Sentences with phrase «from old comic books»

McFadden's Flats is part of an ongoing project in which the artist uses visual excerpts from old comic books, sketches, her own doodle approximations and mark - making, as well as...

Not exact matches

It makes photos look like they came from old newspapers and comic books.

It's a roomful of an eclectic array of collectibles, including: maps from old atlases (many dating... sell comic books at conventions and eventually sold all of his...

Shows like those lean more toward seriousness and away from the colorfully ridiculous old comic books.

Bursting with the same charismatic, comic book energy that skyrockets through most of his movies, old crime reporter, novelist, war hero, writer - director and sometime producer Samuel Fuller, almost 69, still moves and talks like his daffy action flicks — like the wild man from Borneo — in quick, short, blocky punches, like two - fisted slabs of socko headline type.»

by Walter Chaw The same between American Splendor and Ghost World is that both have middle - aged outcasts as protagonists who each collect old blues 78's, that both were adapted from comic books, and that there's a bus stop in Cleveland.

Beltrami joins The Fantastic Four with a long list of action film credentials, from the recent Snowpiercer and World War Z to older comic book films such as Hellboy, Blade II and The Wolverine.

With the game's story mode behind me I'm basking in the comic book nerd afterglow, rushing from open world area to open world area, madly hunting for old friends to add to my roster.

In chronological order, it covers the design and evolution of Batman's vehicle in the DC comic books, the early film serials, the 1960s TV show, the cartoons, and all eight movies, with input from various individuals of importance, including Christopher Nolan, Joel Schumacher, Adam West, the TV Batmobile's customizer George Barris, Tim Burton (in seemingly old footage), Batman historians, crew members, stuntmen, comic book artists, Comic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff Ducomic books, the early film serials, the 1960s TV show, the cartoons, and all eight movies, with input from various individuals of importance, including Christopher Nolan, Joel Schumacher, Adam West, the TV Batmobile's customizer George Barris, Tim Burton (in seemingly old footage), Batman historians, crew members, stuntmen, comic book artists, Comic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff Ducomic book artists, Comic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff DuComic - Con attendees, and ventriloquist / Batmobile owner Jeff Dunham.

Loosely adapted from a little - known comic book series, which itself was based on old UFO folklore, Men in Black had sci - fi legend Steven Spielberg producing at the height of his prowess (while simultaneously directing the summer's second - biggest film, The Lost World: Jurassic Park).

And there we have Captain America: The Winter Soldier, a perfectly creditable comic - book adventure that likewise feels naggingly rote, stitched together from a mess of old plot parts.

Older comic fans should consider Québécois comic - book artist Guy Delisle, who has published a series of superb travel - based books, including his latest, Jerusalem: Chronicles from the Holy City.

It is revealing, however, to learn what things Robbins lists as having influenced the writing of Fierce Invalids: «This book was inspired by an entry from Bruce Chatwin's journal, by a CIA agent I met in Southeast Asia, by the mystery surrounding the lost prophecy of the Virgin of Fatima, by the increasing evidence that the interplay of opposites is the engine that runs the universe, and by embroidered memories of old Terry and the Pirates comic books.»

Digital distribution do get new readers, readers like me from south america who doesn't have a comic book shop nearby, trusting only boutiques to bring weeks old Spider - Man singles at roughly $ 15, for us in the far corners of the world is actually the birth of a culture, one of buying comics instead of downloading scans

Brian Michael Bendis has demonstrated that his influences come more from cinema than old - school comic books.

The VIZ Media 2014 Free Comic Book Day VIZ Signature manga sampler is aimed at older teen and adult readers and will offer excerpts from the new ALL YOU NEED IS KILL official graphic novel adaptation and the forthcoming manga series, TERRA FORMARS.

She acquired a love of sci - fi, fantasy, and comic books from her dad, who thought the Hobbit was a perfectly acceptable bedtime story for a ten - year - old.

I would also have to agree with the former comment posted by Easton, I think you need to take some inspiration from the original storylines from the old games and comic books.

Without knowing the history, the game looked like it was pulled from a 10 - year old's imagination and put together with terrible dialogue and brutish warmongering driving the comic book - like story.

THE DRAWING CENTER «Exploratory Works: Drawings From the Department of Tropical Research Field Expeditions» sets the scene with old magazine articles and comic books; imaginative field - station re-creations by Mark Dion; a few tagged animal corpses as neat and compact as folding umbrellas; and a palmetto fan taken undersea in his bathysphere by the celebrity scientist William Beebe (1877 - 1962), whose field work is the subject of this exhibition.

By shifting direction, I mean going from abstracted figuration to overt figuration, or returning to an old form to make a new painting, or even rummaging through historical imagery from the ancient world to the modern and from high art to commercial art and comic books to get his themes.

Robert Crumb gives a press conference on September 28, 2009 at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris to launch «Book of Genesis» (La Genese), a comic adaptation from the first book of the Old Testament (Photo credit should read PIERRE VERDY / AFP / Getty ImaBook of Genesis» (La Genese), a comic adaptation from the first book of the Old Testament (Photo credit should read PIERRE VERDY / AFP / Getty Imabook of the Old Testament (Photo credit should read PIERRE VERDY / AFP / Getty Images)

«Following from his interest in superheroes and comic book narratives, Meggs delves deeper into the subject of fantasy to explore characters and stories from older mythological tales through the morals, dualities and emotions that these superhuman characters represent.