David Tennant joins the cast of Netflix’s A.K.A. Jessica Jones series, the 13-episode show following Marvel’s Daredevil. Give me a lady-led series, a new Netflix show to binge watch and a villainous David Tennant to marvel at any old day.
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David Tennant Joins Marvel’s Jessica Jones series
Posted: February 2, 2015 by Brie Young in Comicology - Comic Books, Marvel, Movies & TelevisionTags: David Tennant, Doctor Who, Jessica Jones, Netflix, TV Show
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Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant
Posted: January 21, 2015 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic BooksTags: Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant, Cartoonist, death, memoir, old age, parents, Roz Chast, The New Yorker
Old people can be so funny. Unabashed owners of their eccentricities and idiosyncrasies, they really seem to be on to something – enjoying life. Golden years, indeed. But eventually, it all becomes a bit less fun. The body, the mind, or maybe both, grow tired. Death becomes imminent. In these twilight years, folks need help. In her memoir, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast chronicles her parents’ decline into poorer and poorer health.
Fox Bunny Funny
Posted: January 7, 2015 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic BooksTags: Andy Hartzell, conformity, Fox Bunny Funny, Graphic Novel, misfit, pictorial, social norms, Top Shelf Productions
photo courtesy of Top Shelf Productions
You know they say that each snowflake is completely unique, no two the same? Every life, all of fate’s permutations considered, would be too, wouldn’t it? Yet we seem to reject, suppress, and fear exceptionality, in ourselves and in others. It’s easier to blend. There’s safety in anonymity
Vasilissa
Posted: December 31, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, BOOM! StudiosTags: Archaia, Jeff Stokely, Jim Henson's The Storyteller Witches, Russian Fairytale, Vasilissa the Beautiful
The fourth and final tale in Archaia’s Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Witches miniseries is Jeff Stokely’s Vasilissa the Beautiful. Born into a village at the edge of the world, a village forgotten by god, our heroine is a little beacon of light and warmth. Until her mother dies. “Such cruelty,” our narrator muses, “makes you wonder where it comes from.”
Star Wars #1 January 2014 Release
Posted: December 11, 2014 by Brie Young in Comicology - Comic Books, Dark Horse Comics, Movies & TelevisionTags: #1, comic book, Dark Horse Comics, Disney, Episode VII, Jason Aaron, John Cassaday, Marvel, Star Wars
Listen up you scruffy-looking nerf herders, this January Star Wars #1 is coming to stores near you and according to Marvel Comics‘, it is projected to sell over a million copies. Perhaps you can buy your copy at your local Maul… *Warning: many more puns to come** (more…)
The Acme Novelty Library
Posted: December 10, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic Books, Independent ComicsTags: cartoons, Chris Ware, classic, collection, Golden Age comics, nostalgia, Random House, The Acme Novelty Library, throwback, vintage
If Chris Ware, as an entity, had to be represented as a symbol, it would have to be a funny bone, wouldn’t it? Sure, design-wise, there would be some problems to solve in that endeavor. And yes, the “funny” sensation is actually the ulnar nerve. But think about it. A laugh from Chris Ware does not come without a little pain. His work is not for everyone. It takes a bit of resignation – acceptance of human suffering, imperfection and, sometimes, ridiculousness. The Acme Novelty Library, published by Random House in 2005, serves as a compendium of his work. Cartoons, some seriously mini comics, and faux adverts, old and new, in a variety of styles and formats, are held together by a biting, sometimes nihilistic wit and charm.
The Phantom Isle
Posted: December 3, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in BOOM! StudiosTags: Ireland, Irish mythology, Jim Henson's The Storyteller Witches, Matthew Dow Smith, Oisin, The Phantom Isle, Tir na nOg
Mortality is, more or less, the bane of human existence, wouldn’t you say? Looming over each of us, sometimes menacing and always mysterious, death is life’s only guarantee. Naturally, we fear it. We do not understand it and cannot prepare for it. For those of us left behind in its wake, it is tragic. It’s loss. But every living thing does it. Our very human response is to attempt to make sense of it, to make it okay. And we do this in a very human way. Storytelling. Matthew Dow Smith’s The Phantom Isle, tale three of four in Archaia’s Jim Henson’s The Storyteller: Witches series, is a story about stories. And life. And death.
Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D Joins Netflix
Posted: November 17, 2014 by Brie Young in Comicology - Comic Books, Marvel, Movies & TelevisionTags: Avengers, Disney, Marvel, Netflix, SHIELD
Photo Courtesy of Marvel
This week Season One of Marvel’s S.H.I.E.L.D will premiere on Netflix. The show revolves around the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division or the secretive government agency introduced in The Avengers to investigate superhuman phenomena from Thor to Captain America.
Joss Whedon is the series executive producer. The show has been on the rise with popularity since it’s debut (currently on season two).
Last year, Netflix and Disney signed a multiyear deal where Marvel will develop four original live action series by 2015. The series will be based on four of Marvel’s fan favorite street-hero characters like Daredevil, then Jessica Jones, Iron Fist and Luke Cage.
S.H.I.E.L.D will streaming on Netflix November 20th.
The Zen of Steve Jobs
Posted: November 12, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, Comicology - Comic BooksTags: Apple, Caleb Melby, Forbes, JESS3, Kobun Chino Otogawa, Ma, Steve Jobs, The Zen of Steve Jobs, Wiley, Zen Buddhism
cover courtesy of Forbes magazine
When Steve Jobs died of cancer in 2011, he was almost deified. He did, as he said he would, change the world. But Jobs was only human. Creative agency JESS3 and Caleb Melby’s The Zen of Steve Jobs explores the many facets of the man and legend. With Jobs’s design aesthetic at its center, the story achieves a vivid portrait of the complex figure that Jobs had cut.
The Snow Witch, Tale Two from Jim Henson’s The Storyteller Witches
Posted: November 5, 2014 by Kristilyn Waite in Art, BOOM! Studios, Comicology - Comic BooksTags: Archaia, Japan, Jim Henson's The Storyteller Witches, Kyla Vanderklugt, The Snow Witch, winter
These Jim Henson Storyteller Witches books that Archaia is putting out are really remarkable. Kyla Vanderklugt’s, The Snow Witch,is a vaster contemplation of life and the human experience than stories ten times its length.
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