February 2012
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Twist Street: Thomas Lennon: ”At about 27, I quit... →
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Thomas Lennon: ”At about 27, I quit videogames forever. Subsequently, then wrote— I guess I’ve written somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 or 30 scripts, probably give or take. Honestly, it’s probably way closer to 30, and it might be nosing closer to 35. Of those, 8 or 9, I suppose, have been…
Of course, B. Sauce on the IMDB message boards have this to say about...
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“I’m not saying you shouldn’t work at Marvel and DC. But you should work there...”
– Ivan Brandon (Viking, Men of War) from his thought provoking blog post “Marvel & DC are not the medium of comics (you are).”
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All Dead Mormons are Now Gay
“HEY, EVERYBODY: you know how Mormons “baptize” dead people who weren’t Mormons — including Holocaust victims — because Mormons believe they have a right to choose Mormonism for the deceased? And you know how the Mormon Church says that being gay is a choice? The same church that doesn’t think you should have a choice about being posthumously baptized? Well, now you can choose...
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CITIZEN CONN: Michael Chabon's latest story in The...
Lee and Kirby. Moore and Gibbons. Kirkman and Moore. There’s clearly something in the zeitgeist about comic book partnerships disintegrating. Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay) has (perhaps inadvertently) tapped into it in his short story CITIZEN CONN, in this week’s New Yorker (sorry, link is to an abstract, as the article is behind a paywall).
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Joe Keatinge's Comics & Stories: IN THE WILD →
As someone whose put out the majority of their work through Image, I’m embarrassed to say that, for the most part, I missed out on Image’s golden era. Probably because it corresponded with the time I discovered girls (although not necessarily when they discovered me).
Image is relaunching Rob Liefeld’s Extreme universe with Brandon Graham on PROPHET, Tim Seeley on...
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“I have a love/hate relationship with the internet, as I imagine most writers do....”
– Ed Brubaker, from the backmatter to Criminal #4
(And yes, I’m aware of the irony of me posting this online as opposed to doing actual writing).
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R.I.P. John Christopher
Lost in all the Buckwheat Whitney-Houston-is-still-dead news is the loss of one of the first sci-fi authors I was exposed to, “The Tripods Trilogy” author John Christopher.
From Andrew Cohen’s obit piece in The Atlantic:
“The author John Christopher died in England last Friday, and I’m guessing that most of you have no idea who he was or what he wrote. He wrote...
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““Think about it. There are folks in Africa who get AIDS without even being...”
– from Kenny Powers open letter to Tim Tebow in Grantland.
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New Book Out This Week: Marvel Adventures...
RIFT RAIDERS is probably the only true “All Ages” book I’ve done, the only one I’d be truly comfortable sharing with my nephews and niece. (Don’t get me wrong, I’m really proud of GROUNDED, but it’s probably more PG than G.)
That’s about to change this week with my story “RISE OF THE SUPER-SKRULL” in Marvel Adventures Super-Heroes...
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WatchHere’s the first episode of SWITCHER, which I thought was the one of the most brilliant Channel 101 series last year. Most of the Channel 101 shorts go for the comedy jugular. Switcher has some very funny moments, but it takes the huge risk of actually trying to tell a complex story in less than minutes.
Video courtesy of Switcher writer-director aaronmoles, who has this to say about...
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First Figure Drawing of 2012 - Drawing with Dan...
Dan Panosian is a great artists and an even greater guy. If you want to see why, check out this Operation: Redacted pitch he did with my friends screen and comics writer Jonathan Davis (The Dukes of Hazzard, IDW’s Doctor Who, Image’s upcoming Badrock Highway) and tv producer/Oni Press exec Andy Bourne:
or this “Mad Men” sketch he did of Joan Holloway.
(Want to know...
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WatchFollowing up on my Channel 101 post, this is the 2nd episode of Intimate Indiscretions, what I thought was the funniest Channel 101 show of the past year. Of course, I may be biased because it parodies Zalman King’s Red Shoe Diaries, for which I hold a special place in my heart.
Catch the other three Intimate Indiscretions episodes at the Official Channel 101 website here.
EDIT:...
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“Anyone planning to boycott Before Watchmen on principle because Alan Moore...”
– from Alex Pappademas’ great “Great Moments in Nerd Trolling: The Watchmen Prequels” piece in Grantland
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not thrilled with the idea of Watchmen Prequels for a whole host of reasons. But I think all of us, particularly comics creators, have blood...
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Buy my Comics Digitally on Comixology, and listen...
With all the talk of online comics piracy, a lot of you have asked me whether it’s possible to (legally) download my books. The answer is yes, and one of the best ways to do it is through comiXology.
Right now, comiXology has Graveyard of Empires, Fearless, the hard-to-find Rift Raiders, Unthinkable and even thatone issue of Supergirl I wrote during the day. You can click on each...
January 2012
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Figure Drawing Dump - the last of 2011 Part 2
My final drawings in 2011 were done in the little figure drawing group I’m in with artist Jay Stuckey and some other former students of his.
These were 4-12 minute poses, done in charcoal pencil, but are otherwise presented without commentary:
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Figure Drawing Dump - the last of 2011 Part 1
A couple weeks ago, I finally did some figure drawing after taking a few months off. Before I posted what I did this month, I thought I’d post a bunch of drawings I did in the latter half of 2011, so you can see my progress (or lack thereof).
First up, I went to the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena back in September. It might be my favorite museum in the LA area, with a tremendously well...
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Harmontown, Community and Me
Over the past few weeks, I’ve become obsessed with “Community”. By which I mean both the critically acclaimed show Community, and the idea of what a lower case community means.
As far as the show goes, in the span of two weeks I watched the entirety of the show so far - 2 1/2 seasons on Hulu Plus (a service I would not recommend past the 1 week free trial, although...
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How to (Legally) Download Screenplays for...
Now that awards season is in full swing, studios are allowing you to download PDFs of the screenplay for a number of Oscar contending films. Yes, it’s a marketing ploy to get members of the WGA, The Academy etc. to read/nominate/vote for their films. But I’d like to think there’s an element of goodwill here.
PDFs of screenplays from Bridesmaids to The Warrior are available by...
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GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES REFERENCE
While you’re waiting for Issue 4 of Graveyard of Empires, I thought I would share some of the research that goes into the book. At some point I’m going to compile a bibliography of all the books, films etc. that Paul and I used for Graveyard - maybe in the last issue, if we have room (it’s looking like a 27 pager now), maybe in the trade.
Paul has an incredibly cool extra...
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GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES #3 review & cover of the week...
Issue 3 of GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES got a nice little review from Comics Nexus. You have to scroll down a bit to find it, but here’s an excerpt:
“Mark Sable is writing a pretty complicated story, and Paul Azaceta’s atmospheric, Tommy Lee Edwards-like art works very well with it.”
More importantly, Paul Azaceta’s cover got chosen by The Weekly Crisis as its cover of the...
