NEXTWAVE Is Love
July 11th, 2006 | Work
NEXTWAVE is available from all good comics specialty stores and probably quite a few bad ones too.
You can also pre-order the first collection, NEXTWAVE: THIS IS WHAT THEY WANT from Amazon.
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July 11th, 2006 | comics talk
“I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately…”
– Alex Raymond, creator of FLASH GORDON
No Good Today
July 11th, 2006 | brainjuice
Editors and offices should not bug me today. Went to bed at 4am. Woken at 6 by postman. Woken at 8 by postman again. Woken at 10 by FedEx. Woken at 12 by DHL. Woken at 1.30 by some shit trying to sell me something. I am utterly wrecked now. The Red Bull, it does nothing. And some dick in the pub thought it’d be funny to close all the windows and turn the place into a sweatbox.
But it could be worse. I could be working at Warner Bros today. SUPERMAN RETURNS conservatively cost $250 million to make. Probably the same again to promote. It took $21M this weekend, eaten alive by PIRATES. The studio gets about half the box office takings. In America, WB’s cumulative slice of SR’s takings amount to around $50M.
As Fraction said to me Sat night, producer Jon Peters is probably sleeping with a gun in his mouth.
Is it conceivable that something that took fifty-odd million in its first weekend could be a flop? I
said of KING KONG that for that film’s budget, I could grow my own giant fucking monkey. $250 million puts you in spacelaunch-budget territory. For $250 million WB could’ve given Bryan Singer his own communications satellite and spent the change on a George Clooney movie. Or two Wes Anderson movies. It’s an astonishing volume of cash that, at this stage, they don’t have a prayer of making back worldwide or on DVD.
This is the absurdity of modern Hollywood; that taking more than the GNP of Luxembourg in a single weekend is not actually enough to put a movie in the black.
It’s no wonder that everyone I meet these days wants to work in TV.
And did you catch Sunday’s DEADWOOD?
links for 2006-07-10
July 10th, 2006 | Uncategorized
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if Jin Yong is the most widely read contemporary Chinese author, not only in China but all over Asia, and thereby certainly one of the most widely read authors in the world, why is he so sparsely translated into English?
links for 2006-07-08
July 8th, 2006 | Uncategorized
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Needles have been found in imported bananas sold at supermarkets in Saitama, Hokkaido and Aichi prefectures, it was learned Friday
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I chose to have a penile implant surgically put in and I couldn’t be happier. Unlimited erections on demend are a wonderful thing. The pump is on the right side of my scrotum and I have two rods that inflate on either side of my penis.
Zezelj’s DESOLATION JONES In Colour
July 8th, 2006 | Work
Another test piece by new series artist Danijel Zezelj, coloured, I believe, by Jose Villarrubia.
NEXTWAVE Is Love
July 8th, 2006 | Work
“Exhilarating… this feels like it should be on Adult Swim, paired with The Venture Bros.”
Me And My Cowgirl
July 7th, 2006 | people I know
Me and illustrator/designer/holy shit she’s managing editor of SHOJO BEAT magazine Laurenn McCubbin, July 1 2006, Charlotte NC. Photo by Kelly Sue DeConnick.
links for 2006-07-07
July 7th, 2006 | Uncategorized
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Had to keep quiet about this for a couple of weeks. Once again, congrats, Joe.
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reprocessed ‘skip frame’ shots of William Burroughs in London are accompanied by a looped repetition of him uttering a single phrase: soundtrack/Psychic tv director/Derek Jarman
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oh my god
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the capacity for empathy, previously suspected but unproven even among higher primates, is also evident in lower mammals
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solitons can carry an electrical charge when traveling through certain organic polymers; new study now suggests that solitons have intricate internal structures; could put particles to work in molecular electronics and artificial muscles
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study aims to delve into a ‘void’ or empty space in which atoms move, which has a large intrinsic energy density known as zero-point energy
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Rocketboom/Amanda Congdon fallout continues. Painful. But “d2i”/internet tv/vlogging was due some growing cramps…
Recent Stuff On THE ENGINE
July 7th, 2006 | brainjuice
Recent threads and sections of interest on THE ENGINE:
ENGINEER WEBCOMICS: run your own webcomics right on the Engine system. Or just turn up and read them.
Call for models: show your portfolio, talk about your work, hook up with photographers, etc.
Whorespace for bands and musicians.
The Covers List: artists show off their cover art and designs.
Warming up for Nerd Prom: drawing up plans for San Diego 2006.
I talk shit constantly. Shut up.
If you’re going to set up an account, pay attention to the Four Rules on the site’s main page once you’ve gone through the entrance gate. Ta.
Finally, Something Dumber Than The US Visa Form
July 7th, 2006 | researchmaterial
This is a form you have to fill out in order to get a teaching gig in Ohio, USA.
Are you a member of an organization on the U.S. Department of State Terrorist Exclusion List?
Yes No
Via Don.
DESOLATION JONES/Danijel Zezelj: 1
July 7th, 2006 | Work
An early sketch crack at Jones by new series artist Danijel Zezelj:
“Baybylon”
July 7th, 2006 | people I know, photography
I miss the Bay Area. Been more than 18 months since I was last there — flew out a few days after the 2004 elections, leaving a grey-skied city in mourning. This is more how I like to remember my home from home. Photo by Melissa Gira
All Comics Creators Are Haunted By Alien Ghosts
July 7th, 2006 | people I know, photography
D’Israeli, who adds, “Not a double exposure; no Photoshop”:
