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What I Did Last Summer
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"What I Did Last Summer is an experimental graphic novel generated by blogbot, a software agent that generates graphic novels based on text harvested from web blogs. It uses cached versions of the My War blog (written by a US soldier in Iraq) and the Baghdad Blogger.
The protagonists of What I Did Last Summer are military and civilian units from the game Civilization 3. Blogbot crawls the web and takes snapshots of web blogs related to a user-specified theme. Then, based on the harvested text, a dynamic collage of images and strings is generated using a keyword-matching algorithm. Stolen from Alex Dragulescu at we-make-money-not-art |
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Superdudes
There was a japanese version of Spider-man (May 17, 1978 - March 14, 1979, 41 episodes) produced by Tôru Hirayama which had nothing to with Marvel. But that's nothing compared to the turkish masterpiece “Captain America & Santo vs. Spiderman.”
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"Bernd Pfarr. SONDERMANN kommt"
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"The Funny Pages" from "The New York Times Magazine"
Finally available online too! Two pages by Chris Ware for you to download!
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"Move over Superman, the Arab super heros are here!"
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Asterix und der Kampf ums Kanzleramt
Erinnert sich noch wer an legendäre Raubdrucke wie "Asterix und das Atomkraftwerk"? In dieser Tradition hier eine neue Variante. Gibt ja auch bald wieder 'nen richtigen Band, "Gallien in Gefahr".
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DIAL B FOR BLOG
This is "the world's greatest comic blogazine" with shitloads of really funny stuff and useful data like this story about The Shadow or these great scans of "Superman vs. Hitler and Stalin", the first two-pager featuring the man of steel.
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PUBLIC ENEMY RETURN TO COMICS IN 2006
"Public Enemy will be the stars of a new graphic novel, made with the cooperation of frontman Chuck D, that will debut in 2006. The book will be an action-adventure story that reflects the politics and ideology of the group, expressed in such modern classics as 'Don't Believe the Hype', '911 Is a Joke,' and the anthemic 'Fight the Power.'
'The reality is Public Enemy is a world-famous revolutionary, political hip-hop band that inspires young and old alike. The fiction is they are members of a secret underground organization called the Underground Railroad,' creator Adam Wallenta of American Mule Entertainment (AME) said during a recent interview with Glyphs. 'While they are touring the world they act as agents of peace and justice and help people whenever they are in need. They don’t have super powers but they still kick major ass. There will be lots of adventure and action as well as social commentary reflecting many of today’s issues."
Full story at Groovevolt.com
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About time for a cartoon
Lots more on the Slate Cartoon Site
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More Marvel Movies
"September 6, 2005 - Marvel Entertainment, formerly Marvel Enterprises, announced Tuesday that it has raised the $525 million needed to begin producing its own movies based on characters in the legendary comic book company's massive catalogue. Marvel had previously been licensing its works to production companies, but now it will have complete creative control over the filmmaking process – not to mention potentially higher profit margins.
The company added that the Marvel-produced projects will complement existing big-screen partnerships and on-going Marvel movie projects licensed to other Hollywood studios (Ghost Rider, X3, Punisher II, etc.).
Paramount Pictures, under its existing deal with Marvel, will distribute and market the newly announced films. The first movie chosen to go into production (not yet known) is expected to make its big-screen debut no later than 2008.
Marvel added that each production could be budgeted as high as $165 million and that the films will be developed with ratings no higher than PG-13 in mind."
Copied from IGN
Bruce Willis might play superagent Nick Fury
But HAWKEYE??????????????
POWER PACK??????????????? You want to make a "Power Pack"-Movie?
At least Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) wants to do an Ant-Man Comedy!
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Where no journalist has gone before!
Blog on with a Daily Doonesbury
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Coop - Paintblogging
Coop is working on a new picture and you can have a look in his personal blog "Positive Ape Index". I love the picture with the big mouse from "Rock'n'Roll High School"!
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Superman Returns (2005)
Brandon Routh is the new man in blue tights. It's sort of done. Director Bryan Singers "Video Journal #22 - 20 Hours in San Diego" has the first footage. It's Quickie 6 and takes forever and it's not worth waiting for, geeks!
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Hansi: The girl who loved the Swastika
(published in 1974, Spire Comics, USA)
Quote: "Hansi's absolutely thrilled that the Nazis have brought BOOKS ... cause they didn't have those in the Sudentenland, apparently. Inspired by that famous Nazi hospitality, Hansi partakes in, and wins, a competition which sweeps her off to Prague to study as a Hitler Youth leader. You go girl."
Frank Kozik stole this for a poster he did for a SubPop-showcase in Cologne in 1994. I have a copy under my bed to prove it! Found on the message board of the good old Comics Journal: Spire: Were All Their Comics This Creepy?
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Alex Ross, a very special artist
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Doonesbury CENSORED! Yes, that's what they call it!
"About a dozen newspapers have objected to the use of toilet humor in Tuesday's and Wednesday's "Doonesbury" comic strip, and some either pulled or edited the strip.
Kansas City-based Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes the strip to around 1,400 newspapers, said it had received some complaints from editors about a reference to presidential aide Karl Rove.
In the strip, a caricature of President Bush refers to Rove as "turd blossom." (This is, reportedly, one of the president's old joking nicknames for Rove.)" Full story at editorandpublisher.com The Doonesbury website si better than ever. The Daily Briefing is great!
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Yps, I did it again!
"Roboterarm, Patent-Fernglas, die ewige Uhr und - natürlich - das "Pulver, aus dem Urzeitkrebse wachsen" - mit solchen Gimmicks lockte die Jugendzeitschrift mit dem Känguruh von 1975 bis 2000. Dann wurde sie eingestellt. Jetzt startet Ehapa einen neuen Versuch." Story in der Süddeutschen
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Jim Aparo passes
Legendary Jim Aparo died from complications relating to a recent illness early Tuesday Morning, July 19, 2005. Mr. Aparo, who was 72, will be remembered as one the greatest Bat-artist of all times. I always liked Neal Adams style much better, but Aparos Batman was the version I grew up with.
Jim Aparo was also in charge of the classic series "Wrath of the Spectre". I just read the whole run on the toilet again a while ago and it's still great!
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Holy Superdickery!
Yeah, Batman and Robin, Wertham was right! Fly over to superdickery.com and see more comic frames out of context plus stupid covers like Superman as Hitler or Superman and batman selling bonds to fight the japanazisThe "Superman is a dick"-section rocks! Fun for the whole family!
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ULF K. und JENS HARDER gewinnen mal wieder tolle Preise für das ehrenwerte Comichaus Panel
Gewinne, Gewinne, Gewinne! Jetzt auch noch "Max und Moritz-Preis"! Oh, Mann! Glückwunsch an den umtriebigen Verleger Bert Dahlmann!
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ICOM AWARD 2004 for "On The Run" by Markus Grolik
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Yes, that graphic novel without words (whew, international format) won the fourth ICOM-Award for "Edition Panel. Congratulations! Read the English translation of the forword here and buy that fucker! |
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Marjane Satrapi: "Persepolis-Eine Kindheit im Iran"
Edition Moderne, 160 S., 22 EU
Kaum ein Comic wurde seit Joe Saccos "Palestine" so sehr beachtet und gefeiert wie dieser autobiographische Comic-Roman aus dem Hause L’Association. "Persepolis" macht es der Presse dabei einfach: Junge Frau zeichnet ihre Kindheit im Zeichen der iranischen Revolution nach und vermittelt dabei einen verspielten Einblick in die Problematik von Revolutionen, die selten von der Heiterkeit in "Persepolis" geprägt sind. Der autobiographische Anteil ist Stilmittel und hat nichts mit den post-pubertären Genre-Auswüchsen zu tun, die in den 90ern so populär waren. Die Autorin hat eine richtige Geschichte zu erzählen. Sie wollte schon mit sechs Jahren Prophetin und etwas später Revolutionärin werden Diese kindlichen Fantasiewelten führen zu einer bemerkenswerten Auseinandersetzung mit Religion und Politik, der das verstiegen Uferlose abgeht, was den meisten großen Werken dieser Art anhaftet. Satrapi führt die 9.Kunst mit "Persepolis" in eine Ernsthaftigkeit, die ohne verkopften Ballast auskommt und niemals gewollt erwachsen wirkt. Der Humor von "Marjane Satrapi eint sich mit den Zeichnungen der Kinderbuchillustratorin zu einer seltenen Kunst, die nur im Comic ihren Ausdruck finden konnte. "Persepolis" ist ein Buch und muß sich für die Form Comic nicht entschuldigen. Ganz im Gegenteil. Der tösend proklamierte "Kampf der Kulturen" selbsternannter Gotteskrieger aus aller Welt wird durch Werke wie dieses einen Hauch weniger martialisch. Die Annäherung an einen progressiven Iran und dessen Bewußtsein für die eigene Geschichte und die Gegenwart findet statt. Ein paar Generationen später wird man die internationale Stigmatisierung der arabischen Welt durch ein paar texanische Ölbarone Anfang des neuen Jahrtausends vergessen haben und "Persepolis" wird als Klassiker gelten.
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Londons Dynamic Duo
"Caped Crusaders fight real crime By Metro , 19 April 2004 Batman and Robin are back fighting crime - in Whitley. Two mystery men dressed as the Caped Crusader and his sidekick have scared away robbers in the town near Reading.
They also saved a stranded motorist and even shooed off two streakers from a football pitch.
'They just appeared - I saw them running down the road in Batman and Robin outfits,' said driver Michelle Kirby, who was pushed to a petrol station after her Peugeot 206 ran out of fuel.
'I was laughing so much. They stayed in character the whole time.' Ray Cox, 61, spotted the real-life superheroes sprinting through the town while shopping with his wife. 'Batman was quite a broad chap,' he said. 'They would scare a few muggers off."
taken from This is London
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Fred Hembeck destroys the Internet
If you ever read Marvel Comics back in da days you're gonna remember Hembecks parodies in "Marvel Age" or books like "Fantastic Four Roast" or "Fred Hembeck destroys the marvel Universe". So, here is the man who made Brother Voodoo a star, heeeeeeere is Fred Hembeck! Also read the Hembeck-Files
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WHERE THE HELL WAS KRUSTY'S HOUSE AGAIN?
The Craphound found this extremely detailed page of Springfield.
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American Splendor (2003)
Harvey Pekar's autobiographical comic-series "American Splendor" has been turned into a movie starring Paul Giamatti as Harvey Pekar.
The Grand Jury in Sundance gave it a first prize and so it gets a thetrical release instead of being shown on cable-tv only.
-"American Splendor"- Online Comics -good article at comicon.com -"American Splendor"- Movie Website
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E-SHEEP
Patrick Farley is doing one of the best Webcomics around. Besides his poser-experiments with "Delta Thrives" he's developed new stuff like the "die, yuppie, die"-series "Scotty Zaccarine" and "Spiders", a science fiction-take on the current wars.
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HOUSE OF WAX
Madame Tussauds new attraction is that big green motherfucker called The Hulk.
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DONALD DUCK UND DER 11. SEPTEMBER
Check out this clipping from a 1999-Donald Duck-Story by Don Rosa! Do we have to rewrite history again now? "Don Rosa, Attack of the Hideous Space Varmints / Reisende durch die Ewigkeit. In: Onkel Dagobert, Bd. 20. Stuttgart: Ehapa, 1999. Muss die Geschichte des 11. Septembers schon wieder umgeschrieben werden? " gefunden auf'm Kutter
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Wacky Packages
"Wacky Packages are stickers (peel and punch-out) that were released by the Topps Chewing Gum company (and their Canadian partner OPC) between 1967 and 1992. They parodied common household products and were extremely popular among children in the 1970's." Some really insane stuff for fans of weird art.
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