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On informing your students that they're murderers
Acephalous | October 26th 2009
(Being another post in this vein.)In a famous (and surprisingly controversial, for reasons I will tackle later in the week) section of Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud defines the act of moving from one panel, through the gutter (the white space b read more
Watchmen: Momentos de cómics I
Comic noveno arte | October 23rd 2009 by Roger Basaldua
In the cemetery, all the white crosses stood in rows, neat chalk marks on a giant scorecard. Paid last respects quietly, without fuss.Edward Morgan Blake. Born 1924. Forty-Five years a comedian, died 1985, buried in the rain.Is that what happens to u read more
Miss Manhattan
Way of the Geek | October 22nd 2009 by Jerry
I guess they had to switch Dr Manhattan’s gender, since a dress-up game consisting of one black thong wouldn’t have been very interesting. posted in games by Conor Leave A Comment©2009 Way of the Geek. All Rights Reserved.Way of the read more
Wait—is that supposed to be a bad thing?
Acephalous | October 20th 2009
One of you lot emailed me bits of a Warren Ellis script for one of the various X-titles—the perfunctorily racy "Emma" can only, I think, refer to Emma Frost—but given some of the email I received concerning my discussion of the ALL CAPP read more
Wait—is that supposed to be a bad thing?
Acephalous | October 20th 2009
One of you lot emailed me bits of a Warren Ellis script for one of the various X-titles—the perfunctorily racy "Emma" can only, I think, refer to Emma Frost—but given some of the email I received concerning my discussion of the ALL CAPPED verbosi read more
Review: Batman „The Killing Joke“ von Alan Moore (Text) &…
Badcomics | October 19th 2009
Erscheinungsdatum der Deluxe Edition: März 2008 Einleitung: So, hier ist es also, dass erste Reviews auf Bad Comics. Und ich habe mir für den Anfang gleich zwei meiner absoluten Favoriten ausgesucht: Batman & Alan Moore. Ich muss sagen, read more
Watchmen: The Complete Motion Comic
Kuranes II | October 16th 2009 by IsMa
Hace medio año que se estrenó la versión fílmica (live action) de Watchmen, novela gráfica escrita por Alan Moore y trazada por Dave Gibbons a mediados de la década de los ochenta y que propone un mundo con superhéroes no idealizados, es read more
By request: my visual rhetoric course
Acephalous | October 14th 2009
As requested in the comments to my last post and via a couple of emails, here's a general outline of the course I teach on visual rhetoric. (If you find it interesting or just want to give me money, the book I'm co-writing with my course director sho read more
By request: my visual rhetoric course
Acephalous | October 14th 2009
As requested in the comments to my last post and via a couple of emails, here's a general outline of the course I teach on visual rhetoric. (If you find it interesting or just want to give me money, the book I'm co-writing with my course di read more
Skizz Review
The Sidekick Comics Blog | October 11th 2009 by Gavin Jones
This was one of the freebies from our recent visit to BICS 2009. Skizz written by Alan Moore and drawn by Jim Baikie was first published in 1983, serialised over a number of 2000AD issues. The main character is Skizz an alien that crash lands on E read more
Non-Review Review: Watchmen (Theatrical Cut)
the m0vie blog | October 9th 2009
I watch the Watchmen... read more
September Post Of The Month with @neilperkin
LitmanLive | October 7th 2009 by Michael Litman
The nominations are in and the shortlist has been made for post of the month in September over on Neil’s blog Only Dead Fish. All shortlisted are worthy of your time so I recommend checking each and every out (but vote for the last one yeah?) H read more
New magazine edited by Alan Moore, and new essay on pornography
Klintron's Brain | October 5th 2009
Forty years after the uproarious heyday of the alternative press, writer Alan Moore is launching the 21st century’s first underground magazine from his home town of Northampton, a community that is right at the geographical, political and economic read more
PSP Go: The Dirtiest Name Ever for a Video Game System?
Project Child Murdering Robot | October 5th 2009 by Ricky Sprague
Browsing amazon.com today and came upon a handheld video game device called a PSP Go, or PSPGo, or pee-ess-pego, which was released October 1st. I thought the term "pego" was a vulgarity. I first became aware of the word from reading it in chapte read more
Superman según Alan Moore
Comic noveno arte | October 4th 2009 by Roger Basaldua
Por ahi escucho dos palabras Peru21 y Superman... (dejenme soñar aunque por ahi se dijo en el foro) me deja mucho que pensar puesto que si es que tienes una editorial (así como en España o en Mexico donde se hacen mas seriamente las cosas), tendri read more
New Spider-Clones And Promethea Want You To Take Them Home
Top New Movies at MoviesB.com | September 29th 2009 by David Haybach
Here’s hoping that you’ve been saving up that hard-earned cash, because this week it’s all about the collections… Well, apart from a couple of interesting new takes on old favorites (and one happily-returning new favorite), th read more
Miracle/Marvel Man to be reprinted at last - by Marvel
Klintron's Brain | September 28th 2009
Miracleman/MarvelMan is going to be release by, ironically Marvel Comics. I wrote about the complicated IP mess of MM here (so I need not rewrite it here). The “irony” is “Marvel” legally sued to prevent Alan Moore’s “Marvelman” from be read more
Watchmen el videojuego... la pesadilla de Moore
Comic noveno arte | September 25th 2009 by Roger Basaldua
"Alan, ¿Me firmas el videojuego?" Y pude ver la estocada final... el super mega videojuego de Watchmen, justo estaba jugando play 3 y me descargue dos partes del juego. ¿Que más se puede decir?... al menos al parecer el juego fue un fracaso porque read more
Ashes to Ashes, Swamp to Swamp
Top New Movies at MoviesB.com | September 25th 2009 by David Haybach
Dick Durock, who played the Swamp Thing in Swamp Thing (1982), The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) and Swamp Thing the TV series from the early ’90s, died in Oak Park, CA last week at age 72. The six-foot-fiver from South Bend Indiana was a former read more
No Title
writing neuroses | September 24th 2009
Thinking in nine panelsThere were a lot of things I wanted to drivel on about this week, but they have all been driven out of my head by graphic novels. Not only have I been reading them, I’ve been thinking about writing them – which is no simple read more
No Straight Lines session, continued....
Slided Bread - the sequel | September 22nd 2009
Alan Moore is continuing, after a wee break, to discuss the old paradigm and the new paradigm, or are they, in fact, the same paradigm?AM: Businesses have to be:Life enablingLife simplifyingNavigationalA high social networker has a higher 'social val read more
Social Media Session with Euan Semple and Alan Moore
Slided Bread - the sequel | September 22nd 2009
Two 'recognised' experts on Social Media (not victims to the big question of who is an expert and can you call yourself an expert), Euan Semple and Alan Moore, are running a session today on Social Media.There is a part of me that hopes I learn nothi read more
Alan Moore on his grimoire
Klintron's Brain | September 16th 2009
The Faust story is a retelling of the Simon Magus story, but instead of being set at the birth of Christianity, this is at the birth of Lutheran Protestantism, nearly fifteen hundred years later. Here we’ve worked out the tangled web of Georgiu read more
DC Comics versus Marvel Comics - A guerra recomeça!
Moscas No Cadaver | September 11th 2009 by ricardo ideia
Pois é!!! Mal a Disney anunciou a compra da Marvel Comics, a Warner Bros, dona da DC Comics, anunciou uma total reestruturação na DC. A companhia agora passará a ser chamada DC Entertainment Inc. e estará sobre a administração d read more
Watchmen - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Ciencia Ficción | September 8th 2009 by Dario Alvarez
Watchmen - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre:Watchmen («Vigilantes» en español) es un cómic de superhéroes escrito por Alan Moore y dibujado por Dave Gibbons, ambos de nacionalidad británica, y publicado por primera vez por la compañía estadou read more
Second Take: Watchmen
Quit Your Day Job | September 6th 2009 by Lee
The basics of the Second Take are simple, sometimes I’ll watch a film and have a certain reaction to it which seems to be the polar opposite to a bunch of other people. I mean sure, people have different tastes etc, however more often than not th read more
Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009)
Entertain Me! | September 5th 2009 by Simon
" I heard a joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life is harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. The great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go see him. That should pi read more
Moore on Marvelman at Marvel
Down the Tubes Blog | September 4th 2009 by John Freeman
Alan Moore has commented on Marvel's acquisition of Marvelman, saying he's pleased the deal, which will mean his Marvelman stories will be re-published, will see the character's creator Mick Anglo benefit once again."After being initially informed by read more
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