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Some of us still can’t get past the image of Leonardo DiCaprio as Jack Dawson in Titanic, though he’s had such a diverse career full of characters, but it seems we’re going to have to move on and catch up with the times.
Not only has he acted a variety of characters, adapting to them flawlessly, he is also producing films now. (Don’t ask us exactly when that started.)
DiCaprio has set his sights high, as he is rumored to be working on two films right now, Akira and Ninja Scroll.
If you haven’t heard of either of these titles, you’re really missing out!
Akira is a classic. It’s a black-and-white manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo, published in Young Magazine from 1982-1990. Its six volumes are a collection of post-apocalyptic terror, excitement and adventure.
Ninja Scroll, as it’s most known, is an animated movie from 1993.
(Read/watch both. Please.)
Both DiCaprio productions are to be live-action (real people) films and undoubtedly action-packed.
Now this is what we’re really excited about: Morgan Freeman is rumored to be Akira’s Colonel Shikishima. We sure hope so!
(We’ve also heard that Zac Efron may have a role in Akira, but we’ve also heard that he doesn’t. It’s hard to keep the facts straight.)
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If you weren’t aware (somehow it slipped my mind), it’s the 25th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. Happy Birthday favorite game of so many people!
Now that we’re on the topic of birthdays, it also happens to be the birthday of another very special character—She-Ra.
Those of us who have grown up with these games and characters are feeling old. Those who grew up before these games feel older. The rest of us consider these “vintage” treasures. Either way, we all know and love them very much. To celebrate, let’s all make birthday cakes and serve them for desert this evening!
Yummy.
Also, check out this article about Moto Hagio, a fairly gender-neutral manga artist: Interview: Manga Innovator Moto Hagio on ‘Girls’ Comics and Gender. In the interview, Moto discusses her career, her outlook on life and how she came to be where she is today. She also discusses her relationship between her personal life and her work—how she translates her relationships and feelings into her work.
Live in the Cleveland area? Then you still have time to see many of the original Ink Bloom paintings in person and up close!
Chris Seaman, co-author of IMPACT’s Ink Bloom, will be exhibiting over 50 pieces of his original work, at Arts Collinwood Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, until Saturday, September 10th. This exhibition is FREE and open to the public, 11:00 am to 11:00 pm at the Arts Collinwood Gallery, 15605 Waterloo Road, Cleveland OH, 44110 , (216) 692-9500 .
Ink Bloom by Jim Pavelec and Chris Seaman is the first fantasy art instruction book to include an original fantasy story. Readers will learn how illustration and story work hand in hand, with step-by-step demonstrations on how to create fantastic alien creatures, landscapes, background elements, and more as they follow Hachi and her friends’ adventures to futuristic worlds.
Dear locals (of Cincinnati and surrounding areas),
It’s time to get excited about a new event: the Cincinnati Comic Expo. As Cincinnati has witnessed over the years, it is hard work to keep comic conventions up and running (we’ve had only a handful in the past ten-fifteen years). So it’s time to show support and try to keep this one around. The event is scheduled for September 18, 2010.
IMPACT may not have a booth (this year), but our editors will be all over trying to take in all of the action, like any other comic fanatics.
Oh, we must not forget the best part! Michael Uslan (Batman executive producer) and Allen Bellman (Artist for Captain America, The Patriot, The Destroyer,etc.) will be there; as well as many board games, costume contests and comic signings.
Click the image below for further information.
We’ve got some new cover art in our gallery, a link to comicattack.net‘s cool preview/review of Tom Nguyen’sIncredible Comic Book Women, and a link to boingboing.net‘s post about manga master Mark Crilley’s latest, Brody’s Ghost, the first in a series of six graphic novels about, as boingboing puts it, “a disheveled, depressed curbside busker” who meets “Talia, the ghost of a teenage girl who died of cancer five years ago. She senses that Brody possesses a hidden talent, and she convinces him to help her solve a grisly murder.”
It’s a good week for comic book lovers as Marvel is releasing quite a few comics on Wednesday (the 18th). This will be particularly exciting for Spiderman fans, as there are 6 Spiderman comic releases (2 reprints among them).
Now here’s a shocker: Stephen King collaborated with Scott Snyder (another sci-fi author) and Rafael Albuquerque (illustrator) to make a comic book for Marvel Comics! It’s titled American Vampire, and though vampires seem to be everywhere lately, it’s probably worth picking up. It was released last spring, so if anybody knows anything about it or has an opinion, please share!
Based on Bryan Lee O’Malley’s graphic novels about slacker/gamer/guitarist/Canadian Scott Pilgrim, the storyline remains roughly the same. The less-than-buff Pilgrim, played by the always awkward (and Canadian) Michael Cera, has to fight the 7 evil exes of Ramona Flowers, the pixie-ish new girl in town with technicolor hair, to win her heart. Some people are worried that the film adaptation won’t do justice to the source material (when do movies ever, really?), but so far Scott Pilgrim vs. The World has a 79% on Rotten Tomatoes and some pretty decent reviews. Even mainstream media outlets like the Washington Post liked it, calling the film “a romantic comedy that’s based on a comic, but has the sensibility of a video game, the bass lines of an ambitious indie-rock band and the heart of a classic John Hughes teen movie.”
We think the trailer looks pretty darn good and director Edgar Wright, who also directed the hilarious and innovative zombie flick Shaun of the Dead, hasn’t disappointed us yet. Check out the international trailer and a clip from the film below. Do you think Wright will be able to capture O’Malley’s style?
And, if you’re bored, check out the Scott Pilgrim movie site to create your own avatar. And Bryan Lee O’Malley has some cool behind the scenes photos and other Scott Pilgrim stuff on his site radiomaru.com.
