Archive for June, 2009
So I was at the library the other day, helping Hanna to find some books on tree house and playhouse design, when I just happened to see the book Art of Modern Rock: Mini # 1 A-Z
I suppose it’s my comic book pedigree, but I found myself attracted most to the posters featuring a clean line illustration style. You know, folks like Coop:
and R.Black:
Now admittedly, both of them rely on a very limited set of subjects and compositions, but they do that whole good girl/devil girl genre so well.
A new discovery for me was Scrojo, who has a much broader range and serious design chops:
I especially dig that Chrissie Hynde image.
Here are a few other works I liked, from artists with a wide body of work:
Emek:
And while not a huge Derek Hess fan (I know, I know, blasphemy!) I did like a few of his posters:
And finally, I’d like to give a shout out to a couple of local and regional guys who, while not world famous yet, are well on their way:
Cleveland indie/punk zine king and friend of the ferret, John G:
And Columbus boy Clint Reno:
So who are some of your favorite rock poster artists?
“It was just a movie,” said Hussein Gharibi, a 54-year-old juice vendor, scoffing at those who got their hopes up. “They were all just players in a movie.”
Incumbent hardliner president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has “won” re-election with a supposed 62% of the popular vote.
What a sham.
Sorry for the skip week last weekend. But we’re back with another episode of Weekend Versus, and to make up for the oversight, we’re presenting a double dose of Dracula.
First up: X-Men vs. Dracula.
While the cover may be from fellow Columbusite Chris Sprouse, the book is actually a reprint of the 1982 X-Men Annual #6. According to the Grand Comics Database, the plot is as follows: “Dracula demands Storm’s aid in obtaining the Darkhold so no one else will have the power to banish him, but a dark and sinister Kitty intervenes.”
Next, Marvel dishes it out with Spider-man vs. Dracula
The Joe Madureira cover may be new, but the book is yet another reprint, this time of 1974′s Giant-Size Spider-Man #1, plus additional stories from Astonishing and Uncanny Tales.
UVN: Behind the Counter has posted up a few interviews from the SPACE show from a couple of months ago. They’ve shot an exhaustive amount of footage the entire weekend. Embedded above is the interview with me. Turned out good.
I’ve been working on retooling the SPACE website with Bob. We’re close to rolling it out. There’s still some bugs to nail down but it’s coming along nicely. I’m finding my kung-fu in CSS and PHP coding to be weak to non-existant. It’s a challenge. A preview of it is up on my site for now. Ideally I wanted to have up a blog on the front page. Work in progress. Lot of place holders for now. The middle column is where the posting is supposed to happen.
“In a surprisingly under-reported story from 2007, Mark Holley, a professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan University College, discovered a series of stones – some of them arranged in a circle and one of which seemed to show carvings of a mastodon – 40-feet beneath the surface waters of Lake Michigan.”
I call dibs on using this in a story.
Inside Science is reporting that massive, killer red Mexican squid are moving up the American coast.
Although they normally stay in Mexican waters, scientists are finding fish and dolphins scarred by their attacks as far as Alaska. They speculate global warming is extending their traditional range up into American waters. Others suspect overconsumption of fish that prey on the squid is to blame.
“When you bring one up on deck, it looks like an alien … their suckers have little barbules that scratch you, like pulling out of a berry patch,” says Tom Mattusch, a fisherman from Northern California who calls the animal by its common name, the flying jumbo squid.
In Mexico, they’re known as “El Diablo Rojo,” or the “Red Devil.”
(I nearly threw a cthulu spin on this item, but decided against it)
Marvel’s list of the top 100 cover from their 70-year history has so far surprised me; while there are far too many images from recent years to be believed, there actually is a good variety of older covers represented. I’m puzzled as to how the voting could vary so much between the two polls, but not so much I’m losing sleep over it… Though I will say that #64 left me shaking my head.
Sadly, I expect my own favorite cover won’t even have been considered because of its nature as a licensed property. Check it out:
With the impending speech by President Obama addressing the “Muslim World”, I thought it was a good time to address this ugly rumor once and for all:
An entry for the Joker on some web sites “Top 100 villains ever” list identifies “Batman: R.I.P.” as one of the “greatest Batman stories ever created”.
http://comics.ign.com/top-100-villains/2.html
Once again, I stand corrected regarding my views of the powerful, instant classics that are being published today. Why didn’t you guys tell me?