Love him or hate him, you’ve gotta remember this classic Levi’s commercial from the ’90s. It features my all-time favorite superhero: The Spike Man! And of course the classic revelation that Rob’s never had any formal art training. Shocking I know!
Author Archives: Andrew
A Different Kind of Sketchbook
August 20, 2008 – 3:51 pm
Anyone who’s ever been to a comic convention knows that artists will sit there sketching out doodles or detailed illos for fans. Usually in those little black hardcover books. Well, I may not be able to take this sketchbook home (heck, nobody could), but the Etch-A-Sketchist has done some amazing comic work. Yes, all on [...]
Batman Who? It’s All About Watchmen!
July 17, 2008 – 9:37 pm
So the new Batman movie opens tonight (well, technically tomorrow at midnight). And yes it looks great, is getting rave reviews and all. But the real star of the show is a short preview trailer appearing before “The Dark Knight.” Yep, Warner Bros. is finally ponying up a full-fledged Watchmen movie trailer. And honestly, I’m [...]
Why December will rule
July 16, 2008 – 2:20 pm
If I had a million dollars, make that 50 million dollars… I’d buy me a gorgeous old Victorian House, fix it up and turn it into a comic book art/sculpture museum. And I’d spend every dollar I could on buying Randy Bowen’s gorgeous comic statues. I have the original Captain America one and a handful [...]
Gibbons Speaks
July 10, 2008 – 10:25 am
It was just about a year ago when the Watchmen movie machine really kicked into high gear, thanks to this all-new San Diego Comic-Con Watchmen poster by Dave Gibbons. Frothing fanboys immediately followed. Myself included.
This year I’m actually attending Comic-Con and I’m sure there’ll be something even bigger Watchmen-related. Maybe some scenes, a trailer, a [...]
Swingin’ Spider-Man
July 7, 2008 – 12:38 pm
In college, I followed a local band (friends of my geeky D&D type friends of my roommate actually) who called themselves The Acoustically Bent. They had a decent sound and I watched a show or two of theirs. While they did a number of their own original tunes, the biggest crowd pleaser (and our favorite) [...]
I Bleed For Captain America
July 3, 2008 – 1:26 pm
My buddy Rob just tipped me off to almost the perfect contest for me. Every year at San Diego Comic Con, there’s a huge blood donor drive. And this year, anyone donating blood will get the chance to enter a raffle to win a Captain America-painted Honda Element! I’ll let that sink in. Here, this’ll [...]
Newsarama gets a facelift
July 2, 2008 – 1:36 pm
Newsarama’s certainly been on the front lines for years in terms of getting the scoop on comic news, but to be honest, the site was really stale for a really long time. Not that there were really any other great sites to compare it to. It was basic, straight-forward and pretty much a glorified message [...]
Tales of Suspense Movie!
May 13, 2008 – 4:03 pm
I’ve already seen “Iron Man” in theaters and totally loved it. Just an all-around damn fun movie. But this isn’t a review of the flick. Instead, it’s pointing out something that I missed the first time I saw the movie. And something I will definitely be looking for the next time I watch it!
I’m not [...]
Watchmen Movie Soundtrack
April 15, 2008 – 1:08 pm
No, nothing official’s been announced, and chances are not many fans would even care about a soundtrack to a Watchmen movie. Heck, they may just choose to go with an orchestral score for all I know. But I rattled my brain and thought of what would make the perfect soundtrack to a Watchmen movie, keeping [...]
