. Oh yes. WITCHBLADE/LADY DEATH.
posted by Ross at 9:38 PM EST
Could the theorized economic recession actually be good for comics? I don't know, but considering how ass-backwards comics is most of the time, it would make some sort of twisted sense...
posted by Ross at 8:50 PM EST
Meanwhile, Michael Chabon has won the Pulitzer Prize for his most recent novel, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY. Now, I suppose that there might be a few of you out there wondering why this, ostensibly a comics blog, is reporting on what book won the Pulitzer Prize. The reason, of course, is that Chabon's a big comic fan and the book features comics in a not-insignificant role. It's also a fantastic book.
And, although it has absolutely nothing to do with KAVALIER & CLAY, some of you might be intrigued to know that Chabon wrote a proposal for the X-MEN movie, which you can view here.
posted by Ross at 8:42 PM EST
Katsuhiro Otomo returns to comics. Excellent. Otomo, the justly-acclaimed creator of AKIRA and DOMU, has started up a new serial, ORBITAL ERA, in Ultra Jump, a monthly anthology in Japan. Of course, there's no word on when this might make it to the United States, but hey... we'll take what we can get.
posted by Ross at 8:26 PM EST
Sunday, April 15, 2001
Woo! Those nice chaps at Silver Bullet Comics have an interview with Kyle Baker (creator of such fabulous graphic novels as THE COWBOY WALLY SHOW, WHY I HATE SATURN, and YOU ARE HERE) up. Baker creates some of the funniest graphic novels in the medium, and he's a good interview, too.
KB: I think TV stinks. It's mindless, predictable, and unoriginal. Compare the best TV shows to the best books or theater. Are you telling me that Seinfeld is really the apex of comedy? Better than Twain or Shaw? Do these "Emmy-Winning" TV dramas really rival Chekhov?
Does Friends really capture the spirit of New York Gen-Xers better than Why I Hate Saturn?
posted by Ross at 10:10 PM EST
The nominees for the 2001 Eisner Awards have been announced... go check 'em out. The committee did a nice job this year, in my opinion - fairly even representation of both mainstream and independent/small-press creators in the nominations. Although, as always, there are a few notable exclusions, too... Once again, Warren Ellis and TRANSMETROPOLITAN fail to get any nominations, which is absolutely mind-boggling. And while Michael Avon Oeming, Frank Quitely/Trevor Scott, Eduardo Risso, P. Craig Russell, and J.H. Williams III are certainly very worthy nominees in the Best Penciller/Inker or Penciller/Inker Team category, it's absolutely criminal that John Cassaday and Bryan Hitch/Paul Neary were shut out of that category. And no MARVEL BOY in the Best Limited Series category? Bah.
posted by Ross at 9:58 PM EST
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