Comics Editor Carol did a quick review of Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines for the ActionFest Blog. “[I]t’s not just about letting little girls know that they can be heroes, that they can be anything they want. It’s about knowing that as adults we have […]
This Japanese Life provides some historical context for Kinji Fukasaku’s film, Battle Royale–including an incident from Fukasaku‘s own life as a student drafted into a munitions factory, writer Yukio Mishima and the Hagakure: “Since the film deliberately omits much of the novel’s WW2-inspired alternative reality, I look at Kitano […]
The National Film Board of Canada has collected many of animation icon Norman McLaren’s short films. You can watch them all here, including a favorite, “Keep Your Mouth Shut.”
French comic artist and film concept artist Jean Giraud, better known as Moebius, has died. Hero Complex has a retrospective of his life and work. Robot 6 has gathered remembrances from people in the comics industry. Moebius was interviewed by Rick Green on TVOntario’s Prisoners of Gravity in […]
William Shatner talks about his book on CBC Radio’s Q and his world on NPR’s Fresh Air.
Jan Berenstain, co-creator of the Berenstain Bears picture books, has died. She and her husband Stan wrote and illustrated the first Bears book in 1960 and it was the first of many books published by Theodore Geisel’s Beginner’s Books. The Los Angeles Times has more here.
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