THE HARBINGER [VON DOOM] PODCAST

thedailywhat:

Weekend Read: Comic book writer and novelist Greg Rucka (Stumptown, Queen and Country) answers a frequently asked question in an incisive essay for io9 entitled “Why I Write ‘Strong Female Characters’”.

The entire piece is well worth a read, but here’s the key passage:

Writers don’t write Men or Women or Dogs or Salmon. Writers write characters, and at our best, if we do it well and with care and with thought, we invest in those characters a spark of life, a realism and nuance that makes them believable and relatable.

Rucka also questions why journalists don’t tend to ask female writers how they write “strong female characters,” and why more male writers don’t do the research about their female characters, the way they would with any other character whose experience differs from their own.

[io9]

kellysue:

So many great takes on Captain Marvel from Project Rooftop.  

gkambadais:

I did This for Project Rooftop, but i like it so much that i’m thinking to do a 5 pages comic, just for fun. I don’t have time to do it now, maybe next month…

Gotta love all the buzz surrounding the reinvention of Carol Danvers & Captain Marvel!

kirbymuseum:

The Avengers has already grossed over 200 million dollars overseas, and is on track to make an insane amount of money when it opens in the US this weekend. When you go see it, why not take a portion of your ticket price and help us open a pop-up Jack Kirby gallery in the neighborhood where he was born? 

You can read our detailed appeal for funding here. 

We’ve got plenty of original Jack artwork to hang on the walls, not to mention other artifacts from Jack’s life. The more money we raise now, the more we can do, and the longer we’ll be able to keep the doors open! We’d like to be more than just a gallery, though. We’ll have lectures from comics pros, host or sponsor art lessons for kids, and work with other local NYC historical organizations to educate folks about what it was like growing up in Jack’s neighborhood during the depression.

We’ve been fundraising for the gallery since September, but we haven’t yet reached our goal. We’ve got a few announcements to make in the coming months that should help us get there, and with any luck, and if folks help us get the word out, we’ll be open by the end of the year. Every little bit helps, and if you can’t donate, please help us spread the word!

By the way, how cool is this Jack self-portrait? My reliable sources tell me it was inked by Mike Royer and colored by Tom Ziuko! I believe this version of it appeared in the Jack Kirby Collector around 1997…

(via fuckyeahkirby)

comicbookcovers:

The Avengers #53, June 1968, cover by John Buscema and George Tuska

NOTHING EVER CHANGES.

rraaaarrl:

The soul gem, it’s truly truly truly outrageous!

Soul Gem’s a helluva drug.

erikamoen:

colleencoover:

Two years ago, former Marvel Comics bullpen member Steve Bunche posted a comics try-out page submitted to Marvel in the 1990s by an unknown hopeful. The page, while lacking in polish and technique, nevertheless had very clear storytelling, and, as Bunche notes in his blog post: “While this guy would never have gotten work in a professional comic as a penciller, I have to admire his talent for creating an instant classic of a non sequitor:”

artist unknown

You are not imagining this. Wolverine stalks through the wilderness, searching for we know not what, and finds the late Freddie Mercury, frontman of the band Queen.

The page has since been rattling around on the Internet, occasionally reposted and retweeted, chuckled over and admired by people like my studiomate Jeff Parker, which is how I originally became aware of it. And it just kind of got stuck in my head. For TWO YEARS.

The story as presented raises a number of questions. What is Wolverine looking for? Agents of AIM? Peace and solitude? Or, as my other studiomate Memorial artist Rich Ellis suggested: is he looking to find Somebody To Love?

And how and why does Freddie Mercury appear at the end of his search? Was his tragically fatal illness miraculously cured, perhaps by an alien symbiote? Has he just returned from sailing the Seven Seas of Rhye? Or more simply and perhaps most logically, has Logan found himself in the presence of the wordly manifestation of a literal God of Rock?

And so, I have decided to explore these mysteries by recreating the original story, correcting some of the technical blunders on the way. I invite other artists to do the same, by which exercise we may one day come close to the fictional Truth of the matter.

I am reblogging both to further signal boost this brilliant piece by my studiomate, Colleen Coover, and also make sure you don’t miss that final line at the end of her commentary:

I invite other artists to do the same, by which exercise we may one day come close to the fictional Truth of the matter.

You guys, Colleen fricking Coover is inviting you all to re-draw that original page of Wolverine discovering Freddie Mercury by an unknown artist.

She is starting a movement.

Will you answer her call?

(via surfdog2000)

templesmith:

A little bit of Joker to celebrate the news I’m drawing a bit of a BATMAN story with B Clay Moore. (Taken with instagram)

Good news, great Joker!

thedudevondoom:

Haven’t done window shopping for comics in a while, and now I remember why.

Ask or Reblog with suggestions to add to the list!

ourvaluedcustomers:

In case you missed it…

On page 350 of this month’s PREVIEWS catalog is the first listing for the OUR VALUED CUSTOMERS BOOK! It’s 96 pages long featuring a bunch of your ol’ favorites as well as 40 brand new OVC comics done exclusively for this collection! The good folks at Penguin/Perigee publishing will have this thing available in book stores everywhere on JULY 3, 2012 so be sure to pick one up! Or order yours today through your local comic book store!

#14 - WonderCon 2012: Of Wargs and Wonder

With Doom being busy managing the Glam Rock Gorilla, and Cap acting as his trusty roadie, WonderCon 2012 was Wargo’s time to shine! Listen as he takes up the recording reins for the newly relocated WonderCon, SoCal’s first convention of the season!

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