I don't have cable right now so I'm rewatching old shows and movies. A lot of them are animated. Such is my way. I'd like to have a nobler reason for rewatching them--something like when James 
Let's say you're the newly-sentient internet. How would you decipher
the meaning of all the bits and bytes whizzing past you? And what about
the real world outside your electronic realm?
Former Comics Editor, Guy Leshinski
has very kindly given us permission to reprint a prophetic interview
with Bryan Lee O'Malley in 2005. Will Bryan Lee O'Malley attain the
Holy Grail of cartoonists? As Bryan says, "We'll see..."
Results tagged “Frank Miller” from The Cultural Gutter
The Biography of Ebony White
"People
don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."--Malcolm
X / Malik El-Shabazz, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told To
Alex Haley)
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"That Yellow-Shirted Such-and-Such"
Frank Miller's Charlie Brown, Thumbsuckers.
ROUND THE DECAY OF THAT COLOSSAL WRECK
In the run-up to, and wake of, the release of Watchmen, it has become common currency to say that adapting Zach Snyder, et al undertook a massive challenge in adapting Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ complex, sprawling medium- and genre-defining work for the screen.
But I’m going to suggest that they actually undertook an even more massive challenge: adapting Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ complex, sprawling medium- and genre-defining work for the screen - and completely missing its point.
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All Star Batman in nine goddamn panels
All Star Batman in nine goddamn panels. Courtesy of the ironically-named I Love Rob Liefeld blog.
Making It In Hollywood
Fewdio member John Crye explains it all in his podcast, "You Will Not Make It In Hollywood." He also talks about geekery, fan films and reminsces about a crappy movie. (And Carol warning: two segments are from "Godzilla vs. MechaRealism" and "Frank Miller's Hot Gates").
"If this is Gotham, get me a one-way ticket to Metropolis."
Mel at Bluestocking Banter smells some Frank Miller in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight: "Dark, sure. Violent, yes. But fascist? Maybe."
Difendi!
Looks like Italian neo-Fascist political party Alleanza Nazionale like them some 300. The candidate, Andrea De Priamo, has taken it off his site. (thanks, Sparky!)
More Goddamn Batman (and Robin, Age 12)
Confined Space collects a chain of fan art from the "Goddamn Batman" meme. My favorite: Law and Order: Goddamn Batman. Protoclown read All-Star Batman and Robin--the start of the damned and batty--so you wouldn't have to.
Frank Miller's Hot Gates
A feeling's been gnawing deep inside me for a while. A feeling that maybe Frank Miller's hypermasculine antiheros and faceless, breast-thrusting women are exactly what they seem, not just sketchy parody. After reading 300, Miller's 1998 account of the Spartans at Thermopylae, I don't have any doubt: Miller means it. His aesthetic is fascist.
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13 Ways of Looking at a Bat
"Among twenty empty warehouses,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the Batman."
--sorta Wallace Stevens
You should know right from the start that I'm a terrible geek—not extremely geeky, but bad at being a geek. Continuity in the sense of an overarching, epic and harmonized chronology just isn't that important to me. What I really like about comics is the possibility of seeing different versions of the same character or even the same story. To me, comics are a mythic media using shared characters and stories.
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Moving Pictures
Summers in Toronto can be apocalyptic. 
If it isn't the plague of
aphids infesting our air supply, it's the
flood of crap at the multiplex.
Continue reading...
The Biography of Ebony White
"People
don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."--Malcolm
X / Malik El-Shabazz, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (As Told To
Alex Haley)
"That Yellow-Shirted Such-and-Such"
Frank Miller's Charlie Brown, Thumbsuckers.ROUND THE DECAY OF THAT COLOSSAL WRECK
In the run-up to, and wake of, the release of Watchmen, it has become common currency to say that adapting Zach Snyder, et al undertook a massive challenge in adapting Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ complex, sprawling medium- and genre-defining work for the screen.But I’m going to suggest that they actually undertook an even more massive challenge: adapting Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ complex, sprawling medium- and genre-defining work for the screen - and completely missing its point.
Continue reading...
All Star Batman in nine goddamn panels
All Star Batman in nine goddamn panels. Courtesy of the ironically-named I Love Rob Liefeld blog.Making It In Hollywood
Fewdio member John Crye explains it all in his podcast, "You Will Not Make It In Hollywood." He also talks about geekery, fan films and reminsces about a crappy movie. (And Carol warning: two segments are from "Godzilla vs. MechaRealism" and "Frank Miller's Hot Gates")."If this is Gotham, get me a one-way ticket to Metropolis."
Mel at Bluestocking Banter smells some Frank Miller in Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight: "Dark, sure. Violent, yes. But fascist? Maybe."Difendi!
Looks like Italian neo-Fascist political party Alleanza Nazionale like them some 300. The candidate, Andrea De Priamo, has taken it off his site. (thanks, Sparky!)More Goddamn Batman (and Robin, Age 12)
Confined Space collects a chain of fan art from the "Goddamn Batman" meme. My favorite: Law and Order: Goddamn Batman. Protoclown read All-Star Batman and Robin--the start of the damned and batty--so you wouldn't have to.Frank Miller's Hot Gates
A feeling's been gnawing deep inside me for a while. A feeling that maybe Frank Miller's hypermasculine antiheros and faceless, breast-thrusting women are exactly what they seem, not just sketchy parody. After reading 300, Miller's 1998 account of the Spartans at Thermopylae, I don't have any doubt: Miller means it. His aesthetic is fascist.
13 Ways of Looking at a Bat
"Among twenty empty warehouses,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the Batman."
--sorta Wallace Stevens
You should know right from the start that I'm a terrible geek—not extremely geeky, but bad at being a geek. Continuity in the sense of an overarching, epic and harmonized chronology just isn't that important to me. What I really like about comics is the possibility of seeing different versions of the same character or even the same story. To me, comics are a mythic media using shared characters and stories.
Continue reading...Moving Pictures
Summers in Toronto can be apocalyptic.
If it isn't the plague of
aphids infesting our air supply, it's the
flood of crap at the multiplex.
Continue reading...
