Chris Ryall, IDW Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, recently posted this new, untitled promo art by Nick Roche for an upcoming Transformers project.
That’s about all there is to say about it, other than the fact that it’s now my new desktop background.
Apart from some chronic bouts of concentrated cliffhanger enthusiasm in visits with the pioneering Texas cartoonist-turned-fine artist Frank Stack, I haven’t paid a great deal of attention in recent years to the extinct form of Hollywood filmmaking known as serials, or chapter-plays.
Marvel.com has posted a screencap from this weekend’s much-hyped "Iron Man" trailer scheduled to air during the Superbowl. The screencap shows Tony stark (Robert Downey, Jr.) testing a new suit.
They also promise to post the full trailer on Marvel.com immediately after it goes on the air, just in case you were in the kitchen getting more chips when the promo appeared.
You can see a full-size version of the image on Marvel.com.
Timothy Truman’s other-worldly vampire saga, The Black Lamb, comes to its heart-stopping conclusion today on ComicMix.
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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.
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.
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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.
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!
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.
Found in some obscure corner of the Internet by Lisa Sullivan. Thanks, Lisa!
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