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2013: Best Stuff
Pop culture's not sport, so these aren't in order (and some of them are probably in the "consumed this year" category).
MUSIC
Phosphorescent - Muchacho; White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade; The Cave Singers - Naomi; Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Dream; Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
TV
Utopia; Breaking Bad (S5); Eastbound & Down (S4); Boardwalk Empire (S4); The Returned; The Fall; Arrow (S2); Orange Is The New Black; House Of Cards; The Walking Dead (S3); Game Of Thrones (S3); Top Of The Lake; Girls; Hannibal
FILM
Upstream Color, Computer Chess, Gravity, Robot & Frank; Margin Call; Sound Of My Voice; Another Earth; Django Unchained; Zero Dark Thirty
BOOKS & COMICS
The Kills - Richard House; Nemo: Heart Of Ice - Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill
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10th Dec 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
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12th Nov 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: X-Men Days of Future Past
The X-men get into flares and kipper ties for next summer's time-travelling mash-up. The always epic Thin Red Line score gives the trailer some gravitas.
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29th Oct 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Captain America - The Winter Soldier
More comic book nonsense from Marvel. Looks fine, but surely they're going to run out of steam sometime...
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24th Oct 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
This Charming Charlie
Of course: Peanuts x The Smiths (via @popbitch)
22nd Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Elmore Leonard
Legendary author Elmore Leonard has died, aged 87. As well as being an author, Leonard has penned many film scripts all the way back to the 50s - including Joe Kidd and Mr. Majestyck. He saw a bit of a revival in the 90s with movies like Out of Sight, Jackie Brown and Get Shorty being made from his material. Recently he's seen a lot of success as the creator of Justified's leading character - Raylan Givens.
Do yourself a favour and read a copy of Tishomingo Blues.
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20th Aug 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP: Carmine Infantino (1925-2013)
Good obit over on @AICN for the DC comics artist.
“There are few people in this world that have had as much of an impact on the industry as Carmine,” added DC Entertainment Co-Publisher Dan DiDio. “He bridged both the Golden and Silver Ages of comics, shepherding in some of the most successful periods in our history and setting the course of our characters that is still seen today. He will be greatly missed, but his legacy will remain forever.”
9th Apr 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Private Eye
Interesting looking pay-what-you-like digital comic from Brian K Vaughan (author of the very enjoyable series Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina) and Marvel artist Marcos Martin.
Welcome to Panel Syndicate, where artist Marcos Martin and writer Brian K. Vaughan deliver original comics directly to readers around the world, who pay whatever the hell they want for each DRM-free issue. Our first new storyline is THE PRIVATE EYE, a forward-looking mystery we created with colorist Muntsa Vicente. Set in a future where privacy is considered a sacred right and everyone has a secret identity, The Private Eye is a serialized sci-fi detective story for mature readers. You can download our 32-page first issue right now, for any price you think is fair. 100% of your payments go directly into our greedy mitts and will help fund the rest of a story that we're both very proud of (we hope there will be around 10 issues total; an old-school "maxiseries!"), so thanks for reading...
26th Mar 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
Swissted: Swiss Modernism V Punk Rock
"swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer mike joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have (almost) nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, new wave, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. each design is set in lowercase berthold akzidenz-grotesk medium (not helvetica). every single one of these shows actually happened. swissted book out march 5th on quirk books—get it here!"
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27th Feb 2013 - Add Comment - Tweet
12 For 2012
In alphabetical order, here's 12 things I enjoyed in 2012...
Argo
Ben Affleck turns in another great actor/director turn as a CIA agent heading to Iran to rescue hostages during the 1979 revolution with the flimsiest of bad cover stories: a fake Hollywood studio looking to shoot a Star Wars ripoff. Great beards, trenchcoats, 70s soundtrack - and it's all (pretty much) true.
Breaking Bad S5
Magnetic, bitches! Can't wait for the second half. S4 was possibly tighter, but watching Walt's turn to the baaaad side was pretty compelling.
Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
Fresh take on modern R&B, adding Sly Stone psych jams to the digital mix.
Game Of Thrones S2
Adding more families, more magic, more dastardly plots and more blood/guts/sexposition to an ever-expanding world.
Girls S1
Cue a stream of "new Sex And The City" / "they're so shocking" / "why is their NY so white?" articles - all interesting points, but it's easy to get sucked up in the phenomenon and lose sight of just how well written this is. Makes up for HBO canning How To Make It In America. Kind of.
Fables
Bill Willingham's ongoing Vertigo series is like Game Of Thrones for fairytales. A great graphic novel drama/thriller/comedy/soap opera.
The Killing III
Focused finale for Forbrydelsen, with Sarah Lund finding love in a hopeless place (another dark room in Denmark where the lights don't work but it's OK because she's got her torch. And Borch).
Lincoln
Total Oscar-bait, will be v surprised if anything manages to beat this when they're dishing them out. Spielberg back to his epic best, showing the mechanics of US government during the Civil War as Lincoln (Daniel Day Lewis) charms, cajoles and tricks his way to the abolition of slavery.
Tame Impala - Lonerism
Aussie psychedelia with bags of personality and tunes.
Toy - Toy
Two tracks pushing beyond the 7 min mark, tight Krautrock beats and Chameleons-style riffing - a promising, solid debut in a post-Horrors space that had multiple repeats at Chimp Towers.
The Walking Dead S3
Zombie action ramped up, more plots, more characters, less time to think "hey, what about..?"
Also CONSUMED & ENJOYED
Modern Family S4, Boardwalk Empire S3, Homeland S2, The Fear, Fresh Meat, Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes, The US Office, Nurse Jackie S4 (another standout performance from Bobby Cannavale - almost as crazy as Gyp Rossetti), Skyfall.
THE STUPIDO DAMN YOU WHY WHY pile
Prometheus, The Dark Knight Rises
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17th Dec 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Jimmy's End
First look at Alan Moore's neo-noir film, plus a pro-Occupy single The Decline Of English Murder.
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5th Nov 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Happy!
After directing The Man With The Iron Fists, RZA is lining up to adapt Grant Morrison's graphic novel Happy! according to THR:
Happy! centers on Nick Sax, a scummy corrupt ex-cop and hit man. After a hit goes bad and Sax is left gravely injured, he is suddenly able to see Happy, a cheerful little blue horse who won’t give in to adversity, no matter what unpleasant obstacles are in the way. Days before Christmas, Sax teams up with the saccharine horse to save the life of a troubled kid and maybe find redemption amid the squalor of his city.
10th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
New Murakami Covers
Vintage selection of reprints for Murakami's excellent back catalogue from Noma Bar
8th Oct 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Charles Burns: The Hive
the follow-up to Charles Burns' X'cellent freakshow X'ed Out is due in October
5th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Nemo: Heart Of Ice Cover
@GoshComics have got the first look at the League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen spin-off from Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill. Enjoyed the series so far, glad they're moving it on with some of the other peripheral characters. Due Feb 2013
It’s 1925, fifteen long years since Janni Dakkar first tried to escape the legacy of her science-pirate father, only to eventually take on his mantle and accept her destiny as the new Nemo; the next captain of the legendary Nautilus. A thirty year-old Pirate Jenny, tired of punishing the world with an unending spree of plunder and destruction, is resolved to finally step from her forebear’s lengthy shadow by attempting something at which he’d conspicuously failed, namely the exploration of Antarctica. In 1895 her father had returned from that ice-crusted continent without his reason or his crewmen, all of whom appeared to have mysteriously perished or to otherwise have disappeared. Now Captain Nemo’s daughter and successor plans to take her feared and celebrated black submersible back to the world’s South Pole in an attempt to lay her sire’s intimidating ghost forever.
4th Sep 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Dark Knight Rises: Script Revision
Cracked have made a few tweaks
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24th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP Harry Harrison
The great SF writer died yesterday. Loved the Stainless Steel Rat series as a kid. Here's Neil Gaiman's tribute
16th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP Joe Kubert
Comic book artist Joe Kubert, one of the DC greats who worked on Sgt Rock, Hawkman and most recently on the Nite Owl Watchmen prequel with son Andy. 1926-2012
13th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Dark Knight Returns - As A Cartoon
After the entertaining but ultimately a bit "hang on what about ... " finale to Christopher Nolan's big screen trilogy, here's another Batman film that might be more satisfying (or totally frustrating) - an animated version of Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns. Pt1 is out in October, Pt2 in 2013. There's a longer trailer here, or you could just read the 1986 comic. It's quite good.
6th Aug 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Mark Of The Bat
Interesting piece on a rare bootleg Batman comic by Josh Simmons that's resurfaced as Mark of The Bat in Fantagraphics collection The Furry Trap
27th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Cloud Atlas / Life Of Pi
Ready for a new round of films based on mega-blockbuster books? Here's Cloud Atlas from the Wachowskis and Life Of Pi from Ang Lee. Cloud Atlas has an epic cast - Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, Jim Sturgess, Susan Sarandon, Hugh Grant, Ben Whishaw, Keith David, Jim Broadbent, James D'Arcy, Doona Bae; Pi's got a tiger
UPDATE: here's the full Quicktime HD Cloud Atlas trailer
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26th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Re-Enter Sandman
Neil Gaiman (aka @neilhimself) sent this over to Comic Con to announce the return of Sandman later in the year. Really enjoyed reading (and re-reading) the series the first time around (can't believe it's the 25th anniversary though...). Here's the first new Sandman art from JH Williams III (who did a great job on Alan Moore's trippy Promethea series)
13th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
HARDtalk - Alan Moore
an interview with the comics legend - still available on iPlayer (via @serafinowicz)
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11th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Calvin & Hobbes Documentary
A promising Kickstarter project. Love Calvin & Hobbes.
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11th Jul 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
A Book Of Beards
"@justinarei ... Fighting cancer, one beard at a time." We're no strangers to the joys of the beard here at Chimp HQ, but even our best mountain-ready full winter efforts look like Miami Vice trims compared to the dudes in this book by Justin James Muir. Inspired by a friend who had cancer, all profits go to the Leukemia and Lymphona Society
13th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Gundam Themed Hotel
Like big robots? Like hotels? Ever thought: "Damn! If only someone could combine the two"? Here's the answer: Room G: Special Type - a Gundam-styled suite in Tokyo. (via AX3)
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13th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century Vol III
The excellent @GoshComics have got both Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill in for a signing to celebrate the release of the final chapter in their League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen saga* London, 23 June. Here's a few preview scenes from the final part of what's best described as a loopy psychedelic mystery, bringing the Victorian adventurers (well, whoever's left in the team) into 2009 to take on a magical child, terrorists with a nuclear sub and holy war. It's been a very enjoyable read so far, and from what Kevin O'Neill says in this video, there will be more LOEG stories to come - starting with a Jenny Nemo spin-off Nemo: Heart Of Ice later in the year Didn't expect to see Driveshaft or Fur Q making a cameo...
*if for some reason you've only heard of it because of that terrible Sean Connery film, well, trust in Moore's Law: bad film adaptations = great comics
8th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Italian Spiderman: Uncut
the whole cut of this deranged vision of Spidey from the team who went on to make Danger 5 (spotted over at Dangerous Minds)
6th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago
@Wilco have released a free multimedia book via the iTunes store. Have a look at the The Incredible Shrinking Tour of Chicago.
6th Jun 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
Chris Ware in (awkward) Conversation
The Jimmy Corrigan / Acme Novelty Library artist talks. Reluctantly.
28th May 2012 - Add Comment - Tweet
iYellow Submarine
The Beatles have a free, animated iBook version of Yellow Submarine up on iTunes. If that floats your boat, so to speak.
10th Dec 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Holy Bat-Maths!
the Batman logo in equation form (via @boingboing)
31st Jul 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Further Tintin Adventures
fanboy mashup art from Mister Hipp guess there's going to be a lot more Tintin stuff this year...
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11th May 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Anime X Men
Warren Ellis is supervising a new strand of anime X-Men stories. Can't be worse than X-Men 3. Ain't It Cool has more details
2nd Mar 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet
Piracy Comics and Sales
interesting case study of piracy and sales
23rd Oct 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
RIP Harvey Pekar
RIP underground comics legend Harvey Pekar 1939-2010
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13th Jul 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Comic of the Film
nice collection of 80s comic book film & TV adaptations to download over at Vinnie Rattolle's I Love Trash blog; you forget that in the days before VHSthis was the main way you could "rewatch" films [eh? what is this non-digital madness you speak of?]
20th May 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The iPad Is Going To Save Comics Too...
is there no end to its voodoo powers?! here's another miracle cure from the magic iPad. thanks iPad!
6th Apr 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Losties
like this guy's Simpsonizing take on Lost - that's a version I'd happily watch too
1st Mar 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Haruki Murakami: Schlaf
not sure what this is, but it looks like a trailer for a German graphic novel translation of a Murakami story - or maybe it's just an illustrated version? either way, if you know more, let us know!
23rd Feb 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
New DeLillo De-Dissoed
The AV Club aren't too impressed with Don's new book Point Omega
22nd Feb 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Out Of Print Clothing
nice collection of book covers on t-shirts at Out Of Print
"Out of Print celebrates the world’s great stories through fashion. Our shirts feature iconic and often out of print book covers. Some are classics, some are just curious enough to make great t-shirts, but all are striking works of art.
In addition to spreading the joy of reading through our tees, we acknowledge that many parts of the world don't have access to books at all. We are working to change that. For each shirt we sell, one book is donated to a community in need through our partner Books For Africa."
1st Feb 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
The New Adventures Of Mighty Mouse
interesting piece on Wired about the 80s revival of Mighty Mouse with Ralph Bakshi (American Pop, the cartoon Lord Of The Rings) and John Kricfalusi (Ren & Stimpy)
15th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
Superheroes At War
superheroes at war on Flickr
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13th Jan 2010 - Add Comment - Tweet
What if Picasso had painted Superheroes?
via Wonderbros.com
23rd Nov 2009 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Huck + Little White Lies
nice to see some magazines still experimenting and having fun - check this cover team-up designed by Geoff McFetridge for Huck and Little White Lies for their Where The Wild Things Are covers (via Notes From My Sofa)
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18th Nov 2009 - Add Comment - Tweet
E4's Misfits Comic
E4's new asbo superhero show is also available in comic form
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