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Alex Robinson's Box Office Posion just won him the comics industry's Eisner Award for "Talent Deserving of Wider Recognition." Julio Diaz expains why that award is so richly deserved.
BOX OFFICE POISON BY ALEX ROBINSON Top Shelf Productions The comics industry's equivalent of the Oscars, Emmys, or Grammys is arguably the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, or the Eisners for short. Named for legendary comics artist Will Eisner (creator of The Spirit), the Eisners for this year ...
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March 1998 :: Page :: MegaCon '99 Preview (Julio Diaz)
... is one of the largest comics and science fiction conventions in the country, providing a three-day weekend of exciting activities. MegaCon will feature over 200 guests from the world of comics, science fiction, and fantasy. This year's guests of honor include: J. Michael Stracynski, the creator ...
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Apparently, if you grow up in Portland, you wither become a serial killer or a cartoonist. Thankfully, Bill Plympton chose the latter. Carl F. Gauze took a moment out of the Florida Film Festival to catch up with the Oscar-nominated animator.
... and Gary Gilmore. Either you become a cartoonist or a mass murderer. Fortunately, I became a cartoonist. Matt Groening is from there, John Callahan, Will Vinton. It's an interesting area, it spawned a lot of weird charters. What brought you into the field of animation? I've drawn since I was 3 or 4 ...
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April 2000 :: Live :: Bizarro World! The Parallel Universes of Comics & Fine Art (Dave Mitchell)
... Art Spiegelman says "comics art" is the bastard child of art and commerce, and that sounds good to me. Any cartoonist with ambitions beyond Garfield will tell you story after story about Not Being Taken Seriously. You overhear Dad telling some guy painting watercolors of old barns at the mall that he ...
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Carl F Gauze selects the 19 most important public figures to pass away in the last 12 months. Sad -- but true!
... the order they passed away, and more have been left out than included, and if you didn't make it in, well, better luck next year. 1. Cartoonist Will Eisner created The Spirit, and practically invented the Graphic Novel. He spoke at Rollins College a few years ago at an exhibit of cartoon art. When asked ...
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Mark Schultz's trademark barbarians, dinosaurs, and hotrods get the Modern Masters treatment. Consider Andrew Coulon conquered.
... cars and shooting dinosaurs, though. Oh no, he also draws beautiful women battling Aliens and Predators and seducing heroes like Conan and Superman. Will Eisner’s name is dropped more than once and the connections between Sheena and Schultz’s leading ladies are obvious. It goes without saying that ...
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It's just a comic, right? Wrong. Matthew Moyer examines this anthology from the celebrated fanzine Alter Ego, full of comics passion, knowledge and treasures.
... (though still imbued with a childlike wonder) in bringing to light overlooked characters or creators who deserve as much retrospective attention as a Will Eisner or Jack Kirby receives. Thomas's years of work in the comic field give him a certain authority in his interviews and articles, which makes ...
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Who was the Blue Beetle? Matthew Moyer finds that the back story for this overlooked superhero contains more mystery and intrigue than Charles Foster Kane's. Rosebud? Scarab?
... to use with many of "his" characters. The parentage of the Blue Beetle has been traced back to a host of disparate creators including Jerry Iger, Will Eisner, and Chuck Cuidera, among others. Though the origins of Blue Beetle were dubious and the character often suffered from bad storytelling and worse ...
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