* Alejandro Arbona and Jody LeHeup, two of Marvel’s best editors and the men responsible for Invincible Iron Man & Immortal Weapons and Uncanny X-Force & Strange Tales respectively, were laid off by Marvel yesterday, among many other employees of long standing. I’ve been pretty upset about this. Comic Book Resources provides the facts; Tom Spurgeon and Heidi MacDonald provide much-needed and highly infuriating context.
* “Dylan [Williams] said something once that really stuck with me. ‘Art isn’t bullshit and love isn’t bullshit.’”—Austin English
* Wow, speak of the devil: Andrew White has posted the complete Chapter Five of Sexbuzz.
* Vasilis Lolos is prepping a webcomic called Supersword, the goal of which, he says, is “Lord of the Rings for the Nintendo generation.” Sure, I’ll eat it.
* Well, it happened: Jonny Negron saw Drive. AND THE REST IS HISTORY.
* Tom Gauld’s doing a book for Drawn & Quarterly? Tom Gauld’s doing a book for Drawn & Quarterly!
* Dustin Harbin drew some dinosaurs, Sam Bosma and Kali Ciesemier colored them, and it was good.
* Whoa: Matt Zoller Seitz says the new Kelsey Grammer drama Boss is a great show.
* The great cartoonist Jason lists his five favorite giallo actresses and posts a picture of Edwige Fenech for emphasis. Paging Dr. Purcell, Dr. Curt Purcell!
* Happy birthday to Mike Baehr of Fantagraphics. Like so many Fanta employees, he’s one of the good ones.
* Real Life Horror: I guess we’re sending flying killer robots to execute American teenagers from the sky at will now, which is super-fucking-exciting, isn’t it.
* Wow, Uno Moralez has really outdone himself with this image gallery. It’s called “Horny Goblyns,” and it makes the abbreviation NSFW a comical understatement.
* Sex, synths, teen angst/lust, eldritch horrors: Is there anything about Jérémie Périn’s video for “Fantasy” by DyE that isn’t one of my favorite things? (Hat tip: Steven Wintle.)
Tags: Carnival of souls, comics, links, movies, real life, TV
Those last two links … wow …
Serious Wicked City vibes from that Fantasy video…
Glad you liked the DyE video. I made the mistake of watching it at work. Oops.
Off-topic, but the Halloween season has got me reading up on effects work, and I just dug up an old Fangoria from 1987 that showcases a handful of that year’s releases; Predator, Lost Boys, Monster Squad, Hellraiser and Robocop. And they suggest that it might be a weak year. Where did it all go wrong?
I’m so out of touch with film, and horror films specifically, that I can barely comment on whether any recent year has produced a crop of comparable weirdness and quality. But it’s great when you kind of stumble across an amazing year like that and think about whether it was appreciated at the time. Last night I went back through a few Best Comics of the Year lists, and 2007 just floored me: The End by Anders Nilsen, Asthma by John Hankiewicz, Skyscrapers of the Midwest by Josh Cotter, Gipi’s first two English-language books, Cold Heat by Ben Jones and Frank Santoro, the start of the Love and Rockets digests–heck, Brubaker/Fraction/Aja Immortal Iron Fist. It hits you like a wall when you list them like that.
I know I’m a dyed in the wool Barker guy, but the more I think about Hellraiser and Hellbound, the more I think we’re lucky they got made. There’s nothing else like them.
Back when you hooked me on that Invisible Light video, I toyed with the idea of making as close to an identical video as possible, using only actual vintage euro-movie scenes. Had I done so, you would most likely have caught glimpses of everyone on Jason’s list. You would damn sure have seen lots and lots of Edwige!
You know, between that Uno Moralez gallery and that DyE video, now I’m even more curious about your non-response to the Superheroines Lose post. I wondered if I’d crossed some sort of ick-threshold for you, but judging from these, maybe not . . .
“You would damn sure have seen lots and lots of Edwige!”
In more ways than one, I suspect. 🙂
As for the superheroines lose thing, it’s not an ick factor I don’t guess…it’s more that it doesn’t do anything for me aesthetically. Neither do most of the images in that gallery Moralez put together, mind you — I think only the one above and the one where the guy’s having blanket sex with the translucent ghost strike me as memorable on their own terms — but I find their sheer lurid insanity striking in a way that a fetish video predicated on getting off on a living woman’s humiliation just isn’t.
Hey, thanks so much for the birthday shout-out Sean. Big, big respect back at you.