Category: Comics

“Sin City: A Dame to Kill For” Gets a New Character Poster

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Robert Rodriguez tweeted this sweet character poster of Frank Miller for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.

Miller is, of course, the creator/writer/artist of the original Sin City yarns and co-director with Robert Rodriguez of the two Sin City movies.

I think it’s cool that Miller received his own poster for Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.  Outside of Hitchcock, I can’t think of many other directors who weren’t also acting in the films represented to get the honor.

Mike Torrance and Robert Rath

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Mike Torrance aka The Krayola Kidd is back and he’s brought Sly as Robert Rath from Assassins with him!  Over the coming weeks/months I’ll be posting more of Mike’s sketch card commissions.  My goal is to eventually get a card for every character Sly has played.  We’re well on our way!

You can see more of Mike’s art at his Deviant Art site. Mike is available for commissions and his prices are very reasonable.

 

Jason Aaron & Ron Garney: Men of Wrath

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I’m a huge fan of crime stories.

If the yarn’s a good one I don’t care if the medium is a novel, a comic book, a movie or television.  Men of Wrath, the five issue crime comic mini-series by Jason Aaron and Ron Garney looks like it will be a good ‘un.

Men of Wrath follows a hitman named Ira Wrath and as Jason Aaron lays it out…

He’s a bad guy. He’s an older guy who’s reaching the end of his life, which consists pretty much of killing people for money and living alone in an empty house which doesn’t have much furniture. For him it’s clearly not about the money. There’s something else going on.

“Men of Wrath” is about a family history. So each issue opens with flashbacks to different generations of the Rath family. We kind of start to see how the cycle of violence begins and gets perpetuated and passed down from generation to generation of this family and kind of culminates in Ira as the worst of the bunch.


So it’s pretty clear from his opening scene, which kind of punches of you in the face and tells you that he is not a nice man. It’s a story of how this cycle of violence has led to this one sad and very scary man.

Dave Richards at CBR.com conducted an excellent interview with Jason Aaron and Ron Garney about Men of Wrath.  One word of caution before you click over – Aaron warns us that Wrath is not a nice man and in the opening sequence does something that punches the reader in the face — I felt clobbered.  This is not a comic for kids or some adults but if you like crime comics, you’ll probably look forward to the ride.

Sherwood Texas: a “Biker Epic… Through a Quentin Tarantino Lens.”

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If Sherwood Texas isn’t on your comic pull list, it should be.

Created by writer Shane Berryhill with art by Daniel Hilyard and characters designed by Andrew Robinson,  Sherwood Texas is a modern day retelling of Robin Hood as a “biker epic… through a Quentin Tarantino lens.”

If that’s not enough to get you on board (and it should be) perhaps the one buck price tag for the first issue will get you to take a look.  After that Berryhill’s story and Hilyard’s art should keep you coming back for more.

Still not sold?  Then check out CBR’s interview with Shane Berryhill and Andrew Robinson [and much larger versions of the art above plus more art from the series]!

Next stop… Sherwood Texas.

10 Strange Stories About Frank Sinatra

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Frank Sinatra.

Whether you love Sinatra, hate him or fall somewhere between, you’ve got to admit he lived an interesting life.  Sinatra was a recording star, a movie star, the leader of the Rat Pack, a Vegas headliner, who hung with stars, politicians, and mafiosos.

Did you know that Frank Sinatra was once arrested for “seduction and adultry,” hated Marlon Brando, that his friendship with the Kennedy’s got him in hot water with the mafia, his son was kidnapped and had to loan the kidnappers gas money, or that Frank Sinatra’s friendship with Joe DiMaggio soured when Sinatra introduced (DiMaggio’s wife) Marilyn Monroe to the Kennedy’s… and DiMaggio blamed them for Monroe’s death?

Check out 10 Strange Stories About Frank Sinatra and you’ll learn all the details… and more!

Source: Listverse.

Steranko Shadow Cover Pencil Painting – The One That Got Away!

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Yesterday’s Steranko paperback cover was such a hit that I thought we’d follow up today with one of Steranko’s Shadow covers.

Back in the early 80’s when I was collecting original art, Steranko sold off the detailed pencil drawings he used in creating the Shadow covers. Steranko called them pencil paintings. They were beautiful.

I was still in college and $225 was a ton of money, but I purchased one.  It was the pencil painting to cover #8 shown above.  Sadly, I don’t have a copy of the pencils to share, but looking at the cover, you can imagine Steranko’s beautiful art.

When I was heading into my college senior internship, I decided to sell off my art collection.  I was going to be teaching full time (but with no pay – internship, remember) and the money from the art sale would make things more manageable.

The Steranko piece is one of those that I have missed most over the years.