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| Battlecats Halloween Comicfest Special #1 |
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Thursday, October 03, 2019
Battlecats Halloween Comicfest Special #1
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Monday, August 05, 2019
Battlecats Vol. 2 #5
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| Battlecats Vol. 2 #5 |
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Tuesday, October 26, 2010
RIP - Alexander Anderson, Jr., Creator of Rocky & Bullwinkle
Alexander Anderson, Jr., creator of Rocky the Squirrel, Bullwinkle the Moose, Dudley Do-Right, and others, died at an assisted-living facility in Carmel at age 90. Anderson suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
Prior to creating the TV show which would be his legacy, Anderson worked on the Mighty Mouse theatrical shorts. He created his own company with fraternity brother, Jay Ward (who received the lion's share of the credit from mainstream media), when his Mighty Mouse bosses refused to consider creating cartoons specifically for TV. Anderson and Ward worked out of the garage behind the former's family home.
Ward went on to television success with several of the duo's creations, while Anderson went into a career in advertising. He later won a lawsuit against the former, as he felt his contributions had never been credited.
Alexander Anderson, Jr. is survived by his wife. Rocky & Bullwinkle became an American institution in animation, spawning such oft-quipped quotes as, "Hey, Rocky? Watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat!"
It was, invariably, the wrong hat.
© C Harris Lynn, 2010
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| Rocky & Bullwinkle |
Ward went on to television success with several of the duo's creations, while Anderson went into a career in advertising. He later won a lawsuit against the former, as he felt his contributions had never been credited.
Alexander Anderson, Jr. is survived by his wife. Rocky & Bullwinkle became an American institution in animation, spawning such oft-quipped quotes as, "Hey, Rocky? Watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat!"
It was, invariably, the wrong hat.
© C Harris Lynn, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
Friday, December 11, 2009
Spawn #10 (Cerebus) to be Reprinted After 15 Years!
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| Spawn #10 |
"It hasn't been reprinted since it first came out," SPAWN #10 writer and CEREBUS creator, Dave Sim, said. "I'm very glad that's all over with after 14 years. Todd sent me black and white scans of Spawn 10 which will be published in a Cerebus Miscellany volume someday and, hopefully, Spawn 10 will be included in any and all future collections if the Toddmiester decides to make that official McFarlane policy."
The SPAWN ORIGINS COLLECTION: DELUXE EDITION VOL. 1 HC features the artwork of Todd McFarlane, which laid the groundwork for the most successful independent comic book ever published. This limited edition hardcover includes classic SPAWN stories written by Sim, Alan Moore, Frank Miller, Grant Morrison, and McFarlane himself in one massive, slipcase collection. It will mark the first time Sim and McFarlane's collaboration has seen print since it first appeared in 1994!
SPAWN ORIGINS COLLECTION: DELUXE EDITION VOL. 1 HC (SEP090283), a 620-page full-color hardcover for $100 will be in-stores soon. A signed and numbered edition (SEP090284) will also be available for $150. Cerebus is ™ and © 2009 Dave Sim.
© C Harris Lynn, 2009
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Cerebus File Copies Up for Auction
Coming March 19th, 2007, Paradise Comics will put up several Cerebus the Aardvark file copies for auction on e-Bay. A file copy is one originating from the publisher's own files. All comics have been graded, certified, and encapsulated.
I, along with basically everyone else in the free world and probably every single person in the rest of the world, disagree with most everything Dave Sim professes to believe, but there is no question that Cerebus is - and will remain - one of the most groundbreaking comic book titles of all time. Sim is a master of the field, though the subject matter which he tackled within the title often led to controversy and fallings-out between him and others in the industry.
Probably the most intriguing aspect of the title is that it was always (or, at least from very early-on into the process) meant to be an encapsulated story; though a monthly title, Sim planned it to end at issue 300, which it did a few years back. Some other intriguing, groundbreaking concepts Sim and Cerebus pioneered included direct-sales and the "phonebook" collections - both of which, again, inspired controversy and fallings-out within the industry.
But I must explain to people -- as I always do when the Cerebus phonebooks are mentioned -- that this was not exactly a new concept; the Japanese had been doing it for years. The real flip to the industry was in the direct-sales marketing method Sim used to move the books, thereby circumventing the comics distributors of the time.
I, along with basically everyone else in the free world and probably every single person in the rest of the world, disagree with most everything Dave Sim professes to believe, but there is no question that Cerebus is - and will remain - one of the most groundbreaking comic book titles of all time. Sim is a master of the field, though the subject matter which he tackled within the title often led to controversy and fallings-out between him and others in the industry.
Probably the most intriguing aspect of the title is that it was always (or, at least from very early-on into the process) meant to be an encapsulated story; though a monthly title, Sim planned it to end at issue 300, which it did a few years back. Some other intriguing, groundbreaking concepts Sim and Cerebus pioneered included direct-sales and the "phonebook" collections - both of which, again, inspired controversy and fallings-out within the industry.
But I must explain to people -- as I always do when the Cerebus phonebooks are mentioned -- that this was not exactly a new concept; the Japanese had been doing it for years. The real flip to the industry was in the direct-sales marketing method Sim used to move the books, thereby circumventing the comics distributors of the time.
Friday, December 15, 2006
Jaka's Story
Well, I finished Jaka's Story and I have to say that while I enjoyed it immensely...
Okay, here it is: I've always been a supporter of independent comics and not out of some misguided, sycophantic fanboy loyalties of any kind; independent comics are, in general, simply better. I love the superhero genre though, and most of the independents which bother to work in that genre usually do so satirically.
So my beef is this: anything can get old, and the constant reliance on "slice of life" stories in independents is a turn-off. This is why they aren't more popular, plain and simple; "independent" has become synonymous with phrases like "moving" and "introspective," which are translated as "slow-moving" and "obsessive." And they usually are.
The art is better, the story and the storytelling is better, but a hundred pages or so in, it starts getting tedious. Pacing is the ultimate tool of a graphic storyteller and slowing it down to capture the everyday minutiae of every, little thing is only one way it can be used. Yes, 25 pages of rain dripping from a rooftop ending with a wide pan of the main character, staring out the window is artistic and beautiful when well-rendered. Yes, I understand what I'm seeing and appreciate it; she's lonely, the world seems distant, she's appreciative of the smaller things -- sensitive to her surroundings and others, so on. Wonderful!
But 25 pages more of a guy she once met through her half-brother's distant cousin, twice-removed, on her father's side back when she was a kid, watching an egg boil and thinking of their all-too brief relationship that one summer when he became A Man is a bit... tedious.
Okay, here it is: I've always been a supporter of independent comics and not out of some misguided, sycophantic fanboy loyalties of any kind; independent comics are, in general, simply better. I love the superhero genre though, and most of the independents which bother to work in that genre usually do so satirically.
So my beef is this: anything can get old, and the constant reliance on "slice of life" stories in independents is a turn-off. This is why they aren't more popular, plain and simple; "independent" has become synonymous with phrases like "moving" and "introspective," which are translated as "slow-moving" and "obsessive." And they usually are.
The art is better, the story and the storytelling is better, but a hundred pages or so in, it starts getting tedious. Pacing is the ultimate tool of a graphic storyteller and slowing it down to capture the everyday minutiae of every, little thing is only one way it can be used. Yes, 25 pages of rain dripping from a rooftop ending with a wide pan of the main character, staring out the window is artistic and beautiful when well-rendered. Yes, I understand what I'm seeing and appreciate it; she's lonely, the world seems distant, she's appreciative of the smaller things -- sensitive to her surroundings and others, so on. Wonderful!
But 25 pages more of a guy she once met through her half-brother's distant cousin, twice-removed, on her father's side back when she was a kid, watching an egg boil and thinking of their all-too brief relationship that one summer when he became A Man is a bit... tedious.
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