The Ephemerist

I Believe in Harvey Dent - and I’m thinking, whatever happened to Tommy Lee Jones ?

This has been around for a couple of months, it seems, but I only saw it today. It’s just sad, really…

What I do like, however, is Chris Peyer’s take on what a Frank Miller Dan Dare movie would look like, over at Beer & Meat.

Evan Dorkin has provided the cover illustration for I Love You, Beth Cooper, Larry Doyle’s new novel that seems to be “in development” for a Chris Columbus movie. There’s reviews for the novel aplenty, but what I particularly like, are the chapter heads that Dorkin did, and which show the result of the book’s various plots on the main character’s appearance. Check out the I Love You, Beth Cooper website for some examples.

Strangely, though, this book is tied by Amazon to the new Michael Chabon. I haven’t read any of them, but based on the synopses, they don’t seem to have that much in common. Except of course that Chabon did an earlier novel on early comic book history (the rather amazing “Cavalier And Klay”), and Doyle’s book is illustrated by a cartoonist. Ah, book marketing, it never ceases to amaze me…

I may live to be a hundred, I don’t think I’ll ever get older than 11, maybe 13. Toys will never cease to tickle my fancy. Call me a big baby, but there it is. That said, here are two genius campaigns for toys. The Lego campaign is from Singapore, and the one for Matchbox from South Africa. I love them…

(via Twenty Four and Advertising/Design Goodness respectively)