In the category of "familiar names in not so familiar places," editor Barbara Randall Kesel (late of CrossGen, Dark Horse and DC) has a new gig — overseeing a comic entitled The National Triumph League, which will be cowritten by New York Jets fullback Darian Barnes. The Jets’ official site is already publicizing this venture,…
Via Forbidden Planet: A Star Wars fan Down Under "was making his way to a 30th anniversary photo shoot earlier today ‘dressed in black and carrying a backpack with a replica laser blaster poking out the side’ when he ‘alarmed diners at a food court in central Melbourne.’ According to Reuters, the 32-year-old was quickly…
Today’s YouTube find comes courtesy of BoingBoing, so you’ve probably already seen it, but what the heck. Presenting Govinda as Superman and Kimi Katkar as Spider-Woman: Govinda’s shoulders may not be all that broad, but he really knows how to work that cape. I wish they still made American musicals like this…
Ask and ye shall receive. No sooner did I muse about female representation at the East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention than Mikhaela Reid comes through once again and reports on the ECBACC panel entitled "Having Our Say: Black Women Discuss Imagery"! Do click on the link, it has lots more photos and promises…
As promised here on ComicMix, cartoonist Mikhaela Reid has served up a terrific photo-review of this past weekend’s East Coast Black Age of Comics Convention on her blog, which has been justifiably linked to from lots of comics news sites. And here’s her Flickr page for even more. We like this one of Reid’s fiance…
In the past week or so we’ve seen Toon-a-MILFs. We’ve observed Frank Miller seemingly becoming Dave Sim before our eyes (Val D’Orazio has a good play-by-play on that). We’ve had previews of covers for all-ages comics featuring tentacle porn. And of course we’ve been subjected to the infamous “comiquette” of MJ Watson looking as though…
The US Post Office has certainly stooped to movie promotions before, but one would assume the US Mint rather exempt from messing with our legal tender just to hawk a film. One would be wrong. The movie studio producing Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, 20th Century Fox, has cut a deal with The…
New York Magazine’s culture blog Vulture has just started excerpting Rutu Modan’s Exit Wounds. I’d never heard of Modan, but according to Drawn & Quarterly, "She has received several awards in Israel and abroad, including the Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem four times, Young Artist of the Year by…
Why should movies have all the fun of resurrecting old TV shows, when TV itself can autocannibalize with the best of ’em? Here’s a teaser from the new Bionic Woman pilot set to air this fall on NBC. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAd86zqrh9E I can’t help but wonder if this sort of exercise hasn’t been superceded by all the…
It doesn’t take much to piss off the increasingly repressive government of Iran. Now they’re protesting a graphic novel autobiography turned into a film. That’s right, Heidi notes that Marjane Satrapi’s and Vincent Paronnaud’s animated version of Persepolis, adapted from Satrapi’s book, is showing at Cannes, and Iran isn’t happy about it, claiming it "presents…
Adnan Saleem is either a real Simpsons fan, has too much time on his hands, or both. He’s turned actual people into life-size models of the Simpson family. Here’s Lisa: The rest of the family (including pets) are here. With yesterday’s 400th episode special and the movie coming out in July, there’s no doubt these…
Karen Healey of GirlWonder reports on a few comics-related panels in which she’ll be participating at the upcoming annual WisCon feminist SF convention, May 25-28. Here’s the full panel schedule. My favorite is the one she’s moderating: Sarcasm and Superheroics: Feminism in the Mainstream Comics Industry 2006 was declared the year of Women in Comics….
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