Monday Mix-Up: What If Ingmar Bergman Directed ‘The Flash’?
It’s not too late for the CW to go in this direction, y’know.
Author: Glenn Hauman
How should you pick palettes when coloring comics? Here’s one way…
http://pigeonbits.tumblr.com/post/90063280483/color-palette-tutorial-time-this-is-by-no-means
Color palette tutorial time!
This is by no means the Only Way To Pick Colors—it’s just a relatively-simple method I use sometimes. I’ve found it works pretty well, almost regardless of what colors you pick…
Badgerbadgerbadgerbadger, Gaiman Gaiman…!
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27945483
Photographer Cambridge Jones has collaborated with The Story Museum for its latest exhibition which celebrates childhood story heroes and sees well-known authors dress up as their favorite literary characters. Neil Gaiman chose the Badger from “The Wind in The Willows.”
We would be very interested to see him as the Badger from Madison, Wisconsin.
Great Life Goals, Kid, But I Feel Sorry For Your Parents
Via http://jezebel.com/this-preschoolers-commencement-speech-has-life-all-figu-1583170090
The tasteless history of the peeing Calvin decal
http://triviahappy.com/articles/the-tasteless-history-of-the-peeing-calvin-decal#.U7bXH6jT5ST
Find out why you see bootleg Calvins on the back of so many car windows.
C.J. Henderson: 1951-2014
Chris “C.J.” Henderson, writer of numerous comics for DC, Marvel, Tekno, Eternity, and Moonstone, as well as a prose writer of hard-boiled mysteries and science fiction and a staple at many conventions, died July 4th at the age of 62 from cancer.
He started writing comics in 1986 for Eternity’s Ninja and Reign Of The Dragonlord, later going on to write the Punisher, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, and Batman. He wrote most notably on Tekno’s Neil Gaiman’s Lady Justice.
His prose works included his own characters such as his hard-boiled detective Jack Hagee series, his supernatural detective Teddy London series, and his Brooklyn Museum curator Piers Knight series. He also worked with William Shatner on his novel Man Of War, and wrote a few novels of Kolchak, the Night Stalker.
He also occasionally collaborated with his artist daughter, Erica Henderson, with our personal favorite collaboration being Baby’s First Mythos, a Cthulhu children’s book. (For the record, CJ was always immensely proud of his daughter.)
A fundraiser has been set up to help his family defray the costs of medical and funeral expenses, along with the book. For those who wish to send condolences, the address is:
CJ Henderson
1944 W. 11th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11223
Our deepest condolences to his wife, Grace, and his daughter, Erica. He will be deeply missed.
For those who wish to send condolences the address is:CJ Henderson
1944 W. 11th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11223 – See more at: http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/society-for-the-preservation-of-cj-henderson/87881#sthash.7JAJaglJ.dpufhttp://
1944 W. 11th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11223 – See more at: http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/society-for-the-preservation-of-cj-henderson/87881#sthash.7JAJaglJ.dpufhttp://
For those who wish to send condolences the address is:CJ Henderson
1944 W. 11th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11223 – See more at: http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/society-for-the-preservation-of-cj-henderson/87881#sthash.7JAJaglJ.dpufhttp://
1944 W. 11th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11223 – See more at: http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/society-for-the-preservation-of-cj-henderson/87881#sthash.7JAJaglJ.dpufhttp://
For those who wish to send condolences the address is:CJ Henderson
1944 W. 11th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11223 – See more at: http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/society-for-the-preservation-of-cj-henderson/87881#sthash.7JAJaglJ.dpufhttp://
1944 W. 11th St.
Brooklyn, NY 11223 – See more at: http://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/society-for-the-preservation-of-cj-henderson/87881#sthash.7JAJaglJ.dpufhttp://
US Presidents Re-imagined as Pulp Action Heroes
Happy Fourth of July, America.
Via http://www.gotham-news.com/news/2012/02/18/random-blam-us-presidents-re-imagined-as-pulp-action-heroes
The legacy of Jay Lake, the novelist who blogged his own death
This sort of honesty, indifferent to propriety or the generally accepted personal boundaries, has been inherent in Lake’s blogging since 2008, when he stumbled into the emergency room panicked by a sudden, alarming loss of blood. Earlier that day he had participated in a book reading to commemorate the publication of his novel, Mainspring; it was cut short when he went to the bathroom and looked down to see that the toilet water was a scarlet red.
When the doctors finally examined him, they discovered two things: He had lost enough blood to warrant a transfusion, and the situation had been triggered by an ulcerated tumor. At the time, Lake was thankful. His doctors told him they had located it early enough in its growth to conclude that remission was not only possible but likely (the tumor was Stage 1 with no lymph node involvement or metastasis).
But, as anyone who regularly reads the writer’s blog soon discovered, the cancer’s persistence proved invincible to both surgical and chemotherapeutic procedures, and it wasn’t long before Lake’s CT scans yielded dark spots that proliferated through his liver, lungs, and other vital organs. Early last year, his doctors, after observing the inexorable encroachment of his tumors, informed Lake that the cancer was now classified as terminal.
The then-48-year-old writer began to prepare himself—and his readers—for death.
via The legacy of Jay Lake, the novelist who blogged his own death.
The Phantom LIVES!
This September the good folks at Hermes Press will be publishing a new Phantom comic that will return the Ghost Who Walks to his original greatness. Written by Peter David and drawn by Sal Velutto, this book will be awesome heroic fun!
They’ve asked me to do a variant cover for the first issue and here it is. Jesus Aburto has done an awesome job on the colors. EXACTLY how I imagined it!
