When you get The Complete Something, you expect some kind of explanation of what Something is, maybe a potted history, maybe an appreciation by an illustrious colleague or someone famous from a younger generation. Sure, the audience mostly knows the details of Something, but there’s always a host of commonly misremembered and mythologized factoids – plus makers of books do want to draw in new readers every once in a while.
Cheech Wizard’s Book of Me is, I think, The Complete This. And there is a foreword by cartoonist Vaughn Bode’s son Mark Bode – himself a reasonably notable cartoonist – as by “Da’ Lizard” – which does, in its single page, give a few details. And there’s some scattered text here and there with some other context.
But Book of Me starts out with about thirty pages of sketchbooks and similar non-story material, which admittedly does include a lot...
Cheech Wizard’s Book of Me is, I think, The Complete This. And there is a foreword by cartoonist Vaughn Bode’s son Mark Bode – himself a reasonably notable cartoonist – as by “Da’ Lizard” – which does, in its single page, give a few details. And there’s some scattered text here and there with some other context.
But Book of Me starts out with about thirty pages of sketchbooks and similar non-story material, which admittedly does include a lot...
- 6/7/2023
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
We all love a good story. And a behind-the-scenes story can be even better than the story told in the book itself. “Heroic editor spends years of his life trying to assemble a massive, global collection with contributions by the best in the field, but the book never sees the light of day” is a great story. That’s the story Bob Levin told in a 2009 issue of The Comics Journal, about Michel Choquette and his massive book The Someday Funnies, which was almost published in the 1970s, and how all of the pages of completed art were still in storage, never seen but ready to go at a moment’s notice.
That was a wonderful story, and it led to the actual publication of The Someday Funnies in 2011, with those hundred-and-fifty pages of 1970s comics displayed on oversized pages and introduced with commentary by comics historian and critics Robert...
That was a wonderful story, and it led to the actual publication of The Someday Funnies in 2011, with those hundred-and-fifty pages of 1970s comics displayed on oversized pages and introduced with commentary by comics historian and critics Robert...
- 1/9/2018
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
While guys like Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas spent the 1970s reinventing live action moviemaking, animation had just one lone figure toiling away. Ralph Bakshi, trained on Terrytoons and involved in 1960s television animation, began exploring the possibilities of animated features in the shadow of Walt Disney’s death. His Fritz the Cat made people sit up and take notice, followed by Heavy Traffic, and Coonskin – urban, funky, raw tales set in a familiar world.
After that, he set his sights on something fantastic and gave us, in 1976, Wizards. I’ve been waiting for this film to be restored, cleaned up, and released on Blu-ray given its visual artistry and fun story. Finally, 20th Century Home Entertainment has released it for the film’s 35th Anniversary and they’ve given it a handsome treatment. Encased in a hardcover case with a 24-page booklet, the Blu-ray is striking to watch.
After that, he set his sights on something fantastic and gave us, in 1976, Wizards. I’ve been waiting for this film to be restored, cleaned up, and released on Blu-ray given its visual artistry and fun story. Finally, 20th Century Home Entertainment has released it for the film’s 35th Anniversary and they’ve given it a handsome treatment. Encased in a hardcover case with a 24-page booklet, the Blu-ray is striking to watch.
- 3/21/2012
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
French comic book artist internationally known by his pen names Moebius and Gir
The artist Jean Giraud was principally known for his work on comic books under two pen names. As Gir, the co-creator of Blueberry, one of France's most popular strips, his brushwork was detailed and realistic; as Moebius, he used intricate, visually arresting penwork to explore the subconscious in his creations Arzach, Le Garage Hermétique (The Airtight Garage) and L'Incal (The Incal). But Giraud, who has died of cancer aged 73, had an impact on the visual arts that went beyond comics. He was seen as a figurehead linking bandes dessinées with modernism and nouveau réalisme. As the co-creator of Métal Hurlant magazine, he took comics to an older, more literate audience. In cinema, his fans ranged from Federico Fellini to Hayao Miyazaki and his style influenced dozens of others, including Ridley Scott, George Lucas, James Cameron and Luc Besson.
The artist Jean Giraud was principally known for his work on comic books under two pen names. As Gir, the co-creator of Blueberry, one of France's most popular strips, his brushwork was detailed and realistic; as Moebius, he used intricate, visually arresting penwork to explore the subconscious in his creations Arzach, Le Garage Hermétique (The Airtight Garage) and L'Incal (The Incal). But Giraud, who has died of cancer aged 73, had an impact on the visual arts that went beyond comics. He was seen as a figurehead linking bandes dessinées with modernism and nouveau réalisme. As the co-creator of Métal Hurlant magazine, he took comics to an older, more literate audience. In cinema, his fans ranged from Federico Fellini to Hayao Miyazaki and his style influenced dozens of others, including Ridley Scott, George Lucas, James Cameron and Luc Besson.
- 3/13/2012
- by Steve Holland
- The Guardian - Film News
X-Men fans may already know that if things had gone differently, they would have seen a Matthew Vaughn directed version of the franchise’s unofficial finale, “X-Men: The Last Stand.” As it was, the director bowed out of the project, Brett Ratner was put in his place, and Vaughn moved on to captain film adaptations of Neil Gaiman’s “Stardust” and Mark Millar’s “Kick-Ass”.
In an interview with EW blog Inside Movies, Vaughn explains what kept him from taking on the X-Men then, what he’s put them through now that he’s at the helm of "X-Men: First Class", and why the “Twilight” girls will like it.
Read on for some of the highlights…
1. The movie will take the stylistic edge of a 1960s spy action flick, and it's Magneto who will be James Bond.
“The best way of describing it is X-Men meets Bond, with a little...
In an interview with EW blog Inside Movies, Vaughn explains what kept him from taking on the X-Men then, what he’s put them through now that he’s at the helm of "X-Men: First Class", and why the “Twilight” girls will like it.
Read on for some of the highlights…
1. The movie will take the stylistic edge of a 1960s spy action flick, and it's Magneto who will be James Bond.
“The best way of describing it is X-Men meets Bond, with a little...
- 1/25/2011
- by Rachel Molino
- MTV Splash Page
With the movies Dawn of the Dead, 300, Watchmen and the upcoming Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole (a.k.a., “The 3-D Animated Movie That Looks Like Lord of the Rings With Cool Owls”), Zack Snyder has become one of Hollywood’s most important and successful directors here in the current Geek Renaissance era of entertainment. Snyder has embraced the role of pulp cinema poet laureate (specialty: lyrical, slow-motion studies of punched faces or kicked bodies flying through the air), and, as such, has made it a priority to do the Joss Whedon and Kevin Smith thing...
- 9/1/2010
- by Jeff Jensen
- EW.com - PopWatch
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