It’s always a pleasure seeing new, interesting blogs pop up about ephemeral aspects of comics. With L’Homme Dans La Foule, blogger Basil Sedbuk tries to trace the quite voluminous output of French artist Floc’h outside the confines of comics : illustrations, limited edition prints, magazine covers, the works.
I particularly liked the above cover for French magazine Monsieur, since it features a man in a suit and two suited up men.
“Jerk !” — “Emo !”
Viral marketing is where it’s at.
Excellent !
If DC ever greenlights a movie based on Grant Morrison and Dave McKean’s Arkham Asylum, they needn’t look any further. This Spanish “fake trailer” by Ferran Brooks is simply awesome. And I’m choosing my words carefully.
By carefully imitating the imagery from the graphic novel, Brooks has been able to capture its atmosphere of claustrophobia and mental disturbances. It’s simply one of the best of its kind I’ve ever seen. My only “yeah, but” would be that it just could use that little bit more lighting. But that’s all.
While you’re at it, also check out his trailer to a possible movie based on UK fantasy comic Slaine, The Horned God.
Over on Ethan Persoff’s wonderful site, a bootleg Vietnamese Batman and Robin Comic Book from the 1960’s can be found. This book is clearly inspired by the then popular Batman television series, with an invisible Robin, space ships, villains with gas-spewing skulls on their heads, onomatopaea, totally impossible perspectives and a furthermore unidentified female caped crusader.
(via PCL Linkdump)
College Humor presents the new Dark Knight trailer remade with footage from the Tim Burton Batman film. Just to make a point : it’s a remake, the same story all over again. It’s as if the origin of the Joker were told over and over again by continuously new writers and artists — er — oh, wait, they do that as well…
(via /Film)
You may not be the hero you want to be. A nice campaign for a costume provider, by Ogilvy & Mather Santiago, Chile.
(more after the click)
When Pieter De Poortere’s Boerke finds himself in dire straits, a less than adequate super hero comes to the rescue !
(from Focus Knack, Boerke © Pieter De Poortere)
In 1966, a Batman chapter cost you $ 5.49, which would amount to $ 35.73 today. And you didn’t even get Adam West or colorful Pop’s and Zowie’s for that…
(a Mophead scan from “On The Scene Presents : The Super Heroes”, provided by Van, with thanks to Darci for the calculation)
From Batman #1.
(Thanks, Dave)
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A DC Comics fan mixed clips from a wide array of films to create what could be a real JLA film trailer. I think I’d go and see it.
(Thanks, Christian)
