Born in France, he migrated to the US at a young enough age to not have so much of an accent. If given the chance he’ll talk at length of the superiority of his Gallic ways. The podcast was his idea, and the arrogant bastard complains at every turn at how much time he spends editing it. Coming from a film school background and working in post-production makes him think that he actually has a right to be as pretentious as he is. If you don’t think he’s pretentious, here’s the proof: He wrote a Manifesto for this site...
Chris and I had a long chat this weekend detailing the impact of former Marvel Head Honcho: Bill Jemas.
It’s really quite likely that quite a few of you out there would not be reading comics today were it not for Jemas, so check this out. Chris brings us a wealth of info about the late […]
Here is part two of this weeks’ podcast.
We talk Didio’s take on Politics, and talk a bit on Secret Invasion and crossovers in general, and talk a bit about the Egyptian graphic novel confiscation. Check it out, and tell us what you think.
My great discovery at the NYCC was that Archaia Studio Press is printing comics that aren’t just about adorable mice wandering in well drawn woods with swords. They have an incredible range of comics. Unfortunately, I hadn’t heard of a single one of them before the con. I picked up a few of their books, […]
Via this blog, Check it.
Nothing snaps you out of your own myopic view of things faster than a little story like this:
Magdy El-Shafie, author and cartoonist of The Metro, widely regarded as the first Egyptian graphic novel, last week received a summons to appear before the state prosecution service following the confiscation of his […]
Found this in my Google reader today and it sparked a few things in my head about the whole blogiverse.
Darren DiLieto has been ripped off by some Hong Kong based publisher who has printed a bunch of copies of work that’s been on his website, and selling hard bound hardcovers for around $100 in various […]
The first thing I can tell you about the con, was it’s been a long day, I’ll have more coherent stuff about this on a future podcast or article when I’m not dozing off as I type this.
First thing I hit was a screening of “Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist“. I didn’t mind […]
Here at Funnybook Babylon, we spend quite a bit of time railing against the idea of the android’s dungeon. Today I’m not feeling so good about it.
Gary Gygax died today, the man who created Dungeons and Dragons. I only mention it because once, long ago, my first conscious step into an American comic shop had […]
As someone who really digs a considerable amount of Warren Ellis’ published work (see Fell & Transmetropolitan) I was somewhat surprised to see that he was releasing a web comic called FreakAngels. I haven’t heard of any comic author going from the glitz and glamour of the publishing world to the wild west of online […]
The Marvel shareholder’s conference call was released today, and I decided to take a listen… As a lay person, this is what I gleaned from it:
1) The publishing division is less important (financially at least) than their toy/merchandising division.
2) Interactive is really taking a back burner because…
3) They are betting the farm on Marvel Film […]
Chris outlines comics he likes, but can’t read on the train.
Aaaand I’m spent. So ends round one of our Video Podcasts. Maybe you’ll see more, maybe you won’t.
Pedro comes at ya with the top 5 comics that you can kill a man with…
Due to turkeys, apple ‘updates’, and plastic guitars (and drums), I apologize for the recent lateness of the last podcast. It will be up tomorrow, barring any acts of god(s). New or otherwise.
I’m back on the 1’s & 2’s, not on the mic yet.
Since this weekend I was working on a cooking show, Jamaal and Pedro were watching Flamingos win a championship, and Chris was landing in Sunset Park, we decided to treat you guys to a review we recorded a few weeks ago instead of recording a new one. We review two books written by Jason Aaron […]
This Week!
We play, Save the Comics industry! (from who?), We pontificate about numbers a bit, and manage to do the IMPOSSIBLE!!!!
*spoiler alert*
We DON’T TALK ABOUT DC EDITORIAL! At least not directly. Well, sorta.
Jamaal: “Let’s assume for the sake of the argument that they’re reasonable people who actually want to sell their comics and that they’re […]
Usually, I only buy trades by big name authors and artists, and can’t be bothered to care about which alien species tried to conquer Earth 72 in a comic published twenty years ago.
On a whim, I decided that this week I would pick up […]