Angela Bassett and her husband work hard to keep their children away from the Hollywood world, but due to the unique and important position of the movie, she has shared this with them.
I believe this is also why she took the role.
As quoted from Vanity Fair, Bassett states, “We try to keep them doing their own thing, out and away from it all. But [Black Panther] was one that we felt it was imperative that they experienced and witnessed. It’s an iconic film. It’s such positive images . . . They can see themselves in a light as warriors, as heroes, as kings, as queens, and potential panthers. All things positive. I really wanted them to experience something that in the way they carry themselves, how they walk through the day, with their heads held high and their chests poked out, feeling good about who they are.”
Monday, February 26, 2018
Sunday, February 25, 2018
Recordando la Obra de John Buscema!
Giovanni Natalie Buscema, aka John Buscema, would have turned 91 this last month. His art lives on through his work, both printed and sketched, and through his family. All the best to them.
As Kevin Nowlan stated, for someone that created so much work we are still left wanting to see more.
His brother Sal continues to draw and carries the tradition along.
As Kevin Nowlan stated, for someone that created so much work we are still left wanting to see more.
His brother Sal continues to draw and carries the tradition along.
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Wally Wood saw the future Marvel/Disney by 40 years
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Black Panther movie: a Revolution in the Making!
Ryan Coogler, the Black Panther movie director, makes a bold personal move. The movie was well planned and covers many areas, including African-American children left alone to deal with the world. Coogler established a connection between Blacks in America and Africans in Africa.
The Black Panther character arrived at Marvel a little after the real Black Panthers were making headlines redefining the African-American experience.
Jack Kirby co-created the Black Panther with Stan Lee in the 1960s. Jack Kirby, in the 50s and 60s, was keen on using African-American heroes, bringing and co-creating the Falcon and the Black Panther.
art by Jack Kirby
The Black Panther character arrived at Marvel a little after the real Black Panthers were making headlines redefining the African-American experience.
Jack Kirby co-created the Black Panther with Stan Lee in the 1960s. Jack Kirby, in the 50s and 60s, was keen on using African-American heroes, bringing and co-creating the Falcon and the Black Panther.
art by Jack Kirby
The Panther's arch enemy, Killmonger, is a disillusioned youth at first. With his frustration he decides to do something and becomes the Killmonger. The backstory is set in Oakland, in 1992. Near the city
where the director filmed Fruitvale, and the year of the LA riots.
The Black Panthers also formed in Oakland.
There are tribal designs in the movie that allude to the
Masai tribe. African designs abound throughout the movie with futuristic architecture and tech.
Ulysses Klaue hails from the Marvel comics as
Klaw (he appeared previously in the Avengers, Ultron movie in 2015).
Strong females leads and character are a foundation throughout the film and story.
Angela Bassett (with a nod of what she would have looked like as Storm from the X Men—long ago numerous fans saw her as Storm) appears as T'challa's mom.
Allusions to building bridges at the end, not barriers---hmmn--during the credits--extra footage.
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Women Power! Elastigirl at forefront of superhero action!
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Alan Moore pays tribute to JIm Baikie
DowntheTubes.net (promoters of British comics/comic strips) first ran the tribute by Alan Moore:
For the next couple of years, while I was involved with the increasingly psychedelic tail-end of first-wave British comics fandom I was aware of Jim somewhere in the distance, through his always-impeccable professional work or through his occasional contributions to fanzines (generally those of his old mate Steve Moore, as I remember). It wasn’t until the very late 1970s and early 1980s, however, when I myself was starting to make my living as a comics writer, that I would run into Jim in the flesh again – probably at the offices of Warrior magazine when Jim was collaborating with Steve Moore on their Jack Vance-like fantasy, Twilight World. To my surprise, he still remembered me from that brief conversation more than a decade before and we commenced a friendship that would blossom to a working partnership with our work on Skizz for 2000AD.It would have been three or four years after that, while attending the second British Comics Convention as a fifteen-year-old in 1969, that I received a proper introduction to Jim’s art – he’d provided the cover for the convention booklet, a Tolkien-esque fantasy image that mid-period Wally Wood would have been proud of – and, thanks to the agency of his fellow young comics professional Steve Moore, a proper introduction to Jim himself: he was much younger than I’d expected from the accomplishment of his artwork, a good-looking and irrepressible man in his twenties who was bursting with good humour and who, at that age, was already cool enough to have played with the Savoy Brown Blues Band (ask your Dad), but was still happy to chat to an infatuated teenager with a bad pudding-basin haircut and an off-putting regional accent.
When I began work for DC Comics, having Jim as the artist on my otherwise-unpromising Vigilante two-parter turned a job that I wasn’t enjoying very much into a pleasure. Several years later we found ourselves working together again, this time for Image Comics and its various splinter-companies, most memorably on Supreme, where I remember Jim contributing to a riotous comedic short piece that played with the most ludicrous and fondly-remembered tropes of early 1960s superhero comics, and gave Jim a chance to indulge his extreme fondness for Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder’s anarchic and demented Mad extravaganzas. Thinking about it, it seems very likely that the fun Jim and I had with that brief outing was what led, with the demise of Supreme‘s publisher and our subsequent involvement with the fledgling America’s Best Comics line, to Jim being the perfect choice for our Mad-inflected patriotic superhero parody in Tomorrow Stories, the to-my-mind underappreciated First American.Developing that strip with Jim was an education into his meticulously thought-through processes: the work that went into the look – and to a great degree the basic conception of the character – was all Jim’s. It was him that decided to depict Earth’s first contacted extra-terrestrial species as a kind of highly-evolved marsupial, reasoning that this would make the entity look alien enough while still allowing it to appear biologically feasible. And then he placed that fantastical creature into a sharply-realised contemporary Birmingham, where even the background faces are full of human character, and somehow made it work.
"The first time I came across Jim Baikie’s art, without even knowing his name (a common condition with British comics of that period), would have been as a twelve-year-old Monkees-obsessive when Jim was handling the comic strip adventures of that transatlantic faux-Beatles ensemble in Lady Penelope. This would have been around 1966, and even to my untrained eye it was evident that here was an artist with all of the assuredness and energy of someone like Mad magazine’s Mort Drucker, but apparently homegrown and of a somewhat later vintage.
For the next couple of years, while I was involved with the increasingly psychedelic tail-end of first-wave British comics fandom I was aware of Jim somewhere in the distance, through his always-impeccable professional work or through his occasional contributions to fanzines (generally those of his old mate Steve Moore, as I remember). It wasn’t until the very late 1970s and early 1980s, however, when I myself was starting to make my living as a comics writer, that I would run into Jim in the flesh again – probably at the offices of Warrior magazine when Jim was collaborating with Steve Moore on their Jack Vance-like fantasy, Twilight World. To my surprise, he still remembered me from that brief conversation more than a decade before and we commenced a friendship that would blossom to a working partnership with our work on Skizz for 2000AD.It would have been three or four years after that, while attending the second British Comics Convention as a fifteen-year-old in 1969, that I received a proper introduction to Jim’s art – he’d provided the cover for the convention booklet, a Tolkien-esque fantasy image that mid-period Wally Wood would have been proud of – and, thanks to the agency of his fellow young comics professional Steve Moore, a proper introduction to Jim himself: he was much younger than I’d expected from the accomplishment of his artwork, a good-looking and irrepressible man in his twenties who was bursting with good humour and who, at that age, was already cool enough to have played with the Savoy Brown Blues Band (ask your Dad), but was still happy to chat to an infatuated teenager with a bad pudding-basin haircut and an off-putting regional accent.
When I began work for DC Comics, having Jim as the artist on my otherwise-unpromising Vigilante two-parter turned a job that I wasn’t enjoying very much into a pleasure. Several years later we found ourselves working together again, this time for Image Comics and its various splinter-companies, most memorably on Supreme, where I remember Jim contributing to a riotous comedic short piece that played with the most ludicrous and fondly-remembered tropes of early 1960s superhero comics, and gave Jim a chance to indulge his extreme fondness for Harvey Kurtzman and Will Elder’s anarchic and demented Mad extravaganzas. Thinking about it, it seems very likely that the fun Jim and I had with that brief outing was what led, with the demise of Supreme‘s publisher and our subsequent involvement with the fledgling America’s Best Comics line, to Jim being the perfect choice for our Mad-inflected patriotic superhero parody in Tomorrow Stories, the to-my-mind underappreciated First American.Developing that strip with Jim was an education into his meticulously thought-through processes: the work that went into the look – and to a great degree the basic conception of the character – was all Jim’s. It was him that decided to depict Earth’s first contacted extra-terrestrial species as a kind of highly-evolved marsupial, reasoning that this would make the entity look alien enough while still allowing it to appear biologically feasible. And then he placed that fantastical creature into a sharply-realised contemporary Birmingham, where even the background faces are full of human character, and somehow made it work.
Jim told me that he’d always wanted the chance – possibly since his stint on The Monkees – to let loose with a full-on piece of Kurtzman/Elder derangement, this being why he’d thrown himself into the adventures of our hopelessly deluded and morally prolapsed main character and his equally unpleasant but slightly more intelligent female sidekick with such abandon. Maybe Jim said that to all the boys, but from the flood of manic invention that he unleashed on that strip I’m rather inclined to think he meant it. In episode after episode he’d turn some half-baked demi-idea of mine – often little more than a punning name, like nostalgia-focussed villain Dozier D. Daze – into a fully realised vision of insurmountable idiocy in 3D spectacles and a Davey Crockett hat, neither of which I’d thought of or asked for. And should a character or motif arise that took Jim’s fancy then it would become not so much a running gag as a gag marathon, to the point where in the later episodes of the strip the Village People had become accepted members of the cast. The backgrounds, slathered in Will Elder’s ‘chicken-fat’ of additional comic detail, began to fill up with marvellously lunatic iconography, so that in a comic anthology with some highly eccentric and beautifully-rendered competition it would always be the First American strip that hit me with that frenetic and giggling rush that’s on the edge of hysteria. That’s what Jim worked so tirelessly to put into the strip, and I hope that’s what everybody got out of it.
As well as being a consummate illustrator and cartoonist with an enviable range of styles, Jim Baikie was a lovely and generous man, as anyone who ever met him would surely attest. We met in the flesh on far too few occasions, but I will cherish the memory of our sometimes-unable-to-talk-for-laughing phone calls between my Northampton bunker and Jim’s remote and windswept fortress in the Orkneys. As I write this, feeling hugely upset that I’m never going to have the pleasure of talking to Jim again, I find myself sniggering at a remembered anecdote: talking about the horrendous winds that whip across the islands, so fierce that there are hardly any trees able to take root, Jim recounted being out for a walk, possibly with his friend, fellow artist and sometime neighbour Cam Kennedy, and witnessing some very distraught chickens being blown out to sea by the almost-daily gale. What made it funny was the almost wonderstruck tone in Jim’s voice when he added that the startled hens had been inside a chicken coop at the time.
Jim Baikie was a wonderful artist, his talents forged during a wonderful period, and throughout his long career his work sang with the zealous energy and unrestrained inventiveness of those times. He was a great talent, a great collaborator and a great friend. I’d like to send all my love to Wendy and to Jim’s family. He was a dear, astonishing man, and I’ll remember him always."
Alan Moore
Monday, February 12, 2018
WonderCon is coming soon
There are still tickets available if you plan to make it out to WonderCon 2018.
Sunday, February 11, 2018
The Great Steve Gerber
Steve Gerber passed away ten years ago and he and his work are still fondly remembered.
He, of course, wrote and introduced Howard the Duck. I believe he had him run for president.
His style was different, often making fun and having a day with many topics.
One of his last books was a Man-Thing series drawn by Kevin Nowlan. Check it out.
Gerber was a man of honor and stood up for his rights when he went head to head with Marvel.
You will see a cameo after the credits on the first Avengers movie, I believe.
He, of course, wrote and introduced Howard the Duck. I believe he had him run for president.
His style was different, often making fun and having a day with many topics.
One of his last books was a Man-Thing series drawn by Kevin Nowlan. Check it out.
Gerber was a man of honor and stood up for his rights when he went head to head with Marvel.
You will see a cameo after the credits on the first Avengers movie, I believe.
Mazinger Z at the movie for limited run!! Anime/Manga.
Mazinger Z at the movie for limited run!! Anime/Manga.
Check your listing as it is running in some areas for only two days.
Of course the movie fits lots of giant robots. There are a couple of cheese cake like scenes but overall Ok for kids, lots of dialogue parts, however. The version shown includes Japanese audio with English subtitles.
The artist and writer, Go Nagai, attended the premiere in Italy.
Go Nagai also attended Comic-Con many years ago.
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Bring Back Blade Wesley Snipes!
Josh Brolin Playing Two Marvel Characters, why?
Friday, February 2, 2018
Stan Lee released early from hospital!
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