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‘Sh*t Comic Book Nerds Say’: ‘No one stays dead except for Bucky’
As the “Shit _____ Say” juggernaut steams ahead unabated, it should come as no surprise that comic-book fandom — specifically, superhero fandom — gets a turn at the meme. Courtesy of Jawiin, we present the funny and well-produced “Shit Comic Book Nerds Say.”
- January 16, 2012 @ 11:00 AM by Kevin Melrose
Dash Shaw illustrates, animates a Blind Date episode, for some reason
Never let it be said that Dash Shaw isn’t an artist who follows his bliss. The video above represents the fourth time Shaw has drawn a faithful adaptation of a segment from the kind of gross reality show Blind Date, in which more or less attractive young people are brought together to do something “fun” and either get along terribly or end the evening swapping spit or, y’know, whatever. The amusing part of doing this as a video is that you can hear the original audio the whole time, and trust me, the sound is worth the price of admission alone toward the end there. How does the date go? Let Shaw show you!
- October 6, 2011 @ 11:00 AM by Sean T. Collins
Your video of the day | Kagan McLeod’s Kung-Fu is Infinite
Kagan McLeod‘s Infinite Kung Fu collection arrives from Top Shelf at the San Diego Comic Con next week, and to promote it Top Shelf has tipped us off to this fun little trailer that Kagan and his brother Sean put together. Take a gander, and if you like it, you can read the first 250 pages of the book over on Top Shelf’s website.
- July 12, 2011 @ 05:00 PM by JK Parkin
Paul Pope shows off process for new “Liberty Tree” print for CBLDF
Although he’s constantly at work, every new bit of Paul Pope art that’s released is like catnip for a certain section of comic fans — including me.
So it comes with particular delight to not only receive news that the artist is doing a new fine art print for CBLDF, but that he did a process video showing how it was made as well as talking about why he’s doing it for CBLDF. Here’s the video:
The print is available if you buy a $500 or $1000 membership with the CBLDF. The video was directed and shot by Shahriar Shadab, with music by Sons of the West.
- March 30, 2011 @ 01:00 PM by Chris Arrant
Black Swan, meet Red Hulk
SPOILER ALERT: This Hulk-themed parody of Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan by the merry miscreants of Marvel Super Heroes: What The–?! contains no scenes of hot Hulk-on-Hulk action, and Bruce Banner does not attempt to activate his potential inner Red Hulk by feverishly masturbating without realizing that the Maestro is asleep in the corner of the room. That said, it’s a pretty damn funny video anyway, with the Hulk in the Natalie Portman role and the Red Hulk as her doppelganger and/or Mila Kunis. (Man, now that’s a sentence I never thought I’d write.) I just keep mentally circling back to the Leader, who is somehow even sleazier than Vincent Cassell’s French-stereotype choreographer, telling the Hulk that the Red Hulk’s smashing is superior because “He’s not faking it!”, and cracking up all over again.
Click here to see the full version of the video, which also features a parody of 127 Hours with Deadpool as James Franco (I’m sure viewers of last night’s Oscar broadcast can only ruefully wish the Merc with a Mouth had replaced Franco there, too) and a True Grit riff starring M.O.D.O.K. as Jeff Bridges and Gremlin as Hailee Steinfeld. (Sometimes I love this job.)
- February 28, 2011 @ 10:00 AM by Sean T. Collins
Your videos of the day | Phil Jimenez talks process
For process junkies, and for fans of Phil Jimenez is particular, The Comic Archive has posted four videos of the Adventure Comics artist talking in depth about page layouts, backgrounds, drawing tools, writers and more.
- February 4, 2011 @ 11:21 AM by Kevin Melrose
Your (second) video of the day | J. Scott Campbell talks about … everything
Bobby Chiu hosts a nearly hour-long discussion with veteran artist J. Scott Campbell covering his process, his childhood, his early career, his influences, selling original art, and much more.
- December 30, 2010 @ 12:30 PM by Kevin Melrose
Your (first) video of the day | Ben McCool and Nikki Cook talk Memoir
In this nicely produced video, part of WPB Labs’ RADAR series, collaborators Ben McCool and Nikki Cook discuss the creation of Memoir, their upcoming sci-fi thriller from Image Comics about an entire town with no memory. McCool spoke with Comic Book Resources about the miniseries just last week. Memoir #1 arrives in stores on Jan. 19.
- December 30, 2010 @ 09:27 AM by Kevin Melrose
Henry & Glenn (i.e. Rollins & Danzig) wish you a merry Anti-Christmas
Move over, Rudolph and Charlie Brown: There’s a new Christmas cartoon classic in town. Exploding from the pages of Henry & Glenn Forever — the very very funny romance/gag-strip comic chronicling the eternal love between musclebound, black-clad hardcore progenitors Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig — comes the Henry & Glenn Forever X-Mas Special, an animated short by cartoonist and animator Tom Neely. Neely, who co-created Henry & Glenn Forever with fellow Igloo Tornado art-collective members Gin Stevens, Scot Nobles, and Dino Fucker, serves up a heartwarming tale reminiscent of O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi” — if, that is, “Gift of the Magi” included a visit from Black Santa and Krampus, a jam session with notorious Satanists Darryl Hall and John Oates, and an exchange of thong underwear and a book about Nazi werewolves, all in honor of the birthday of H.P. Lovecraft. It’s the perfect reminder that the Henry & Glenn Forever comic makes a great fishnet-stocking stuffer. Season’s greetings, you goddamn son of a bitch!
- December 14, 2010 @ 10:15 AM by Sean T. Collins
Better than a motion comic: J. Torres fan film
YouTube user haiku132 created a short, sweet fan film from J. Torres and Tim Levins’s short comic How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love John Byrne. It’s simple pan-and-scan, but the music and pacing are just right. Take two minutes to enjoy it.
(via J. Torres’s blog)
- November 5, 2010 @ 05:40 PM by Brigid Alverson
Rejoin The Perry Bible Fellowship with new comic, old cartoons
from "Memorabilia" by Nick Gurewitch
And there was much rejoicing (yay): I fired up my RSS reader this morning when what to my wondering eyes should appear but a new Perry Bible Fellowship comic strip by Nichols Gurewitch! Reunited and it feels so good.
Meanwhile, the infrequency of PBF updates is explained in part by Gurewitch’s forays into animation; click the link and check the sidebar on the left for links to several shorts he wrote for the BBC. This one’s my favorite:
Elite Fleet Ep. 2 – The Broken Code from Alec Lourmier on Vimeo.
- November 2, 2010 @ 12:00 PM by Sean T. Collins
Robot 666 | Your video of the day: The Horror! The Horror!
This has to be the book title of the year: The Horror! The Horror! Comic Books the Government Didn’t Want You to Read! The good folks at Abrams ComicArts have put together a pretty swell little trailer for this collection of pre-Comics Code horror and crime comics from the ’50s, edited and contextualized by Jim Trombetta with an introduction by Mr. Goosebumps himself, R.L. Stine. You can gather a couple of salient points from the video: 1) These things really were almost unbelievably lurid and gross, especially when you consider the relentlessly wholesome state of pop culture in general at the time; 2) Based on the video’s snippets from an anti-comic book TV report called Confidential File, which is included in its entirety on a DVD that comes with the book, men in suits took this stuff way too seriously back in the day.
- October 29, 2010 @ 09:00 AM by Sean T. Collins
YouTubers bring home the manga (and anime)
Anime News Network has picked up on a fascinating trend over on YouTube: Anime and manga fans who show off their swag to support the industry.
The manga industry’s push against scan sites, which resulted in the shutdown of OneManga, seems to have raised awareness across otakudom that watching pirated anime and reading bootleg manga online is illegal. The anime industry has been faltering for years—long before manga began to wobble in 2007—but the general tendency among fans is to blame the publishers (for high prices and bad translations), so this is an interesting shift. It also mirrors the trend of “haul videos,” in which shoppers show off the results of their latest shopping spree.
- September 2, 2010 @ 08:31 AM by Brigid Alverson
‘Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You’ve eaten Gotham’s gorditas.’
Not even the late-night drive-thru of the Gotham City Taco Bell is beyond the reach of … The Batman.
(via The Awl)
- August 19, 2010 @ 11:00 AM by Kevin Melrose
New Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 trailer teases Dante’s badassery, Tony Stark’s sex appeal
Courtesy of GameTrailers.com, check out a new teaser trailer for Marvel Vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds, featuring Deadpool, Ryu, Wolverine, Dante from Devil May Cry, the Hulk and more .
- June 12, 2010 @ 08:22 AM by JK Parkin