I'll just come out and say it. If Dave Gibbons won't (and god knows he shouldn't) draw Morrison's Charlton heroes/Watchmen riffing comic, can Chris Weston draw it instead?
Thursday, April 30, 2009
To whomever's editing Grant Morrison's THE MULTIVERSITY project:
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"Well, if you know Lichtensteins references, or are familiar with the Foss/Brown debate, you know who the better artists really are. The fine art world can be culturally myopic. It's obvious that in music, if youre a DJ, playing something obscure and forgotten loud, in a new context like a club, does not make you the author. The art world equivalent redrawing something big and hanging it in a gallery should not make you the author either. If you fiddle with it a bit, thats called a remix or a cover version. It still does not make you the author. Never mistake an act of curation for an act of creation."
A fine interview with Rian Hughes, over here.
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Monday, April 27, 2009
Affirmation.
From Mr Action Jackson, action photographer, currently ensconced in a floating hotel (a "boatel", if you will) somewhere on the Danube. Cheers for that Jacko, started my day off nicely.
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More WEDNESDAY COMICS leakage. This time, Paul Pope does Adam Strange.
Argh, this is so very good. Look at those colours: very comics-Sunday-supplement-on-cheap-newsprint. The kick-assed hand lettering. The approach, as influenced by Burroughs and Raymond as Gardner Fox. Oh, Mr Pope, you've done it again.
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Mark Kardwell
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Labels: DC Comics, Paul Pope, Wednesday Comics
Sunday, April 26, 2009
I heart Barry Windsor-Smith.
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Mark Kardwell
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In response to "9 WOLVERINE BOOKS YOU MUST READ BEFORE GOING TO SEE THE MOVIE!"
1. Well there's this one, definitely.
2. And I loved this as a kid. Read it 'til it fell to bits.
3. And this is maybe the most influential super-hero comic of its time. Even Alan Moore would rip it off soon after, and HEROES seems to be based entirely on it.
4. Well, John Byrne left and things got a bit... inessential. Won't recommend the Claremont/Miller mini 'cuz it's tedious. But I remember thinking Claremont got his mojo back somewhat when Paul Smith came on board, and I loved this comic, too.
5. Even though I remember the Smith era fondly, I realise Claremont was very much repeating and recycling plots and themes for diminishing returns by then. Don't think I ever truly loved anything he did from this point on. Didn't enjoy another Wolverine comic (especially his dreadful solo series) until this cropped up. And even then, I only really like it for the art.
6. And again, I only like this for the art.
7. And then the long drought. Eventually Grant Morrison signed on to do the X-Men, and there was something of a knock-on effect throughout the line, which resulted in Milligan's X-Statix and this neglected classic.
8. Uh, and at a pinch... um... Nope, that's it. Graeme McMillan is maybe just a little bit more attached to the character than I am. He can think of loads of shit. But I wouldn't touch half of it with a bargepole.
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Mark Kardwell
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10:07 PM
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Labels: marvel comics, Wolverine
Monday, April 20, 2009
The solicitations for WEDNESDAY COMICS #1-4 are out...
...and yes, this still sounds like my new favourite comic of the summer.
"WEDNESDAY COMICS #1-4
In July, DC Comics gives a fresh twist to a grand comics tradition with WEDNESDAY COMICS, a new, weekly 12-issue series by some of the greatest names in comics today!
WEDNESDAY COMICS is unique in modern comics history: Reinventing the classic weekly newspaper comics section, it is a 16-page weekly that unfolds to a sprawling 28 x 20 tabloid-sized reading experience bursting with mind-blowing color, action and excitement, with each feature on its own 14 x 20 page.
Spearheaded by DCU Editorial Art Director Mark Chiarello, whose past editing credits include BATMAN BLACK & WHITE, DC: THE NEW FRONTIER and SOLO, each page of WEDNESDAY COMICS spotlights the continuing adventures of DC heroes, including:
BATMAN, WEDNESDAY COMICS weekly cover feature, by the Eisner Award-winning 100 BULLETS team of writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso
ADAM STRANGE, by writer/artist Paul Pope (BATMAN: YEAR 100)
METAMORPHO, written by New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman with art by Eisner Award-winner Michael Allred (Madman)
THE DEMON AND CATWOMAN, written by Walter Simonson (Thor, MANHUNTER) with art by famed DC cover artist Brian Stelfreeze
DEADMAN, written by Dave Bullock and Vinton Heuck, art by Dave Bullock
KAMANDI, written by Dave Gibbons (WATCHMEN, GREEN LANTERN CORPS) with art by Ryan Sook (Buffy The Vampire Slayer, ARKHAM ASYLUM: LIVING HELL)
SUPERMAN, written by John Arcudi (The Mask) with art by Lee Bermejo (JOKER)
WONDER WOMAN, written and illustrated by Ben Caldwell (Dare Detectives)
GREEN LANTERN, written by Kurt Busiek (TRINITY, ASTRO CITY) with art by Joe QuiƱones (TEEN TITANS GO!)
TEEN TITANS, written by Eddie Berganza with art by Sean Galloway
SUPERGIRL, written by Jimmy Palmiotti (JONAH HEX) with art by Amanda Conner (POWER GIRL)
HAWKMAN, written and illustrated by Kyle Baker (PLASTIC MAN, Special Forces)
SGT. ROCK, written by Adam Kubert (SUPERMAN: LAST SON), ilustrated by legendary comics artist Joe Kubert
THE FLASH, written by Karl Kerschl (TEEN TITANS YEAR ONE, THE FLASH: THE FASTEST MAN ALIVE) and Brenden Fletcher, illustrated by Karl Kerschl
METAL MEN, written by Dan DiDio with art by Ian Churchill (SUPERGIRL)
WEDNESDAY COMICS will arrive in stores folded twice to 7 x 10, with the first issue set to reach stores on July 8.
Issue #1 on sale July 8; Issue #2 on sale July 15; Issue #3 on sale July 22; Issue #4 on sale July 29 1-4 of 12 7 x 10, 16 pg, FC, $3.99 US"
$3.99? Let the whinging commence.
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Mark Kardwell
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10:24 AM
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Labels: DC Comics, Wednesday Comics
Sunday, April 19, 2009
Cop a load of these
Brendan McCarthy art exhibition at Orbital Comics. Do get along if you can.
Paul Pope draws a STAR TREK strip in the latest issue of WIRED. Anyone else feel a bit disappointed by that?
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Mark Kardwell
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Design a beer coaster and win shit.
Hey, I know for a fact some of you cats can draw a bit. Take one step forward everyone here who's a professional artist. Not so fast, Weston. Here's a brewery running a design a beer coaster competition. Prizes include a shitload of beer. Result.
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Mark Kardwell
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11:37 PM
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Nothing to see here: things to look at elsewhere.
Ohh, a Risso/The Azz Batman page from upcoming uberprojekt WEDNESDAY COMICS.
Part two of that Alan Moore interview.
And if you're into that kind of thing, Jim Mahfood doodling over naked ladies.
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Mark Kardwell
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8:33 PM
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Alan Moore knows the score: Chelsea 4, Liverpool 4.
Adi Tantimedh does a great job interviewing The Beard about the new L.O.E.G., over at CBR. Moore to come later in the week apparently, too.
Hey - see what I did there? Fuckin' hilarious, me.
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Mark Kardwell
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6:18 PM
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Decent news, for a change.
1. Michael Chabon will be taking a swing at the JOHN CARTER OF MARS script for Pixar's adaptation. That's a lot to be conjuring with, right there.
2. And some preview pages from LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN: CENTURY #1.
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Mark Kardwell
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8:09 PM
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Labels: Alan Moore, Kev O'Neill, Michael Chabon
Monday, April 13, 2009
The Hellacopters - "Hopeless Case Of A Kid In Denial"
Haven't heard this in a while. Best live band EVAH, by the way.
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Mark Kardwell
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9:29 PM
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Labels: guitars, Hellacopters
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Down, boy.
When I'm bored on any given Sunday, I go and look at original art I couldn't possibly afford. Like this, Sir Duncan Fegredo's greywashed cover for the latest Hellboy novel. Worth four and a half grand of anyone's money. Unfortunately, my spare four and a half grand is earmarked for buying a new kitchen. D'oh.
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Mark Kardwell
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11:18 PM
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Labels: Duncan Fegredo, Hellboy
Thursday, April 09, 2009
This monkey's gone to heaven.
Long time, no hear from yer man Tiernen Trevallion. Well, he's rectified that, and sent this along to have a gander at: Behold!
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Mark Kardwell
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9:48 PM
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009
Been Caught Soliciting, July '09: DARK HORSE.
More Mignola: Moon and Ba turn up in this playground, Fegredo covers another Hellboy paperback, and the long-trailed Victorian occult detective Edward Grey finally gets his own title.
Groovy.
Full Solicits here.
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Mark Kardwell
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10:31 PM
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Labels: Dark Horse comics, Duncan Fegredo, Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba, Hellboy, Mike Mignola
Tuesday, April 07, 2009
Pigeons in flight, I want to see you tonight.
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Mark Kardwell
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10:36 PM
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Labels: greatest song ever in the history of music, John Shuttleworth
You know who also wants to take a swing at THE MONKEY KING some day? Victor Santos.
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Mark Kardwell
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11:54 AM
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Sunday, April 05, 2009
I like Booker T Jones. And I like Neil Young. But which is better? There's only one way to find out. FIIIGHT!
Strikes me that any Neil Young fans who want to order a new album next week should get this rather than this. They might have to wait a while longer, but they'll end up with a product without his dopiest lyrics ever on it. And better guitar solos.
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Mark Kardwell
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7:40 PM
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BOOOOOGIE!
It's been a great month for the Muppets, what with the new comic, and now Animal announcing the new line-up of The Electric Mayhem. Good to see him bouncing back from the massive drum riser explosion that killed Floyd, Zoot, Janice and Dr Teeth.
(via WJC)
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Mark Kardwell
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9:12 AM
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Labels: Muppets, Warwick Johnson Cadwell
Friday, April 03, 2009
Toothy links
1.The current series of Rob Williams' LOWLIFE running in 2000AD is a thing of glory. Here its erudite artist D'Israeli gives us a nice little potted visual history of Mega City One.
2. As a big aul' Brendan McCarthy fan, I've a special place in my heart for his Brit Cit Judge design. After the B-Man, the best use of the design was in ARMITAGE, by Dave Stone and Sean Phillips. Not everyone's favourite character, but I always thought it was a decent stab at utilising the other (British, non-procedural) crime-writing tradition within the Dredd ethos. Sean returns to the character for an upcoming cover of JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE.
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Mark Kardwell
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9:07 PM
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Labels: Brendan McCarthy, D'Israeli, Rob Williams, Sean Phillips
Thursday, April 02, 2009
Bond will be back in...
...RED HERRING. I know he's probably living a contented life as a house husband, but hell yeah! Phil "Solid Gold" Bond's drawing interiors again! Nobody does it better, etc, etc, etc!
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Mark Kardwell
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10:01 PM
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Labels: Phil Bond
Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Merry funsters.
Is this FOR REALS or the cruellest April Fools Day gag ever? Guess we'll find out soon enough.
Also: Tharg really should commission Al Ewing's Rogue Trooper. In fact, they should call it exactly that.
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Mark Kardwell
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11:11 PM
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Labels: 2000AD, Al Ewing, Casanova, Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba, Matt Fraction, Rogue Trooper