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Sat May 24, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
Happy 7th Anniversary, Peter & Kathleen David!
Long may you wave
Seven years ago today in Atlanta, Peter David and Kathleen O'Shea got married in the chapel at Emory University. Harlan Ellison delivered a best man speech that was only slightly shorter than his fourth marriage, topping off a beautiful ceremony.
Happy Copper Anniversary, you two crazy kids. Enjoy the night.
Thu May 22, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
Summertime... and the Grilling is Easy with a Munden's Bar Apron
Munden's merch - we have it, you want it.
Here at ComicMix, we're traditionalists that believe summer actually starts on Memorial Day weekend, no matter what movies premiere in early May. So, with the official start of grilling season, may we humbly recommend that you do so with a Munden's Bar grilling apron?
Straight from the pages of Munden's Bar, with our multiverse-famous slogan "If you leave here sober, it's your own damn fault", this apron will protect you from grease, slime, beer, and other hazards of the barbecue. And at the low, low price of $17.99, how can you go wrong? Okay, you could go wrong by taking a chainsaw to school and saying the leprechauns are telling you to carve up the auditorium stage, but that's a unique way to get out of final exams, at least.
Remember: the more Munden's merchandise you buy, the more Munden's stories we put out! So buy those beer steins and coasters too!
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Sun May 18, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
Weekend Window-Closing Wrapup
But what are you going to do when I'm gone?
"Once more into the breech," in the immortal words of the Human Cannonball. And no, you aren't going to get puns of a better caliber.
- Wolverine comics from the 1950s. (Via Avram Grumer.)
- The works of Richard Mullins-- it may be fine art, but somehow I don't see this guy getting the job pencilling Action Comics anytime soon.
- Via Johanna, we learn that Newsarama is rebuilding, and may be wrecking a lot of their existing infrastructure to do so. Good luck with that, fellas.
- Brad Guigar shows how to Unshark Mask in Photoshop. A handy skill when you least expect it.
- Want to do nothing but lie around for 90 days reading comics? NASA might pay you to do it.
- The other career of Alex Ross. And then he photographs himself to paint himself to...
- Lt. Worf endorses Barack Obama:
I am moved by the story of his humble origins, his absent Kenyan father, his mother working to make ends meet, and growing up without his father in an environment where his racial identity was unclear. After all, I, Lieutenant Worf, am a Klingon by birth, but raised by Caucasian humans, the Rozhenkos, on the farm world of Gault. So I know a little bit about absent fathers, and being a dark-skinned man, looked upon as an alien in a white world.
- A former voice actor for Peanuts specials is a candidate for a school board. His platform? "Waa waa WAA waa waa..."
- In a switch, Jessica Alba wants to stare at you.
- And finally, Rating The Super Hunks. I'll take Rachel's word for it, but bear in mind she thinks the guy in the Iron Man costume is worth marrying.
Thu May 15, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
UPDATE: Charity Art Auctions Around the 'Net
More info on Gene Colan fundraisers, plus more art auctions worth checking out...
Following up on yesterday's post regarding industry-wide efforts to raise money for artist Gene Colan, Clifford Meth is putting together a massive, additional auction to benefit the creator and generate money for his rapidly growing medical bills.
So far, contributions have come in from (deeeeeep breath) Neal Adams, Norm Breyfogle, Randy Bowen, Ed Brubaker, Adam-Troy Castro, Paty Cockrum, Peter David, Rufus Dayglo, Tom DeFalco, J.M. deMatteis, Pat DiNizio, Harlan Ellison, Mark Evanier, Neil Gaiman, Sam Keith, Joe Kubert, Erik Larsen, Bob Layton, Jim Lee, Stan Lee, Leah Moore, Albert Moy, Michael Netzer, Josh Olsen, James A. Owen, Tom Palmer, Greg Pak, Mike Pascale, Jim Salicrup, Bob Shreck, Dave Simmons, Gail Simone, Walter and Louise Simonson, Jim Starlin, Roy Thomas, Juan Torres, Andrew Wildman, Marv Wolfman and Ash Wood. More will be coming in any minute, I'm sure -- keep checking that link above.
Meanwhile, Gillian Anderson (a.k.a. Dana Scully from The X-Files) is raising funds for her neurofibromatosis charity by auctioning off “doodles” from celebrities like Scarlett Johansson, Simon, Pegg, Dom DeLuise, Ellen DeGeneres, and the Monkees; as well as comics folks like Tom Tomorrow, Garry Trudeau, Neil Gaiman, Sergio Aragones, Seth Green, and Bill Mumy. The full list is here.
Oh, and the Gahan Wilson drawing pictured here is for the second auction-- though I suppose it could be a Dracula for Colan, couldn't it?
Sun May 11, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
Weekend Window-Closing Wrap-Up
The Mother's Day edition
Once again, a bunch of things that haven't quite generated a post of their own, but deserve some sort of mention...
- The must-have costumes for San Diego: your own powered exoskeleton, rentable for only $1000 a month-- and it'll make hauling boxes a lot easier too. But if you're on a budget, you can always go as the Bat-Signal.
- Now where have we heard this before?
- What makes a superhero comic? What, is this like Scott Adams's checklist on what makes a joke?
- The creatures in Andrew Bell's head.
- Some Hong Kong "entrepenuer" grabbed all the images from Darren Di Lieto's The Little Chimp Society website and published it into a 350-page book being sold online for $100. You can read more on this post in Darren’s blog. (Via Stuart Immonen.)
- Tom Brevoort was a teenaged moron. It's true, he was. And he's just showing the stuff from 1988-- you should have seen the stuff from 1983. On the other hand, I wasn't much better. But while Tom and I have gotten better, Laura Hudson is still evil.
- A story of love in the letter columns.
- The Flash is back... at the Metropolitan Museum of Art? This wasn't the Flash Museum I remembered... Now with extra photos of the gala event.
And before I forget... hi, Mom!
Sun May 4, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
Weekend Window-Closing Wrap-up
Power Girl, vampires and zombies, sexy cartoon women and more...
A bunch of things that have been open on my browser, but may not deserve a full post of their own...
- I have no idea where this Power Girl image came from, but I'm thinking that there's a fan film out there that I don't know about. Can anybody help me out?
- Digital drawing tutorials in a Lackadaisical style.
- Bobby Crosby says it really wasn't an April Fool's joke: Last Blood, a story about vampires protecting the last humans on Earth from zombies, is being adapted for the screen.
- Finally, you can scan your comics without cracking the spine! As somebody who occasionally has to do this when we don't have the original film to reproduce from, this is a godsend. Now if only somebody had a cheap tabloid scanner for the Mac...
- Neil Gaiman gets around-- here's an article by Yvette Tan about meeting him in a Phillipine magazine.
- The ten sexiest cartoon women...? Uh, not quite. No animated Zatanna? (Might be NSFW, depending on your workplace.)
- Ian Gibson! (For you young ones in the audience, he did Secret Invasion 20 years ago for DC.)
- One of these panelists is not like the others... one's wearing a hat.
- Dan Grauman?
- And finally, the comic movie premiere we were all waiting for this weekend-- Super Ninja Bikini Babes! ...what, there was another comic book movie premiering this weekend?
Mon Apr 28, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
Demons of Sherwood: Backstage Extras!
Come behind the scenes and see how the magic is made...
We were getting ready to put up today's installment of Demons of Sherwood, but this is what we found on the server...
Sun Apr 27, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
'Iron Man' Premieres Thursday at 8 PM
May day, may day...!
Hooray, hooray, the first of May; outdoor-- er, Iron Man begins today!
Paramount is planning to open Iron Man at 8:00 PM on Thursday, May 1, instead of one minute past midnight on May 2nd as originally planned. The studio is apparently hoping that great word-of-mouth will help boost box-office business for the weekend.
Early buzz has been strong, let's see how big a weekend it's going to be, shall we? Place your bets in the comment section. I'm starting with $115 million for the first four days.
Wed Apr 9, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
Preview: She Hulk #30
Artist Val Semeiks gets intimate with She-Hulk...
ComicMix pal Peter David recently sent us this pencilled splash page for She-Hulk #30, scheduled for a June 25 release. The artist for the issue is Val Semeiks and the writer is, of course, Peter David.
The image is so nice, it's a shame one of them is a... Whoops. No spoilers here.
Thu Apr 3, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
Happy 33rd Anniversary, Paul Kupperberg
That's a lot of comics...
On this day in 1975, Paul Kupperberg made his first professional sale to Charlton Comics. It was a five-page story titled "Distress" that would ultimately be published in the December 1975 issue of Scary Tales (pictured here) drawn by a kid named Mike Zeck.
Yes, Paul, you're right -- you're o-o-old. On the other hand, you churned out a good 600+ comics stories since, created Checkmate, Arion, and Takion (how'd you miss creating Ion?) and they turned the cover of a comic book you wrote into a US postage stamp. Your page rate has even gone up since that first story.
And look at the bright side -- you're actually reading this. Which means that this isn't an obituary post. At your advanced age, that's always a concern.
Tue Apr 1, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
Charles Schulz' Watchmen?
All right, one more for the day...
We could do one more fake post about the new movie novelization for kids, but you already know it's April Fool's Day by now.* So we'll just post this piece from artist Evan Shaner, via Douglas Wolk at circletheglo.be, without further comment.
* Besides, you'll think we're just funning you when we announce that Kyle Baker really is doing the kids version of Watchmen.
Tue Apr 1, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
DC Direct Teams With My Little Pony
Targeting the not-quite-teen market?
Thanks to a spy carefully cultivated at this year's Toy Fair, we have this image from a new toy franchise/joint venture from DC Direct and Hasbro in anticipation of the Justice League film release.
Apparently, they think there will be a market for this Martian Little Pony. Ooookay...
Tue Apr 1, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
Superman To Be Published By ComicMix In Wake Of Legal Ruling
Reversion of copyright to Siegel estate means new adventures online
Brian Alvey spoiled the news, but now we can finally make the announcement:
In the wake of the recent landmark ruling returning 50-percent copyright ownership of Superman to the estate of Jerry Siegel, the Siegel estate has announced their first deal to publish Superman -- and we're proud to say, it's with us. Starting in time for the San Diego Comic-Con, we will be publishing new Superman stories.
Mike Grell, fresh off of drawing Supes for Action Comics #861 (pictured here) will be drawing the new series, making this the first time in 25 years that he will be drawing a series that he hasn't written himself. He will be starting as soon as he's done with his current commitment to Jon Sable Freelance. Dick Giordano is coming out of retirement to ink the series, alongside veteran inker Frank McLaughlin.
John Ostrander will be writing the initial debut of Superman, detailing how he fell through an interdimensional portal and ended up in Cynosure and Munden's Bar, where the usual confusion reigns until GrimJack intervenes to set things right. From there, he will be crossing over into various other universes (and series) all in an attempt to find his way back to his prime universe.
Mike Gold, ComicMix editor-in-chief, notes: "This will allow Clark to appear in all of our series-- Demons of Sherwood, EZ Street, The Adventures of Simone and Ajax, our recently relaunched Black Ice-- we can even work him into Trevor Von Eeden's upcoming biography of Jack Johnson."
Other talent connected to the ongoing stories will be announced in time for the New York Comic Con, although you'll hear about if first here on ComicMix. And of course, these will be free comics, just like all the rest of our series.
How does DC feel about this? Well, they really can't do anything as long as the Siegel estate pays 50-percent of the revenue earned to DC. Of course, we expect that the Siegel estate may take a few decades splitting the revenues and making sure DC gets its fair share. Turnabout is fair play, after all.
Mon Mar 31, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
Jim Mooney: 1919-2008
Paul Kupperberg tipped me off, Mark Evanier has the news: Jim Mooney, the incredibly prolific penciller and inker of everything from A-Team to World's Finest, passed away over the weekend.
Jim was best known for his work on Supergirl and the Legion of Super Heroes in the sixties and Spider-Man in the seventies, but his career spanned from the forties to the nineties, as early as the Eisner-Iger shop and as late as Astro City.
Here, we have a self portrait of himself that he slipped into The Spectacular Spider-Man #41.
He will be dearly missed.
Mon Mar 31, 2008 — by Glenn Hauman
On This Day: Brandon Lee Killed While Filming 'The Crow'
Tragedy on the set of popular comic adaptation
Fifteen years ago today, while filming the adaptation of James O'Barr's comic The Crow, the film crew filmed a scene in which Brandon Lee's character walked into his apartment and discovered his girlfriend being raped by thugs. Actor Michael Massee, who played one of the film's villains, was supposed to fire a gun at Lee as he walked into his apartment with groceries.
Because the movie's second unit team were running behind schedule, it was decided that dummy cartridges (cartridges that outwardly appear to be functional, but contain no gunpowder) would be made from real cartridges. A cartridge with only a primer and a bullet was fired in the pistol prior to the scene. It caused a squib load, in which the primer provided enough force to push the bullet out of the cartridge and into the barrel of the revolver, where it became stuck.
The malfunction went unnoticed by the crew, and the same gun was used again later to shoot the death scene, having been re-loaded with blanks. Nevertheless, the squib load was still lodged in the barrel, and was propelled by the blank cartridge's explosion out of the barrel and into Lee's body. Although the bullet was traveling much slower than a normally fired bullet would be, the bullet's large size and the extremely short firing distance made it powerful enough to fatally wound Lee.
When the blank was fired, the bullet shot out and hit Lee in the abdomen. He fell down instantly and the director shouted "Cut!", but Lee did not respond. The cast and crew filming rushed to him and noticed he was wounded. He was immediately rushed to the hospital where the doctors tried to revive him. It was too late however, and he was pronounced dead at 1:03 PM.
