Category: Comics

Comics

Watchmen Movie

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date December 04, 2007

There’s a blog for the Watchmen Movie; so far they’ve posted some impressive production shots (click the images to see them full-size) and casting details, which are better viewed on IMDB, with faces and past credits (I actually plugged in a couple of names manually before realizing I should just look up the movie). Those are helpful as most of the actors aren’t stars (because this isn’t some fantasy cast, this is for real). The actors playing Nite-Owl and Rorschach both appeared in Little Children.

Tags alan+moore, dave+gibbons, take my name off it and give all my money to the artist, watchmen

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Goddamn Userpic

Boojie has complained, justifiably, that the more current images I’ve started to use as my user pic in livejournal (instead of the old one) are a bit scary.

Sadly, I think the problem stems more from my haggard old face of recent years than from my poor arm-distance photography.

To get a cuddly-looking image, I had to go back a bit, and because the material demanded it, I made a Frank Miller tribute:

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Comics vs Animation vs Festival

Post author By Dotan Dimet
Post date August 26, 2007

The Israeli Animation, Comics and Caricature festival starts today. It runs Saturday to Tuesday, 25th-28th of August. My brother and his wife’s short animated film, JRA is showing as part of the אסיף 2007 segment.

Looking for info using Google, I found a lot of talk about “the Comics and animation festival”, but only when you look for “animation and comics festival” do you find useful links to the site with the full program. It looks to me like there are two (or more) worlds here, the organizers with the strong ties to the Cinematheque being animation-establishment folk, and the younger indie, anarchist, zine-making comics guys in their big tent who have the cool blog cred. And you also have people like Okay who represent comics fans and people who like actual commercial comics. Clearly these crowds aren’t talking about the same event, but it would help if they at least called the Con using the same name, like the way roleplayers, Trekkers, Sci-Fi folk, Rocky freaks, Buffy fans, etc. all know that ICON is the same con.

Maybe this con actually has a name (rather than the blah blah and blah festival) – the anemic “AniCom”. It would help if anyone used it.

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