Author: Glenn Hauman
Who makes money when Disney buys Marvel?
Well, if I’m reading these stock forms correctly, Avi Arad’s stock holdings jumped about $10 million dollars yesterday with the stock bump.
And Issac Perlmutter’s stock holdings went up about $282 million, with his total holdings worth about $1,391,049,355. Put another way, when they say that Disney bought Marvel for four billion dollars, over a third of it goes to Issac. And since this is a 60% cash/40% stock deal, Issac pulls in $830 million in cash.
Yowza. That’s a lot of variant covers.
Jack Kirby draws Mickey Mouse as Disney gets Marvelized
In a case of incredibly lucky timing, Craig Yoe, the author of Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster, The Art of Ditko, The Complete Milt Gross Comic Book Stories and Life Story, The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers, and The Great Anti-War Cartoons, has started blogging again on Super I.T.C.H. (International Team of Comics Historians) with a well-timed piece: Jack Kirby’s drawing of Mickey Mouse:
Back in 1991, I did a coffee table art book “The Art of Mickey
Mouse”, I got artists from around the world to do their interpretation
of “The World’s Favorite Mouse.” One of the first people I called was
Jack Kirby. He and his wife Roz were very excited about the idea. He
sent me two drawings, as I recall, and I chose this one. I colored it
“animation style,” with the black line on an overlay and the
background colors underneath. Jack’s contribution was part of a touring
exhibit of art from the book throughout Japan. So, Marvel is called by
some fans “The House that Jack Built” (not, in my opinion to take
ANYTHING away from the brilliant genius Stan Lee’s more than vital
part.) And here’s Jack doing Mickey! Is this weird, or what?
Disney Eats Marvel: The most disturbing image of the day (so far)
Inspired by a twitter from Brian Reed, and drawn (or at least posted) by petroglyf.
Disney buys Marvel: Reactions
As you can imagine, the reactions on twitter have been flying since today’s announcement. Here are some of our favorites so far:
- Brian Reed has the quote for the win: “Face it, Tigger, you just hit the jackpot!”
- patrickkeller: Brian Michael Bendis is currently having giant, round mouse ears surgically attached to his head.
- Pinguino: Hey does this mean Rogue and Storm can be disney princesses now and get frilly dresses?
- Dave Stokes: Tinkerbell to play The Wasp in Avengers movie?
- uberthegeek: Chip & Dale: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
- joshuwain: “Finding Namor”
- One person we won’t name: “maybe this means i’ll be able to go into the disney store again without looking like a pervert”. Uh, if you have to ask, then the answer is NO.
More to come…
Disney Eats Marvel: Hannah Montana becomes Dazzler
C’mon, it’s too easy:
Hannah Montana has to reveal her secret identity under the Superhuman Registration Act, refuses, and goes head to head against Tony Stark.
Hannah Mutana. I like it.
(Not to be confused with hakuna matata, which is also a wonderful phrase.)
Something Awful ‘improves’ Superman
And wackiness, of course, ensues:
For every good book like Red Son or The Superman/Madman Hullabaloo,
there are hundreds of stories where Lex Luthor comes across more of the
incredibly rare Kryptonite and uses it to make something stupid like
kryptoteeth for an army of bank-robbing robots.
How to do comic and manga ‘speed lines’ in Photoshop
Finding myself in an art creating deadline crunch this weekend, so I’m going to pass on some art tips for you. I just came across this tutorial on creating speed lines in Photoshop, and creating a brush to do the process.
It looks to be one of the more useful techniques, and will be interesting when I find a place to use it.
(Hat tip: salfield.)
It’s summer, it’s Friday, it’s late, here’s Dr. Manhattan
Missed this last month when the DVD came out:
Update: CollegeHumor decided to put their embedded videos on autoplay. Once they give us a setting for turning that off, we’ll embed the video again. Until then, you can go watch it on their site.
‘Dollhouse’ provides employment for Whedon regulars Glau and Denisof
In a recession, you do a mitzvah find work for your friends and people you’ve worked with before. No one follows that maxim more nowadays than Joss Whedon.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Whedon’s Dollhouse added five new cast members: Summer Glau (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Firefly/Serenity) as Bennett, a Dollhouse employee who shares a past with character Echo (Eliza Dushku); and Alexis Denisof (Angel) is a US Senator heading a witch hunt to track the hidden organization. Also joining up are Battlestar Galatica veterans Jamie Bamber, who will play a charming businessman and husband to Echo; and Michael Hogan joins the cast hoping to stop a killing rampage.
We also understand that Keith Carradine (Dexter) becomes an arch rival of Dollhouse leader Adelle, but we can’t figure out what role he played on Buffy the Vampire Slaye— oh! He must have been one of the Gentlemen from “Hush”.
