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Wed, 30 Jul 2003
DC exclusives
DC comics just sent me an email to say that Jeph Loeb, Tim Sale and
Grant Morrison have all signed exclusive contracts with them. Sale and
Loeb will team up soon for Catwoman: When in Rome and Morrison
has all kinds of new series and projects in the works.
Dan DiDio, DC's editorial VP said: "We're very happy to have Grant Morrison back where he belongs, with the characters he loves, doing the best work of his career"
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It's pretty rare to read a beautiful comic book. Lots of comics are
fun to read, well-drawn and written, but rarely do you get to look
right inside a person's sometimes troubled life and draw hope from
the lessons they've learned. Rarely do you read a comic that takes you
so deep into the artist's soul that you might even wish you hadn't gone.
Craig Thompson's Blankets achieves the rare distinction of
a genuine masterpiece in the medium of comics.
At 590+ pages, it's an intimidating tome at first glance. However, the pacing is quite rapid and the story is so engaging that it demands to be read in one sitting. It's the story of the artist's youth and especially his first love, but more broadly examines his life and art through the filtered fog of memory translated into ink on paper. Don't let this book pass you by. Buy it, read it, and if you don't like it, return it in good condition and receive a full refund in store credit. At $29.99 for the softcover, and with the Hijinx 100% satisfaction guarantee, how can you lose? That's no-risk reading on a truly inspiring work of art. Click the cover image for an online preview. |
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Tue, 29 Jul 2003
return of the wednesday want-list
all ages picks of the week
action adventure picks
mature reader picks
Make it a point to check these titles out in the shop, you won't be sorry!
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league of ordinary rubbish
Yes, I saw it and I hated it. What was most depressing was how good
the special effects and visuals were. If they could have just have
written a good script to go with the F/X I'd be happy. Every character
they added or changed significantly enough to lose what made them so
great in the comic.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comic is one of my favorites of all time, so I was scared when I heard that it was being adapted for the big screen. How right I was to be scared. The movie totally missed everything that made LOEG a great comic. Rather than stick with a strong female leader like Mina Murray and a drug-addled Alan Quartermain, they opt for a tough guy and super-vampire woman interpretation. Do yourself a favor and stick with the trade paperback.
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Thu, 24 Jul 2003
pro quality batman fan film
Saw this on boingboing and I'm still downloading it, so I'm not sure how it is. It's only in
Quicktime format, and you can find it here.
Apparently it was directed by the guy who played Boner on TV's Growing Pains. Not sure what that means yet...
update(with spoilers!): I just watched it (without sound) and it was pretty bad-ass! It takes an unexpected turn when Batman wanders into a battle of Predator vs Alien. The production values were pretty high and the credits were long. Looks like Boner sunk some serious dough into this as his "reel" to show to prospective employers. I bet he gets a job.
correction: the director of the film is NOT "Boner" from "Growing Pains"... "Boner" plays the Joker in the short film. Thanks to Jose de Leon for the correction.
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Wed, 23 Jul 2003
TPB Tuesdays are here!
I'm trying a little experiment to spice up every comic store's slowest
day: tuesday. Basically, every GN/TPB
purchased on a tuesday will earn you a 10% rebate credit good for use
on future GN/TPB purchases. Will it work? Only time will tell...
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Mon, 21 Jul 2003
creative commons
I recently applied a creative
commons license to my writing on this site. Check out the
cool comics they use to explain the concepts in practice. I've decided on
an attribution
license which let's people use my stuff, even for commercial purposes,
but they must give me credit for using it. Other options are available
to restrict commericial use and/or derivations, but I'm a lot less
up tight than that.
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wonderful wednesday want-list
I just posted the new comics list for wednesday, and thought I'd point
out some new and not-so-new stuff that I can't wait to read myself!
all ages picks of the week
action adventure picks
- HELLBOY BPRD DARK WATERS ONE SHOT
- MARVEL MUST HAVES SENTINEL & RUNAWAYS # 1 & 2 FLIPBOOK
- SGT ROCK ARCHIVES VOL 1 HC
- USAGI YOJIMBO #68
mature reader picks
- BLACK IMAGES IN THE COMICS SC
- ITS A GOOD LIFE IF YOU DONT WEAKEN NEW PTG TP
- LOVE & ROCKETS VOL 2 #8
- WEASEL VOL 1 RIPPLE PREDILECTION FOR TINA TP
Make it a point to check these titles out in the shop, you won't be sorry!
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Fri, 18 Jul 2003
bearskinrug.co.uk
I usually don't like flash heavy sites, but this one is just too cool!
Make sure to play with the polar bear, it's darn funny, and a real triumph
in the swf format.
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online etchasketch
Check it out
right here. Be prepared to waste some serious time.
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You've heard of the X-Wing, the Y-Wing, and maybe even the B-Wing fighters from Star Wars, but I'll bet you've never seen a Q-Wing, or a K-Wing. Now you can with the Star Wars Alphabet Project which is almost to it's goal of 26 letter-inspired spaceships. |
blogger jobs
I just saw a cool job posted at google/blogger. They're looking for
experienced bloggers to provide technical support to newbies!
Check it here for more details. If I didn't have a dream job already, I'd
be looking into this...
hipster bingo
Being tragically unhip myself, I couldn't help but laugh when I
saw this
on boingboing. I wish I had this at the party my roommates threw a
couple weeks ago. I could have filled the whole card!
not going to San Diego
I'm not going to Comicon this year, I'll be too busy to make it.
I've never really liked comic book conventions, or "pop culture"
conventions as they have morphed into. Maybe I'm a prude, but I
tend to agree with those parents groups who protested porn stars
appearing at a convention in Pittsburgh. If the "actors" in question
actually have comics to promote, that's one thing, but that isn't
what's going on in 90% of the cases I've seen. Don't even get me started
on the pylons, cylons and klingons...
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Sat, 12 Jul 2003
CHIC IN JIM SOX
I was just checking the Internet Anagram Server for anagrams of the store name.
You can see the rest right here. I'm a fan of anagrams,
palindromes, spoonerisms and other nerdy things like that there.
ultimate Beetle Bailey auction
Somebody just sent me a link to this ebay auction for thousands of mint condition Beetle Bailey
comics from 1970. Get those bids in now!
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Sacco in the Gaza strip
Joe Sacco is one of the best cartoonists around. He goes to all
the war-torn trouble spots around the globe and reports on them
through comics. Check out his latest work on the Palestinian Israeli
crisis here at the NY Times website.
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Tue, 08 Jul 2003
Top Shelf Asks the Big Questions
I just read the new Top Shelf
anthology, and came away with mixed feelings. The work was of uneven
quality at best, and some of the sketchbook material is a waste of space
in my opinion. Take away the sketchbooks and the material that has seen
print elsewhere and what you're left with doesn't quite live up to the
$24.95 price tag. What's left is darn good stuff though, and is worth at
least checking out, and the production values are splendid.
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Mon, 07 Jul 2003
same difference
I was going to review Derek Kim's excellent trade paperback Same Difference today,
but then I found out he's posted the entire story online. Go there and judge for yourself. I think you'll
like it enough to buy a "real" copy of it at Hijinx.
more navel gazing
I've integrated the weblog right here onto the main page. I'm actually subscribing to my own
RSS feed to do it. So very dorky. I just love info-clutter!
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lucky ducky
MOCCA is running an online
exhibition called duck!
with some far-out comics. The one by Ruben Bolling is my favorite.
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Sat, 05 Jul 2003
featured artist box
I like to rearrange my website as much as I do my store. Actually more, since I've yet
to throw out my back cutting and pasting HTML. I've added a featured artist box
right under the featured customer box on the homepage. I'll update this
every once in a while when I get bored of the current one.
I'm thinking of making the top graphic change every hour, but haven't yet written the code. Maybe I'll go do it now.
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Thu, 03 Jul 2003
the dawn of comic micropayment?
Scott McCloud has been talking
about micropayments as a means of supporting online comics for some
time now. He's finally released a comic this way, so we can all
see if this business model really works. Check it out.
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