More NYCC
I have NY Comic-Con photos coming, courtesy of SLG First Son Dustin Vado. Meanwhile, here are a couple of NYCC-spawned articles about SLG projects.
The first is an interview with SLG head honcho Dan Vado at Toon Zone, in which Dan talks to "Ace the Bathound" (I assume this is a pseudonym) about the SLG's Disney-licensed comics, the crazy world of optioning, and more. A couple of corrections:
The Haunted Mansion comic book is NOT based on the live-action movie. It is based on the Haunted Mansion ride in Disney theme parks.
Ace writes, "Vado noted that Eric Jones and Landry Walker’s Little Gloomy comic was optioned and might become a live-action movie. He also said he thought James Turner’s Rex Libris would be a great prime-time cartoon in something like an Adult Swim block, and that there has been interest in the title but nothing definitive yet." The titles here are switched around -- it is Rex Libris that has been optioned (we were waiting for an official announcement, but I guess the cat is out of the bag) and Little Gloomy that Dan thinks would make a great cartoon. EDIT: And actually, Little Gloomy has been optioned, by 1492 Pictures.
And toward the end, Ace writes: "He said that the the new coloring studio working on Gargoyles really 'gets' the art style, and that both 'didn’t want it to be just another licensed comic.'" Here Dan was actually talking about Tron, which is colored by the talented guys at GURU eFX. You can see their work, as well as that of artist Michael Shoykhet and the Walker Jones team in Tron #3.
And at Wizard Universe is an interview with Landry Walker about Tron. I love thinking about THE COMPUTER WORLD while using THE COMPUTER WORLD. It gives me the same strange feeling as when I think about my brain... using my brain. It's like the lapel pins of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Song in Pyongyang by Guy Delisle, a great graphic novel.
Anyway, in this interview Landry ruins my child-like illusions: "It’s an analogy," he says of THE COMPUTER WORLD. "There aren’t actually these little people running around inside the computer."
Gee, thanks, Mr. Wizard. But at least I can still have a light cycle.
The first is an interview with SLG head honcho Dan Vado at Toon Zone, in which Dan talks to "Ace the Bathound" (I assume this is a pseudonym) about the SLG's Disney-licensed comics, the crazy world of optioning, and more. A couple of corrections:
The Haunted Mansion comic book is NOT based on the live-action movie. It is based on the Haunted Mansion ride in Disney theme parks.
Ace writes, "Vado noted that Eric Jones and Landry Walker’s Little Gloomy comic was optioned and might become a live-action movie. He also said he thought James Turner’s Rex Libris would be a great prime-time cartoon in something like an Adult Swim block, and that there has been interest in the title but nothing definitive yet." The titles here are switched around -- it is Rex Libris that has been optioned (we were waiting for an official announcement, but I guess the cat is out of the bag) and Little Gloomy that Dan thinks would make a great cartoon. EDIT: And actually, Little Gloomy has been optioned, by 1492 Pictures.
And toward the end, Ace writes: "He said that the the new coloring studio working on Gargoyles really 'gets' the art style, and that both 'didn’t want it to be just another licensed comic.'" Here Dan was actually talking about Tron, which is colored by the talented guys at GURU eFX. You can see their work, as well as that of artist Michael Shoykhet and the Walker Jones team in Tron #3.
And at Wizard Universe is an interview with Landry Walker about Tron. I love thinking about THE COMPUTER WORLD while using THE COMPUTER WORLD. It gives me the same strange feeling as when I think about my brain... using my brain. It's like the lapel pins of Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Song in Pyongyang by Guy Delisle, a great graphic novel.
Anyway, in this interview Landry ruins my child-like illusions: "It’s an analogy," he says of THE COMPUTER WORLD. "There aren’t actually these little people running around inside the computer."
Gee, thanks, Mr. Wizard. But at least I can still have a light cycle.