Tag Archive | "video"

May the 4th be with you!

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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(The Millennium Falcon, the fastest ship to ever make the Kessel Run, here illustrated by the one and only Cam Kennedy for Star Wars: Dark Empire) Yes, it is May the 4th and that means Sith and Jedi and even non-believers who’d rather have a good blaster at their side than rely on a hokey [...]

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Chip Kidd on growing up with comics

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

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The fine video treats from those nice folks a the Comic Archive continue to offer up some little pleasures, including this short from Chip Kidd talking about the comics he enjoyed a kid: Chip Kidd on Growing Up With Comics from The Comic Archive on Vimeo.

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Lettering with Illustrator

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

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The invaluable Scott McCloud has posted up a two-part tutorial on lettering comics in Illustrator:

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From our continental correspondent – Draw! : France Vs Spain

Thursday, April 28, 2011

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Graphic concerts, a sort of multimedia performance with cartoonists or other graphic artists sharing the stage with musicians, have become a bit of a mainstay at comics festivals.  At the 2011 edition of the Festival BD Pyrénées, which is appropriately held in the mountain range that separates France from Spain, a new twist was given [...]

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Life with Mr. Dangerous

Monday, April 25, 2011

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The always interesting Paul Hornschemeier offers us a brief look through the head of Amy Breis, the protagonist of his graphic novel Life with Mr. Dangerous: Life with Mr. Dangerous from Paul Hornschemeier on Vimeo.

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The Lovecraft Anthology

Friday, April 22, 2011

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The many tentacled Elder Gods are stirring once more. Not content with the excellent adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness last year SelfMadeHero now interfere once more with Powers That They Cannot Possibly Comprehend, with the first volume of the Lovecraft Anthology (edited by the evil mad wizard of words, Dan ‘Demonicus’ Lockwood), which [...]

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All of Doctor Who in 6 minutes

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

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The Fine Bros do a breathless potted history of the entire four decade plus history of Doctor Who right from Bill Hartnell’s day to the present in only six minutes!

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Director’s Commentary: Giving the Elbow

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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Today we’ve got a not-quite-comics-but-related story for you, direct from the pens and brushes of one of our fave creators, the very fine Oli East. Now we know and love Oli for his wonderful and unusual Trains Are Mint comics (which have been collected by Blank Slate). Regular readers of the blog will also know [...]

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The Moth presents Neil Gaiman

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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The Moth presents a good video with Neil Gaiman, recorded live at 27 Arts in New York in 2007 as part of PEN’s World Voices Festival (link via Wim):

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The Comics Journal

Monday, April 18, 2011

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Strand Books has video up of their recent panel on industry icon The Comics Journal (or simply TCJ as it is to many of us), with editors Tim Hodler and Dan Nadel along with Kim Deitch and Gary Groth discussing the three decade-plus history of TCJ, and believe us, TCJ history is important to anyone [...]

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From our continental correspondent: Boulet shows how it’s done

Thursday, April 14, 2011

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(panels from the recent blog strip by and (c) Boulet) If you think you can draw, think again. French cartoonist, and king of the blog, Boulet (Gilles Roussel – French Wikipedia link) posted a video on Youtube showing how he created the February 8 strip for his blog – watch it, and be amazed at [...]

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Kochalka – superstar!

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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I love James Kochalka’s work, especially his comics diary American Elf, delighted to see this good, long video of James, including some of his music works (link via Tom at Comic Reporter): James Kochalka Superstar from Rune Mielonen Grassov on Vimeo.

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Mitch draws Madman

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

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Mitch Breitweiser has posted another of his cool time lapse videos of his drawing, this time he’s creating a version of Mike Allred’s Madman for Comic Twart: MADMAN from Mitch Breitweiser on Vimeo.

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Blade Runner updated

Monday, April 11, 2011

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The Blade Runner scene where Deckard uses his home TV/computer system to analyse a replicant’s photograph, updated for the modern computer age (via Live For Film):

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The adventures of SuperM

Monday, April 11, 2011

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This short Superman spoof from Arunas Eimulis is brief but funny and I love the deliberately awful vintage style, inspired, so it says, by the”Turkish trash movies of the 70s”, a fun way to start the working week: Super M adventures part I – Graffiti vandals from Arunas Eimulis on Vimeo.

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