The Daily Cross Hatch » Cross Hatch Dispatch 4/19/2007

Cross Hatch Dispatch 4/19/2007

Short and sweet:

Heads up! US screenings for Tekkon Kinkreet, aka the movie version of Taiyo Matsumoto’s comic Black and White, starts as early as next Wednesday in New York (April 25-30), Los Angeles (May 6), and Honolulu (April 26). (via Cartoon Brew)
Stuart Immonen is cutting up the web and feeding it into Pipes for the purpose of diabolically rendering a wondrously random Comics Wide Web… sort of.
My mouth dissolves into a rabid drooling mess whenever I peruse Penguin’s fabulous covers illustrated by comic artists, the latest of which is Frankenstein courtesy of Daniel Clowes. Also check out this stash of covers that have already been released, and this earlier interview with Penguin’s art director Paul Buckley (part one, two).
At first you think one or two times would be sufficient, but with bulldog dedication Joe Mathlete chomps through mild-mannered Marmaduke captions, 280 of them at last count, and gives you the real story behind the panels at Joe Mathlete Explains Today’s Marmaduke.
And because you can never have enough—more Kurt Vonnegut links:
Vonnegut’s Asshole Re-interpreted, Pulp Sci-fi Vonnegut on the Time Traveler Show, Fox News Disses Vonnegut.