Pic Parade
Let’s explore some corners of Geekdom from the last few days through pictures, shall we?
HBO Picks up A Game of Thrones (pilot + 9 episodes)
Mr. Spidderman at the Wailing Wall during Purim.
Nick Simmons, son of KISS frontman Gene, plagiarizes Bleach manga, among others, in Incarnate #1, his comic from Radical Publishing. Amidst the uproar he [...]
Happy Anniversay: FPI Blog
Totally meant to publish this yesterday at the height of its relevancy, but congratulations and happy 5th anniversary to Joe Gordon and the rest of our colleagues at the Forbidden Planet International Blog!!!
It’s hard for me to believe but today marks the fifth birthday of the Forbidden Planet blog. It’s a peculiar feeling because [...]
Around the Web: Millar’s Nemesis, The Beat Moves, and More
Marvel’s giving us a chance to peruse the first six pages of Mark Millar and Steve McNiven’s (both of Civil War fame) next project (due to release 3/3/10) here. This being a Millar book from the publisher’s Icon imprint, you’d be correct in assuming the guy in the chair’s fate ain’t pretty.
CIVIL WAR? Nothing. KICK-ASS? [...]
The Art of Saskia Lenis
Y’know those sciffy characters above on the DP’s header and sprinkled throughout ForbiddenPlanetUSA.com’s pages? Well, those are the work of Ms. Saskia Lenis, who, aside from having served as the New York City’s Store’s resident toy mistress for a number of years, is a hugely talented artist in her own right. She’s got a flickr [...]
NYC TO DO 10/29
Where all the hep cats’ll be tonight:
We really dig this book, and its contributors are good peoples. Get’cher butt to Brooklyn.
Transmissions From the Planet: Boilerplate
Welcome to the first webcast from Forbidden Planet featuring the new coffee table book Boilerplate: History’s Mechanical Marvel. FP hosted the authors, Anina Bennett and Paul Guinan, for a short interview about their creation.
It’s easy to pick you copy up here and you can find out more about Boilerplate at www.boilerplaterobot.com or you can see [...]
Complex interviews Joss Whedon.
Friend (and neighbor) Tim Leong interviews Joss Whedon for Complex Magazine this week.
In the lengthy interviews, Leong talks to Whedon about his Astonishing X-Men artist John Cassaday’s turn behind the Director’s Chair this season on Joss’s show, Dollhouse. The multi-platform writer also shares ideas on Buffy Season 9, his movie Cabin in the Woods [...]
SMITH Magazine announces THE PEKAR PROJECT.
Jeff “Jahfurry” Newelt announced today that SMITH Magazine will be doing online, every-other-week Harvey Pekar comics, titled The Pekar Project. I never thought I’d see the day that Pekar would even know how to access the Internet, but it looks like today is that day. From the announcement, courtesy of the good Sir Mr. Newelt:
We’re [...]
Next Saturday: CBLDF Presents Conversational Comics
The Comic Book Legal Defense Fund has been sponsoring a series of events at Brooklyn’s Union Pool this summer, specifically a series of talks with a variety of notable cartoonists moderated by Bill Kartalopoulos. A week from today the focus shifts to Dash Shaw (of Bottomless Belly Button fame), Lisa Hanawalt (Stay Away From Other [...]
Dinner and a Movie. Geek Style.
Our buddy Matt D, a manager of FP NYC, is co-hosting themed movie nights at a local pizza joint on Monday nights in August. Sadly, I’ll be missing this evening’s Bill & Ted’s/Keanu fest, but will def be there for Pee Wee’s Big Adventure/Paul Reubens night next week, and the Coen Brothers the week following.
There’ll be store [...]
Warren Ellis and the movies.
Warren Ellis says he is writing a treatment for “Excalibur.”Well, really, he says its an “Untitled Arthurian Legend” treatment, but his producers call it Excalibur.
I’m writing a film treatment for Hollywood Gang, who co-produced Frank Miller’s 300. Hollywood Gang have previously optioned my graphic novel (with Chris Sprouse) OCEAN.
On my desk, the treatment is called [...]
John Ostrander needs your help.
Lately, on the Twitter ‘verse (which is kind of a universe unto itself), people have been posting to help out John Ostrander, legendary comics writer, who has been suffering from glaucoma for over twenty years.
Recently, Mr. Ostrander had to travel to Boston on two separate week-long occasions to treat his glaucoma, but like alot of [...]
