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Watchmen Comic Gets Animated on iTunes

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  • July 25, 2008

Creators have been struggling with how to bring comics into the digital age: CD-ROMs, subscription based services like Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, or for free on the web like ComicMix.

A full-page ad in the most recent issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine gave readers a link to download the premiere episode of Watchmen Motion Comics for free on iTunes. Motion Comics is Warner Premiere’s new videos of comic books animated with full audio.

In many ways, it’s like those old Marvel cartoons where they took comic art and moved mouths and use limited animation to move cut-out pieces of art. But this time, they’re using modern digital manipulation technologies. The effect is weird, but it works. It’s Dave Gibbons’ art, but it’s moving.
 

Go to Comic-Con On Your Xbox

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  • July 25, 2008

The best way to experience the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con is to be there. The second best is to constantly refresh ComicMix.com. But the third might be to fire up your game console.

The Xbox 360’s online video service offered excellent coverage of last year’s Comic-Con. Not only did they show footage premiered at the con, they also offered daily wrap-ups, interviews with comic creators, and videos of entire panels. I didn’t fly out to California, but I saw J. Michael Straczynski’s Babylon 5 panel as if I had a front row seat.

To borrow a phrase from one of their upcoming games, this year the coverage will be “bigger, badder, and more bad ass.” Xbox LIVE has partnered with Warner Bros. and DC Comics to show a weekend’s worth of footage. For free! Hosting the events will Larry Hyrb, better known by his Gamertag as Major Nelson, the public face of Xbox LIVE. To start things off right, the service reposted their daily wrap-ups from last year.

Now if they could just figure out how to download a convention T-shirt, I’d be set.
 

SDCC: Kevin Spacey Partners With Devil’s Due

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  • July 25, 2008

Shortly before Comic-Con started, word spread that Devil’s Due was bringing a major celebrity mystery guest, who was then shortly revealed to be Kevin Spacey.

Kevin Spacey? The actor? Yep, that guy.

At Comic-Con on Thursday the sort of odd pairing was explained, which ComicMix‘s Chris Ullrich reports:

Devil’s Due partners with triggerstreet.com to find new comics talent and hopefully get them to the big screen

Kevin Spacey (co-founder of triggerstreet.com) said when asked why they were doing this, "Because comics are taking over Hollywood"

Triggerstreet started as a site to allow aspiring filmmakers to upload content for peer review. Now you can upload comics for the same purpose (and to be discovered, I suppose). Here are their uploading guidelines, which were just posted:

* The page size should be 6.875" wide x 10.438" high.
* The page count should be a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 10.
* You may also (optionally) upload an icon / avatar
associated with your Comic. The image should be 85 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall and in GIF or JPG format.
* Your Comic should be uploaded as a .pdf file.

Overheard at San Diego 2008, part 1

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  • July 24, 2008

Continuing our award winning wackiness from last year, ComicMix presents the ongoing whispers that you might have missed while you were on line waiting to get in…

On the way to the Dr. Who panel:
"If I see another Stormtrooper, I’m going to drop-kick one."

Luckily, we found one that’s just the right size to drop-kick…

Around Entrance A:
"Find The Six? And what the hell is that guy with the 5-3 on his back?"
"Third base to first?"

Comics pro who wishes to remain anonymous:
"Chris Tucker is really upset that all of his scenes as Ebony have been cut out of the Spirit movie."

 

 

Simone & Ajax – Full Color, Online and Free!

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  • July 23, 2008

If you’re looking for film noir mystery that’s complete with lemmings and haute cuisine, get ready for adventure with the return of Simone, a beautiful young woman, and Ajax, her dinosaur best friend.  

The pair hopscotch all over the world in search of a very special maltese duck, and, perhaps, the very special sauce that goes with him. The Case of the Maltese Duck is an astonishing adventure with humor to spare, as only Andrew Pepoy (Fables, Jack of Fables, The Simpsons, Katy Keene) can offer up!

 

ComicMix published the first full-color adventures of everyone’s favorite redhead and her dinosaur pal.  Just completed, you can read the entire graphic novel The Adventures of Simone & Ajax: The Case of the Maltese Duck, from the very beginning right here at ComicMix for FREE!

 

Credits: Andrew Pepoy (Writer, Artist, Letterer), Jason Millet (Colorist), Mike Gold (Editor)

 

 


ComicMix at San Diego: Podcast Live!

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  • July 22, 2008

Every day at Comic-Con International, Mike Raub and his skilled crew will broadcast live from the ComicMix booth (#2308). Stop by and watch the master! Maybe you’ll be interviewed! Maybe he’ll make you a star!

Here’s the plan:

 

Wednesday, July 23, at 7:00 PM

 

Thursday, July 24 at 3:00 PM

 

Friday, July 25, at 4:00 PM (Hey, I’m signing at that time!)

 

Saturday, July 26 at 1:00 PM

 

Sunday, July 27, at 2:00 PM

 


 

ComicMix at San Diego Comic-Con 2008

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  • July 22, 2008

San Diego Comic-Con 2008 kicks off Wednesday night in Southern California, and ComicMix will be on location, bringing you everything you need to know — and some things you might not realize you needed to know — about the people, places and geekery that make it one of the most anticipated (or in some cases, feared) events of the year for fans of comics and comics culture.

This year, the ComicMix team will be all over the show, providing you with all of the interviews, daily con reports, audio, video, blogging and photo galleries you’ve come to enjoy here. Our podcast team will be broadcasting each day of the show with special guests from the worlds of comics, TV and film, while the rest of our audio and video crew will be doing their best to capture the people, panels and general vibe of the show for ComicMix readers. If you’re looking to connect some faces with ComicMix names, be sure to check out our official Meet & Greet Schedule at Booth #2308.

Throughout the show, we’ll be updating our San Diego Comic-Con 2008 News Archive with links to every Comic-Con story we post, and if all goes as planned, there should also be a fancy button on the right side of the homepage for quick access to Comic-Con news.

Keep in mind that you can also follow all of our updates on the official ComicMix Twitter Feed, as well as ComicMix on Friendfeed.

Review: ‘Bluesman’ by Vollmar & Callejo

Bluesman
By Rob Vollmar and Pablo G. Callejo
NBM, August 2008, $24.95

[[[Bluesman]]] was published once before, as three album-sized collections, but this is the first time the entire story has been collected between two covers. It’s a moody tale, told in black and white – but mostly in grays, from the background to the characters.

Lem Taylor is a blues guitarist, wandering through the rural Mississippi Delta in the late ‘20s, hungry and foot-sore. With him is a blues pianist, Ironwood Malcott, and together they make some excellent music. But that doesn’t put food in their bellies half the time, let alone a roof over the heads and a bed at night more than every so often.

As the book begins, their luck is beginning to look up: they get a decent gig at a popular juke house called Shug’s and are invited up to Memphis to record some sides by J.L. Dougherty, a traveling salesman who also acts as a talent scout.

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Barry Blitt’s Other New Yorker Covers

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  • July 22, 2008

newyorker-00-7663838There’s been quite the hub-bub over artist Barry Blitt’s recent New Yorker cover featuring presidential candidate Barack Obama dressed in traditional Muslim garb and surrounded by various jingo-tastic symbols in the Oval Office, and you can catch up on some of the debate via ComicMix Editor-in-Chief Mike Gold’s recent column, "We Will Think For You."

However, ComicMix reader Simon Owens recently posted a pair of past New Yorker covers created by Blitt that might be of interest to anyone following this story, too.

In all the news coverage over the controversial New Yorker cover depicting the Obamas as terrorist extremists, I haven’t seen many mentions of other works by Barry Blitt, the artist of that cover. Two of his covers last year — which I’m posting below — were among the best the magazine has featured in years.

This first one had every political cartoonist in America smacking his head, saying, “Why didn’t I think of that?”

Thanks for the tip, Simon!

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Jon Sable Freelance: Ashes of Eden – Complete and Online

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  • July 21, 2008

jsf-8365997Mike Grell returned to his greatest character creation in this all-new full-length graphic novel co-starring Maggie The Cat! And you can read the entire story, from first chapter to last, now that we’ve posted every little bit of it online. 

Any time you have one of the world’s biggest diamonds and one of the world’s most beautiful women, you have a recipe for danger. With New York City on the brink of disaster and Maggie tossed into the mix, and you’ve got more than just an international incident. Can Jon Sable do his job without bringing about nuclear disaster? Can his do it in time for Christmas? 

Read the entire graphic novel Jon Sable, Freelance: Ashes of Eden, from the very beginning right here at ComicMix for FREE!

Credits: Mike Grell (Writer, Artist), Glenn Hauman (Colorist), John Workman (Letterer), Mike Gold (Editor).

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