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  • Coloring books aren’t just for kids!

    Roz Terrill and I found Antarctic Press’ How to Color for Comics at Wizard World Texas (at the aforementioned Steve Buscemi Guy’s 1/2 price TPBs stand). In this day and age of computer-colored books, it’s a new skill that will be very useful to those trying to find work in the industry. I thought I’d…

  • The Wilhelm Scream

    Boy, you go back through Aaron’s news archives and it’s cool what you find. Here’s something I had to pass along: The Wilhelm Scream. A scream sound effect used again and again in all Lucasfilm productions and even The Two Towers. Unfortunately, due to bandwidth, the scream sound effect and its clips had to be…

  • Last words of role-playing characters

    Boy, reading this can take longer than the three TPBs of Dork Tower I bought at Wizard World! The Canonical List of Famous Last Words of role-playing characters offers such gems as “OK, I moon the Balrog” and “I take my missing leg that he just ripped off, and hit him on the head.” Thanks…

  • Comic store burglary!

    A daring daylight robbery! A crook makes off with $50,000 worth of comic books!

  • WWTexas Con report 3: PVP, Nodwick and Viper

    I mentioned the Marvel booth in my first con report. We at the Shooting Star Comics booth had the good fortune to be located right next to the big Punisher movie exhibit. We thought that was lucky enough. Then the Wizard people set up a new makeshift booth (where there had just been empty space…

  • WWTexas Con report 2: Meeting people

    First off, J.D. Long wants me to mention that you can get beer at the concession stand in Texas. This is important (in his view) because he loved my reaction when I saw him with a beer hanging around our booth. I was getting ready to blow my stack at him for being such a…

  • Digital art tutorials

    Phil Meadows and I were discussing computer coloring for comics and he tipped me off to a cool site of note: Digital Art Tutorials. A useful link for any comic book creators out there.

  • Gail Simone exclusive to DC

    The Birds of Prey scribe Gail Simone is now exclusive to DC , which is a good sign for Gail (who is becoming a fan fave) and Birds of Prey, a book that wasn’t doing so well post-Chuck Dixon until the arrival of Simone.

  • Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit”???

    I’m surprised there hasn’t been more speculation about this, but at last someone is talking about Peter Jackson doing The Hobbit. Only problem is that there are some issues as to who has the rights to it. New Line would have to get the rights away from United Artists. UA, of course, won’t want to…

  • PvP Horror Cover Blurb Contest

    (You know…I should just have a PvP category on Monitor Duty.) Scott Kurtz has announced a new cover blurb contest for his upcoming issue which will feature the infamous “Jade boob squeeze” storyline that ran on PvP years ago. For those who contend that the PvP comic book merely reruns old cartoons, I should point…

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