Wayne Beamer
Mr. Die Hard Stars in Surrogates Film
My close friends at Top Shelf Productions in suburban Atlanta and Portland, Ore., are giving a little bit of extra thanks for unexpected blessings this Thanksgiving after Variety broke the news earlier this week that Bruce Willis will star in director Jonathan Mostow's upcoming adaptation of The Surrogates, the company's initial venture into "mainstream comics" some two years ago by Rob
Who Will Be the Next Eisner, Kubert or Kirby?
Lately, I've been picking up a lot of those Showcase Presents trades from DC reprinting the Silver Age and beyond exploits of their many characters, the latest featuring the World War II battles of Sgt. Rock as told by Robert Kanigher, Russ Heath, Jerry Grandenetti and Joe Kubert...
Would Norman Rockwell Treat Comics Like Art?
Norman Percevel Rockwell. Comics. Hard to imagine both sharing a common home.
I don't believe, however, the quintessential American artist would've found any fault with LitGraphic: The World of the Graphic Novel, an exhibit of 126 images from 24 artists on display at the museum that bears his name in Stockbridge, Mass...
First Look: The Amazing Remarkable Monsieur Leotard By Eddie Campbell
The more my Scot/Aussie pal and cartoonist Eddie Campbell told me about his next, The Amazing Remarkable Mr. Leotard, last summer at Comicon International: San Diego, the more I wanted to read it and share bits of what he shared with me in between insults and customers...
Can I Have a Digital Spidey Comic With My Latte?
At this writing, more than 400 Web sites -- many of the business-related -- have polluted the Internet with stories about Marvel.com's latest venture into the digital world. It started with USA Today's page one piece in Tuesday's Life section, then creeped into the pages of the Washington Post (my boss told me to mention this one), Motley Fool and the Associated Press, not to mention the arbiters
What Will YOU Do Without ‘Heroes’?
When I saw the Writers Guild of America strike coming and potentially affecting the very few TV shows I enjoy -- two of which happen to air on the very same night and time -- I was more concerned about the future exploits of the tube's own Captain America, Jack Bauer, fighting terrorists and corrupt politicians on 24 than the continuing saga of Heroes...
The Comics Page: Comic Strip Masterpieces
Over the past several weekends, we've been breaking up the mix of news, views, interviews and features by talking up the work of living, breathing cartoonists hiding in plain sight on the Web, meaning those with a pulse. This week's tribute casts a spotlight on a group of cartoonists whose best days have come and gone, but are never forgotten, thanks, in no small part to the ongoing efforts of ind
Dexter: A Costumed Super Serial Killer?
If you like your TV scary and uncomfortable, you haven't had a whole lot to watch since Chris Carter's other and, in some ways, better horror series Millennium left the Fox airwaves more than eight years ago.
That is, until Showtime's strange and thrilling series, Dexter, featuring the continuing adventures of a blood splatter analyst who moonlights as a serial killer, albeit with a twist...
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Q&A: Matt Ogens, Director of ‘Confessions of a Superhero’
One of the first things I learned about writing screenplays back in the day: Nailing down the concept in as few words as possible -- 25 or less -- was the ticket to Hollywood. It didn't take me long to learn and practice the concept on the thousands of movies I'd seen in my relatively short life...
Fighting Terrorism With Comics
Think a comic book aimed at "impressionable" teenagers can stem the dual homegrown threat of racism and terrorism in Europe? If you're somewhat skeptical at the mere thought of it, so are the editors of Foreign Policy's blog Passport who report the interior ministry of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia developed a comic called Andi to fight, not only terrorism, but racial extrem