Go read “The Horror Lovers”!
What if the Marx Brothers ran Roger Corman’s movie studio? Find out in “The Horror Lovers”, created by Valerie Gallaher and Bobby Timony!
Category: ComicMix Quick Picks
We’d like to thank our commenters again for generally not being jerks
As compared to these knuckleheads.
On some comics websites, the comments sections are a hotbed of sexual harassment
Comic Art Negatives: Now With More Negativity
As a production person– and possibly the youngest person in comics production today who still worked in analog before digital– I found Colleen Doran’s discussion of reprinting A Distant Soil fascinating.
http://www.adistantsoil.com/2014/05/16/comic-art-negatives-now-with-more-negativity/
Following up on this post which goes into detail about comic art negatives. IF YOU HAVEN’T READ THAT, you may be lost if you read the rest of this. I
About Marvel Comics Original Artwork in the 1960s
For your perusal:
http://irenevartanoff.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/about-marvel-comics-original-artwork-in-the-1960s/
As many people know, I was in charge of the Marvel art warehouse (actually, a moderately large locked room in an industrial building) in the mid-1970s. I did an exhaustive inventory of all Marvel Comics original art. The details of that inventory…
Charles Stross on “The myth of heroism”
Running around doing too much today, but if you’ve been enjoying our columns from Dennis O’Neil, John Ostrander, and Mindy Newell on the topic of heroes and superheroes, you might want to look at what Charles Stross has to say about it:
Where do heroes come from?
I will confess that I find it difficult to write fictional heroes with a straight face. After all, we are all the heroes of our internal narrative (even those of us who others see as villains: nobody wakes up in the morning, twirls their moustache, and thinks, how can I most effectively act to further the cause of EVIL™ today?). And people who might consider themselves virtuous or heroic within their own framework, may be villains when seen from the outside: it’s a common vice of fascists (who seem addicted to heroic imagery—it’s a very romantic form of political poison, after all, the appeal to the clean and manly virtue of cold steel in subordination to the will of the State), and also of paternalist authoritarians.
But where does it come from?
via The myth of heroism – Charlie’s Diary.
A lot of “The Literature Of Ethics” here, and an unintentional connection between pre-monotheistic mythologies, Lois Lane and Lana Lang, and Betty and Veronica. Serioiusly.
Do We Need To Talk About Spider-Man? And Other Superhero Movies Too?
Criminy. Devin Faraci sitsus down for “the talk”.
http://badassdigest.com/2014/05/18/we-need-to-talk-about-spider-man
As AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 underperforms Sony must be considering how to fix their flailing franchise.
Is this simple sequel fatigue and diminishing returns, or is it possible that we might be seeing the first superhero movie domino fall?
Suddenly, a lot more seems to be riding on X-Men: Days Of Future Past this weekend…
The end of THE CITY
I’m ending my comic strip, The City, after 24 years. Here’s the final strip.
I’m ending the strip So I can concentrate full-time on graphic novels. It’s all good. I’m not slinking away from a failed endeavor as a washed-up has-been. I’m leaving it behind in a blaze of glory, as a newly minted, internationally-best-selling comix creator. The past couple years have been the best of my career. After 30 years of toil as a (at best) cult favorite to suddenly find success? I’m loving every fucking minute of it! I simply no longer have the time, nor, quite frankly, the desire, to devote to The City. Typically, it takes almost two full workdays to write and draw one strip. That’s time better devoted to other projects.
Monday Mix-Up: Mad X-Men: Draper
Now this is just weird. But fun and oddly watchable.
