The Comics in Canada: An Illustrated History I’ve been slowly making my way through this nice archive of audio and video interview and feature clips of Canadian cartoonists. I listened most recently to the one about “Seth,” a cartoonist who really wears his obsession with the 1920s and 30s on his sleeve. The voiceover referred… Continue reading »
Aug
26
Ed Bumgardner Must Get Stoned
Dylan concert hits bad notes First off, some clarification: Ed Bumgardner is a longtime Winston-Salem music critic, who’s currently writing for the Winston-Salem Journal’s weekly free arts and entertainment supplement, Relish. By “stoned” in the title of this post, I don’t mean stoned as in “under the effects of marijuana,” but rather stoned as in… Continue reading »
Aug
25
Coolest Mini-golf Ever
The Somerville Open Mini-Golf 2006
Aug
24
Playing Wookie
From Yahoo via Bryan Fordham: Chewbacca of Star Wars fame throws out the ceremonial first pitch as Wicket the Ewok looks on before a baseball game between the Florida Marlins and the Washington Nationals Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2006, at Dolphin Stadium in Miami.
Aug
16
Dame Darcy’s The Illustrated Jane Eyre
Dame Darcy’s The Illustrated Jane Eyre Check out these beautiful preview pages from the forthcoming Penguin Books classics series version of Jane Eyre. Darcy on the feature film she’s apparently making version of her graphic novel Gasoline: It’s an environmental movie about technology working with nature and it stars a family of witches in a… Continue reading »
Aug
13
Sam Jackson on the Line
I just received a taped phone message from Samuel L. Jackson, imploring me to go see the forthcoming film Snakes on a Plane. A quick google search reveals that you can sign up pretty much anyone for a good old Mace Windu-style phone pestering via the everlovin’ interweb: http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/
Aug
10
Masters of Comic Art!
I’ve just returned from spending about five hours taking in the Masters of Comic Art exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum and I thought I’d post a few thoughts while they’re fresh in my mind: First off, I can’t imagine that there’s ever been a more jaw-dropping collection of original American comics art collected in… Continue reading »
Aug
09
Did you know…
Did you know that there’s a World Cosplay Summit? From Wikipedia: Cosplay (????, kosupure?), a contraction (or portmanteau) of the English words “costume” and “play”, is a Japanese subculture centered on dressing as characters from manga, anime, tokusatsu, and video games, and, less commonly, Japanese live action television shows, fantasy movies, or Japanese pop music… Continue reading »
Aug
08
Riddle Me This…
How can any creature sleep comfortably in this position? (And, no—in case you were wondering—I will not be accepting or responding to any commentary regarding, and/or offers to buy, my totally awesome Star Trek sleeping bag/comforter)
Aug
07
Speaking of…
Speaking of Brad McGinty, have I mentioned lately how much I love his character, Millionaire Hobo? These days, when I run into him at a convention or something, I just walk up to his booth, ask him if he’s got any new Millionaire Hobo stuff, and when he says no, I just walk away. I… Continue reading »