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Grant Morrison's 'Sinatoro' Among Black Mask Titles For 2015
Grant Morrison's 'Sinatoro' Among Black Mask Titles For 2015
Grant Morrison's 'Sinatoro' Among Black Mask Titles For 2015
Grant Morrison has been talking about his film passion project, a psychedelic Western called Sinatoro, since at least 2010. It was even promoted with a poster. But the writer's screenplay has ended up taking the route so many projects take on the way to becoming movies: It will be a comic first. Morrison will work with artist Vanesa Del Rey on the series, which will come out some time next year from Black Mask Studios, the comics and transmedia company launched last year by comics artist Ben Templesmith, writer Steve Niles, Bad Religion guitarist/songwriter Brett Gurewitz and Matt Pizzolo of Occupy Comics. It's one piece of a big and not too shabby slate of new comics coming from the publisher in the next year, the highlights of which you can check out below.
Identity And Belonging In Humphries And Rose's 'Sacrifice'
Identity And Belonging In Humphries And Rose's 'Sacrifice'
Identity And Belonging In Humphries And Rose's 'Sacrifice'
Right from the start, Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose's Sacrifice is identifiable as a work of passion. It was self-published – a risky proposition in the direct market – and it was a story of personal importance to the author. Humphries has epilepsy, and Sacrifice is the story of a boy whose epilepsy isn't only a source of frustration and anguish, but also a superpower that propels him into an adventure at the zenith of the Aztec civilization – and perhaps also provides the ultimate key to his agency. That's not the only source of passion evident in Sacrifice, though. The premise of the series – a suicidal Joy Division fanatic has a seizure that sends him back in time to before Cortés' invasion of the Aztecs – provides a venue for Humphries to spit fire over how profoundly outrageous and angering the perception and purported 'history' of the Aztecs is. As someone fascinated by and familiar with the truth about the Aztecs, Humphries uses the series' bedrock of time travel, violence, and destiny, to help readers take a step towards that truth.
Study Group Goes All-Out With 3D Comics Bonanza [Preview]
Study Group Goes All-Out With 3D Comics Bonanza [Preview]
Study Group Goes All-Out With 3D Comics Bonanza [Preview]
Were it not for the 3D -- a concept I am yet to be sold on in any medium -- it would appear that Study Group head honcho Zack Soto gazed into the musty abyss that is my head-space and fashioned the new Study Group anthology accordingly. At 96 pages, it contains comics by some of the artists I'm most excited by right now: Connor Willumsen, Sophie Franz, Mia Schwarz, Benjamin Urkowitz, Pete Toms, David King, Julia Gfrorer & Sean T. Collins, and more.
Dark Horse To Collect Sam Humphries & Dalton Rose’s ‘Sacrifice’ In Deluxe Hardcover [Exclusive Preview]
Dark Horse To Collect Sam Humphries & Dalton Rose’s ‘Sacrifice’ In Deluxe Hardcover [Exclusive Preview]
Dark Horse To Collect Sam Humphries & Dalton Rose’s ‘Sacrifice’ In Deluxe Hardcover [Exclusive Preview]
Dark Horse Comics has announced that it will collect Sacrifice, the critically acclaimed six-issue miniseries by Sam Humphries and Dalton Rose, in a deluxe hardcover this September. Following the story of Hector, an epileptic young man with a fondness for post-punk music hurled back in time to play a crucial role in a psychedelic adventure inspired by the Aztec empire, the first five issues of Sa