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11:01 am
xray_studios
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Tron: The Ghost in the Machine - TPB
In stores now!
"Collecting all six issues of the six issue series TRON, based on the classic movie and hit video game! Inspired by TRON, Disney's groundbreaking science-fiction motion picture classic, TRON: The Ghost in the Machine takes place in present day, over two decades after the events of the film. Jet Bradley, son of the original TRON programmer Alan Bradley, has recently escaped the computer world. But his experiences within cyberspace have left him emotionally scarred — vivid nightmares plague him, and he's become paranoid and unstable. He shuns technology wherever possible, leaving him effectively crippled in the modern world. And now something within the computer world wants him back!"
Current Location: The Computer World
Tags: new release, tr2n, tron
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06:29 pm
jdeguzman
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A Few of My Favorite Things
Kate Beaton is absolutely one of my favorite cartoonists right now, and this comic is an excellent example to show why. Kate writes and draws comics about literary and historical figures (she's Canadian, so I've been learning about the history of her country through her comics), with an arch humor that can be anachronistic but still captures the character of the people she draws. Her LiveJournal and website have tons of comics on them and you will spend hours reading and laughing, trust me. If you don't, I'm sorry -- it's just not going to work out between us.
Tags: comics, personal
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11:42 pm
n_runningcreek
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Seen
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CreekRunningNorth/~3/Lh9Hmns329k/
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01:47 pm
jwz
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"Join us now" indeed.
You stay classy, RMS.
Current Music: Matt Loper -- RMS Remix
Tags: computers, perversions
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01:22 pm
serenavalentino
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Happy Birthday, Nikola Tesla!
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12:14 pm
xray_studios
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Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures - Production art... Part 11 - The End
So... let me frame things a bit.
Eric and I had been working on comics for over 15 years. Many of those years were spent working on Disney Adventures. Once Little Gloomy and Kid Gravity had been picked up by the magazine, we had quit our day jobs and dedicated all our energy to comics creation.
Then, at the end of 2007, Disney Adventures folded. We were still very busy working with 1492 Pictures on Little Gloomy for the small screen, and there was some comfort in knowing that this work would keep us afloat... for a little bit.
Flash forward to February of 2008. WonderCon. We have no jobs. No money and no immediate prospects. So we turn to long time aquaitence Bob Shreck. It really was a whim. We had nothing prepared and though we had known Bob for many years, asking for work from someone I think of as a friend is not a thing I like to do. It feels... I dunno. Not something I like.
But we asked. Because we were desperate. So he recommended the Johnny DC line. There was (at the time) a bit of a push to expand. He offered to set up a meeting with Jann Jones for us. It was more than we hoped for and we seized on it immediately.
We had 24 hours. We needed to prepare. So we took a look at what else was coming out from Johnny DC. Turns out the big thing being pushed at the time was the work of fellow former Disney Adventures creator Art Baltazar and his coworker Franco. These are two people we had already been having dinner with annually at ComicCon. When Disney Adventures put out a call for new material, it was Art's Gorilla Gorilla and our Kid Gravity that were picked up. When Disney released collected volumes of previously printed material, Kid Gravity and Gorilla Gorilla were top of the lists.
So the familar work of Art and Franco bolstered our confidence. We realized that the best thing we could do at this stage is what Art and Franco were doing. The same thing they had been doing, only with DC characters.
We had just come off working on Kid Gravity. Kid Gravity had always been slightly inspired by Superboy. Superboy was, to the best of our knowledge, legally unavailable. Besides, we were more inclined to work with a female lead. So... Supergirl. At this point, we're maybe 2 minutes out of our brief discussion with Bob. Lots' of time to prepare, right?
While seated at the SLG booth, Eric started drawing. This is what he came up with first:
Cute, but too Kid Gravity. Besides, when you're pitching to a new editor, it' smart to show versatility. So Eric went back to the drawing board and...
To much belly shirt. To old. I pushed Eric to draw something inbetween the two styles. Bear in mind that Eric had spent years drawing characters with really big heads. He wasn't particularly comfortable with the more realistically proportioned character designs.
But he persisted. And this was the result:
This was more like what we were looking for. But we still wanted to hedge our bets, and Eric had time for one more drawing.
You will please notice that this is not Supergirl. Better safe than sorry. But to be honest, I'm not a fan of Batgirl in any of her forms, with the possible exception of Betty Kane.
The next day we tracked down Jann for our meeting. The rest I have talked about elsewhere on may occasions. Her eyes lit up when she saw the Supergirl samples. Turns out she had been seeking someone to create an all-ages Supergirl book, and the person she had in mind had declined the day before our meeting. She called up Dan Didio (he was elsewhere at the convention) and showed him the art. He picked the third design, the middle school style Supergirl.
So we went home and concocted the pitch for the series and after one rewrite, it was picked up very quickly for a mini-series.
We were lucky on alot of levels. It was an amazing turn of events considering we were at an all time low. Supergirl was our last stab effort. If we hadn't found work that weekend, we were going to have to exit the world of comics.
Not that the industry isn't still a scary place. I was unemployed again from the beginning of December 08 until the beginning of April 09. All while anxiously waiting to see if our series was well received or not. I know in the world of the internet, people review comics readily and casually. If you're a reviewer, remember that on the other end of your review might be someone anxiously nail-biting. You're criticzing their jobs, after all.
Luckily, the series was very well received. So my nails have started to grow back in place. Also: The tremendous buzz around the series has helped Eric and I with other work. I've actually found myself at a point where I'm working on two comic series at once. I'm busy... but I really can't complain. And frankly, I have the readers and reviewers to thank for it. Thanks readers and reviewers!
Tags: batgirl, dc, production art, sketches, supergirl
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07:40 pm
jwz
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SoundExchange
I can't make any sense of what this new SoundExchange settlement actually means for DNA Lounge. Is someone going to come knocking on my door asking for an additional $25,000 per year because of our webcasts? Given that A) we are already paying ASCAP/SESAC/BMI for them, and B) the webcasts produce zero revenue. If you think you understand this crap, please explain it to me...
Current Music: The Cure -- One Hundred Years
Tags: lazyweb, music, www
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07:19 pm
jwz
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The Robotic Head of Albert Einstein Teaches Itself to Smile.
| And Soon It Will Destroy You. To begin teaching the robot, the researchers stuck Einstein in front of a mirror and instructed the robot to "body babble" by contorting its face into random positions. A video camera connected to facial recognition software gave the robot feedback: When it made a movement that resembled a "real" expression, it received a reward signal.  |
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Current Music: Dandi Wind -- Einsteinbrains
Tags: mpegs, robots
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06:26 pm
bifrosty2k
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man
Long day of finding broken things and fixing them.
It was unfunny kinds of brokenness, fortunately I could deal, yay!
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03:07 pm
bratty_princess
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note to my students
I know some of you were looking forward to hearing from me this week. I've been sick with a nasty summer cold all week. I will get in touch as soon as my brain isn't all wonky. Sorry for the delay.
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02:39 pm
jwz
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Train
Current Music: Goldfrapp -- Train
Tags: perversions
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02:23 pm
jwz
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Docking
Current Music: Add N to (X) -- Poke 'er 'ole
Tags: mpegs, parts, space
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02:18 pm
jwz
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Gaultier still engaged in Barbarelloid acts of Supervillainy.
Current Music: David Bowie -- The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell
Tags: the future
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02:02 pm
jdeguzman
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A Few of My Favorite Things
Bob Dylan in Central Park, 1965 by Richard Avedon
I finally watched Don't Look Back , the cinema verite documentary of Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England. It's a fairly fascinating glimpse at the in turns surly, sarcastic, and earnest young artist. He meets Donovan, Joan Baez is there and then she is not, two British schoolgirls stand on the street outside his hotel, sighing, "Isn't he lovely?" when they catch a glimpse of him; he challenges a frankly befuddled writer for Time magazine, he gets into a drunken, high argument about someone throwing glass in the street; he gets called an anarchist. He is thin as a rail, a waif of a man, with hollow cheeks, surely the result of amphetamines, and in every hotel room, the framed illustrations of birds are crooked in exactly the same way.
Tags: uncategorized
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10:56 am
xray_studios
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Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures - Production art... Part 10
I said I would be posting the last installment of this blog series tomorrow. This is true. But that doesn't mean I can't post something today as well. So here I am. Posting.
First up we have some more Supergirl.
  
Yup. That sure is Supergirl. Note: These images have been slapped together kinda randomly. All of the above were drawn before the series began, with the exception of the bit with Comet the Super Horse. I think that one was drawn last fall, well after production on the series was under way.
Now, one thing that's been all over the internet lately is the issue of Supergirl's shorts. Not my Supergirl, mind you. No... I'm talking about the mainstream DC comics Supergirl currently crafted by comics creators Sterling Gates and Jamal Igle.
That Supergirl, long considered overly sexy, has recently taken to wearing bike shorts under her skirt. We first saw this with the work of Renato Guede.
And more recently with the work of Jamal Igle.
Of course, our Supergirl wears tights under her skirt, so we circumvented the controversy a bit. Just a bit, mind you. There were websites chock full of outrage over the tights (though mostly over her lack of boobs). But it wasn't as bad, mainly (I think) because our Supergirl is younger. Therefore people felt a little creepier vocalizing their outrage. Also, there is the out of continuity aspect. People were less offended as the "real" Supergirl wasn't the one wearing tights. To that I just roll my eyes. I am not a believer in slavish dedication to continuity. And I'm not willing to buy in to the notion that one execution of the character is inherently more important.
Anyway, neither Eric or my myself came up with the tights. Those were introduced by Rikki Simons during the pitch process. Rikki provided color samples and I gave him two choices. Full blue dress, or red skirt. He took creative control and went with red skirt and blue tights. We loved it immediately. It made sense. Our Supergirl is young, inexperienced, insecure and unsure. A short hand to show this lack of confidence is for her to cover herself up a bit more modestly. So with that in mind, it was a very conscious choice to have Belinda Zee fly around without tights. The choice in uniform for a character is not one of fashion. We shouldn't look around and justify our decisions based off of current trends. The uniform should reflect the psychology of the person behind the uniform. Therefore advancing the story. Writing isn't just the placement of words or even the construction of a plot. It's everything. Every nuance. Every camera angle. Every expression.
And to weigh in on the shorts controversy. I like the choice. It allows Igle to draw more fluidly, with more energy. But more importantly it suggests that the "real" Supergirl has grown up a little. So the decision works visually and subtly.
Alright, tomorrow I will post the original 3 images that landed Eric and I the Supergirl job. Be warned: they are nothing like what appears in the book.
But for now, I will leave you with what I had in mind before I concocted the concept of the Moon Gang. I have a thing for imaginary rabbits.
I'm a big Captain Carrot fan. Origially, I considered a different direction with Supergirl's imaginary world. But Eric and I (along with artist Mike Shoyket) had just explored something similar in Tron: The Ghost in the Machine. Subsequently, a different direction was required.
Enter the Moon Gang. Blatantly inspired by our brief time working with the Beagle Boy's on a re-imagining of Scrooge McDuck.
You haven't seen the last of them. Mark my words.
Current Location: Retreating to the safety of the Moon!
Tags: captain carrot, cosmic adventures, moon gang, supergirl
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11:08 am
pirate_club
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The Legend of Bluedick's Ghost concludes!
The conclusion of Pirate Club "The Legend of Bluedick's Ghost" is up at pirateclub.com! You can start from the beginning here: The Complete Legend of Bluedick's Ghost or just check the updated blog post before this one.
Or if you've read chapter 1, check out chapter 2 at pirateclub.com by clicking here: The Legend of Bluedick's Ghost Chapter 2
Stay tuned for Pirate Club PSA's starting on Monday!
Derek
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08:36 am
amegoddess
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My Muse Update, Now and Then, part 1 of 2
More pages can be found here!
Princess appears yet again... I debated if I should post these two pages or keep them for some sort of collection. But in the end it seem better to finish out the story. Also I need some time to keep making pages so up these go.
Wooot vote for My Muse at Top Comics. You can do it everyday forever and ever... if you want. No pressure.
Tags: comics, my muse pages
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12:07 am
n_runningcreek
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Nipton
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CreekRunningNorth/~3/65j5foIrMMc/ [At around seven o’clock I’ll be reading the bit below as an introduction to my writer’s group. Thought I’d share it with you here as well.]
The little house I moved into...
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11:47 pm
officialgaiman
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Are you Comix Experienced?
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/07/are-you-comix-experienced.html posted by Neil
The next blog was meant to be about reading aloud, but I wanted to blog this rather than Twitter it to make sure that everyone had an equal chance:
Go and read http://savagecritic.com/ (and you need to read both http://savagecritic.com/2009/07/neil-gaiman-at-comix-experience-719.html which is the story behind the signing (and has some photos of me in 1989 with the most remarkable mullet) and http://savagecritic.com/2009/07/neil-gaiman-at-comix-experience-719_08.html which is the facts.
Short version, I'm doing a signing at Comix Experience on on Sunday, July 19th from 11 AM to 12:30 PM. And because time is limited, it's limited to 100 people. Brian Hibbs decided that the easiest way to pick the 100 people was to presell them copies of the WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE CAPED CRUSADER hardback, which will be out then.
Preorders for the book can be taken immediately by visiting Comix Experience at 305 Divisadero St. (at Page) in San Francisco, or by calling 415-863-9258 from 11-7 Monday-to-Saturday, Sundays 12-5, PST.
And my Metamorpho Page with the brilliant Mike Allred is out in Wednesday Comics -- details of what this thing is at: http://comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=21941
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03:37 pm
jwz
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JAILBREAK ZEPPELIN!
 Spanish police thwart jail break using remote-controlled Zeppelin Three people have been arrested after their plan to aid the escape of an inmate from prison in Las Palmas on the Canary Islands was discovered by police. They planned to use a 13 foot long remote-controlled airship to deliver night vision goggles, climbing gear and camouflage paint to the Italian convict who would then use the equipment to escape from prison. It is thought the inmate, identified by police as 52 year-old Giulio B, would use the gear to scale down a prison wall at night where a car would be waiting to take him into hiding. "He would be transported to a foreign country where he would hide out while he waited for false identity documents and would continue to oversee the shipment of drugs to our country," a statement released by Spanish police said. The three people arrested by police had sent up camp in a camouflaged tent on a hill some 600 metres away from the jail where they spent weeks observing security measures at the prison through powerful binoculars and telephoto lenses. The team of two Spaniards and a Urugauan had set up motion detection sensors around their camp to warn of anyone approaching their stake-out site. Authorities said they learnt of the plan and intercepted the package containing the inflatable zeppelin when it arrived in the Canary Islands from Bergamo.
Current Music: Yazoo -- In My Room
Tags: retrocomputing
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12:34 pm
jwz
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the time is now...
...12:34:56 07-08-09. Previously.
Current Music: Throwing Muses -- Counting Backwards
Tags: space
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12:04 pm
slg_news
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Bad Guys Trailer
Gargoyles: Bad Guys, written by Greg Weisman, with art by Karine Charlebois and Christopher Jones, will be in stores at the beginning of August! It features two never-before-seen chapters and cover artwork by Greg Guler. Here's a peek at it in our trailer.
Tags: bad guys, gargoyles, greg weisman, karine charlebois
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11:10 am
xray_studios
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Supergirl and Batman limited edition prints!
San Diego Comic Con is almost upon us. Subsequently, Eric has illustrated two limited edition prints. These were meticulously colored at the last minute by long time collaborator Rikki Simons.
 
These will be signed and numbered and about 11 x 17. We'll mostly be camped out at the SLG booth, which is right next to the DC booth. I know that many people who read this blog will not be able to attend the convention, unfortunately we really, really cannot distribute these outside of a very limited number (for promotional purposes) during the show.
For those here for a specific purpose: The last entry of the Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures art blog will be posted on Friday.
Tags: batman, color, cosmic adventures, prints, supergirl
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06:31 am
n_runningcreek
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Slow down.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CreekRunningNorth/~3/DvPdr9TnKnI/ A shriek from outside, a sickening noise almost inaudible, and then another I couldn’t identify. Tires on a curb? And then angry shouts, a deep, bellowing male voice, a woman crying...
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10:17 am
grrm
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Here in Helsinki
So we're here in Helsinki, me from Santa Fe and Phipps by way of Ireland. Grey skies and rain, but the people are warm and friendly. Yesterday we visited Sveaborg, the great island fortress that I've written two stories about. "Gibraltar of the North," it was dubbed by John Quincy Adams. I can only conclude that JQA had never actually seen the Gibraltar of the south, since the resemblence between the two is nonexistent. Sveaborg is pretty cool in its own right, however, and I'm glad to have seen it.
The con proper starts tomorrow. Some come to Finncon if you can. It's free!
Current Mood:  tired
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