Posts Tagged Image
Congrats: Who Is Jake Ellis? [Update]
As noted by USA Today’s Brian Truitt, Nathan Edmondson and Tonci Zonjic’s Image limited series, Who Is Jake Ellis?, is no longer limited–it is now an ongoing. [Update: Edmondson contacted me to clarify, that as noted in the initial Truitt coverage, it is not an unlimited ongoing series: it has been extended in that there will be at least one more set of adventures than initially planned for the limited series. Instead of ending at five issues it will go on to 10, potentially 15 issues.] Congrats to the Jake Ellis crew.
In other Edmondson news, he recently tipped me off to a band called FOUND that composed music inspired by OLYMPUS, Edmonson’s project with Christian Ward.
In addition, there’s this song by Piano Player, also inspired by OLYMPUS.
Chris Giarrusso on Mini Marvels, G-Man
Posted by admin in comedy, comics, sequential art on December 8, 2008
Chris Giarrusso (better known by many as Chris G) is the latest in a series of interviews spinning out of this past September’s Baltimore Comic-Con. Giarrusso is the artist behind the popular take on Marvel characters as children, Mini Marvels. He’s also known for his earlier work for Image, G-Man. We talked a little bit of both in this email interview.
Tim O’Shea: My first question actually comes from your biggest fan in the O’Shea home, my 9-year-old son, Colin. He asks: “How did he come up with the Mini Marvels?”
Chris Giarrusso: I was a big fan of newspaper comic strips growing up, and many of the classics comic strips featured casts of kid characters, like Charles Schulz’s “Peanuts” and Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” for example. I thought it would be neat to do a sort of Charlie Brown meets Marvel Super Heroes hybrid.
O’Shea: If I understood correctly, the first printing of the Mini Marvels digest sold out. Did the strong performance of the digest take you or Marvel management by surprise, or were you guys expecting it to do that well?
Giarrusso: Marvel was on the fence with the decision of whether or not to publish it at all in the first place because they didn’t think it would do well. Marvel was very surprised that it sold out in under a month.
Mike Allred on Madman Atomic Comics
Posted by admin in comics, sequential art on May 12, 2008
Mike Allred is an artist with a narrative approach quite unlike most comic book storytellers. Last week saw the release of Madman Atomic Comics 8, which we discuss in this email interview (and is being touted as a “fantastic jumping-on point for new readers”), as well as discussing other Madman matters. Just to give you a heads up (and not to sugarcoat things), I misidentify a Paul Pope cover as being an Allred piece in this interview. Just to show what a nice fellow that Allred is, I left my mistake and his kind correction in the interview. My thanks to Allred for the interview and Image’s Joe Keatinge for facilitating it.
Tim O’Shea: Other than not having to handle a great deal of the business minutiae of self-publishing, what have been some of the best benefits of shifting from self-publishing to Image Comics?
Mike Allred: Simple. A well oiled machine. Top notch crew. Ace printing and marketing costs. Smooth.
Twitter RSS- talkingwithtim: @j_bacardi love how Wenders explains that the sequel is a film that partially comments on post Berlin Wall Germany
- talkingwithtim: @j_bacardi that is one of my favorite films #LoveSeeingColomboReferencedInSubtitles
- talkingwithtim: @chris_roberson @allisontype :)
- talkingwithtim: @allisontype @chris_roberson That sounds like it could be the title of a failed sequel to 1983's All the Right Moves #AllTheFairPoints
- talkingwithtim: @romenesko Did @NPR issue a correction after reporting on air yesterday (as part of #RobinGibbObit) that #AndyGibb committed suicide?
Recent Comments