Archive for September 15th, 2008
Monday, September 15th, 2008
Comics? Comics.
Axe is busy on the outline for our movie, and new Treatment, I’ve been tasked with making some new Axe and Crom comics so we can relaunch the site in the new year.
I’ve spent most of the last hour reading online comics, supplementing my weekend of Calvin & Hobbes gorging. I remember a conversation I had once with a director at the Pump House Theater (I was doing a bit part in Raggedy Ann&Andy, ya ya, fuck you) and he said that the hardest thing to do on stage was 2 minutes of something meaningful. He was trying to impart the idea of Fidelity of Thought to me. At least in regard to stage production…which may seem narrow minded, but I assure you it is not. Skits, comics, these things require you deliver a single concept quickly, and clearly. Calvin&Hobbes is a study in this ability, since Watterson usually had 3 panels to say something witty, and he did the job with disturbing consistency. I’m trying to crack open his skull and feast on the gooey insides…
Metaphorically.
I wrote a review for Chris Gheran & The Graveyard Gang over at r4nt.com which should be going up pretty quick, just need to polish it up, I’ll keep everyone posted…I dunno why though….