Well… If you didn’t make it to the party down in San Diego this year (AKA Comic-Con), Don’t feel bad because you were not alone. Washer-Man, Lawn-Boy, and Popsicle Girl were commissioned to keep the peace at locations outside San Diego (and they took their respective jobs quite seriously I might add), blazing through lawns and dishes and grocery lists in all locations not San Diego. Take a peek.
Comic Con 2010 is over and I have cast my vote for the fictitious “Bad Ass Mamma-Jamma Booth of the Year” award. Since I am the only voter in said academy, the winner is booth #2010! AMC television’s The Walking Dead set (a six-episode series based on the comic book written by Robert Kirkman). It’s not every day you can take the kids out for a stroll and pop in somewhere to have a lovely photo taken with your choice of:
Ben Templesmith is an Eisner-nominated Australian comic book artist, known for many things, among them Fell, written by Warren Ellis, and 30 Days of Night, written by Steve Niles. He’s also known for his love of tentacles, zombies, and making very special faces in photos. I spoke with Ben at the Image booth while he was hard at work on a sketch for someone’s future tattoo, and asked him for his top five songs for a Moody Monday.
The iconic video game The Legend of Zelda was co-created by one of the industries most respected artists, Shigeru Miyamoto. Its design was meant to wax poetic on the misadventures in his childhood home of Kyoto, Japan. In kind, the hugely successful symbiotic online sitcom The Legend of Neil was created by a guy who plays a stalker on a hugely popular web series The Guild, Sandeep Parikh. His concept is based on a guy getting all shit housed and wanting to wax the ass of the fairy in The Legend of Zelda, whilst using the controller wire as a means of autoerotic asphyxiation, who then becomes magically transported into the game world. You say tomato, I say tomato. But don’t scoff what ever you do, because it’s good. Really good.
I recently talked with Sandeep (for a few minutes of yelling at each other over the crowd at Comic-Con 2010) and these two stories are all I gather from said garbled audio recording:
Evan Dorkin is probably best known for his underground hit ‘Milk & Cheese’, but he’s been doing work for Dark Horse Comics since the early 90′s and has even penned a strange ‘Hellboy’ tale. His recent collaboration with famous water-colorist Jill Thompson on ‘Beasts of Burden’ has earned him nothing short of absolute praise, and garnered the creative team several industry awards including an Eisner. The hardcover collection of ‘Beasts of Burden’ is set to be released this August.
Ben Stenbeck is an established illustrator from New Zealand who first starting working with Dark Horse on President Mike Richardson’s series ‘Living with the Dead’. Since then, Stenbeck has gone on to work with ‘Hellboy’ creator Mike Mignola on ‘B.P.R.D.’ and the series ‘Witchfinder’. This fall he teams up with Mignola again, and novelist Christopher Golden, on ‘Baltimore’.
If anything, Kevin Smith’s happy hour and Smodcast was a thankful reassurance that he, Jason Mewes and Scott Mosier are really just replicants of their on-screen counterparts — so if you’re easily offended by any dialogue or language from his movies, stop here. Then again, one might ask: why the f**k would you be reading this?
But I actually didn’t even find out about the live podcast until the last minute — getting into it was a bit cloak-and-dagger, but made it seem more worth it just because it was a bit of a challenge. To get your ticket you had to:
1)check the Smodcast Facebook page at certain times of the day,
2)get to a certain divulged location within 5 minutes, and
3)say a password to one of Kevin’s pals at ETNIES who were sponsoring the project. It was being held at the SE Hotel downtown, a mile or two from the convention center — so after getting the password (“Silent Bob”) I grabbed my sh*t and hauled ass down to the SE.
I remember the first time I wrote my name. I was 5 years old, sitting in kindergarten class, and I do recall being quite proud of myself for accomplishing such a feat. Now let me introduce you to Mr. Malachai Nicolle, AKA my “buzz kill.” He is 5 years old and in kindergarten, but HE is a renowned author of a hugely successful comic book franchise titled “Axe Cop.” yep, no shit, it’s the truth.
