Archive for March, 2009
The Eternal Smile By Gene Yang and Derek Kim First Second It’s a testament, of course, to Derek Kirk Kim’s abilities as an artist that, upon first glance, there are no immediately discernable similarities between the three short stories that make up The Eternal Style. The artist adopts a vastly different aesthetic for each of [...]
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Tags: Derek Kim, First Second, Gene Yang, The Eternal Smile
Emily the Strange was born on the bottom of a skateboard deck—an odd little girl created to be a one-off character for the Santa Cruz Skateboard company. Soon she appeared on t-shirts. A decade later, she became an industry—comics and books and stickers and stationary, and even a limited edition guitar, endorsed by Lil’ Wayne. [...]
Filed under: Interviews | 3 Comments
Tags: Darkk Horse, Emily the Strange, goth, Rob Reger, Santa Cruz
Before accepting a full-time gig at Harvey Kurtzman’s Mad Magazine, Al Jaffee kicked around the comics industry, writing anything his editors would throw at him, from funny animal books, to “teenage material,” to army comics, to crime books. The artist even dabbled a bit in the superhero genre—albeit with a distinctly Jaffeean take on the [...]
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Tags: Al Feldstein, Al Jaffee, Fold-in, Harvey Kurtzman, Mad Magazine, Marvel, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, Stan Lee
When Sean Seamus McWhinny was four, he ran down a hallway in his parents’ house, leaving a trail of red crayon on the wall as he went. Years later, while watching Saturday morning cartoons, he practiced drawing by rapidly copying the gestures of the Warner Bros. characters on TV. Since growing up, he began a [...]
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The Laugh-out-Loud Cats Sell Out By A. Koford Abrams For better or worse, we live in the age of the meme. In some form or other, the concept has existed since the beginning of recorded history, but, given the modern ubiquity of the Internet, culture is being disseminated at a dizzying pace, spread through blogs [...]
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Tags: Abrams, Adam Koford, John Hodgman, Laugh-out-Loud Cats, Lolcats
“I was trying shut the radio off and had type flying in the air,” Al Jaffee laughs, taking the call off of speakerphone. He’s in the middle of fold-in at the moment—“engrossed” as he happily puts it. It is, of course, exactly what one would expect the artist to be working on at 5:30 PM [...]
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Tags: Al Feldstein, Al Jaffee, Fold-in, Harvey Kurtzman, Mad Magazine, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions
At a comics convention, an early stages movie deal is something of a 300-pound gorilla—something everyone wants to discuss, but still tries hard not to jinx. In this industry we’ve seen countless optioning deals come and go, so when a creator announces that they’ve got the ball rolling on a project, it can be difficult [...]
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Tags: Bizarro, Dark Horse, David Fincher, Eric Powell, Superman, The Goon
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