Posts Tagged ‘San Diego Comic Con’
Comic Books Gallery The Girls of Comic-Con
July 28, 2010 - 9:15 am
While The Con of Ages is now over and we’re home safe from the crowds and the smells, there is much to fondly look back on. Everyone can agree on one specific, delightful aspect of this event: costumed laydeez. Whether it’s the legions of Sailor Moons or the armies of Harley Quinns, there’s something irresistible about cute girls in costumes, especially when said costumes look like they took several days to make. As far as I’m concerned, the more DIY and elaborate the look, the better. After all, Comic-Con comes once a year.
(The ever-present naughty schoolgirls are also acceptable.)
To bring you this gallery, I spent much of my Friday and Saturday looking for dressed-up girls to document. Like shooting fish in a barrel, you say? Not so! It’s not easy to locate, stop, and pose amidst thousands of humans, all out on missions of their own. Still, my camera and I persevered. Enjoy!
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Loading ...Film A Family Portrait with ‘The Walking Dead’
July 26, 2010 - 7:51 pm
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:
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Loading ...Comic Books Indie Art the Do-It-Yourself Way: Make Comics, or Die!
July 25, 2010 - 5:53 pm
“Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light”
– Paradise Lost
Sure, the burning flames of Hades are no doubt uncomfortable — but ask any struggling artist and most of them will give you their own version: walking around the exhibitor hallways of Comic-Con for eternity, forever seeking acknowledgment in the unofficial 10th circle of Hell. John Milton/Dante’s prose is equally applicable to the long, arduous task of making headway in art. Judging by the amount of fanboys and souls anxiously awaiting judgment at Comic-Con 2010, competition is fierce, and most people are looking for some way, any way in the door… really. A fair share of these guys would sell their respective souls to get noticed, maybe even force a loved one into slavery, if it meant selling a comic or drawing — even if it’s something buried in a Cracker Jack box or Bazooka Joe wrapper. Let’s face it: No matter who you are, you’d just as soon not be taking orders or slaving away in a cubicle somewhere. If you really want to make it as an independent artist, the bottom line is that you can’t afford to be messing around.
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Loading ...Comic Books Ben Stenbeck – Witchfinder, Baltimore
July 25, 2010 - 4:25 pm
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’.
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Loading ...Comic Books Featured The GOON Throws a Wrench in the Works
July 25, 2010 - 4:11 pm
Do you like Zombies? How about mad scientists? What if I throw in some large fella with mob ties who beats people/monsters with a large wrench…? SOLD! But, If you were dead for the last 12 years or, Buddha forbid, not into comic books; then you might not know I’m speaking of the other worldly comic series The GOON. Or as series creator and 5 times Eisner Award winner Eric Powell describes it, “A dark comedy about a street thug, in a world of monsters.” Ah, Quaint.
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Loading ...Comic Books Featured Kevin Smith’s Filthy Dirty Happy Hour and Smodcast: Comic-Con 2010
July 25, 2010 - 2:46 pm
If anything, Kevin Smith’s happy hour and smodcast was a thankful reassurance that he, Jason Mewes and Scott Mosier are in many ways 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 fuck 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.
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Loading ...Comic Books Featured Gallery Comic-Con Characters: Day 2 (Photo Gallery)
July 24, 2010 - 6:08 pm
The heart and soul of an event lies in the passion of it’s people… (Round 2)
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Loading ...Event The Geeks Takeover and Then Take Off
July 29, 2009 - 9:29 pm
Long months after the San Diego Comic Con is over, shockwaves are felt throughout fandom. Buzz will continue to spread for projects that fans are excited about. The negative feedback from fans will require creators to go back to the drawing board and rethink their projects. And new discoveries will enjoy a wider audience. So it goes every year at Comic Con.
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Loading ...Comic Books Featured Gallery I’m Batman Damnit…
July 29, 2009 - 9:28 pm
Comic Com 09’ is a sea filled with bobbing pop-characters ranging from a black Scooby Doo to a white Darth Vader. A 4yr old “I Dream of Genie” to a 65yr old Wonder Woman. And we’re not just talking about your run of the mill store bought Halloween bullshit here either kiddos. While costume design can begin the gambit with a simple sponge paint Poke’mon t-shirt; it’s the 2 years in the making handmade cosplayer’s guise, which truly embodies a fan. Chris “Wayne”, we shall call him, just so happens to be one of those devotees.
I shot some 300 different pop-characters and saw easily over a couple thousand alt personas over the course of Comic Con 09’. But it was this variant of the caped crusader that stood out. I really wanted to know what it took to dress as Batman Beyond in time and character. Here’s what I found out.
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Loading ...Music Styling for Mr. Popsicle Provided by GWAR
July 29, 2009 - 9:27 pm
“AHHHHH. Yo, man what ya be doin tryin clamber all bloody in me cab like dis?”, exclaims the dreadlocked cabbie in a deeply set Caribbean accent as I plop myself in the back seat. “What happen to ya, ya get al blasted up an runover by a bus or sometin?” ‘Let me explain’, I say as I glance up into the rearview mirror and stare into the eyes of what appears to be a dimly dome lit meat Popsicle.
You see my birthday tends to be that one day of year, much like everyone else; I want to be special and full of great memories. Hanging out with close friends, downing a 5th of Jack on a rickety bar top, and maybe getting a lil’ action if I stumble across a sorority girl with self esteem issues because one arm is shorter than the other. But this year I decided to spice things up a bit. I would spend my special evening shooting a fanciful event full of drugs, homo-erotic sex acts, and murder. No silly, I’m not talking Randy Newman at Sea World. I’m speaking of GWAR at Comic Con 09’.
To be fair, I’m not a huge fan of the music of GWAR, mainly because I couldn’t tell you within in reason just what in the hell is being grunted on any of their albums in the last 25yrs. But aesthetically, it is rumored that this is one of those shows you have to attend in your lifetime. So, I packed a specialized dive bag for my rig, and set off into a cyclone of madness which can only be equated to the last battle scene from “300.” Please excuse the shoddy workmanship of the images, there is a certain inebriant complication of shooting with a camera housed in a duffle bag whilst being hosed down in pseudo-blood by a headless Obama. Enjoy.
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