Posts Tagged ‘comic books’
Silence Abounds
December 4th, 2009 by Riff
I know… things have been very quiet around here. But just so you know, I’ve not forgotten about either of you, dearest readers. I’ve been working hard on a secret project that soon I will hope to be able to reveal a bit more about in due course, and also I’m actually in a place [...]
Tags: comic books, comicbooks, comics, Something excitiing's coming!
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Comicbook Experiment: Calling all Artists
August 16th, 2009 by Riff
Here’s an idea that came to me the other day and I thought I’d share it with you all dearest reader. Many of us in comicbook fandom land aspire to be a comicbooks writer or artist – we love comics so much we want to be involved in their creation – and frankly I’m no [...]
Tags: comic books, comicbooks, Web Comics, webcomics
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Trending Topic (Comics & Twitter) #comicsIwant
May 29th, 2009 by Riff
It’s taken me a while to get into twitter but I must admit I’m hooked by the phenomenon. It’s a social network in a microcosm – it’s a smorgasbord. You take what you want – it can be fully interactive or it can be as brief as a text message: “We’re going down the pub.” [...]
Tags: #comicsIwant, Brian Bendis, comic books, comicbooks, Daredevil, Gil Scott Heron, Warren Ellis
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Web Comics! Grab a slice of the World Stage!
April 27th, 2009 by Riff
Ok so you may have noticed that things have been a tad quiet around here because strange as it may seem – I’ve been kinda busy in the real world! I know, crazy as it seems I’ve been getting on with life. But part of that “life” became an interesting conversation between myself and a [...]
Tags: comic books, webcomics
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Absolute Justice
March 10th, 2009 by Riff
This is one of those books you want to own just to keep it in pride of place on your bookshelf. It’s taking the whole comic as artifact into a new level but with real class. It’s the Rolls Royce of comicbooks I guess – if that’s not too much of an outdated comparison. DC’s [...]
Tags: Absolute, Alex Ross, art, comic books, DC, Jim Kreuger, JLA, news
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Warren Ellis’ FreakAngels
March 5th, 2009 by Riff
If you like Warren Ellis’ work, then you’ll love FreakAngels. What?!?! You’ve. Never. Heard. Of. Warren. Ellis?!?!?!?! Well you can read about him here, but his influence is pretty wide these days. I would venture to suggest that he’s managed to cast a very wide net – and impacted a lot of writing, but as [...]
Tags: Avatar Press, comic books, Crooked Little Vein, DC, Freakangels, Joe Quesada, John Cassaday, Marvel, Mike Mognola, Neil Gaiman, Paul Duffield, Warren Ellis, webcomics, Whitechapel
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Peter David vs Scans_Daily
March 2nd, 2009 by Riff
Ouch! Talk about the shit hitting the fan(s). I’ve got to thank my buddy Coin for scouting this one out for me – I must admit it slipped under my radar totally. I’d been occupied doing other things this weekend and hadn’t had a chance to scan the comics press properly today, and I’m not [...]
Tags: comic books, comicbooks, LiveJournal, Peter David, PhotoBucket, Scans_Daily, The Incredible Hulk, writers
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Aphrodite IX goes to big screen?
February 27th, 2009 by Riff
So the latest movie news is that Top Cow’s Aphrodite IX, created by David Finch & David Wohl is due to make it to the silver screen. Could be good. I’m not hugely familiar with this particular comic line but I do like Finch’s art and most of Top Cow’s stuff is top quality. But [...]
Tags: Aphrodite IX, comic books, David Finch, David Wohl, FAKK2, Julie Strain, movies, Top Cow
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New Trends in Digital Comics
February 25th, 2009 by Riff
As the mainstream comic producers begin to explore what’s now being called “the digital medium” there’s a bit of a buzz on teh interweb tubes regarding how those trends are developing – and there’s a remarkable surge of creativity as the spotlight focusses on this new medium. Marvel are making a big thing of their [...]
Tags: Alex Maleev, Bloody Sugar, Brian Bendis, comic art, comic artists, comic books, comicbook trends, comicbooks, comics, Freakangels, Marvel, news, Spider-Woman, Warren Ellis
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Art or Artifact: Comics as Commodity or Entertainment.
February 22nd, 2009 by Riff
Comicbooks aren’t for kids any more it seems. Hell some of them aren’t for grown-ups either. For many they seem to be a cash cow, an investment, something to be stored in vaults, in plastic (or better still foil) bags, in acid-free cardboard boxes in low ultra-violet light, never to actually be read or enjoyed, [...]
Tags: art, Azrael, Batman, Brian Bendis, Captain America, comic artists, comic books, comicbooks, comics, crucial, Daredevil, DC, Ed Brubaker, Free Comicbook Day, Gene Colan, Greg Ruka, Hellboy, Image Comics, Jack Kirby, John Le Carre, Len Deighton, Marvel, Michael Turner, Powers, Punisher, Queen & Country, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Superman
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