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ComicMix Radio: Wolverine’s Got A New Boyfriend?

 
On this Super Tuesday, you get the history making opportunity to vote twice, one of those times with your wallet at the counter of your local comics store.  As promised, ComicMix Radio does our part by running down the latest comics and DVD releases.
 
Plus , we’ve got…
 
• Brian K. Vaughan from Y to Wolverine
• Zuda Comics picks their first winner in 2008
• See those SuperBowl ads again -– and again
• The Schifrins get Spooked
 
And the picture here is just that: a picture, so no hidden messages here. If you’re in one of the Super Tuesday states, it’s just an enticement to get out and vote. So close the curtain and Press The Button!

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2008 WCCA Nominees Announced

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  • February 5, 2008

The nominees for the 2008 Web Cartoonists Choice Awards are out, providing a peek at who webcomic creators name as their favorite comics, creators and a variety of other categories.

Among some of the nominees:

OUTSTANDING COMIC FINALISTS:

Achewood by Chris Onstaad

Girl Genius by Phil and Kaja Foglio

Gunnerkrigg Court by Tom Siddell

Perry Bible Fellowship by Nicholas Gurewitch

The Phoenix Requiem by Sarah Ellerton

OUTSTANDING NEWCOMER FINALISTS:

Bear and Kitten by Andy and Angie

Octopus Pie by Meredith Gran

Pictures for Sad Children by John Campbell

The Dreamer by Lora Innes

The Phoenix Requiem by Sarah Ellerton

The WCCA website has a full list of 2008 WCCA categories and nominees along with links to each of the comics. Winners will be announced during MegaCon in Orlando on March 8, 2008.

Germany Publishes Educational Comic on Holocaust

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  • February 4, 2008

German schoolchildren will soon be incorporating a comic book into their lessons about the Holocaust and the Nazi regime, according to Reuters.

The Search, described as a "Tintin-style" story, was created by Dutch cartoonist Eric Heuvel, and explores the Holocaust through the perspective of a fictional survivor. German officials hope to use the book to assist in the education of underprivileged children who might not otherwise be interested in learning.

The 61-page book, already available in various European languages, will be used alongside worksheets in history classes at secondary schools in Berlin for six months, after which the project hopes to go nationwide.

 

Simpsons’ Artist Speaks To ComicMix Radio!

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.

Plus…

  • The new Iron Man trailer hits Sunday at 7:30 – don’t get caught in the kitchen and miss it!
  • Sanctuary moves from the web to the Sci Fi Channel
  • ABC Family grabs Viper Comics’ The Middleman
  • Toy Story is coming in 3-D and Farscape joins us on iTunes

And please don’t ask us what anything on Lost meant – just Press The Button!

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Free Online Alan Moore Documentary, Issue

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  • January 31, 2008

A few interesting bits of Alan Moore history have found their way online recently, and you won’t have to pay a dime for them.

AlterTube has posted "The Mindscape of Alan Moore," a 78-minute documentary about the creator of Watchmen and V For Vendetta that explores his growth as a storyteller and modern-day, magical… Well, you should probably just read the plot synopsis:

The film leads the audience through Moore’s world with the writer himself as guide, beginning with his childhood background, following the evolution of his career as he transformed the comics medium, through to his immersion in a magical worldview where science, spirituality and society are part of the same universe.

If you like what you see and want to purchase a copy, check out ShadowSnake Films.

DC/Vertigo has also made a full issue of Swamp Thing #21, the start of Moore’s critically-praised reinvention of the character, available online. It’s creepy as heck, but a great example of why Moore is one of comics’ living legends.

 UPDATE: The video no longer seems to be available on AlterTube, but it’s now available on YouTube. Go figure. So here you go: <a href=”

Alan Moore Documentary on YouTube.

Y: The Last Man Roundup

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  • January 30, 2008

Sure, I heard something about Captain America and some guy named Bucky this week, but the story I really can’t avoid no matter where I turn is the conclusion of Brian K. Vaughan’s five-year series Y: The Last Man.

From MTV to CNN, the mainstream media is all over this story, and rightly so. It’s one of the best to hit comic shops’ shelves in recent years. (If you don’t agree, we’ll just have to step outside. Seriously.) Over the last week, we’ve been directing you to some of the coverage the series and its writer have received as the release date for the final issue appraoched, but the buzz around Y has noticeably spiked in the last 24 hours.

So, without further ado, let’s take a (somewhat spoiler-free) look at what’s being said about the conclusion of Y: the Last Man.

(Oh, and don’t worry about spoilers in this post, folks. I haven’t had a chance to pick up my copy of Y #60 yet, so I’m providing links to spoiler-free stories except where I’ve noted otherwise.)

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Spooks Goes Online

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  • January 30, 2008

Supernatural investigations are big in comics these days. From Perhapanauts to B.P.R.D., readers can’t seem to get enough of teams-investigating-scary-stuff stories. Add another to the mix with the upcoming launch of Spooks from Devil’s Due Publishing.

Before the series goes on sale next month, fans can check out preview pages, character profiles, creator interviews and more on the shiny, new Spooks website.  

According to the site, Spooks is about the agents who work for the Department of Supernatural Defense, which "recruits, arms, and deploys sepcially trained forces based within the nation’s borders in support of national security …. to keep the country free of supernatural enemis, whether their origins are domestic, international or otherworldly." 

Spooks is written by Ryan Schifrin and Larry Hama.  Schifrin produced and directed the film, Abominable, for the Sci-Fi Channel, and also served as musical consultant for Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2.  Hama worked on some of the most influential comics of all time, including Wolverine, G. I. Joe, Mort, The Dead Teenager and others.  

The art is by Adam Archer and Jonny Rench (Friday the 13th). Covers are by Greg Staples and Adam Archer, Federico D’Allesandro, Bill Sienkiewicz and Drew Strewzan.

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Death, Warmed Over, by Elayne Riggs

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  • January 30, 2008

elayne-riggs-100-5281129As I type this I’m struggling through a pretty bad flu, which I am convinced I contracted on Thursday. That’s when I went for a job interview at the World Financial Center, a hermetically-sealed office and mall complex sandwiched squarely between the Hudson River and the now-cavernous World Trade Center site in downtown Manhattan. I’m unsure whether it was the biting winds or the horrendously long “pedestrian walkway” past the gaping hole of Ground Zero and back to the nearest subway that could get me home now that the Cortlandt Street stations are, it seems, permanently closed, but I haven’t been the same since I shrugged off the interview suit upon my arrival home. The next day Robin met his latest deadline, and we were looking forward to a somewhat active weekend — and then it hit. And it’s still hitting me, and has started hitting him. Funny how, at my age, “lucking out” translates into “thank goodness Robin and I got sick whilst I’m unemployed and he’s between issues!”

But you know, in the back of my head I can’t help but wonder whether I got ill, in part, from breathing in dead people. After all, we all know how the EPA of a government renowned for its repeated lies about everything else also lied to citizens about the air quality in that area. I know it’s over seven years later, but there’s still a ton of construction kicking up dust in that area, and the “walkways” offer scant protection, particularly on a cold and windy day.

Living through 9/11, being in the city the day the towers were attacked, one learns never to take life for granted. This is my 50th It’s All Good column for ComicMix, a milestone number of sorts, and so it seems fitting that I come back around to a subject touched upon in my first column here last February 15, scarcely a month after I’d lost my best friend. In fact, this would have been It’s All Good #51 but for the untimely death of my father. Sometimes the Reaper seems inescapable. Because in the end, of course, it is. And as it touches us all in real life, personally or otherwise (as with Heath Ledger’s recent demise), some of us find much less entertainment and amusement in its fictional counterpart. (more…)

Cap Invades the Media, ComicMix Radio Yields the Shield

Now available through ITunes (for free!), ComicMix Radio kicks off the week covering all the other cool comics out this week besides Captain America and a nice stack of new DVDs, too.

Plus:

  • Walking Dead celebrates #50 with a variant that might be tough to find
  • Northworld jumps to Oni Press
  • The WGA gives a GO to The Grammys

Cap Is having a tough week, so please Press The Button!

 

 

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