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August, 2010 =========================================================== Contents =========================================================== Quote Of The Month Exslsior!! Stan “The Man” Lee State of the Geek: SDCC 2010/Wizard World Chicago Although I live too far out to attend SDCC, the good folks at Movieweb have supplied the masses with enough geeky goodness to satisfy even the most fussy pallets. Here’s some stuff I read about ? Karl Urban’s gonna be Judge Dredd: I think this is awesome, Urban a great action figure and will do well. I always thought he’d be a good Conan, but Jason Momoa shows promise ? The 3 helmets of Thor, Odin and Loki: Looks great pretty close to the comics. The proof, as people say, will be in the puddin ( good Harley Quinn reference) once the movie comes out. ? George Romero doing a Graphic novel--Romero been always a favorite. ? The Green Hornet interviews: just read Hornet #6, that is playing nicely into the feel of the movie. I hope it’ll be good. ? The New Tron Legacy Trailer: in a word…Legend…wait for it (good Barney Stinson reference) ary--This will be the movie of the year--Disney and Pixar working together--PURE GENIUS I just read up on the Wizardworld Con for Chicago…IT SUCKS!! Too many supposed guest stars..I attended C2E2 this part April--if you are Comic devotee, stick with C2E2..if you want schlock--go to Wizardworld..Same applies to the Magazine. If you want Comics read The Comic Buyers Guide, schlock..Wizard.
BIO OF COMIC: That Monkey Tune is a daily
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July, 2010 =========================================================== Contents =========================================================== Quote Of The Month Every: door leads you home --from a commercial I saw
State of the Geek: 3D OK—I just watched 2 trailers for 2 movies that I’m really looking forward to :
THE GREEN HORNET: When I first watched it, I thought it was awful, but after reading an interview with Seth Rogen and reading the latest Green Hornet Comic, I see some similarities between the 2 Brits and the trailer became more interesting. I hope the Flight of the Bumblebee is still part of theopening music.
HP7—the last Harry Potter is upon us…..the trailer is AMAZING11 The Poster is AMAZING!! Everything the climax should be.
However………these films are going to be in 3D…Harry Potter in 3D>>>>sorta ruins it
I was at the show not too long ago and was looking at upcoming movie posters and out of the 11 posters, 9 were going to be in 3D
Personally, this fad is getting very boring.. Although not a fan of the Twilight films, at least these, so far, aren’t in 3D.
Creator Corner: On Tap, Sean Archer and the world of Milo the Cloud
Bio of Comic – Milo the Cloud is a comic about a plucky little cloud who’s always polite, and his friends who aren’t. There’s Hank, a balloon, who’s angry and indestructible. There’s Lou, a cardinal who’s a cross between Woodstock and Jason Bourne, and Eva, who’s a teen that likes to climb watertowers. They’re all supported by the wisecracking Sun, the lovely Moon, and the ever-silent, ever-grumpy stormcloud, Nimbo.
I’m still working on a name for my company. As of right now, it’s just me, making toys, writing and drawing the comic, but response has been fantastic to the book and to the webcomic, so hopefully things will continue to grow and grow.
*what made you want to branch out as an independent title? Well, I didn’t really branch out. Milo the Cloud is a webcomic, and after a year of updating pretty faithfully, I wanted to try my hand at a convention, and I wanted to have something to sell, so putting out a #1 issue seemed like a no-brainer. I took the best of the first year, and printed it, and the sales were pretty great at c2e2.
*what makes your comic different from the next on the rack? The fact that it’s likely not on the rack. It’s a webcomic. Which means that right now, my sales are mostly from merchandise. I have Milo Pocket Art, which is selling very well on my website and at a designer toy shop here in Chicago called Rotofugi.
*Where do you see the future of printed comics? I think eventually, there will come a generation of people to whom printed ANYTHING is anathema. The environmental cost will eventually be too high, unless we stop using paper, and start using something that doesn’t cost so much in terms of natural resource and energy to process. Aside from that though, I think there’s just going to be a gradual shift toward something that’s way better than what we have now in the ipad or other forms of digital reading material. It’s not there yet, but it will be. I have friends who swear that they won’t read books or comics on an ipad. They say it’s just not the same as holding a book in your hand. But eventually those people will die, and we’ll be left with adults who say the same thing about the ipad. “Oh, you know kids, it’s just not the same, reading comics via this newfangled retinal implant. It just doesn’t have the same feel as an ipad. I like to swipe my fingers across the screen.”
*where do you see the future of your comic? Really, I love doing the comic, and I’d likely do it in strip form until the end of days if given the chance. BUT I also see it going into many other forms, because I’m a big fan of them all. I’d love to do an animated Milo movie, and write the music myself (I got my degree in jazz performance). I’d also kill to have a Milo game put out. The one thing I’d shy away from is doing a live action movie, with a CGI Milo voiced by Bill Murray. Didn’t work so well for Garfield.
*Pro writer? - The only person that comes to mind is Tom Robbins. I think it’s the fact that he handled inanimate objects with personalities so well in Skinny Legs and All.
*Pro artist? – Frank Cho. Liberty Meadows is one of my favorite strips, and I think it’d be a gas to see Frank’s take on my characters. It’d also be hilarious because I don’t think he’d be able to resist putting a gigantic rack on Eva. He’s a fan of the large breasts, that Cho.
Words of Wisdom? I’m really in no position to be giving ANYbody words of wisdom. Except to say you have to keep doing it. Just keep doing it. Even if it seems like nobody’s paying attention, and you’re not doing that well. By doing it and doing it, you ARE getting better. I see every day things I’m doing better. It’s worth the doing.
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June 2010 =========================================================== Contents =========================================================== Quote Of The Month: "BAZINGA!!" --Dr Sheldon Cooper, the Big Bang Theory State of the Geek: Deaths: they come in 3— Ronnie James Dio—inventor of the Devil Horns, one of the greatest symbols in Metal—confess we all used it from time to time Gary Coleman—never been to crazy about him but its sad to hear of someone dying FRAZETTA—yeah I read that the incredible Frank Frazetta died at the Age of 82—typing this I’m looking at my picture of The Death Dealer, one of the most iconic fantasy characters in all of geekdom. When I learned of this, I was really sad. We’ve lost one of the greatest visionaries of modern art. To me, one of the trilogy has been lost, Ken Kelly and Simon Bisley are left to carry the torch. Frazeetta has been in my life since I discovered comics and art. To me there will never be another-his visions of fantasy’s greatest creations have transcended the canvas, its part of our culture, of our psyche. I could go on about my thoughts on him, but I’ll make this easy..WE’VE LOST THE MASTER. Creator Corner: On Tap, words of wisdom from Josep Blas, creator Space Punks
BIO OF COMIC SpacePunks is a comic book/comic strip created about 7 years ago. The main character, Bala, was created when I was 3 years old or so. My mum noticed that I was drawing the same character over and over and over and decided to put those drawings aside for safekeeping. Later on she showed me those drawings and I fell in love with that character all over again. I named him Bala and decided to give him a whole universe and friends to play with. The rest of the characters, in their majority, are based on real-life friends and/or people that left an impression in me (either negative or positive). What once was going to be just a mini-comic that I was going to practice on became this huge storyline that is a mixture of Star Wars and classic Warner Bros./MGM cartoons (with a hint of dry British humor in it).
BIO OF CREATOR Josep Blas is the writer/penciller of the comic book SpacePunks. He lives in Chicago where he works as a graphic designer.
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· What made you think of doing a webcomic? SpacePunks is originally a comic book with a specific story being told. Lately, there has been great interest on an "origin" story of these five friends. I was going to create a separate book for this, but after thinking about it for a while and knowing spacepunks.com was opening soon, I decided to experiment on writing it on a comic strip style. Not only would it be a good reason for people to keep coming back to the site, it was also a great opportunity for me to work in an environment completely different from what I'm used to.
· Do you have any artistic influences? Oh yeah! Tex Avery has been a great influence in me since I was very young. I just love his exaggerated cartoons and storylines. Jeff Smith, Berkeley Breathed, Sergio Aragones and Frank Cho greatly influence my drawing and layout decisions. As for the humor and writing style, Guy Ritchie's movies, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are quite inspiring. Monty Python's Life of Brian is also a source of inspiration.
· Where do you see the future of webcomics Webcomics are here to stay. The good news and the bad news about that are the same: Anybody can do them. I see a lot of webcomics appearing all around the internet but, unfortunately, many of them, if not most of them, are pretty bad. In the past those who wanted to have their strips published had to do their homework and learn the art of writing, artwork and timing and concern themselves with producing quality work or at least produce work that would appeal to a certain demographic. Nowadays, we can avoid all that (not to mention avoid the ego bust that is showing your work to an editor) and go directly into publishing it on the net... with that comes a lot of bad quality work. Luckily, as with anything that expands in such a way, the gems are the ones that stay and lesser work tends to disappear, it's just a matter of finding those gems and help them linger through.
· Where do you see the future of printed Comics? I hope printed comics are here to stay. It's a format that is a unique storytelling device and that should never disappear. Nowhere else will you find a combination of film, art and acting as you do in a comic book. I will continue to publish comics in printed form and try and promote them as much as possible.
· How long have been doing your title 7 years, but quit for about 3. After moving back to Chicago (from Southern California) I decided to give my book one more try. As for the strip, it's brand new! (but been working on it for the past 4 months or so).
· What webcomics aside from your own, do you enjoy? Paul Horn's Cool Jerk is a strip that I really enjoy. I also love the more obvious ones, such as PvP by Scott Kurtz and Holkins and Krahulik's Penny Arcade. I guess you can say I'm still in the "newbie" stage of webcomics.
· What is your guilty pleasure? Ha! I can think of two movies that I enjoy immensely that are certainly guilty pleasures of mine: Ready to Rumble and Star Crash. Both films, while certainly not of great quality, do inspire me when writing/drawing SpacePunks.
· What printed comics do you enjoy? I'm very much enjoying Smile by Raina Telgemeier and Tom Beland's True Story Swear to God is always a great read. I grew up reading Asterix by Uderzo and Goscinny and to this day I still read it (and recommend it!). I also love Alex Robinson's graphic novels. You could say I'm addicted to indie work.
· What words of wisdom would you impart of up and coming web comic creators? Learn from those who came before you, never think your work is already better than theirs... once you understand that, forget everything you have learned and put your passion/inventiveness onto your own comic strip/comic book. Some people tell you to "never stop learning" and, to an extent, it is good advice, but I do wish someone had told me "stop learning and do your damn thing NOW!" a few years ago... I had to learn that on my own and wasted a lot of time "learning". Tips: what I’ve learned from C2E2 in theWeb Comics section
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May 8, 2010
====================================================== Quote Of The Month Crush your Enemies, see the driven before you and hear the lamentations of the women --Conan, from Conan the Barbarian State of the Geek: OK—3D or not 3D—never a question in my mind…No 3D—Just read the Man in Black 3 will be shot in..3D –Why the increase in Hollywood revenue..3D, what leads to headaches..3D—I think you get the picture—It’s the newest novelty. Ya know Ive been a movie geek for a long time, and I don’t know if this is shared with others but its getting ridiculous with all the 3D films either confirmed or rumored, I even heard the Exorcist, the first and (to me) the best was to be shot in 3D…….Just like making classic Black & White movies in color, leave the film industry alone and STOP THE MADNESS!! Creator Corner: Below is a quick Q & Q I had with Jamie Carrillo, an independent creator I had the honor of meeting at C2E2: What made you want to branch out as an independent title? My sister(the writer of all our books) and I have always done stories together and finally we decided to try our hand at actually publishing one of them. Instead of trying to shop it around, we decided to just do it ourselves. It was an opportunity to get our stuff out there and get some feedback. We began with our flagship series, "Eleison", which my sister has described as "Solomon Kane meets Dances with Wolves" and continued with "Jack", a totally different take on Jack the Ripper. This summer we will also be previewing "Resurrectionist" which is a werewolf tale with historical origins relating to the Crusades. · What make your comic different than the next on the rack? I truly think that what sets our books apart from the rest is the story telling. My sister writes about some very off the wall topics. The stories are meticulously researched and our love of history always manifests itself in some way in the books, both in the story and the art. We have some very eclectic tastes and they are usually combined in some odd manner in the story lines. That's how you end up with dead Roman soldiers in full armor fighting Native Americans and Jesuit priests in 19th century frontier America. · Where do you see the future of Printed Comics? I know everything is going digital these days with e-comics and all, but I believe the printed comic will endure. People will always want to hold their comic in their hand. I think people still want something physical to hold, rather than an image of a comic on a screen. Although now we have digital coloring, I think people still want a flesh and blood feel to their comic, knowing that someone actually sat down with a pencil and eraser and took their time to draw a book. I remember in the eighties Marvel tried a computer drawn Iron Man comic and that didn't seem to go over well. It didn't seem to have a "soul". I think no matter how tech savvy we get, people will still always want to see a hand-drawn superhero and be able to hold it in their hand. · Where do you see the future of your comic? We're in the midst of combining some of our issues into trade paperbacks and hopefully we can continue the series for a while. The story for Eleison has the potential to continue for many, many issues, as do all our series. · If you had 1 pro writer to pen one issue, who would it be? Since I don't do the writing, I know my sister would say Alan Moore. I believe DC's Vertigo line inspired my sister's style of writing, and I think any of the series would lend themselves well to Moore's style. · If you had 1 pro artist to draw one issue, who would it be? Tough one. If it were painted, definitely Brom. He is one of my greatest inspirations. · What words of wisdom would you pass along to future creators? Network- going to conventions, meeting other creators has resulted in some of the best opportunities for us. Don't ever give up. We started this five years ago on a whim to get our stuff out there and we're still going strong. It's tough and takes a lot of investment (time and money) but if it's what you love, there's no other way Tips: what I’ve learned from C2E2 in theWeb Comics section Stay consistent with posting Make them your best Never Give up!!
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