Tag Archive | "video"

Vive la BD!

Friday, September 16, 2011

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We know from our regular European Corrrespondent Wim that Belgium and Brussels loves its comics so much they have an actual festival celebrating bande dessinee to celebrate and promote their comics culture (if only we had that here, imagine…). Christoph has posted up a good, long video of one of the nocturnal celebrations of the [...]

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Sheeped Away

Thursday, September 15, 2011

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Junaid Chundrigar spent 7 months working on Sheeped Away, with the aim of making a short animated cartoon that could appeal to all ages – I think he did that very well and certainly put a smile on my face with this lovely little tale of a farmer who loves his sheep and is trying [...]

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Jo Chen interviewed

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

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Ulysses E Campbell has posted a short video interview with comics artist Jo Chen, who has been responsible for a huge amount of very varied work and is especially notable to many readers for her cover work for the Buffy season 8 (and now season 9) comics by Joss Whedon: From episode #28, Ulysses E [...]

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Dean Haspiel reads

Friday, September 9, 2011

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Following on from the Josh Neufeld and Nick Bertozzi videos from the last couple of days, here’s another one from the Comic Archive gang from a session of creators reading some of their short works at the Bookcourt in Brooklyn, NYC, this time it is the turn of that man Dean Haspiel, reading from Beef [...]

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Josh Neufeld reads

Thursday, September 8, 2011

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Another one from the Comic Archive gang’s uploads of comics folk reading from their own short stories at the Bookcourt in Brooklyn, NYC, this time it is the very fine Josh Neufeld: Josh Neufeld reads “Post Traumatic Skyscraper Anxiety” at BookCourt from The Comic Archive on Vimeo.

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Nick Bertozzi reads

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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The excellent Nick Bertozzi reads from his short story Pecan Sandy at an event in Brooklyn in this video from the Comic Archive folks: Nick Bertozzi reads “Pecan Sandy” at BookCourt from The Comic Archive on Vimeo.

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The Stan Lee Excelsior Awards

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

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I’m sure many of your remember us blogging about the fab idea that is the Stan Lee Excelsior Awards (see here), the brain child of Paul Register and an event which has gotten hundreds of schoolkids involved in reading and discussing comics and, just as important, getting them involved in the selection of their favourite [...]

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Derailments

Monday, September 5, 2011

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I hadn’t heard of this until very recently, a new documentary by Fabrica called Derailments, which charts a collaboration I’d not known of before, between film genius Fellini and European comics genius Milo Manara. Fellini abandoned the film “Il Viaggio di Mastorna Detto Fernet” before production but in his seventies he collaborated with Manara on [...]

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Dr Sketchy’s does Transmet

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

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(the always charming and friendly Spider Jerusalem by Ellis and Robertson) A sadly far too brief video giving us a tiny glimpse into the Transmetropolitan themed Dr Sketchy’s Anti-art achool which was staged to promote the Transmetropolitan Art Book for charity. Ryan Keely portrays the Filthy Assistant Channon, while acclaimed queer adult star/icon Jiz Lee [...]

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Untold tales of the comics industry

Monday, August 22, 2011

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Untold Tales of the Comic Industry is a pretty interesting sounding documentary currently in progress which looks into comics culture, asking various industry figures about it and about how it can be that when comics are inspiring box-office busting films and bestselling video games the actual monthly comics themselves sell relatively little? From the description: [...]

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Space Travel According to John

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

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I am loving Jamie Stone’s very unusual animation Space Travel According to John, which according to his own comments was created using the medium of – wait for it – washing powder! Genius: Space travel According to John from Jamie Stone on Vimeo.

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Falling Skies cast at SDCC

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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Tiffany Vogt has posted up video of the cast of science fiction show Falling Skies taking questions in the press room at the recent San Diego Comic Con and since the next new episode is on FX tonight in the UK it seems like a good day to point you towards it: “Falling Skies” cast [...]

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Darth Vader – Life after the Death Star

Monday, August 15, 2011

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Here’s a bit of Star Wars fun to start off the working week, with this parody by Phil Enright and friends, looking at what a traumatised and down on his luck Darth Vader had to do to cope after Luke Skywalker blew up the Death Star in A New Hope. He had it all, feared, [...]

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David Uslan talks online comics

Thursday, August 11, 2011

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Digital comics distributor Graphicly‘s David Uslan discusses online and digital comics with Ed English: Graphicly Speaking: An Interview with David Uslan from cosproductions on Vimeo.

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Suvudu talks SF&F

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

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Suvudu has posted up some interesting videos chatting to some top writers from the world of science fiction and fantasy, including the hugely bestselling George RR Martin, author of A Game of Thrones (currently wowing TV viewers with a quite excellent adaptation too): 2011 Event Video: George R. R. Martin from Suvudu on Vimeo. Patrick [...]

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