Sentences with phrase «make modern comics»

gimmicks like this are the last ditch attempts to make modern comics collectible again, but fail.

Not exact matches

Another modern «comic» who rather than making clever and funny jokes spends their time taking mean spirited shots at other people.

Formalist technics can be worked seamlessly into modern films, like the comic book qualities of Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World, or they can be sloppy, like every time a current Top 40 hit makes its way into the soundtrack of a period piece.

And while Anderson plays with the conventions of young love, runaway adventure, and family comic - drama with a knowing, modern sensibility, he never makes fun of it.

The central mystery of Winter Soldier's identity would be known to any modern Marvel comic fan worth his or her salt, so the writers make the smart decision to make that conflict more of a B plot in the overall tapestry of the proceedings.

Cold - shouldered by the Academy for most of his career, Chaplin got two honorary awards, one at the start of his career (in 1929) and another at the end (in 1972, for «the incalculable effect he has had in making motion pictures the art form of this century»), but nothing specifically for the great achievements — the towering comic masterpieces City Lights, Modern Times and The Great Dictator.

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.

This reboot of classic Archie comics taps into everything that made the original so charming, but its modern look and earnest sensibility give it exceptionally fresh, bracing new life.

The most famous modern comic book writer in the world, Alan Moore, is leading a research and development project to create an app enabling digital comics to be made by anyone.

This sort of optimism is sadly rare in modern comics and it's one of the things that makes this series so enjoyable.

2007 Jones, Kristin M., Rivane Neuenschwander, Frieze, Issue 104, January - February Comic Abstraction: Image - Breaking, Image - Making, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, catalogue cover, pp. 25 - 26, 96 - 101 Sheets, Hilarie M., Waves of Light, ArtNews, March Kunitz, Daniel, Blossoms, Bubbles & Beauty, The New York Sun, 29 March, p. 21

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.

Influenced by Dada and Surrealism, Pop artists sought to distance themselves from the high - brow nature of Abstract Expressionism by using instantly recognizable recognized imagery (Hamburgers, Comic Strip Characters, Cigarette Butts, Cars, Baseball Glove), as well as modern printmaking technology like screen printing - all making a humorous dig at the consumerist American society.