On Wednesday Erik Larsen, the creator of Savage Dragon and co-founder of Image Comics, began
a conversation about the comics industry with a series of four tweets.
Not exact matches
Better were ringmaster black coats, more utilitarian black wool coats with white blanket stitching and lovely sepia photo prints of wild animals on silk dresses: they were still
conversation starters but with less of the
comic about them.
King will be joined by Gotham recurring guest star J.W. Cortes (a 13 - year Marine combat veteran and a police officer with New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority), additional
comic book writer / artists and thought leaders for a candid
conversation about the lasting effects of battlefield trauma.
(remix) music video by Danger Mouse and Jemini; deleted scenes and alternative takes, five in total, including an alternative ending (9 min) with a less subtle
conversation between Richard and Mark, but a haunting final image of Richard with Anthony; images from Anjan Sarkars graphic novel animation matched to actual dialogue from the films soundtrack (the scene where Herbie first sees the elephant); In Shanes Shoes (24 min) documentary featuring the premiere at the 2004 Edinburgh Film Festival, interviews with Shane Meadows
about run - ins with violent gangs in his youth, and on - location clowning; Northern Soul (26 min) also made by Meadows in 2004, and starring Toby Kebbell as an aspiring wrestler with no actual wrestling experience or talent - this
comic short is as amateurish as its protagonist, and serves only to show how much better Dead Mans Shoes is.
Here, his
comic gifts are hidden in all but one funny
conversation about erections and whorehouses.
There is
comic violence and peril, but no one gets hurt, and there are
conversations about death and divorce of parents and
about poor parenting.
Accordingly, 13
Conversations About One Thing reaches a
comic and emotional high in the examination of Arkin's little office tyrant and his pathological jealousy of the one man under his employ (William Wise) with an optimistic worldview.
One of the great
comic book movies ever made and arguably the best one involving any of the X-Men (although X2: X-Men United deserves to be in the
conversation), Hugh Jackman's final go as Wolverine is a surprisingly simple, straight - forward modern Western
about heroism, aging, friendship and family that strikes quite the emotional chord.
In our lead article we look at a
conversation at the London Book Fair
about the future of
comic books in the digital age.
There are super-friendly employees who will help you find exactly what you're looking for, or will strike up a
conversation about the latest
comic movie.
Top of the news pile is an upcoming event — on Wednesday 18th April I'll be speaking
about digital
comics at the British Library as part of their «Digital
Conversation» series.
I had this same sort of
conversation about digital
comics, where people believe that the cost of producing the actual object the work is on is vastly more expensive than it is.
I remember having a
conversation at a party
about how to talk to people
about the
comic you're reading and making when they have no idea
about comics outside of superheros and funny animals.
But I am kind of curious
about... I don't know whether I'll ever get around to doing this, maybe doing a
comic where one character speaks in audio and the other character's speech is in speech bubbles and they're having some kind of
conversation.
Rather than assuming players will know everything
about the world already, HIVESWAP: ACT 1 uses
conversations between characters, internal monologuing and its environments to recontextualise what readers of the
comic already know for those who don't in a manner that remains just as engaging and interesting to seasoned readers.
Jake Chapman not only be taking part in a debate discussing morality as a form of convention that threatens creativity, but also in
conversation with Paradise Row founder Nick Hackworth, speaking
about the inspirations behind such seminal works as Insult to Injury and Death, and articulating the rationale for his darkly
comic, pessimistic philosophy.
At 7:00 pm join Jaime Hernandez of famed
comic book series Love & Rockets and Bay Area artist Rio Yañez for an engaging
conversation about their work.
Of course, since this is Vox, you still have the option to get your political fix; VanDerWerff's
conversation with Ezra Klein (that guy is everywhere) ranges from running a media website to Klein's favorite superhero
comic books, and the cast of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee talks
about being the new standard bearer for late night political comedy.