The Private Eye: Selfpublished Comic by Brian K. Vaughan
Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man, Saga) und Zeichner Marcos Martin (Daredevil, Spiderman, Dr.Strange) machen jetzt einen auf Self-Publisher und bieten auf ihrer neuen Plattform Panel Syndicate den ersten Teil ihres neues Comics „The Private Eye“ digital für Pay-What-You-Want an. Die Story ist ‘ne Detektiv-Geschichte in einer SciFi-Welt nach dem Internet, in der jeder eine Geheimidentität besitzt und mit Holo-Masken rumrennt. Die Zeichnungen könnten ‘nen Funken besser sein, sind aber insgesamt gut, schönes Ding, ich hab da zwei Dollar gelassen und hab’s nicht bereut.
Our first new storyline is THE PRIVATE EYE, a forward-looking mystery we created with colorist Muntsa Vicente. Set in a future where privacy is considered a sacred right and everyone has a secret identity, The Private Eye is a serialized sci-fi detective story for mature readers.
You can download our 32-page first issue right now, for any price you think is fair. 100% of your payments go directly into our greedy mitts and will help fund the rest of a story that we’re both very proud of (we hope there will be around 10 issues total; an old-school “maxiseries!”), so thanks for reading…
The Private Eye, comic by Brian K. Vaughan & Marcos Martin (via Warren Ellis)
Fantastic early Mickey Mouse-Illustrations
Großartige Mickey Mouse-Illus von Walt Disney aus dem Jahr 1935, angefertigt für die damalige Prinzessin Elizabeth, die jetzige Queen. Mickey Mouse hatte ihren ersten Auftritt in Farbe drei Jahre vorher im Cartoon Parade of the Award Nominees.
Created specially for then Princess Elizabeth, now Queen, way back in 1935, this art of Mickey and friends, charming and cheerful as they spend time in London, appeared in The Princess Elizabeth Gift Book, In Aid of the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children.
Donald is still pretty primitive in appearance, Goofy is still Dippy Dawg, the Limeys are loopy—and this is definitely the mouse’s finest era. Note how Horace is demonstrating the royal backhand wave.
Nach dem Klick auf voller Breite in HighRes: Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
PBS Minidoc: The Rise of Webcomics
Nette neue Minidoku von PBS Offbook über Webcomics:
The internet has given birth to yet another new medium: web comics. Moving beyond the restrictions of print, web comic artists interact directly with audiences who share their own unique worldview, and create stories that are often embedded in innovative formats only possible online. Sometimes funny, sometimes personal, and almost always weird, web comic creators have taken the comic strip form to new, mature, and artistic heights.
Featuring:
Christina Xu, Breadpig http://breadpig.com/
Nick Gurewitch, Perry Bible Fellowship http://pbfcomics.com/
Sam Brown, Exploding Dog http://explodingdog.tumblr.com/
Lucy Knisley, Stop Paying Attention http://comics.lucyknisley.com/
Andrew Hussie, Homestuck http://www.mspaintadventures.com/
Spiderman Beard
Chad Roberts und sein Spiderman-Bart. With great Beards comes great responsibility. (via Obvious Winner)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
X-Wing Beard
Kick Ass 2 – Red Band Trailer
Youtube Direktkick, via Bleeding Cool
Hier der erste Trailer zu Kick Ass 2. Ich hatte ein paar Probleme mit dem ersten Teil, auch wenn er hervorragendes Blockbuster-Kino war und wer das Comic zu „Kick Ass 2“ kennt, kann ahnen, dass die Gewaltverherrlichung hier wohl eher noch ausgeprägter rüberkommen dürfte. Ziemlich unterhaltsam sieht das bei all dem natürlich trotzdem aus. Der Mann in dem Camo-Anzug ist übrigens Jim Carrey.
The costumed high-school hero Kick-Ass joins with a group of normal citizens who have been inspired to fight crime in costume. Meanwhile, the Red Mist plots an act of revenge that will affect everyone Kick-Ass knows.
(Großartig, wie der Trailer zu dem „Thumbs Up, Not Guns!“-Posting passt, oder? Find’ ich super!)
Communist Remix of the Avengers
Rough Cut Comics verkaufen einen kommunistischen Remix von den Avengers im Stil der alten Marvel Comics von Jack Kirby und Stan Lee, kaufen kann man das Teil für grade mal 3 Pfund hier.
“Communism’s mightiest superheroes in their most dangerous adventure ever” promises the cover strapline of this glowing tribute to the style of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Communism’s mightiest super-heroes, striking at the heart of evil Capitalism for the workers of the world! Many years ago two men changed comics forever. Their work reflected the attutides of the country in which they lived – attitudes focused on a certain other country behind a certain Iron Curtain. Freedom Collective is the tale that asks: what if those two giants of comics had lived in THAT country, and shared ITS hopes and fears?
Can the Krimson Kommisar, MIG-4, Mastodon, Ajys and Homeland deafeat the power of the evil Chief? It is a crime against the State not to buy the comic and find out. And crimes against the State are taken VERY seriously.
THE FREEDOM COLLECTIVE – COMMUNISMS MIGHTIEST SUPERHEROES (via Dangerous Minds)
Vorher auf Nerdcore:
The Communist Manifesto (Illustrated)
Wally Woods Disneyland Orgy on 2 Skate Decks
Boom Art verkaufen zwei Skate Decks mit Wally Wood-Print (via AnimalNY) in einer schicken Holzbox. Und zwar nicht irgendein Print, sondern seine Disney-Orgie aus dem 60er Underground-Mag The Realist, die Ausgabe kann man komplett hier online lesen (Vorher auf Nerdcore: The Realist: Underground Satire-Mag aus den 60s online!)
Die Background-Story von Paul Krassner (auf dessen Website man einen Print der Orgie kaufen kann, den gibt’s kostenlos zu den Decks, glaube ich), dem Verleger von The Realist, auf dem Blog von Boom Art hat alles, was so ‘ne richtige Disney-Orgie braucht: Magic Mushrooms, fickende Cartoon-Charaktere und eine strippende Tinker Bell. Toll, alles!
Disney had been [Mickey, Donald Duck, Goofys] Intelligent Designer, and he had repressed all their baser instincts, but since he had departed they could finally shed their cumulative inhibitions and participate together in an unspeakable Roman binge, to signify the crumbling of an empire. I assigned Mad magazine artist Wally Wood to create — as a black-and-white center-spread for The Realist which then became a popular poster – the infamous Disneyland Memorial Orgy.
Pluto is pissing on a portrait of Mickey Mouse, while the real, bedraggled Mickey is shooting up heroin with a hypodermic needle. His nephews are jerking off as they watch a combination bed and cash register where Minnie Mouse is fucking Goofy. The beams shining out from the Magic Castle are actually dollar signs. Dumbo the elephant is simultaneously flying and shitting on an infuriated Donald Duck. Huey, Dewey and Louie are ogling Daisy Duck’s asshole as she watches the Seven Dwarves groping Snow White. The Prince is snatching a peek at Cinderella’s snatch while trying a glass slipper on her foot. The Three Little Pigs are humping each other in a daisy chain. Jiminy Cricket is leering as Tinker Bell does a striptease and Pinocchio’s nose gets longer and longer.
Nach dem Klick noch Scans der Orgien-Illu in einer Backlight-Variante und das S/W-Original aus The Realist, alles in HighRes: Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
700 Marvel-Comics for free
Marvel verschenken heute und morgen 700 Comics für lau – sofern man auf den Server von Comixology oder den Onlinestore von Marvel draufkommt, die sind nämlich seit Stunden bereits überlastet – weshalb Marvel das Angebot wahrscheinlich verlängern wird. Das ganze ist ein Promodings für ihren #1-Relaunch:
In an unprecedented new reader initiative, Marvel Comics unleashes Marvel #1, an offering of over 700 first issues from the length and breadth of the company’s history at no charge. This special promotion begins Sunday March 10 and runs until 11PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, March 12 as free downloads via the Marvel Comics app and Marvel Comics Digital Comics Shop.
Through Marvel #1 you’ll witness the beginnings well-known characters like the Avengers, X-Men and Spider-Man to the new superstars like the Guardians of the Galaxy, Thanos, Iron Fist and more. Creators featured include names such as Joss Whedon, Stan Lee, Jeph Loeb, Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction, Kevin Smith, Jonathan Hickman, Ed Brubaker, Jason Aaron, and Chris Claremont.
SXSW 2013: Marvel #1 – Sample over 700 first issues of new and classics Marvel series for free!
Stripped: A Documentary about Comic Strips
Youtube Direktstrip, via Waxy
Schöner Trailer zu „Stripped“, einer kommenden Doku über Comic Strips, die sich grade ihre Finanzierung auf Kickstarter zusammenklicken lässt. Die haben für ihren Film tatsächlich Bill Watterson vor die Kamera gekriegt. Whoa!
STRIPPED is a love-letter to comic strips. It brings together the world’s best cartoonists to talk about the art form they love, and what happens to it as newsprint fades away. Over 90 interviews were conducted, including the first-ever audio interview with Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), as well as Jim Davis (Garfield), Cathy Guisewite (Cathy), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey), Mike & Jerry (Penny Arcade), Matt Inman (The Oatmeal), Jeff Keane (The Family Circus), Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics), Lynn Johnston (FBOFW), Zach Weiner (SMBC), Scott Kurtz (PvP), Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics), Richard Thompson (Cul de Sac), Jeph Jacques (Questionable Content), Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine), Bill Amend (Foxtrot), Kate Beaton (Hark! A Vagrant) and more.
STRIPPED sits down with these creators to talk about how cartooning works, why it’s so loved, and how they’re navigating this dicey period between print and digital options…when neither path works perfectly.
Albom Cover Comicbook-Remixes
Nette Comic-Remixe von Albencovern auf Comicbook Resources. (via Neatorama)
Gallery of Philippe Caza-Drawings
Will Schofield hat auf seinem wunderbaren Blog 50 Watts eine tolle Galerie mit Arbeiten des französischen Comiczeichners Philippe Caza (Heavy Metal), der seine Bilder aus den 70ern derzeit als eBooks raushaut.
Hawkeye Initiative Cosplay
Vor ein paar Monaten bloggte ich über die Hawkeye Initiative, die männliche Comicfiguren in den Posen weiblicher Superhelden zeichnete. Schöne Idee für eine gute Sache, leider extrem furchtbar in der Ausführung. Im Gegensatz zum Hawkeye Initiative-Cosplay von Tumblr-User Blatsuura.
Blatsuura: The Hawkeye Initiative
Schöner Austausch von Blatsuura mit einer Kritikerin der Hawkeye Initiative auf io9 (dort in den Comments): Hawkeye Initiative cosplay lets the guys show off their rears for a change
The Batman of Bradford
In Bradfort kam dann vor ein paar Tagen Batman bei der Polizei vorbei, hat einen Einbrecher abgegeben und ist in die Nacht verschwunden.
A mystery man dressed as Batman demonstrated the same crime-fighting skills as the caped crusader when he handed over a suspect wanted for burglary in Britain.
Closed-circuit television footage showed a portly figure wearing an ill-fitting costume including gloves, cape and mask, bringing a 27-year-old man to a police station in Bradford in northern England. The suspect was arrested and charged with handling stolen goods and fraud-related offences, said the force. But the costumed crime-fighter disappeared into the night without leaving his name.
Timothy Learys Neurocomics
Grade beim Recherchieren zu dem Posting über die Neuroscience-Comics gefunden: Timothy Leary hat 1979 ein Comic über seine Neuro-Arbeiten mitgeschrieben, gezeichnet wurde das Teil von Pete Von Sholly, außerdem war Leonardo DiCaprios Vater George daran beteiligt. Ich hab’ ‘nen kompletten Scan davon grade bei Flickr hochgeladen, ein paar Seiten daraus in HighRes nach dem Klick: Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
Neurocomic about the Science of Brains
Comiczeichner Matteo Farinella und Neurobiologin Hana Ross von der Uni London arbeiten derzeit an einem Comic über Gehirne namens „Neurocomics“. Ich weiß nicht, ob das wirklich gut wird, die Zeichnungen finde ich eher so achnaja und die Story (Typ wird in ein Gehirn gesogen, trifft da komische Leute und berühmte Wissenschaftler) erinnert doch stark an Logicomix, ohne in die Nähe von dessen vielschichtiger Narration zu kommen. Aber abwarten, vielleicht wird’s ja was.
Artist Matteo Farinella and neuroscientist Hana Ros of University College London collaborated to create a graphic novel called Neurocomic about a hapless character who is sucked into a human brain where he encounters bizarre creatures and famous neuroscientists. The objective is to introduce the neurochemical workings of the brain to a wider audience, so entertainment, storytelling and clever metaphors are just as important to the enterprise as the science
Neurocomic (via Mindhacks)
Guardian: Neurocomic takes readers on an adventure in the brain – video
