New Scott Pilgrim Trailer
There’s a new trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. World, the new film based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s acclaimed graphic novel series from Oni Press. The film, directed by Eric Wright, opens August 3 and stars Kieran Culkin, Chris Evans, Anna Kendrick, Alison Pill, Brandon Routh and Jason Schwartzman.
Hope Larson Speaks
Cartoonists Hope Larson, just signed by FSG to adapt Madelaine L’Engle’s celebrated YA novel, A Wrinkle in Time into a graphic novel, talks to Comic Book Resources about girls and comics.
NPR’s the ‘Takeaway’ Covers Graphic Novels
Essence magazine senior editor Patrik Henry Bass and Takeaway anchor Celeste Headlee offer their picks for the best recent graphic novels—Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s Black Blizzardand Josh Neufeld’s A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge, among them—on the Takeaway Website.
Kirby's Loki Inspires New Dinosaur Name
The distinctive hook-horned helmet that comics legion Jack Kirby designed for Marvel's Thor comics has partly inspired the name of a magnificent new species of dinosaur, Medusaceratops lokii. Michael Ryan, the co-discoverer of this hook-spiked Canadian relative of the famous Triceratops, named the species after the snake-hoard mythological figure Medusa and the comic book version of Loki due to a love of evocative and pronounceable species names. More information is available in this article from the Star Phoenix.
Apple, PC Guys Meet the Marvel, DC Guys
I'm a Marvel... I'm a DC, the popular comics-satire video series in which various superheroes and comic book characters from the two biggest comic book companies squabble and play out their epic rivalry, is celebrating its 100th installment with a musical episode. Iron Man taunts Batman with a song trumpeting the Marvel movie series master plan: continuity. Tony and the Marvel superheroes caper around in a surprisingly spritely fashion for store-bought plastic action figures as Batman looks on, unamused. Based on the popular "Get A Mac" Apple Computers commercials starring actor Justin Long and comedian John Hodgeman, the series by ItsJustSomeRandomGuy has taken on a life of its own, satirizing everything from Marvel's dysfunctional romances to the fact that no one ever stays dead in comics. They have been featured at New York Comic Con and Chicago Entertainment Expo and the series has had over 43 million views on Youtube.
This Week @ Good Comics For Kids
This week School Library Journal’s blog Good Comics for Kids offers a list of All-Ages Comics and Manga and reviews of two new Viz Shojo titles, Stepping on Roses, vol. 1 and Flower in a Storm, vol. 1.
This Week @ The Beat
This week PWCW editor Heidi MacDonald’s blog The Beat covered the winners (Paul Pope and David Mazzucchelli among them) of the Reuben Awards from the National Cartoonists Society, the passing of Linda Gold, wife of longtime industry figure Mike Gold, a series of one-shot releases of war comics, Disney joining Marvel’s fight against the copyright claims of Jack Kiby’s heirs and Day 2 at BookExpo America.
