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Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
15:00 / 21.08.07
Found some particularly ripe bit of comicbookery somewhere on the web, but there's no place on here that it really fits? A little thread on which to string links caught among the roiling shoals of the intarwebs, hooked and gutted for Barbenaut consumption.

Hey, Oscar Wilde! It's Clobbering Time!

A blog dedicated to comic book artists doing renderings of literary figures, both authors and characters. I could probably spend a couple hours poring through them if I let myself. Some really slick contributions, like:

Chris Bachalo's T.S. Eliot.

Ken Steacy's Billy Pilgrim.

Mike Mignola's takes on Jacob Marley and Count Dracula.

There's obviously a lot more on the sight than just those, so go waste some time on it!
 
 
MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!
15:38 / 21.08.07
That is AWESOME.

In gratitude, I present Dave's Long Box, probably the funniest comics-related site I know. He reads old comics, scans panels, and talks about them. It's partly making fun of bad comics, partly celebrating good comics -- not a snarkfest or a praise-a-thon, just good funny writing by a very funny guy.
 
 
Janean Patience
15:40 / 21.08.07
A blog dedicated to comic book artists doing renderings of literary figures, both authors and characters.

I presume this is where I found Keith Giffen's drawing of Yossarian, from Catch-22, many years ago and marvelled at how such an iconic character had been so comprehensively nailed.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
15:56 / 21.08.07
Yeah, Yossarian's in there.

Stuart Immonen's Dorothy Parker!
 
 
Mario
17:05 / 21.08.07
I think the Simonson Moorcock/Tolkien one is my favorite.
 
 
Billuccho!
19:27 / 21.08.07
Wow! This stuff is brilliant!

I can't believe I'd never heard of this site before.
 
 
FinderWolf
20:53 / 21.08.07
thanks for linking this - - countless fantastic drawings here, and such a great idea for a site/collection/theme.
 
 
FinderWolf
19:20 / 22.08.07
This is not nonsensical -- but MSN.com had an article titled "Jack Bauer meets his comic book counterpart" and I didn't know what they could possibly be talking about (maybe Rucka's QUEEN AND COUNTRY?)...

...they were, in fact, talking about a French graphic novel written by a real life counter-terrorist agent in France, which has taken the French graphic novel world by storm. Here's the info. on it [an article in the LA Times] -- anyone here heard about it?

It's called RD.
 
 
FinderWolf
19:21 / 22.08.07
I mean "RG". But whatever, check it out.
 
 
Mug Chum
08:32 / 27.08.07
I don't really like Captain America, but I could read some of his stuff with Bing Crosby's songs in the background, or just plain things like this here working as previews (in the way that Synger's Superman trailer was better than the film, for instance).

Just go to the bottom of the page, click play on the youtube video, go back to the top of the page and follow the lyrics and the colorful chorus.

Just lovely (Postmodernbarney.com is not only a terrific blog, it also gives me the chance to get to know other great blogs like Bully's).
 
 
Bubblegum Death
00:31 / 01.09.07
Who knew that Edward Gorey was a fan of Star Trek?
A few people complained that the figures don't really look like Gorey characters, but the whole strip is great.

And I would very much like to see a "Herbie, the Love Bug" done in Gorey's style.
 
 
Mug Chum
02:24 / 01.09.07
Just... beautiful. That I could stand to read.

(found in Occasional Superheroine)
 
 
Mug Chum
20:34 / 02.10.07
The face of dark seriousness.
 
 
Spaniel
09:07 / 03.10.07
Words + links = good

Links - words = no-one cares
 
 
Mug Chum
14:02 / 23.10.07
Millar states his reasons why he'd be the writer that fucking rulez! to do the new Superman movie.

(...)I want to revamp Superman like Hillary wants thin ankles. (...)As most here know, I have literally hundreds of pages of notes and sketches just waiting for this opportunity. This would be my dream gig and, as a fan, I know exactly what this project needs to work. This has to be Superman for the 21st Century, keeping everything we adore, but starting from scratch and making the kids love it as much as the 30-somethings. I would honestly write this thing for free. Anyway, my treatment is being polished as we type. Wish me luck. I want to do that Superman movie we all want to see.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
14:10 / 23.10.07
Samuel L Jackson as Superman. Two hours thirty minutes. All but ten of which are occupied by Jackson giving bad guys unwilling bumlove.

Brainiac - bumlove.
Metallo - spikey bumove.
Cyborg - steely bumlove.
Lex Luthor - extra bumlove.

DVD extras include an audio commentary made up entirely of snuffling noises and wet slapping, punctuated by the occasional hoot of laughter.
 
 
Mug Chum
14:45 / 23.10.07
You know, I really wanted to include bumraping-as-territorial-pissing jokes (about a rape-obsessed little geek with development arrested trying to appear all big boy and tough and that HE rapez U, u fag!!), pure Michael Bay's type of hammering and pounding seriousness that falls into utter bathos and fluff materials, vague military and foreign relations references to appear relevant and real-worldly (and vague CNN references as if from someone who never saw CNN and still thinks they're top notch news channels that siriuz grownupz watch)...

... but things are just getting tiring.

Without mentioning any of the stuff on the actual post -- Clinton, notes, revamp, everybody will want to see, he is perfect (because he is a fan, you see), the implication of extreme certainty that this wouldn't be meddled with until is unrecognizable etc etc...

But yeah, three hours of Samuel Jackson (not him, of course, but it says "Samuel Jackson" in the stage directions) sitting in a chair yelling at the camera variations of "your ass is mine!" and "there'll be no Superman because flying men in tights is faggy!" seems actually quite likely.

Or maybe he could just come back to earth and do something like he did in the past (remembering this issue that had 23 stories, two with fantastic art by Cam Stewart).
 
 
Mug Chum
14:54 / 23.10.07
Oh, and one more thing. Everybody acts like a geeky little cock, but somehow the universe thinks they're being really cool, edgy and tough (even when talking about celebrities. Or sleeping with them!).
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
22:17 / 26.04.08
In case nobody else saw, our very own Cameron Stewart does an awesome Borges on IT'S CLOBBERING TIME!

There's a pretty good Kavalier and Clay, as well.
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
04:10 / 28.07.08
Marcus "Parcus" Thiele has put together a beautiful three-page comic & pitch, surmising the later life of Little Nemo in Slumberland: King Nemo. Very much in the style of McCay, only grown-up and a little creepy.
 
 
Spaniel
09:29 / 28.07.08
Yes, that's quite wonderful. Must purchase Little Nemo at some point.
 
  
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