Black Lamb: The Conclusion of Timothy Truman’s Saga!
Timothy Truman’s other-worldly vampire saga, The Black Lamb, comes to its heart-stopping conclusion today on ComicMix.
Read the entire, epic story at no cost!
Yearly Archive: 2008
On This Day: Groundhogs and Base-Jumpers
Groundhog Day? Puh-lease. That’s what you’d expect, though, right?
But did you know that today in 1912 the very first stuntman did his very first stunt?
On Feb. 2, 1912, Frederick Rodman Law jumped off the Statue of Liberty with a parachute, earning himself a $1,500 paycheck from a movie company, Pathe, that shot the stunt for a film. In doing so, he became the first “Hollywood” stuntman. He went on to jump into the Hudson River from an exploding balloon and jump off the Brooklyn Bridge later that year.
That’s right, this guy was probably the first thrill-seeking yokel to turn his hobby into a paid job.
Simpsons’ Artist Speaks To ComicMix Radio!
Super Bowl weekend is here, Super Tuesday is a couple of days away and ComicMix Radio talks to a dedicated creator who has been Super-Slaving away at comics for over two decades. George Broderick Jr has done work that ranged from Suicide Blonde to The Simpsons, and he fill in the gaps with us.
Plus…
- The new Iron Man trailer hits Sunday at 7:30 – don’t get caught in the kitchen and miss it!
- Sanctuary moves from the web to the Sci Fi Channel
- ABC Family grabs Viper Comics’ The Middleman
- Toy Story is coming in 3-D and Farscape joins us on iTunes
And please don’t ask us what anything on Lost meant – just Press The Button!
 Or subscribe to our podcasts via 
or RSS!
Tony Millionaire on ‘Maakies’, ‘Sock Monkey’ and ‘Drinky Crow’
Somewhere out there are several hundred people with drawings of their homes rendered by Tony Millionaire. I would very much like to find them.
Nick Main at Playback recently posted this interview with Tony Millionaire (a.k.a. Scott Richardson), the creator of the wonderfully old-timey, yet very much adult-oriented Sock Monkey, Maakies and "The Drinky Crow Show."
Sure, they talk Krazy Kat, toning down his Sock Monkey subject matter now that he children, and bringing "The Drinky Crow Show" to Adult Swim, but they also spend quite a bit of time discussing the different ways Millionaire has made ends meet. According to Millionaire, one way a struggling artist can earn a decent buck is by going door-to-door and sketching pictures of homes for their owners.
Yeah, I really liked doing that, because when the job is: "Here’s a house. Draw the house. Don’t screw around with it. Don’t make it arty. Don’t think of a great angle for it. Just draw the house." That’s how you really learn how to get a sense of gravity in drawing. Because you’re not really trying to do anything except draw itself. You’re not really trying to have a great concept or any other thought behind it. Sometimes I would cut the house off or try to put it at a more interesting angle, coming from behind a tree and somebody would say "What? You didn’t put my daughter’s bedroom in there!?" So I’d have to do it over.
Something you probably won’t earn much money doing, however, is running around naked in cemetaries. It might be liberating, but it usually doesn’t end well. Just take his word for it:
Did you ever go back to the South?
Yeah, but never for any crime worse than being loud and drunk…with my pants down. I say with my pants down, because one time I did actually get in trouble for running around in a cemetery naked. But that was actually worth it because they let me out the next morning, and the cemetery at night is a great place to run around naked.
‘Simone & Ajax’ — All in Color on Thursdays!
Looking for Simone & Ajax by Andrew Pepoy? My, don’t you have excellent taste! We’ve been running classic episodes every Saturday of the adventures of the plucky young woman and her friend, the four-foot tall dinosaur since ComicMix began publishing comics.
But wait, there’s more! Starting this Thursday, we’ll have brand-new stories in full-color! The Adventures of Simone and Ajax join our weekday line-up (Demons of Sherwood, GrimJack: The Manx Cat, EZ Street and Jon Sable, Freelance: Ashes of Eden), beginning with Simone & Ajax: The Maltese Duck.
As for today’s comics delight, we’re giving you a special treat: the last chapter of Timothy Truman’s The Black Lamb – all here at ComicMix, and as always, for free!
Ding-Dong, the Witch is Dead, by Martha Thomases
It is hard for me to write about politics without frothing at the mouth. A lot of commentators are entertained by the horse race – who’s ahead, who’s behind, who’s sprained a limb, who’s coming out of the pack in a surprise advance – but I can’t forget that elections affect jobs, healthcare, education, the environment, and for some people, it’s a life-or-death decision. Many are the times I’ve scared my cat by screaming at the television, either at a commentator’s remarks or at the President who inspired them.Tuesday night, I scared my kitty again. This time, they were screams of joy. Rudy Giuliani had lost the Florida primary.
There is a myth that Rudy cleaned up New York City, that he was a tough but fair elected executive who made the Big Apple safe for tourists. In truth, he terrorized the city, embarrassed us with his childish antics, and would have had to slink away from office if there hadn’t been a terrorist attack on his city for him to exploit.
Let’s consider one of his claims: he cleaned up Times Square. It is true that there used to be a wide variety of shops in that neighborhood that sold entertainments of a prurient sort. It’s also true that today, there are hardly any. Instead of sleazy shops and movie theaters, there are massive chain stores and franchise restaurants. It looks about as dangerous as a suburban mall – and about as interesting.
You may wonder why that’s so bad. Aren’t there a lot more people coming to New York to shop in Times Square now? Doesn’t that create a lot more jobs?
Law & Order: Gotham City
Found in some obscure corner of the Internet by Lisa Sullivan. Thanks, Lisa!
‘The Greatest American Hero’ Headed to Theaters
To be filed under the heading of "Probably Not Exciting to Anyone But Me," Moviehole.net recently announced that casting for a big-screen version of the classic 1980s television sitcom "The Greatest American Hero" is now underway.
The film’s director, Stephen Herek (“Dead Like Me”, “The Mighty Ducks”), has put out a call for high-profile actors interested in playing the parts of Ralph Hinckley and Bill Maxwell. Chris Matheson ("Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey") and Ryan Rowe ("Charlie’s Angels") are the writers for the project.
Here’s what they’re looking for in a Ralph Hinckley:
29-39, an all-around good guy, with boyish handsome good looks, smart, decent, honorable and resilient, Ralph is a high school history teacher in Tempe, Arizona, a bachelor who hasn’t yet found the right girl. Selected by a bunch of aliens as the perfect hero to champion the rights of humankind against an evil nemesis, Ralph gets a superhero suit and a rather gruff squire in the form of FBI agent Bill Maxwell – neither of which yield easily to his control. Stuck inside the suit while awaiting for a duel-to-the-death challenge from his sinister opponent, Harve Lundy, Ralph proves to be honest, upright, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent as he prepares himself to do or die, without losing his Eagle Scout-ish honor or his suit in the process. Oh, and he gets a girlfriend along the way.
Keith Giffen Returns to Ambush Bug
Ambush Bug is back… and there was much rejoicing.
According to a recent announcement on Newsarama, Keith Giffen will be returning to Ambush Bug, the character he created in 1980s to point a finger at some the silliness of some of the goings-on in the DC Universe at the time. The six-issue Ambush Bug miniseries will hit shelves in July and feature Giffen as both writer and penciller – a dual role he hasn’t filled in quite some time.
Giffen said he plans to focus Ambush Bug’s snarky sensibilities on both the abundance of "world-shattering events" happening all-too often in the DCU, as well as some of the long-lost characters that the company might rather remain forgotten.
NRAMA: Can you give any examples of something you’re trotting out again?
KG: Oh, well two come to mind right away. Whatever happened to the Green Team? And whatever happened to the Glop from Outer Space?
NRAMA: Oh, it almost seems cruel to bring back a character called the Glop. [laughs]
KG: The Glop from Outer Space was a Wonder Girl villain. He was this big blob from outer space that ate rock ‘n’ roll records. And I thought, well, there’s got to be a follow-up story, because they don’t make rock ‘n’ roll records anymore.
.
Marvel and Dark Horse: Winning the MySpace War?
Now here’s a story you don’t see every day: ComicBookResources looks at who the highest-profile comic publishers are on MySpace and compares the strategies each publisher is using to climb the mountain of online social networking environments.
According to CBR, Top Cow has been generating a lot of buzz lately due to its "Pilot Season" promotion that asks MySpace users to vote on several recent miniseries and pick which one will ge its own ongoing series. However, it’s Marvel and Dark Horse Comics that reign supreme in the MySpace world, thanks to a variety of clever marketing strategies and online tie-ins to their titles.
As for DC Comics, well, it appears as if a "divide and conquer" approach is only good for a "divided we fall" result in the world of MySpace.
DC Comics, who welcomed 835 friends to its profile, slipped by its sister DC Nation page and now sits fifth with 16,227. With the two profiles combined, the total leaps to 32,231, which would place the publisher third behind Dark Horse and Marvel (42,513). But with DC split between two profiles, manga heavyweight TOKYOPOP takes third with 18,956 friends.
