Client: I was hoping for a darker, more vibrant black.
Me: That’s as dark as I can make it.
Client: Work on making it more vibrant and bright then.
I do, and then I send the client their revision.
Client: I said to make it brighter, not lighter. A dark, vibrant, bright black.
Client: Why are you taking so long to finish this flyer?
Me: I sent a proof three weeks ago and I never heard back.
Client: Do I really have to sit here and make sure you remind me about what I am supposed to do?
Anne of Green Gables (Akage no Ann)
Released in 1979 by Nippon Animation studio and directed by Isao Takahata.
Hayao Miyazaki did colaborate working on the layouts.
A 12-year-old Canadian boy reportedly was the mastermind behind a hack that brought down government web sites during the 2012 Quebec student protests, according to an RT.com report.
The unnamed fifth grader managed to take down multiple Canadian government web sites including the Quebec Institute of Public Health, and even Chilean government site. His targets were down for several days, according to reports, even as police clashed with college students in the streets over tuition hikes in a 2012 protest.
I understand that Woody is suppose to be John Marston from Red Dead Redemption, but I keep seeing Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead. Whatever…
Okay, let’s break down the Pixar characters and who they are suppose to be portraying. Buzz Lightyear, from Toy Story, as Commander Shepard from the Mass Effect series. Carl Fredricksen, from Up, as “Old Snake” from Metal Gear Solid 4. Remy and Alfredo Linguini, from Ratatouille, are Wander and a colossi from Shadow of the Colossus. James P. “Sulley” Sullivan and Mary “Boo” Gibbs, from Monsters, Inc., are Joel and Ellie from The Last of Us. I already explained who Sheriff Woody Pride was and lastly, Merida, from Brave, as Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider series. Ugh…
Man, putting all the details about which Pixar character is which video game character took longer than I expected to type, but it was worth it. And I learned what Boo’s last name was in the process. So it wasn’t all for nothing.
He’s back. And he’s being written by his rightful author. The Sandman, one of the most beloved and groundbreaking characters in comics history, the moody member of the Endless who made it safe to be a goth in comics and secured Neil Gaiman as one of the greatest living mythmakers, is returning in a 25th Anniversary event: Sandman: Overture is a six issue mini series written by Sandman creator Gaiman and drawn by J.H Williams that reveals one of the great unknown stories of the Sandman-verse; just what was the battle that had Morpheus so drained him as issue #1 began?
For those looking to get into the Sandman mythos, a digital comics sale is on, with every issue of the original 75 issue run on sale for 99 cents until November 4th.
For those already enmeshed in Sandman’s complex mythology, all you need to know is that old favorites The Corinthian, Merv Pumpkinhead, Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium, Destruction and Destiny will all be in the story.
Gaiman’s been spitting out impish observations in various interviews, like this from the CBR preview (which we knicked below):
“People have often asked me what happened to Morpheus to make it possible for him to be captured in THE SANDMAN #1,” Gaiman said. “And now they get to find out. And finding out, they get to learn secrets of the Endless that I’ve kept to myself for 25 years. Family secrets. And I should warn you: one of the Endless dies on page five.”
But these aren’t the only secrets Gaiman has in waiting — although the rest may have to wait anther 25 years: “If we ever get to the 50th anniversary, I may tell the story of how the character of Delight became Delirium, or the story of how the first Despair died,” Gaiman told Fast Company.. “But that’s the 50th anniversary, so there’s plenty of time
Or here what he told the AP:
Gaiman said it wasn’t hard to get back on the bicycle, but now there’s a huge audience. Imagine, he said, “if the first time you learned to bicycle and had ridden your bicycle around it was just you,” and then “gradually a few people went ‘Look, I really like the way he rides the bicycle.’”
“It was a small, organic phenomenon, but over the years your bicycle riding had become kind of legendary. Now, you’re in a world in which 25 million people are going ‘Oh my god, he’s getting back on the bicycle!’ There’s a little bit of worrying how wobbly your bicycle riding is going to be.”
Our copy of the book is waiting in an envelope somewhere so while you wait for the review, here’s all the preview pages we could scrape together from bvarious sites, as well as the variant covers by Jim Lee and Dave McKean.
NeoGAF user Khrno says he spotted this beast at the British department store Peter Jones. It's simultaneously wonderful and horrifying.
There've been a number of dolls and 3.75" Indiana Jones figures over the years, but this March the movie and sometime Marvel/Dark Horse comic book star will be getting the Figma treatment from Japanese toymaker Max Factory. Finally, Hasbro's 6" Star Wars Black figure can hang out a figure sporting a similar amount of Harrison Ford-ishness.
The Lego minifig. That 1.5-2", articulated plastic figurine that brings your Lego creations to life. The history of the minifig is long and illustrious, and over the years enthusiasts have created their own custom ones to reflect their personalities and interests. Here are the coolest minifigs you can now buy on Etsy.
kateSooo awesome!
Behold, the newest user-created official Lego set, voted by thousands of users around the world as part of Lego's Cuusoo initiative. This Lego Space Exo Suit is a really beautiful and fun design by Peter Reid, one of the authors of the great book Lego Space: Building the Future.
Escape Pod Comics in Huntington, Long Island, have become known for their “cosplay Sunday” events in the recent past. Well, this weekend on Sunday things are going Halloween-themed and breaking into a full-day series of events from free Comicsfest comics, to cosplayers, cosplay demos, live model drawing, and an art auction.
What they got up to for their decorations and window display, courtesy of artist Sarah Luchins, is particularly astonishing, creating a full model of “The Stalk” from Saga, complete with bloody hands.
Here are some images of Luchins’ impressive window display for Escape Pod Comics:
And here’s their hourly schedule for Sunday the 27thof October for Escape Pod’s “Halloween Comicsfest/Cosplay Sunday”:
11am: Store Opens- Thousands of free Halloween Comicfest comics and a storewide sale
12pm-2pm: Meet Robin and Supergirl! Cosplayers Sierra and Brian Csoglordington will be here to greet children and have their picture taken with them.
2pm-3pm: Mad Magazine artist Ray Alma will be selling original art and doing $15 Black and White Caricatures
3:30pm-4:30pm: Cosplay Demo- How to Make Horns for your costumes
6pm-8pm: Live Model drawing. Comic characters strike poses for you to draw! (Bring your own art supplies)
8pm-9pm: Live Auction of art, custom made displays, rare comics and more
*As usual with their cosplay Sundays, if you turn up in costume, you get two free comics!
Hannah Means-Shannon is Senior New York Correspondent at Bleeding Cool, writes and blogs about comics for TRIP CITY and Sequart.org, and is currently working on books about Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore for Sequart. She is @hannahmenzies on Twitter and hannahmenziesblog on WordPress. Find her bio here.
Halloween Comic Shop Event Gets Creepy Full Window Display of The Stalk From Saga
kateHMMM!
True Detective, the upcoming HBO drama series starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, has certainly caught my eye. And this trailer has just sucked me right in.
Click here to view the embedded video.
True Detective premieres on HBO on January the 12th. I can’t wait.
Watch: Second Trailer For True Detective
kateYAAAY!!!
The joke about Arrow as the place every science fiction television actor is going to finance their kitchen remodeling only gets funnier as the correlation grows.
The show has already gathered former stars of Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, Angel and Farscape, and with Summer Glau‘s addition to the cast as recurring character Isabel Rochev, Firefly as well. But Glau won’t be the only castmember to make it over, nor the only person to play a member of the Tam family. That’s right, Sean Maher is going to be on Arrow. As a supervillain.
From The Hollywood Reporter:
Maher will guest star as the evil Mark Scheffer, better known as DC Comics supervillain Shrapnel, a serial bomber who places Starling City in a grip of terror and threatens the life of Sebastian Blood.
In the DC Comics universe, Shrapnel’s backstory isn’t fully known, though it has been established that he was at one point married with two daughters. Made of metal, Shrapnel’s powers are superhuman strength and stamina.
A serial bomber/assassin is a far cry from the timid (but slowly leveling up in badassery) and principled Doctor Simon Tam, and for sure, as a villain there’s no guarantee that he and Summer Glau will even share scenes. Still, hopefully they at least get to catch up on set for a while. Maher’s episode will be the 10th episode of this season, airing in the middle of December.
(via The Hollywood Reporter.)
Sandy Cramer of Knot Just Rope, thank you for making me remember my dreams.
(via Laughing Squid)
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katePretty great! "Come on Gandalf you stopped a Balrog, you can stop a tourist."
When I heard Improv Everywhere had a guy dressed up as Gandalf shouting “you shall not pass” at folks in Central Park, I assumed the video would make me cringe, but this Gandalf is just so good natured about absolutely nobody stopping when he asks them to that I’m actually pretty charmed.
(via Laughing Squid.)
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For those on my blog who can’t read Japanese, apparently this from is a series airing on Fuji TV about a ronin who’s living a depressing life until he’s ordered to kill a bakeneko. But instead they become friends?
It’s called Nekozamurai and I am so going to try to find it online.
Dang, Lone Wolf and Cat. I’m on it.
Perfect casting for the cat btw
Hey look, there’s a video
DUDE I NEED THIS. So, probably, do several of my friends.
I TOTALLY NEED THIS
It is never too soon to fret about San Diego Comic-Con! We’ve already had badge PRE-REGISTRATION, Film Festival registration, professional registration, and now press registration has opened. There are quite a few changes this year—documentary film crews will not get press badges, but will be approved to buy badges. I guess there were a lot of them? Also people attending as part of an outlet need to say that from the start.
So, people, even though we have a mere eight months to go, if you are interested in covering SDCC for The Beat, you’d better let me know now. As an accredited outlet, I’ve always been able to get writers in after the deadline, but there’s no telling if that will be allowed any more. So plan ahead! If you’re interested, shoot me a line at comicsbeat at gmail.com. But please be serious about it: covering the show is a ton of fun and gets you some amazing access (sometimes) but it is also hard, hard work. Look at these calluses.
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Aside from the Colossal Titan, Happy Priroll is also offering designs with the Survey Corps characters or personal photographs. Live the dream and have your face printed next to Levi Heichou! Then devour him to the horror of your friends. It’s truly a beautiful cruel world where you can have your cake and eat it too.
You can always rely on Mike Maihack‘s Batgirl and Supergirl comics to make you smile. This one has our heroines getting into the holiday spirit with some Halloween fun. Quick, Batgirl! To the candy!
(via: Mike Maihack)
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You’ve gotta love a good origin story. And you’ve gotta love a good poster. So you’ve gotta love The Ninja Bot‘s series of illustrated origin stories, featuring comic book heroes and villains and the occasional cartoon character, twice. Except now I have the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme running through my head.
(via: So Geek Chic)
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kateUh, okay...
I love the expressions in this frame.
The latest Mickey Mouse Animated Short “‘O Sole Minnie” was just released by Disney. It features a wonderful story of Mickey Mouse courtship of Minnie Mouse in the beautiful Venice Italy. Plus there are a couple surprise cameos to keep an eye out for including the facade of “it’s a small world”, the street address of WDI (1401 at 0:07), plus the return of an old friend.
It’s great to see Willy the opera singing whale back again. Maybe another short in his future, we can hope? What other obscure Disney characters need their own animated short?
Previously: Watch 11 previous episodes of new Mickey animated shorts.
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