Digital comics: Nemesis or sidekick to comic book culture?
Some say the animation and sound effects threaten the aesthetic foundation and could wipe out comic shops. Others say the medium is bringing badly needed new readers and innovation.
Chris Rosa manages Meltdown Comics in Hollywood. New readers who become interested in digital comic books might eventually want to collect paper issues, but “the jury is still out on that one,” Rosa said. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times / July 21, 2010)
It’s a book! It’s a cartoon! It’s … digital comics!
Technology, which has already upended the music, television and movie businesses, is now gripping the comic book world. Publishers are unleashing a torrent of digital comic books across smart phones, tablet devices, game consoles and digital book readers, portending major changes in how comics are made and marketed.
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FoxTrot uses the geekiest of comic book humor to rake the iPad and its lack of flash over the coals. Funny because it’s true! Pretty brilliant Sunday strip, Mr. Amend, just be wary of visitors from Cupertino. [Foxtrot]
FOUND HERE: FoxTrot Discovers One Comic That Just Won’t Work On the iPad – ipad – Gizmodo.
Toss out those old opinions and put on a new perspective as Caleb leads the charge by dropping the bombshell of Siege #2 being his favorite book of the week. In the fallout, the boys discuss Marvel’s hot book of the week at length, and also meander around FANTASTIC FOUR by Hickman and Eaglesham, SMILE written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier, briefly touch on GHOST RIDERS, SCALPED, and finally wrap up our Spidey discussion (or do we?)
In the second segment, rumors fly as we (hopefully) crush the notion that anything good can come out of WATCHMEN 2 ever being made. Ever.
It’s Good to be The King
by Stacey Levin
In Marvel’s “N,” which is based on SK’s short story and written by the talented film and television writer Marc Guggenheim, The King tells a chilling tale about living in a personal
hell of paranoia and obsession when his lead character descends into the dark world of mental illness. A lead character with a mental illness is not new territory for S.K. Some of his most famous creations were really just batsh*t crazy folks. (Hello, Annie Wilkes! How ya doin’, Jack Torrance?) But what’s different about Dr. John Bousaint in “N” is that he starts out sane. Actually, he’s a psychiatrist who is literally driven crazy by the mysterious circumstances that surround the death of one his patients known only as Patient N. Patient N committed suicide – pushed to the ultimate limit by hanging out at an odd geological formation of rocks in a barren field. Wait, what? The rocks made him kill himself? No, that can’t be and it sounds illogical. Well, that’s what the good Doc thought, too, until he went to investigate the place and soon found himself catching the same kind of madness that Patient N suffered from. So you’d think people would stay away from the weird rocks, right? Not in a horror comic, peeps. That’s just the beginning. From there, The King’s story and Guggenheim’s expert scripting literally describe every pain staking moment of what it must be like to slowly go insane… to know it’s happening to you, but be helpless to stop it. I can’t think of too many things more frightening than that. Artfully drawn by the accomplished artist Alex Maleev, the imagery in “N” makes you feel as if you too might be catch the insanity if you read too much. Effing brilliant.
With Vertigo’s “American Vampire,” The King takes on the overused area of vampiressszzzzzzz. Continue reading »