Neil Gaiman Addresses the Class of 2012 from The University of the Arts on Vimeo.

12 Drawings a Day – 12 Dessins par Jour from Denis Chapon on Vimeo.

And, as Wim blogged about just recently, a whole series of short animations featuring Nix’s dangerous comic book twins is planned for this autumn, so expect to see a lot more of the deadly duo!

“D” – animated short film from Closed Eye Visuals | DP on Vimeo.

And the summer of comics film isn’t over yet – we were all hoping that the Avengers would prove to be as good as we all wanted it to be and it delivered (actually I am eager to go back and re-watch it). But we have another, equally eagerly anticipated film to come – the final part of award-winning director Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises. Bane. The man who broke the Batman. Catwoman. A stuggle for the soul of Gotham and the life of the Dark Knight and just what sort of hero Bruce Wayne really is. The new trailer looks simply superb:

I’ve admired Nolan’s work ever since his incredible breakthrough Memento and outside of the Batman series he has shown he can maintain complex narratives and characters that demand thought from the audience (how nice to have a director of large scale movies treat the audience as if they have a brain, thank you) and still deliver enormously enjoyable action scenes – witness the brilliant Inception, for example. And he’s done that with the previous Batman films, I think, so the weight of expectation for this third and final of Nolan’s Gotham outings is pretty heavy, but I’m confident he’s going to deliver again. Readying my utility belt for June.