Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Frank Miller is a legend. Daredevil. The Dark Knight Returns. Batman: Year One. Ronin. Sin City.
Recently DC Comics had Miller present a special master class on creating comics for their under contract artists. Josh Yehl from IGN was there and gives us a taste of how cool it must have been in Crashing Frank Miller’s Private DC Master Class.
Hannah Means-Shannon and Bleeding Cool have a nice little interview with writer Frank Barbiere as well as a preview of Violent Love by Barbiere and Victor Santos.
Peter Simeti is a writer, artist and publisher. Peter is the founder of Alterna Comics as well as the writer of The Chair.
Peter is active on Twitter and one night I saw he was offering 5 minute sketch cards. I jumped on board for a couple. Jack Carter was the first and Rambo was the second. My guess is the future will hold more.
Anthony Neil Smith is the subject of an interview by Dave Wahlman at CrimeSpree Magazine. Before you click over know that adult language is used. If that doesn’t offend you, then check out ANS’ Billy Lafitte novels. Surely there’s something in them that will.
As for me, I can’t wait for the next one.
The Monkees, Head, and the 60s by Peter Mills will be released later this month.
It’s cool that The Monkees dismissed as the “pre-fab four” is not only still making popular music 50 years later, but have outsold and out-lasted almost every other of their contemporaries.
Yakuza Demon Killers by Amit Chauhan and Eli Powell might be worth a look. I like Powell’s art and who doesn’t like the idea of Yakuza Demon Killers?
Although I’m not a huge fan of The Shadow, I love Dan Brereton‘s take shown above. You can see a larger version and more of Dan’s art here.
If you’re a fan of fanzines, then you’ve got to check out Ken Meyer, Jr.’s monthly column Ink Stains. Each month Ken (who is an amazing artist) posts… well, let’s let Ken explain…
I have a collection of over 200 fanzines from the 60’s-80’s that I plan to scan and talk about, one at a time. I hope to have some of the participants answer a few questions. Many of those participants are established comics professionals now, while some have gone on to other things. I will show a few snippets from each zine and give you a link to download a pdf of the whole thing, which I hope all of you will do!
For Ink Stains 2, Ken took a look at Squa Tront #2 from September 1968 published by Jerry Weist. The issue featured an Al Williamson cover and sketch portfolio, a profile of Berni Wrightson (in 1968!), an article about and art by Frank Frazetta, science fiction covers and more.
All, the glory days of fanzines. Thanks to Ken Meyer, Jr. for making these available!
Way back in 2001, Bruce and Martha Karsh bought the rights to behind-the-scenes images from the making of The Beatles first film, A Hard Day’s Night.
Those photos became the basis of The Beatles: A Hard Day’s Night: A Private Archive.
If you’d like a sneak peak, Buzzfeed has 10 Revealing Images of The Beatles Filming A Hard Day’s Night.
The Get Out trailer is here and it looks creepy! (Getting caught up on trailers we missed because of Hurricane Matthew.)
The Take trailer is here and it looks good. Originally titled Bastille Day for overseas release, I don’t care what it’s called on the U.S. release as long as it gets released. (Getting caught up on trailers we missed because of Hurricane Matthew.)
The Iron Fist trailer is here and it looks better than anticipated! (Getting caught up on trailers we missed because of Hurricane Matthew.)
The Sleepless trailer is here and it looks good! (Getting caught up on trailers we missed because of Hurricane Matthew.)
The latest Allied trailer is here!
Hurricane Matthew hit the Volusia County coast of central Florida as a level three hurricane and thankfully not a level 4 as had been predicted. Everyone I know received some house, yard or car damage. I was lucky in that our damage was minor. Some of our soffits came down and some limbs came off our backyard tree. The soffits are up and the limbs removed.
My son, Mike lost a tree and shingles on his roof. The tree is being removed and the shingles can be replaced. My mom’s house lost some shingles. My buddy, John Beatty had a hole punched in his roof, and more.
Thankfully no one I know was injured by the storm.
If you read my earlier post about Hurricane Matthew coming, you know my son Mike (and daughter-in-law, Erin) and son Chris worked a Hurricane Shelter. I ended up being called in to work a shelter as well. Two days in a shelter isn’t fun for anyone, but it is nice knowing that we were able to provide refuge to people in need.
Power is back on (in most places) and clean-up and repair is underway (in most places). School for students and teachers will resume on Wednesday (at least it looks that way at this point).
Thanks to everyone who asked about things and for sending out positive thoughts and prayers.
We now return to our usual nonsense.
