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Your video of the day | How to letter by Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud offers a “how to” guide on the under-appreciated art of lettering comics. Above is part one; you can also watch part two on YouTube.
- May 3, 2011 @ 12:00 PM by JK Parkin
Your video of the day | Toronto Comic Arts Festival
Toronto Comic Arts Festival: Pencil it In from Toronto Comic Arts Festival on Vimeo.
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival, or TCAF, is coming up May 7-8, and to promote it some friends of the organizers have created this nifty video featuring many of Toronto’s talented comics folks — Chester Brown, Michael Comeau, Steve Charles Manale, Vicki Nerino, Michael Cho, Michael DeForge, Seth, Fiona Smyth and Britt Wilson.
- April 29, 2011 @ 10:00 AM by JK Parkin
Your video of the day | Paul Levitz speaks at Google
While in the Bay Area a few weeks ago for WonderCon, Paul Levitz, former DC president and publisher and current Legion of Super-Heroes writer, headed down the peninsula to speak at Google’s offices in Mountain View as a part of their Authors@Google speaker series. It’s a lengthy video, but well worth the time to check it out.
(Hat tip: Tom Galloway)
- April 22, 2011 @ 09:00 AM by JK Parkin
Your video of the day | Little Thor spoofs Little Vader Volkswagon ad
Kevin already posted this at our sister blog, Spinoff, but I figure it’s worth sharing in case anyone missed it there:
Marvel spoofs the Darth Vader Volkswagon ad from this year’s Super Bowl, sharing several little Easter Eggs with fans in the ad — see if you can find them all.
- April 21, 2011 @ 01:10 PM by JK Parkin
Your video of the day | Meet SamDroid, mayor of Portland
As if Portland, Ore. needed any more help in becoming comic-friendly, apparently their mayor is also a superhero. Mayor Sam Adams appeared at the recent Stumptown Comics Fest in full cosplay, dressed as SamDroid, a character designed by Manny McIvor as part of a competition held by the Alter Egos Society. The above video, courtesy of Things From Another World, includes interviews with the mayor, McIvor and Alter Egos Society founder Benja Barker.
- April 20, 2011 @ 12:30 PM by JK Parkin
Watch a live performance of Courtney Crumrin
COURTNEY CRUMRIN live w/ Ted Naifeh & This Can’t End Well from theisotope on Vimeo.
Here’s another one that came out of San Francisco’s Noise Pop event last month — Courtney Crumrin creator Ted Naifeh and indie musicians This Can’t End Well did a live performance of Naifeh’s Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things.
“Performed before a truly packed house for San Francisco’s beloved indie music festival, Noise Pop, and truly a shining moment for the first-ever Noise Pop Culture Club,” said Isotope Comics owner James Sime on the store’s blog. “I think you will all really enjoy watching it and seeing what Ted and his merry band of fabulous musicians, actors and sound effectians brought to wow us with.”
- March 18, 2011 @ 01:42 PM by JK Parkin
Your video of the day | Don Rosa explains how he literally sees his art
In a video by Chris Sparks, Famed Disney “Duck” artist Don Rosa explains his eyesight and how it affects his ability to draw, after surgery for retinal detachment wasn’t completely successful. Very interesting and somewhat inspiring, especially after watching other videos of Rosa in action.
- March 3, 2011 @ 12:04 PM by JK Parkin
Your video of the day | The ‘gritty’ melodrama of Riverdale
Anthony Konechny as Archie Andrews in the "Riverdale" parody trailer
I can think of few better ways to start off the morning than with this beautifully filmed and delightfully over-the-top parody fan trailer for Riverdale, a “gritty” remake of the ageless Archie Comics franchise.
Directed by Andrew de Villiers and written by Michael Cope and Rhys Finnick, the trailer was created with the help of about 100 Craigslist volunteers from the Vancouver film industry: “We produced this and the 10 other comedic videos on a budget of $3, 500 over a weekend. The Craigslist inspired and random nature of this production brought the director and his girlfriend together. It also united the executive producer’s wife with her long lost friend/boyfriend when she recognized him playing the character of Moose.”
It’s a terrific parody that heaps on amounts of melodrama usually reserved for a Lifetime Original Movie (alas, Nancy McKeon is nowhere to be seen). Watch Riverdale after the break.
- February 25, 2011 @ 07:30 AM by Kevin Melrose
Your video of the day | ‘Black Widow Gone Wild’
Patrick Boivin, the filmmaker behind last spring’s Internet sensation “Iron Baby,” is back, this time with an incredible stop-motion short called “Black Widow Gone Wild” that asks the age-old question “What if Black Widow were War Machine?” Also, “What’s the quickest way to stop a Michael Jackson doll from dancing?” and “Should you tug on Superman’s cape?”
- February 21, 2011 @ 04:40 PM by Kevin Melrose
Your video of the day | MAC Cosmetics Wonder Woman trailer
Last month we mentioned MAC Cosmetics’ Wonder Woman collection — Themyscira mascara! Obey Me nail polish! — which is being marketed with stunning art by Michael Allred. Now, just in time for today’s line launch, MAC has debuted a trailer/motion comic — featuring even more Michael Allred art.
- February 10, 2011 @ 03:00 PM by Kevin Melrose
New Chicago Comics exhibit runs all this month
To highlight the New Chicago Comics exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, NBC Chicago ran the above segment, which features creators Jeffrey Brown and Paul Hornschemeier talking about their work. The exhibit features their work, as well as that of Lilli Carré and Anders Nilsen.
- January 13, 2011 @ 01:06 PM by JK Parkin
Trailers for Batman: Arkham City, Thor: God of Thunder debut on Spike
Several new trailers for video games debuted during the Spike Video Game Awards last night, including Batman: Arkham City (above) and Thor: God of Thunder. The Batman one in particular is interesting, as it reveals not only the villainous Hugo Strange, but also a piece of knowledge that he has about the Caped Crusader. Maybe he went to the Batman Inc. press conference and put two and two together.
In terms of last night’s winners, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game took the best adapted video game category, beating out Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions and games featuring Harry Potter, Star Wars and Transformers. But Spider-Man didn’t go home empty-handed, as the voice talents of awards host Neil Patrick Harris won best performance by a human male for his work in Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions. You can find the list of winners on Spike’s VGA site.
- December 12, 2010 @ 09:08 AM by JK Parkin
Conan O’Brien and Bruce Timm debut The Flaming C
On last night’s show, talk show host Conan O’Brien visited his neighbors at Warner Bros. Animation and chatted with Creative Director Peter Girardi about various DC Comics characters, including “cowboy dandy” Bat Lash, Ultra the Multi-Alien and Captain Boomerang. He then worked with legendary animator Bruce Timm to create his own alter ego, The Flaming C. Check it out below:
- December 10, 2010 @ 12:00 PM by JK Parkin
BOOM! hits the road to promote Stan Lee’s The Traveler
Brigid posted BOOM!’s promotional Xtranormal video earlier today, for Stan Lee’s The Traveler. The book arrives in comic shops today, and just like last month when Stan Lee’s Soldier Zero hit shops, BOOM!’s marketing team of Chip Mosher and Ivan Salazar are visiting Southern California comic shops to see how the book is doing.
Traveler writer Mark Waid was supposed to join them, but apparently that didn’t work out (nice house, though, Mark … it looks very familiar):
- November 24, 2010 @ 11:00 AM by JK Parkin
Morrison’s ‘post-apocalyptic Doc Holliday’ returns in second My Chemical Romance video
If you enjoyed Grant Morrison’s appearance in the video for My Chemical Romance’s “Na Na Na”, you’ll be happy to know he’s back for the follow-up, “Sing.” The Batman Inc. writer has also revealed a little more about the character he plays in both videos to the L.A. Times.
“Korse is an exterminator for the S/C/A/R/E/C/R/O/W unit of Better Living Industries,” Morrison told Geoff Boucher of the Hero Complex blog. “His extensive back story has yet to be revealed but he’s intimately connected with the Killjoys and their secret history. He’s a remorseless human bloodhound, a hunter who dresses like an undead, post-apocalyptic Doc Holliday.”
- November 19, 2010 @ 10:00 AM by JK Parkin