Archive for January, 2007
Drink and Draw
January 31st, 2007 | Author: Craig
Artists, for the most part, live solitary lives. They usually work alone, spending long hours at the drawing board. In an effort to combat this isolation, Dave Johnson, Jeff Johnson and Dan Panosian formed the Drink & Draw Social Club. Once a week these talented artists would get together to eat, drink, draw and socialize. The idea was such a great one that more and more artists began to join in. Soon talents like Andy MacDonald, Josh Middleton, Jim Mahfood, Lesean Thomas, Kat Von D and others began to swing by for some drawin’ and jawin’.
The idea was such a natural that similar groups began to spring up around the country. Heck, even “Big” John Beatty started his “Sketch Society” last year wrapped around the same concept.
Can you imagine how cool it would be to hang out in a relaxed atmosphere with these talented artists as they drew stuff that THEY wanted to see? Well, you might not be able to hang out with these talented cats, but you can see some of the cool art that their Drink and Draw sessions produced! The Drink and Draw Social Club Volume 1 is now available. Featuring over 100 pages chock full of art, it is a bargain at the cover price of $24.99, but click HERE and you can get it for over 30% off! My order is in!
So what are you waiting for? Get ta clickin’!
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Nobody Lasts an Hour
January 28th, 2007 | Author: Craig
300: The Art of the Film
January 24th, 2007 | Author: Craig
I received my Art of 300 book today and it’s a beaut!
With 300: The Art of the Film you get to go behind the scenes and see how director Zack Snyder (Dawn of the Dead) translates Frank Miller’s award-winning graphic novel to the big screen. The book includes more than 100 pages of production photos, concept art, and much, much more. What makes the deal even sweeter is that if you order using the link provided you can save over 33%!
Now if the movie’s release date would only get here!
300: The Art of the Film rates an “A”
National Gorilla Suit Day
January 22nd, 2007 | Author: Craig
Mark Evanier writes one of the most entertaining blogs around… so when he asks that we support National Gorilla Suit Day, how can we refuse?
So quit monkeying around and get your suit!
Til Death Gets New Life
January 21st, 2007 | Author: Craig
Are any of you watching Til Death? If the ratings are any indication, probably not, but I’m suggesting that you give it a try.
A "300" Tidbit
January 21st, 2007 | Author: Craig
Here’s a “300″ tidbit for you diehard fans courtesy of Comicbookresources.com. It’s a short interview with actor Rodrigo Santoro, who plays the Presian King Xerxes, leader of the army attempting to conquer the world. Raise the Dead
January 19th, 2007 | Author: Craig
Raise the Dead is a new comic book that I think will appeal to most ZONErs. The story follows a “disparate group of seven people forced to cooperate with each other in order to survive” a zombie infestation. Yeah, not an original idea, but one that works. I know how much we all enjoy “The Walking Dead,” “Dawn of the Dead,” “Night of the Living Dead,” “World War Z,” “28 days later” -
- Hey! How did that last one get in there? It’s not technically a zombie story??
Muhammad Ali: Still the Greatest
January 17th, 2007 | Author: Craig
Today is Muhammad Ali’s 65th birthday. It’s hard to believe that the champ is 65. It’s harder still to believe that Parkinson’s disease has been able to rob Ali of much of his health for many of these years.
4 Hours Down 20 to Go
January 16th, 2007 | Author: Craig
If you haven’t watched the first four hours of 24, you may want to skip this post since there will be spoilers. Just in case though I’ll “hide” them using invisotext. [If you want to know what's said simply scroll over the areas where the text is hidden.]
Books - Best of 2006
January 15th, 2007 | Author: Craig
5. Already Dead by Charlie Huston. Modern day vampire clans are at war and Joe Pitt has a missing girl to find. Huston’s next Joe Pitt novel, No Dominion, is available now.
4. Persuader by Lee Child. I’m coming to this series late in the game, but that doesn’t make me like it any less. Child has a winner with his Jack Reacher novels. In this outing, Reacher is working undercover with the FBI to catch an international gun-runner.
3. The Road by Cormac McCarthy. A father and young son journey south through a bleak post-apocalyptic world. Food is scarce and only what they can scavenge. They must make the journey to escape the brutal winter that is almost upon them. If they don’t starve odds are one of the roaming bands of cannibals will find them. Still they press on.
2. World War Z by Max Brooks. A haunting book that Chad Hunt also recommends!
1. Stealing Home / Six Bad Things / A Dangerous Man by Charlie Huston. Yeah, he’s the same Charlie Huston that wrote Already Dead. In this trilogy we meet Hank Thompson. When we first meet Hank he’s ten years out of high school and working as a bartender in New York City. Had it not been for a badly broken leg, he would have been a big league baseball player. Now he’s the nice guy who drinks too much and lacks real ambition. That is until the night two strangers yank him over the bar and beat him nearly to death. When he gets out of the hospital he gets more visitors and another beating. Soon he’s on the run from crooked cops, mobsters and hit men. If he lives maybe he’ll get a piece of the millions of dollars that they believe he has. Six Bad Things and A Dangerous Man complete Hank’s story. I loved every page and wish that it didn’t have to end.
