Sentences with phrase «work into comics»

Kickstarter may help fund and publicize a project, but it won't get the completed work into comics shops or bookstores.

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Before becoming one of the world's best - known comic strip writers and authors, Scott Adams spent more than a decade in the corporate world, moving into management after being held at gunpoint twice while working as a teller.

Her performance, which perfectly displayed the hyperkinetic comic energy and sardonic wit that came to characterize many of the actress» portrayals, won her a «special recognition for acting» at Sundance that year.The year 1998 brought more independent work in the form of The Misadventures of Margaret, a romantic comedy in which Posey had the title role and a foray into mainstream features with a turn as Tom Hanks» book - editor girlfriend in Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail.

Often ignored is the factor that made Raimi's works such a hit (and later Marvel movie Iron Man too)-- the casting of impressive actors to breathe life into the comic book characters.

The polar opposite of Mike Leigh's grimy, naturalistic overviews of contemporary Britain, Topsy - Turvy's Victorian recreation and light comic touch match the flair of the Gilbert and Sullivan focus even as the director digs into some of the underbelly of both the stage and period society, with various insecurities and much darker, half - spoken bindings at work on the men and, especially, women.

Whit Stillman adapting Jane Austen works better than I imagined, seamlessly merging his comic rhythms into the Regency dialogue and story structure of her epistolary novella Lady Susan.

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.

I can, however, safely say that Wright's attempts to mend cinema, video games, and comic books work — it is the first film in which enemies turn into coins when defeated, health bars are displayed, and towering «thuds» invade the screen during fight sequences, and honestly, it was all awe - inspiring.

Wright, who previously directed the Shaun of the Dead trilogy of films along with Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, is working with former collaborator Joe Cornish to adapt the comics originally penned by Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and Larry Lieber into a Marvel origin story in typical super-hero movie fashion.

What keeps the movie from becoming nihilistic are its moments of kindness: Logan caring for an ill Xavier, a family standing up to shelter their guests from the authorities, Laura and her young mutant peers fighting back against their abusers and working together to turn a comic book fantasy into a real community.

Romance isn't exactly something Deadpool has really concerned himself with over his comics career, so it will be interesting (to say the least) to see how they work a romantic story into Deadpool's particular brand of superhero movie.

Pekar literally injects himself into his work, and the film captures that spirit in detail, merging Pekar's reality, with his comic, and of course, this movie.

Its origins, however, were modest: While working on his epochal 2006 eco - horror / giant - monster movie hit The Host (the highest grossing South Korean film to date), Bong happened to wander into his favorite comic book store in Seoul.

Working Auschwitz into this comic - book universe is distasteful, especially when, much later on, the terrorized boy, Erik, who grows up to be Magneto, proclaims «Never Again!»

Many who were disappointed in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice have been hoping that Suicide Squad would help get the DC Comics universe back on the right track, injecting some much needed fun and energy into the comic book work.

But through on - camera interviews with the comic himself — as well as discussions with friends and admirers like James L. Brooks, Jim Carrey, Conan O'Brien, Bob Saget, Jerry Seinfeld, Sarah Silverman, and more — the film tries to trace not only his enormous impact on comedy, but also the man himself and how he evolved through the decades into someone actively working to open himself up to the world and the people around him.

McCarthy started her career as a stand - up comic but quickly found more of her footing as a member of The Groundlings, the sketch - comedy improvisation group in L.A.. There, she worked with the likes of Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph, and as we know, the three found themselves launched into comedic stratosphere with their 2011 massive hit Bridesmaids — but more on that in a minute.

«He seems to be working on becoming a better Batman than Batman even is — not by fighting crime, but by controlling it,» says writer Judd Winick, who adapted his 2005 - 06 comic storyline into the screenplay.

With nearly every major studio now working to turn its own comic book properties into the next big thing, and with Marvel Studios and Warner Bros. plotting out half a decade's worth of material, it's sometimes tough to keep track of what's coming out when, who's in it, and how it fits into the overall picture.

The Wachowskis Indie Work: Andy and Lana (originally Larry) Wachowski started off their career as comic book writers before breaking into movies, penning a script called «Assassins» in 1994 (later heavily rewritten as a Sylvester Stallone vehicle).

Incredibly, the familiar formula of comic relief and well - placed jump scares continues to work in the third installment even though the frights conjured up this time aren't the type to dig into your brain and leave you lying awake horrified late at night.

Zack Snyder, though the movie posters proclaim him a visionary for his work on 300, is only adept at taking how a comic looks and translating it into film, and then upping the depictions of violence to pornographic levels.

This short comic - book - inspired video explains how the work they do helps turn apathetic kids into upstanders.

Pairing selections from his work with a graphic novel or comic can provide interesting discussion and inquiry into the elements of the genre itself.

Think of the language and speaking skills they develop as they work together to put words and sentences into the mouths of the comic characters.

The strong smells that made their way into the make shift domicile made the Lockheed R&D workers think of the foul - smelling «Skunk Works» factory in Al Capp's Li» l Abner comic strip.

Her mission there was working with artists and writers to shepherd their vision into great comics.

Brandon and I have worked on comics of several different lengths — standard 20 - and 22 - pagers, 10 - pagers, a 140 - page graphic novel, so looking at our overall plot and figuring out how to trim off the fat and boil it down into easily encapsulated 16 - page issues wasn't a huge difficulty.â $ ¨ â $ ¨ «Frost» is drawn by Giovanni Timpano, who posted some test pages for «The Shadow» on his blog.

Ape tends to work with established properties and release comics to tap into its fan bases.

The biggest news, though, is that we're working with a number of major publishers (and important smaller ones) to provide a storefront that contains deluxe digital graphic novels aimed at the «real mainstream,» the audience for graphic novels that reads Maus or Fun Home or Dotter of Her Father's Eyes but would never think of going into a comic shop guarded by a dodgy life - size statue of She - Hulk... We think the immersive «lean back» experience that tablets provide, along with purchase ease - of - use and the ubiquitous availability that app stores provide, can, if handled right, create a sea change in the consumption of graphic novels — and, if we have our way, the whole thing will have absolutely * nothing * to do with superheroes.

I've always been a movie and television fanatic, and I grew up reading comic books and sci - fi and horror novels — those frames and constructions have leached into my work.

«From our part, we're currently working on a version of our syncing software that will reduce the steps required to get comics into ComicZeal.

Adair, who works in brick - and - mortar book retailing, picked six random zip codes and plugged them into Diamond's Comic Shop Locator Service.

Comic strips In the third part of Michael Cavna's series on boundaries on the funny pages, Rina Piccolo (Tina's Groove) and Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine) discuss the constraints they work under and why newspaper comics have descended into blandness.

It works really well on a smart phone or tablet as the comics are designed to move through the individuals panels on a single page sequentially — no need to zoom into each panel manually on a small device, say, even on an iPhone 5.

This is a pretty neat writeup... Ash Brown has the story of Masaichi Mukaide's translated work, credited as «the first Japanese comics to be translated into English».

This program is a discussion of how professional editors from the industry's most prestigious publishers work with authors to make awesome comics and graphic novels as well as what else goes into an editor's job.

Went to the Abuquerque Comic Expo (total attendance 10K or so) today for a couple hours and ran into a local author I've seen before who works really hard promoting his books.

Leaving the Big Two behind, he jumped headfirst into creator - owned work, setting up Memorial with Rich Ellis at IDW Publishing and then last year re-envisioning his boutique prose company Monkeybrain as a forward - thinking digital comics publisher, with another new series, Edison Rex, leading the charge.

Comic creators Bryan Lee O'Malley, Leslie Hung, Ron Wimberly, Kyle Higgins, Alec Siegel and Steven T. Seagle offer insight into their upcoming works from Image Comics.

As luck would have it, I'd been breaking my script up into 20 - page chapters, so my written structure worked perfectly for individual, downloadable comics.

I know Karen Berger at Vertigo has a degree in art history, but how did your particular college degree translate into comics work?

If a work has text components, or is completely textual in nature, but that content is burned into an image format, the access mode is visual (e.g., character dialogue in a JPEG page of a comic or a scan of a document).

Together they have faithfully adapted notable works by Lewis Carroll (The Complete Alice, 2010), H. P. Lovecraft (The Shadow Over Innsmouth, 2012), Bram Stoker (The Complete Dracula, 2009), and M. R. James (Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Vol 1, 2016) into comics and graphic novels.

If you want to see some of my work, check out this very site; shonen jump plus and medibang, I entered my very first completed comic / manga into the competition last night, it's called «Soldier 3.0».

He has happily incorporated them all into the new work, making life a little challenging for the artist on the comic, Colleen Doran.

Not only do the fans get their hands on dozens of free comics from their favourite publishers, but the people who put so much work into getting those comics into your hands get the chance to see their work reach a much wider -LSB-...]

DMG: I think the idea of dialogue is really interesting, because there is no voice work in The Empty Kingdom and my gut feeling is, once you start putting spoken audio into a comic, it's too time based, and it will take you too away from the comic from.

Dark Horse's anthology series Dark Horse Presents has been through a number of incarnations at this point: First as a print comic that ran from 1986 to 2000 and premiered some of the most outstanding work around; then as a digital comic at MySpace (yes, it's still there) that ran online for free and was collected into trade paperbacks.

It's here where the game gets its moniker: this isn't an origin story for Batman, it's an origin story for the strange, twisted and dark connection between the vigilante and his greatest adversary To my delight Batman: Arkham Origins takes the time the time to delve into psychology of the Joker and his strange fascination with the Batman, treading dangerously into hallowed ground that many a comic book has explored, but doing so with an expert touch that quietly ensures that it can stand proudly alongside the best comic works that have tacked the very same subject.