July 2011
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“To me, the good high concepts are not the maybe the Hollywood logline. For me,...”
– Nick Spencer, from this Writer’s Workshop at Newsarama. This is a long read, but worth it if you’re a writer of any kind but especially if you want to be in comics. It’s alot of process, but there is quite a bit of valuable stuff, especially the stuff about the Mort Numbers which...
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Cow Boy: PAGE 1, FROM SCRIPT TO COLOR →
Your friend and mine, Nate Cosby is blogging behind the scenes stuff from his new comic COW BOY with Chris Eliopoulos (had to copy and paste that one, because there was no way I was spelling it right on the first pass). Go check it out.
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“Rag and Bone” by The White Stripes. I...
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“As to the youths of Jersey Shore, they are playing grotesques, like all...”
– My boss writing about the “The Jersey Shore”.
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“Remember when all the imaginary stories became true stories and suddenly there...”
– Grant Morrison in conversation with Neil Gaiman at EW. This entire piece is fascinating, especially the bit where they talk about someone dying on a flight Dave McKean is on while flying to Comic Con AND there is a girl on the flight dressed up like Death [from McKean and Gaiman’s Sandman]. As...
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WatchBill O’Reilly discusses how it is “impossible” that the Norway shooter Anders Breivik is a Christian, in yet another case for O’Reilly’s corporate stoogism. I try not to get into this kind of stuff too much here, but sometimes I get overwhelmed by hypocrisy and become angry with a need to call it out. The Huffington Post (I know) reports that despite all evidence to...
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“By psychoanalyzing his enemies with his FISTS, Batman may have hoped to escape...”
– so far this is my favorite line from Supergods. Emphasis mine.
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“Could it be that a culture starved of optimistic images of its own future has...”
– Grant Morrison, from his introduction to Supergods. Yes. Everyone needs to read this now, because I don’t think we’re going to get a better philosophical, historical, and personal narrative of how important superhero comics are. DO IT NOW. GO! GET TO THE CHOPPER!
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Eisner Winners. →
Happy to see Daytripper and Return of the Dapper Men win! Both well-deserved. Followed up with American Vampire for Best New Series, Joe Hill for Best Writer, Greg Rucka for Best Short Story, and Skottie Young! And CBR! Nice. Congrats to all.
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I’m not the only one getting messages from Anonymous people saying they know that I want to see them naked am I?
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WatchThis Must Be The Place trailer, starring Sean Penn as some kind of retired rock star hunting down a Nazi. I don’t know what this is supposed to be, but I don’t care. It exists and I must bear witness. Via Katie.
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WatchCheck out the bros from Deadliest Catch trying to hunt an Alaskan Sea Monster apparently called a Cadborosaurus. Didn’t know you could make one of those Nessie things out of stuff you use to move. (Sorry that pun was just too easy not to make).
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Grant Morrison Events in NYC Today. →
Wish I could go to any of these, but I have work and then Critical Theory tonight. Lame sauce.
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“Still, it’s a little unsettling to hear Mr. Morrison confess the many...”
– From the New York Times Review of Grant Morrison’s book, Supergods, out today. Good effort, NY Times, but you clearly have no frame of reference as to who it is you’re writing about. But thanks for trying.
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“You know what a Gilligan cut is? It’s how on Gilligan’s Island, the captain...”
– Javier Grillo-Marxuach on screenwriting. Always an interesting guy. In fact, recently, I realized I met him at NY Comic Con at the CBLDF Pre-Party and absolutely didn’t realize it. I think we sat the bar and commented on cosplayers and the like. If I realized I probably would have slobbered...
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Today in comics.
There is alot of really great stuff out today. X-Men: Schism is going to be a great read, Red Wing is a must-buy, and Ultimate Fallout#1 definitely is too. What’s everyone getting?
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Via Tim:
A screenwriter comes home to a burned down house. His sobbing and slightly-singed wife is standing outside. “What happened, honey?” the man asks.
“Oh, John, it was terrible,” she weeps. “I was cooking, the phone rang. It was your agent. Because I was on the phone, I didn’t notice the stove was on fire. It went up in a second. Everything is gone. I nearly didn’t make it out of the house. Poor...
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Check out Greg Rucka's Webcomic. →
Looks like a lot of fun. Plus includes script from the first page (drawn by the brilliant Rick Burchett) which is consistently interesting with how comics are structured differently on the web vs. print.
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“Tell ‘Em” by Sleigh Bells. Good...
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The Worthy Books.
[This is the eleventh excerpt from the memoir I began in June 2021 titled The Worst Writer Ever. Here are the previous installments: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10].
I just turned in my final edit on the fourth and final Worthy book. The working title I have right now is “A Worthy End” but I fucking cringe every time I think about actually calling it that, so I’ve been spending most of my day...
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“At day’s end, after Bill told me the final figure on the phone, I wandered numb...”
– from “The Year of Wonders” by Alex Shakar. This is a fascinating article if you’re into living vicariously. Which I am, unfortunately, but I’m working on cutting down on that. It is interesting to read the entire machine but it is a form of self-punishment. A lot of it is...
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“When I see my psychiatrist again I might ask her for sleeping pills. Something...”
– from The Adderall Diaries by Stephen Elliott. I like the murky, quiet, and slightly creepy stillness of this book. And I hate making sweeping statements like that—“stillness”—because that generally creates a question: “well what the fuck does that even mean?” from...
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“What You Know” by Two Door Cinema...
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Earth-2 Dave.
[This is a b-side from my fictional memoir, The Worst Writer Ever. A bonus track. Here are the previous installments: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10].
Have you ever thought about who you would be without having a pivotal thing in your life? What would happen to you if that crucial element of your personality was no longer a thing for you? Of course you have. That’s what this is about. What if...
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“Islands is the limit” feat. Notorious...
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The Birth of 'The New Journalism'; Eyewitness... →
peterwknox:
I doubt if many of the aces I will be extolling in this story went into journalism with the faintest notion of creating a “new” journalism, a “higher” journalism, or even a mildly improved variety. I know they never dreamed that anything they were going to write for newspapers or magazines would wreak such evil havoc in the literary world … causing panic, dethroning the novel as the...
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