John Anderson
MoCCA 2007 Offers Singular Reading Experiences
Day one of the sixth annual Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art festival (MoCCA) in NYC was great fun, with a significantly increased amount of exhibitor space than I recall from past years -- including a swank "skylight" room on the 7th floor of the Puck building...
Neil Gaiman, Auteur?
Amidst a flurry of rumors surrounding recent activity on the long-gestating Death: The High Cost of Living movie, Neil Gaiman has confirmed on his own blog that it "certainly appears to be on the way to happening." Which is great news for fans of the Sandman's sister since, as has long been understood, the movie will only happen with Gaiman himself writing and directing ...
Live in the D.C. Area? Wanna see FF2 Early?
6/5 UPDATE: With thanks to everyone who's expressed interest in attending this screening, demand has been so high that we've already exceeded the number of passes that we've got available to give away. The lucky recipients will all be notified shortly...
Here Comes Speed Racer’s Mach 5!
OK, so Speed Racer was an original anime --not manga-- series and as such isn't based on a comic ... but who cares?? Just look at that sweet Mach 5!!! (Try not to drool too much though, you'll only make a mess of your keyboard that way.)
My younger brethren here at Alliance Central were all aflutter over the recently unveiled Transformers pics, while I pretty much reacted with a disinterested shru
The Amazing Adventures of Chabon & Vaughan
I attended a Michael Chabon appearance the other night and, not surprisingly, comics came up in the Q&A which followed the author's reading.
Funnily enough, the specific question which was asked was almost a dead-ringer for the one I was planning to ask Chabon while he signed my copy of his new book, The Yiddish Policemen's Union. Be...
Michael Dirda’s Love Letter to Genre Fiction
It was immensely gratifying to read the following sentences by the great literary critic, Michael Dirda, in his Washington Post Book World column yesterday:Over the past 25 years, literary fiction has increasingly disdained the strict tenets of social realism...
Live in the D.C. Area? Wanna See a Movie On Us?
As mentioned in our interview with WANTED artist and co-creator, J.G. Jones, Timur Bekmambetov is the director for the movie version of the Mark Millar-penned graphic novel which is currently shooting in
Prague
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Bekmambetov's best known movie is the acclaimed Russian horror flick, Night Watch, the first of a trilogy which continues next month when Day Watch opens in the U...
Jeffrey Brown Thinks Your Heart Is an Empty Room
Because I'm sure you'll be utterly fascinated by the behind-the-scenes information as to how this particular post came to be, what follows is the series of coincidences which led to my discovery of the video I want to share with you today: 1) I'm not a cat person, but I'll read anything by Jeffrey Brown, so I picked up --as a gift for my wife, who is both a cat person and a Jeffrey Brown person--
“Hi, I’m a Marvel” … “And I’m a DC”
At this point, just about everybody's seen the now-classic Apple commercials, and almost everyone I know loves them. Heck, even PC users tend to (grudgingly) admit that they're damn funny. What you may not have seen yet, however, are the hilarious viral videos featuring Spider-Man and Superman discussing their respective film careers that put a comic book spin on the Apple ads...
This Week in Comic Book Movie News
I know, I know ... it's starting to feel like movie week around here, but I'm not gonna let that stop me from sharing a batch of particularly noteworthy comics-related movie news that's crossed the Comics Alliance desk over the past week:
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