Entries Tagged as 'Opinion'

Comic store owner is facing a trial for giving away comic books depicting nude Pablo Picasso

August 13th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Gordon Lee is facing an interesting and idiotic lawsuit:
The section from Nick Bertozzi’s graphic novel The Salon begins like this: the artist Georges Braque is led into Pablo Picasso’s studio by a nude model. Picasso, the model explains, is enraptured by his art – “he’s in there masturbating” – and is angry at Braque for […]

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IK Comics, another digital comic startup

August 10th, 2007 · No Comments

IK Comics has started promoting across the internet and I thought I’d take a crack at what they have to offer. I downloaded the demo from their site and overall I feel lukewarm about the whole thing.
First off, the viewer:

It is a fixed size comic viewer and is fairly simple to learn to use. […]

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DC shows off the Zuda Comics viewer. It doesn’t suck.

August 10th, 2007 · 2 Comments

DC recently let out some teaser images of the Zuda Comics viewer:

So far it doesn’t look all that bad. It seems to be more functional than flash and dazzle, and that is a good thing. There is a reason CDisplay is popular: it is simple, it works, and it lets you get to […]

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Is Paramount doing enough to sell Stardust?

August 10th, 2007 · 4 Comments

I’ve always been a big fan of Neil Gaiman’s work, so I’m extremely happy to see one of his comic novellas being made into a movie.  Maybe Sandman is too complicated to properly be made into a movie (although Gaiman seems to disagree with this) but Stardust is fairly self-contained.
But lately there is a lot of discussion over […]

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Hey CBR, can you do something about ComicNe.ws?

August 9th, 2007 · 4 Comments

I originally sent an e-mail to feedback@comicne.ws but that bounced back to me.  So, I’m going to post this here and hope that someone with some clout there will read this and do something - plus, I’m sure a lot of people on there will agree with me.  I’m sure this might anger some people, put […]

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