Here’s the first animated version of a Tintin story from 1947. It was directed by Claude Misonne. I am very worried by the billboards around Los Angeles for the new Spielberg film. They are just horrifically ugly. That cannot be a good sign for the movie.

Thanks to Richard Metzger at Dangerous Minds

Batman and Robin was a Columbia Pictures serial of 1949. It starred Robert Lowery as the batman and a rather stolid little fellow named Johnny Duncan. It’s a totally awkward, cheesy and humorless affair that very perfectly captures the true spirit of the comic book.  But shockingly there’s no batmobile!  The caped crime-fighting duo drive [...]

ADULT CONTENT Here’s an awesome horror short that’s a very professional grade fan film based on Ben Templesmith’s ‘Welcome to Hoxford’ comic book. It’s bloody impressive and has a nice creepy psychotic edge to it.  The film was directed by Julien Mokrani.  Just what the warden ordered for Halloween’s month of October! Here’s the fan [...]

MATURE CONTENT AND LANGUAGE: Matt Ellis draws and writes ‘The Man of Many Shades‘ which is a comic noir about a guy named Happy who’s trapped inside some kid’s drawings and uses his private eye investigation skills to find a way out. Very cool set up for a comic.  You can read the whole thing [...]

The Los Angeles Times’ Hero Complex blog has a post about Winsor McCay’s early animation efforts from 100 years ago. This is a film that features the cartoonist impressing his skeptical artist friends with moving characters from his great comic strip, Little Nemo in Slumberland. The actual Nemo animation starts at the 8:15 mark.  Enjoy! [...]

Cartoonist Robert Crumb gets interviewed by a Los Angeles Times writer and talks about his living in France and his hatred for the pervasive corporate mono-culture that Americans seem unaware of.  He can’t stand it and chooses to live outside of it. Really good perspective. In a culture where you’ve got a Supreme Court actually [...]

Hey, tomorrow, Saturday August 28, 2010, is International Read a Comic in Public Day! That means that all you unattractive, bedroom-bound, nerdish, geekster, loser, babeless nobodies can actually get up a little nonexistent courage and emerge from your domiciles to take your first tentative steps across the street with a real live honest-to-god paper-printed comic [...]

American comics genius Harvey Pekar has passed away at the age of 70.  I think Pekar was the greatest writer of comics because he treated the form as literature – for real – not like most of the dimwits writing ‘graphic novels.’ Pekar was serious and nervous and funny and angry, with very little separation [...]

Smith Magazine has a new Harvey Pekar comic strip about how corporatism influences everything people do and think. Can one work honestly inside a corporate system?  Can you write a book criticizing corporations and have it published by a corporation? Are comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert completely owned by corporations?  My own answer is [...]