Life is full of ironies. In this particular case I find it ironic that, though I don’t care for Elvis Presley either as a musician and/or actor, I absolutely love the guy as a monster assassin for hire. Yes, I said monster assassin for hire. Okay, I have to be honest; he isn’t necessarily an assassin per se, but rather a middle-age recluse who’s taken to battling all things paranormal for profit-and kicking the un-holy crap out of them in the process.
Black List Studios King! is the first of a 4 issue series following former Mexican wrestling great Jessie King as a supernatural hitman for hire. Is this the same King that could not be filmed from the waist down in the 1950’s due to the amount of hormones he would unleash upon the then innocent youth of the world? I can’t honestly say. Is...
Black List Studios King! is the first of a 4 issue series following former Mexican wrestling great Jessie King as a supernatural hitman for hire. Is this the same King that could not be filmed from the waist down in the 1950’s due to the amount of hormones he would unleash upon the then innocent youth of the world? I can’t honestly say. Is...
- 8/26/2010
- by Dominic
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
One of my favorite conventions every year is the MoCCA Festival here in New York City, which gathers comic creators and publishers from the small-press, indie-oriented and online sides of the industry for a two-day show hosted by the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.
While last year's show yielded a big scoop on the movie side (Top Shelf told me that Alex Robinson's "Too Cool To Be Forgotten" had been optioned), conversation was firmly focused on comics this time around — though I did get a little info about an upcoming comic tie-in with M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender" adaptation.
Here are some of this year's MoCCA highlights for me:
— One of my first stops on the convention floor was the table for Top Shelf Productions, where I met two of the comic creators responsible for the publisher's recently announced "Swedish Invasion" line. Mats Jonsson ("Hey Princess...
While last year's show yielded a big scoop on the movie side (Top Shelf told me that Alex Robinson's "Too Cool To Be Forgotten" had been optioned), conversation was firmly focused on comics this time around — though I did get a little info about an upcoming comic tie-in with M. Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender" adaptation.
Here are some of this year's MoCCA highlights for me:
— One of my first stops on the convention floor was the table for Top Shelf Productions, where I met two of the comic creators responsible for the publisher's recently announced "Swedish Invasion" line. Mats Jonsson ("Hey Princess...
- 4/12/2010
- by Rick Marshall
- MTV Splash Page
As 2009 draws to a close, it's time to look back on best and brightest comics, comic book movies, comic book swag and, well — everything else that found its way into our bookshelves and longboxes this year. Over the next few days, we'll be rolling out a trio of "Best Of 2009" features, starting with today's list of the best comics in print and digital form released in '09.
Best Of 2009: Comics
Best New Series
"Chew" (Image)
As is the case with cooking, comic books require the right blend of ingredients in order to fully flourish. Thankfully, that's exactly what John Layman and Rob Guillory's "Chew" specializes in. The series focuses on Tony Chu, an Fda agent who solves crimes by gleaning psychic impressions from anything he eats. Readers embraced the book's food-centric premise by sending "Chew" back into the kitchen for multiple sell-outs and reprints. If the new year brings a similar level of quality,...
Best Of 2009: Comics
Best New Series
"Chew" (Image)
As is the case with cooking, comic books require the right blend of ingredients in order to fully flourish. Thankfully, that's exactly what John Layman and Rob Guillory's "Chew" specializes in. The series focuses on Tony Chu, an Fda agent who solves crimes by gleaning psychic impressions from anything he eats. Readers embraced the book's food-centric premise by sending "Chew" back into the kitchen for multiple sell-outs and reprints. If the new year brings a similar level of quality,...
- 12/15/2009
- by Splash Page Team
- MTV Splash Page
It’s been two straight weekends of conventions, folks — and the season’s only getting started. This weekend, a crowd of comic creators, publishers and fans arrived in town for the annual MoCCA Festival, and while there wasn’t nearly as many movie- and television-related projects to speak of in comparison with Book Expo America, that doesn’t mean the two-day event was bereft of pleasant surprises.
By far, the biggest news to come out of the event arrived via a short conversation I had with Top Shelf Productions publisher Chris Staros, who told me that “Synecdoche, New York” producer Anthony Bregman had picked up the adaptation rights to Alex Robinson’s graphic novel “Too Cool To Be Forgotten.” Much like last weekend’s Bea, however, I ended up bringing home a pile of books from MoCCA — and decided to post a picture of some of the highlights here, along...
By far, the biggest news to come out of the event arrived via a short conversation I had with Top Shelf Productions publisher Chris Staros, who told me that “Synecdoche, New York” producer Anthony Bregman had picked up the adaptation rights to Alex Robinson’s graphic novel “Too Cool To Be Forgotten.” Much like last weekend’s Bea, however, I ended up bringing home a pile of books from MoCCA — and decided to post a picture of some of the highlights here, along...
- 6/8/2009
- by Rick Marshall
- MTV Splash Page
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