Signs Of The Times
We salute you, happy gay people of Red Pegasus Comics in Dallas, Texas.
Source: Sign outside a Dallas comic shop on the day the Supreme Court OK’d gay marriage – Boing Boing
Author: Glenn Hauman
James Horner: 1953-2015
The two-time Oscar winner, 61, worked on three James Cameron films, two ‘Star Trek’ movies and classics like ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ ‘Field of Dreams’ and ‘Apollo 13.’James Horner, the consummate film composer known for his heart-tugging scores for Field of Dreams, Braveheart and Titanic, for which he won two Academy Awards, died Monday in a plane crash near Santa Barbara. He was 61.
At ComicMix, we’ve always been fond of his work on Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, but we absolutely loved his pure Americana score for one of the greatest comic book movie adaptations, The Rocketeer.
Our condolences to his family, friends, and fans.
ComicMix Quick Picks: Who’s faster, Superman or the Flash?
ComicMix Quick Picks: Who’s faster, Superman or the Flash?
Happy 100th Birthday, Julius Schwartz!
We miss him every day here at ComicMix. Comics Alliance has a great retrospective of the man at
http://comicsalliance.com/tribute-julius-schwartz/.
Julius “Julie” Schwartz was born on this day in 1915. Schwartz was an agent and con organizer, and as an editor at DC he was a midwife of comics’ Silver Age.
Arnold Schwarzenegger as the Terminator… for charity
Former California Governor and movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger is pranking people to raise awareness of the After-School All-Stars charity. Take a look.
Monday Mix-Up: SUPERMANDREAS
From creator Nick Acosta:
…a new disaster movie starring The Rock called “San Andreas” is slated to premiere in theaters. From the trailer I noticed that some of the film’s big disaster set pieces (the destruction of the Hoover Dam and Golden Gate bridge) looked very familiar to me. They are almost shot for shot the same as from one my favorite movies growing up – the 1978 film “Superman.” So I decided to re-edit the “San Andreas” trailer to take out The Rock and put in a 27-year-old Christopher Reeve as Superman. I even rotoscoped him flying from the 1978 film into “San Andreas.” Christopher Reeve’s Superman was my first childhood hero growing up. I still consider him the definitive Superman and I still can hear his voice when I read new Superman comics. So it was an immense pleasure to drop him into a modern day movie and see him fly one more time in his prime. Please check out “San Andreas” re-cut to the 1978 film “Superman,” I call it SUPERMANDREAS For more info on how this was made and to compare it to the actual “San Andreas” trailer you can goto my portfolio site.
Enjoy.
“Watchmen” Described for Screen Reader Users
During a 1940’s newspaper strike, New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia would read the comics over the radio so kids wouldn’t miss out on the funnies. In a similar vein, Liana Kerr is reading Watchmen for people who can’t see it:
Watchmen is a classic comic book written by Alan Moore and drawn by Dave Gibbons, published in 1986. It’s set in an alternate history where the existence of superheroes changed American politics, culture and everyday life. I’ve described it panel-by-panel for blind and low-vision readers, including the supplementary material at the end of each chapter. Text within asterisks indicates bold text.
Source: Watchmen: Described for Screen Reader Users | Liana’s Paper Dolls
Give it a try and let us know what you think.
2014 Nebula Awards Winners
The 2014 Nebula Awards were presented June 4, 2015 in a ceremony at SFWA’s 50th Annual Nebula Awards Weekend, held in Chicago, IL. Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation, Axe Cop) hosted the awards. Larry Niven was honored with the 2014 Damon Knight Grand Master Award for his lifetime contributions and achievements in the field.
Scott Edelman gave a heartfelt acceptance speech for the Bradbury Award on behalf of Guardians Of The Galaxy, which we transcribed in its entirety for you:
I am Groot. I am Groot? I AM GROOT.
Now, who among us can argue with that?
The full ballot, with winners listed first:
Novel
- Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer (FSG Originals; Fourth Estate; HarperCollins Canada)
- The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (Tor)
- Trial by Fire, Charles E. Gannon (Baen)
- Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- The Three-Body Problem, Cixin Liu (Tor)
- Coming Home, Jack McDevitt (Ace)
Novella
- Yesterday’s Kin, Nancy Kress (Tachyon)
- We Are All Completely Fine, Daryl Gregory (Tachyon)
- ‘‘The Regular’’, Ken Liu (Upgraded)
- ‘‘The Mothers of Voorhisville’’, Mary Rickert (Tor.com 4/30/14)
- Calendrical Regression, Lawrence Schoen (NobleFusion)
- ‘‘Grand Jeté (The Great Leap)’’, Rachel Swirsky (Subterranean Summer ’14)
Novelette
- ‘‘A Guide to the Fruits of Hawai’i’’, Alaya Dawn Johnson (F&SF 7-8/14)
- ‘‘Sleep Walking Now and Then’’, Richard Bowes (Tor.com 7/9/14)
- ‘‘The Magician and Laplace’s Demon’’, Tom Crosshill (Clarkesworld 12/14)
- ‘‘The Husband Stitch’’, Carmen Maria Machado (Granta #129)
- ‘‘We Are the Cloud’’, Sam J. Miller (Lightspeed 9/14)
- ‘‘The Devil in America’’, Kai Ashante Wilson (Tor.com 4/2/14)
Short Story
- ‘‘Jackalope Wives’’, Ursula Vernon (Apex 1/7/14)
- ‘‘The Breath of War’’, Aliette de Bodard (Beneath Ceaseless Skies 3/6/14)
- ‘‘When It Ends, He Catches Her’’, Eugie Foster (Daily Science Fiction 9/26/14)
- ‘‘The Meeker and the All-Seeing Eye’’, Matthew Kressel (Clarkesworld 5/14)
- ‘‘The Vaporization Enthalpy of a Peculiar Pakistani Family’’, Usman T. Malik (Qualia Nous)
- ‘‘A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide’’, Sarah Pinsker (F&SF 3-4/14)
- ‘‘The Fisher Queen’’, Alyssa Wong (F&SF 5/14)
- Guardians of the Galaxy
- Birdman
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Edge of Tomorrow
- Interstellar
- The Lego Movie
Andre Norton Award
- Love Is the Drug, Alaya Dawn Johnson (Levine)
- Unmade, Sarah Rees Brennan (Random House)
- Salvage, Alexandra Duncan (Greenwillow)
- Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future, A.S. King (Little, Brown)
- Dirty Wings, Sarah McCarry (St. Martin’s Griffin)
- Greenglass House, Kate Milford (Clarion)
- The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender, Leslye Walton (Candlewick)
The Solstice Award was given to Joanna Russ posthumously, and to Stanley Schmidt. Jeffry Dwight received the Kevin O’Donnell Jr. Service to SFWA Award.
Winners were announced at the Nebula Awards Banquet on June 6, 2015, during the Nebula Awards Weekend (June 4-7, 2015) in the Red Lacquer Room at the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago IL.
Nichelle Nichols hospitalized after mild stroke
Last night while at her home in Los Angeles, actress Nichelle Nichols suffered from a mild stroke and was taken to a hospital. She is currently undergoing testing to determine how severe the stroke was. Her publicist provided a statement to EW: “Nichelle Nichols is resting comfortably and undergoing tests. We do not have a prognosis yet but everyone’s prayers and well wishes are appreciated.”
Nichols, 82, is best known to fans as Lt. Nyota Uhura on Star Trek in a diverse career spanning over fifty years including appearances on stage and screen, from singing with the Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton bands to voice-overs on Futurama and The Simpsons, with possibly her biggest impact coming from her volunteer work with NASA to help recruit minority and female candidates for the agency.
We hope she gets better quickly, and look forward to seeing her at conventions soon. This lady is a hard one to knock down.
Singapore Arts Council pulls $8,000 grant for Sonny Liew graphic novel
Sonny Liew, artist on the upcoming Dr. Fate series written by Paul Levitz for DC Comics, has published a graphic novel overseas that’s gotten a bit of political attention in his home country of Singapore…
A hot-off-the-press graphic novel seems to be in hot water, with the National Arts Council (NAC) revoking its $8,000 publication grant because of the “sensitive content”.
The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by award-winning comics artist Sonny Liew tells the story of a Singaporean artist who represents 60-odd years of local history through his satirical comics.
Founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew and his political rival Lim Chin Siong appear in the 340-page book in cartoon form.
The 1987 Operation Spectrum, when 16 people were detained allegedly over a Marxist conspiracy to overthrow the Government, is turned into a plot to replace all music in Singapore with the melodies of American singer Richard Marx.
Published here this month by Epigram Books, the comic scored a publishing deal with American publisher Pantheon for an international edition next year.
It was awarded a grant of $8,000 from NAC before publication, of which $6,400 was disbursed, according to Epigram Books’ publisher Edmund Wee. He will return the $6,400 and is printing stickers to cover up the arts council logo in the printed books.
Sonny Liew is also known for his work on [[[My Faith in Frankie]]] together with Mike Carey and Marc Hempel, and Marvel Comics’ [[[Sense and Sensibility]]] adaptation.
