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Happy Birthday, Brian Alvey

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  • March 7, 2009

On this day in 1970, Brian Alvey was born in Falls Church, Virginia. After a misspent youth working for professional gamblers, he straightened up and started building web sites in the early days of the World Wide Web, performing back-end wizardy for everybody from Business Week and TV Guide to e-publishing pioneer BiblioBytes. Not content with computer work, he was also the art director for Cybersurfer magazine and The Silicon Alley Reporter.

Most recently, he cofounded Weblogs Inc., the folks behind Engadget, Cinematical, and TMZ.com; he was the chief architect of Netscape; and he’s started up a little company called CrowdFusion which does all sorts of neat stuff. And with all of that, he’s still found time to help run ComicMix.

Happy birthday to him and to his lovely wife Niki, who shares a birthday with him as they share so many other things.

The Point – March 6th, 2009

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  • March 6, 2009

This is the weekend where everyone is talking WATCHMEN, so why shouldn’t we? Meanwhile, J.J. Abrams apologizes for STAR TREK, Bud Bundy is a star on the internet and FATHOM will be a Fox.

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NPR’s Studio 360: ‘Watchmen’ in pop culture

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  • March 6, 2009

This week on NPR’s Studio 360, you’ll be hearing a roundtable discussion between Farscape comic writer Keith R.A. DeCandido, Star Trek author David Mack, comic book historian Alan Kistler, ethicist Alexandra Honigsberg, editor Jeness Crawford, ComicMix contributor Kim Kindya, and yours truly, discussing Watchmen and its impact on pop culture. It’s wide ranging and a lot of fun. Take a listen:

 

‘The Art of Watchmen’ museum gallery opening

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  • March 6, 2009

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The opening of "The Art of Watchmen" at MoCCA last night was incredibly packed, with a lot of energy and anticipation in the room– even more than knowing you’d be allowed to see the Watchmen movie before almost everybody else would– there was a sense of backstage magic about, seeing so many of the stages of what was going on, from the earliest concept sketches to the original cover art for all twelve issues to the raw cover color work, to the mock-ups for the movies and the harsh black and white pictures of Clay Enos’s Watchmen: Portraits
 book.

Clay’s here at left, including the picture of him in the book. Other attendees we got to photograph included Paul Levitz, Peter Sanderson, Steve Saffel, and Danny Fingeroth.

See more pictures after the jump. And if you can, go see the show.

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It’s midnight — ‘Watchmen’ reviews & open thread

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  • March 6, 2009

"At midnight, all the agents
and their superhuman crew
go out and round up everyone
who know more than they do."

It’s finally midnight. The movie is now in the hands of the audience. So tell us what you like about it, what you didn’t like about it, link to any reviews, tell us if there were any cool trailers, is it worth seeing in IMAX, etc. Assume there be spoilers ahead.

And just to sweeten the pot, we’ll give one of these now-collector item tickets of the preview screening from the MoCCA exhibit "The Art of Watchmen" to the person who provides, in the opinion of ComicMix, the most thoughtful comment in the thread. The comment has to be in by March 15th, which should give you plenty of time for multiple viewings.

So go ahead. Show us that you know more than we do.

Rare Super-Porn Discovered!

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  • March 4, 2009

We just got an email from our old pal, Craig Yoe!. Craig sez:

 

I’d like to tell you about my brand spanking new book and blog. 

 

I recently discovered incredible, previously unknown, fetish art by the creator of Superman, Joe Shuster. The artist and his writing partner, Jerry Siegel, had sold Superman for 130 dollars. When they sued to get the rights back they lost and got drummed out of the comic book industry and Shuster fell on hard times. It was unknown that to get by and/or because of a personal interest in the subject, Shuster then did S&M porn for under-the-counter booklets called "Nights of Horror," sold in Times Square in the early fifties. The back story I uncovered involves the Mob, showgirls, neo-Nazi Jewish juvenile delinquents, inspired by Shuster’s art, known as the Brooklyn Thrill Killers, the famed anti-comic book crusader Dr. Frederic Wertham, Senate investigations, cops on payola, the books being banned by the Supreme Court, teenage girls being horse-whipped in the park, two murders…and dare I say MORE?

 

I have a full color coffee table art book I wrote and designed coming out April 1 (no fooling!) about all this, Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Shuster.The publisher is the number one leading art book publisher in the world, the prestigious Abrams. I’m blogging about the book and revealing lots of rare art and info that didn’t fit in "between the covers."

 

Craig’s too modest to note that his book also sports an introduction by Stan Lee.

 

Considering the fact that, at the time they purchased Superman, one of DC’s owners had been actively engaged in publishing what was considered by the post office censors “pornography,” this is a rather ironic story.

Sadly ironic. 

It’s official: there’s no ‘Life On Mars’

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  • March 4, 2009

ABC has officially cancelled the series Life on Mars, but will allow it to gracefully conclude with a definitive ending to the storyline. The network informed show producers it will not order additional episodes beyond the 17 in the works for this season and confirmed it won’t renew the series for next year. Production will continue through this month and the finale will likely be scheduled for early April.

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