Posts Tagged neil gaiman
Happy Year of the Dragon, True Believers!
Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Holiday on January 24, 2012
We missed the Year of the Dragon rounds yesterday. Let’s hope this image of Nextwave‘s Fin Fang Foom makes up for that. Here’s to doing your best to stay out of the dragon’s underpants.
It’s Christmas Eve, Boys and Girls. Be Good or the Krampus Will Whip You.
Posted by mistergroonk in Art, Artist, History, Holiday on December 24, 2011
Twitterer @RonSalas retweeted an old Christmas card @CalamityJon created a few years ago.
The Krampus is an old myth that the Venture Brothers introduced us to a few years ago. Take a walk through YouTube and you’ll find tons of contemporary parade and Traditional Krampus videos all up in there.
Now imagine our surprise when we learned obscure mythologist writer most extraordinary, Neil Gaiman, did not know of the Krampus.
@neilhimself whaaaa?!Really?!*I* knew about Krampus… how can this be?! #DogsAndCatsLivingTogether #NothingMakesSenseAnymore
— Rantz Hoseley (@RantzHoseley) December 12, 2011
We’re still reeling from this revelation. Reality as we know it may never recover.
via @ronsalas
Watch: Animated Movie Title Squences of 2010
Posted by mistergroonk in Art, Movies, Television on December 28, 2010
MONOmoda’s made a list of the best animated title sequences in movies and television. Their list covers the most interesting titles of the aughts. We chose the opening themes of 2010 as the main focus and posted them here.
Good Omens
Steven Wood not only created a wonderful idea for how the movie ending to Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s book Good Omens, he cast the director(Edgar Wright), principal players (Simon Pegg, Peter Serafinowicz), and production crew. This bit is entirely fictional, of course. in fact, it’s borderline fan wank territory.
But even we have to agree casting Good Omens as Wood envisioned would be a good pull.
Kickstarter Film Watch: Christopher Salmon to Adapt Neil Gaiman’s “The Price,†Awesome
Posted by mistergroonk in Animation, Books, Interviews, Just Freaking Neat, Movies on November 10, 2010
The short story “The Price” is our second favorite Neil Gaiman short story. When Mr Scary Trousers himself blogged about Christopher Salmon’s wish to create a CG animated adaptation of this short. Well. You can guess that our interest was piqued. Then we saw Salmon’s teaser animatic and our interest shot through the damn roof!
Watch Salmon’s pitch reel and decide just how awesome this film will be for yourselves:
Production Blog: http://www.theprice-movie.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Price/154562364586011
Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/XtopherSalmon
Warner Bros. Wants THE SANDMAN as HBO Series with Eric Kripke. Geek Confidence is Medium.
Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Television on September 2, 2010
Those of you already tuned into the geek webs already know that TV’s Eric Kripke(SUPERNATURAL) is rumored to do a Sandman series for HBO.
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Now comes word that Warner Bros. TV is acquiring the rights to Neil Gaiman’s Sandman from sister company DC Comics.
A Little Back Story on the Graphic Novel
The much loved vertigo series The Sandman by Neil Gaiman revolves around Dream, Lord of all Dreams. He goes goes by many names: Morpheus, Oneiros, The Shaper, The Shaper of Form, Lord of the Dreaming, The Dream King, Dream-Sneak, Dream Cat, Murphy, Kai’ckul and Lord L’Zoril to name a few. Dream’s name and appearance varies according to the person, or being, observing him.
The neatest trick of The Sandman graphic novels is that Morpheus is the main character but he does not appear that often in his own book. We, the audience, get to follow a delightful cast of damaged, aka damn interesting, people as they encounter The Dream King at various stages of their lives. It’s worth noting that usually these stages are the worst moments of their lives. Such is the way of stories.
The Lord of Dreaming is not omnipotent and he is the only powerful anthropomorphic personification of an aspect lording over the lives of humans. Dream is a member of the family of seven called The Endless. His siblings are: Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, Destruction(The Prodigal), and Delirium(formerly Delight).
A HBO series based off these books has the chance of raising the bar for television to unbelievable heights. It also has the chance to stink on ice. The Sandman has been in movie development hell for decades. Less creative minds have have been attached, written scripts and, thankfully, not succeeded in pulling a Shyamalan.
Seriously, we read those old scripts. They made Jon Peters Superman movie ideas look like Dostoevsky.
While we adore what Eric Kripke has done for SUPERNATURAL, the fanboy in us secretly hopes The Suits won’t get this TV series off the ground.
The Endless by Deviant Artist T-Head
l-r:Desire, Despair, Destruction(in back), Dream, Death, Delirium, Destiny
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Wally Wood’s 22 Panels/Frames that Always Work, In Print and Video!
Posted by mistergroonk in Comics, Digital Share, Movies, Tutorials on July 7, 2010
In our early days of scouring Internet for research/information we stumbled upon a few helpful images regarding making good comics. This was before our obsessive need to Delicious, ‘right click save image,’ or blog to this shadow brain anything that might be of us later. Thankfully Internet is cyclical.
Wally Wood’s famous “22 Panels That Always Workâ€
The original Wally Wood comic panel information sheet that circled the net like life-saving giant eagles. Joel Johnson’s post on how this list came to be is also inspiring.
Larry Hama, who pasted together the piece and did the lettering, was kind enough to respond to an email I had sent him after purchasing the piece. Note especially his suggestion that Wood created this piece not for others, but as a reminder to himself to not become bogged down in unproductive eddies.
More:
- Art & Story 99 – The Big Wood
- Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work: Unlimited Edition
- Download:Wally Wood’s 22 Panels That Always Work: Unlimited Edition II
22 Frames That Always Work
Here we have the mad genius of You Tuber CowKitana creating the film version of Wood’s list.
via @neilhimself
Neil Gaiman Photobombs, Just Happened to Be there, in Adam Savage and Wil Wheaton Pic at W00tstock
Posted by mistergroonk in Intertube Madness, LOL, Photography on June 9, 2010
At June 7, 2010 w00tstock: Neil Gaiman photobombs @WoodsmanHans photo with Adam Savage and Wil Wheaton.
In this tiny room: three celebrities in which we’d lose our cool in their presence.
J.G. Ballard (1930 – 2009)
Posted by mistergroonk in Books, People Who Died on April 22, 2009
Before the success of Empire of the Sun Ballard was known principally for darkly surreal novels such as The Crystal World (1966), which described a West African country undergoing an inexplicable process of petrifaction, and Crash (1973), in which he put forward the idea that modern society finds traffic accidents erotic. Despising the term science fiction, Ballard never used it, preferring to describe his work as “apocalypticâ€.
You must follow the Telegraph’s link to learn the rest.
Sadly, the only works in which we were familiar when Ballard was alive was Empire of the Sun, and that was the Spielberg version. In our youth, that movie was Atlas readjusting his footing. It forever shifted our world vision.
Knowing now what we do about the loss of so much rich material when translating a book to the movie format, we feel a moral imperative to absorb all his apocalyptic visions.
Dolphins are, in Fact, Not Building a Religion
Posted by mistergroonk in Animals, Science on March 24, 2009
A curious thing has entered our thought processes.
THAT a complex mind is required for religion may explain why faith is unique to humans. Now brain scans support this idea, revealing that the parts of the brain that process religious belief are those that evolved most recently and give us sophisticated cognition.
“…Anybody but Tom Bombadil.”
Posted by mistergroonk in Books, Interviews, Television on March 19, 2009
The answer to a simple question brought forth a hilarious result.
Posting multiple times in one day reminds us of the halcyon days of old when we grabbed everything and anything that hinted at being worthwhile for this shadow brain experiment. Times have calmed for us since then. Slow-blogging has introduced a new way of looking on the information found on these Internets.
When we see two of our favorite people in entertainment coming together on the TV, we felt it’d be remiss not to make some mention about it.
I think I worked and I really did enjoy it — I loved having no idea where things were going to go (no, it was not rehearsed, no, I had no idea that mentioning Tom Bombadil would produce that result).
Before the show, Stephen Colbert said hello, shook hands and told me what I am sure he tells every guest, that his character is an idiot, and to be passionate and make my points regardless.
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